Outsourcing Worksheets (Book Excerpts)

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Curious about outsourcing worksheets? Our book, “Outsourcing Through RentACoder” explains it all. Below are a few selected snippets that describe its importance and why you, as an outsourcer, should care. For details, head on over to this page and order the book. Then complement what you find here with the content in our growing outsourcing articles library (the book’s ‘online extension’).

Outsourcing Through RentACoder (now, vWorker) is a 418 page step-by-step user guide for entrepreneurs who want to reduce their workload and increase productivity at the same time.

Excerpts:

• The budget worksheet that follows helps demonstrate those savings while the second part of this section – indirect costs – warns how hidden expenses could wipe those savings right off the table. (page 82)
• Show your boss you’re ready for anything s/he throws at you by thwarting objections to your outsourcing plans. No need to wear a full suit of armor – just have your outsourcing liability and risk worksheets in hand as a guide when tough questions come your way. (page 130)
• Some of this information is available from the worksheets you’ve completed thus far, so pull those out to assemble them into a draft proposal. (page 183)
• If you filled out the Outsourcing Liabilities Worksheet and the Risk Assessment Worksheet, use them to flesh out the content of your NDA. (page 190)
• Now you can pull out the Work Process worksheet created in “Coursing an Existing (Weak) Work Process.” That particular worksheet contains all the details you need for the rest of RentACoder’s Requirements Interview. (page 194)
• Pull out your budget worksheet one more time and use it as a reference here again. This will be the last time you need to use it so you can file it away when you’re done. (page 199)
• Retrieve the Ideal Bid reference sheet along with your Per Hour Work Process Worksheet and start comparing what you see with what you expected to see. (page 228)
• This section introduces those methods and tools. It first describes your options and it then describes the types of payments RentACoder (now, vWorker) accepts. (The Outsourcing Payment Options Worksheet helps you determine which option is most appropriate for your approach.) (page 277)
• If you answered either “yes” or “no,” you need to continue planning payment options with a lawyer or delay outsourcing this project through RentACoder (now, vWorker) for the time being. Your work with this worksheet is finished at this point.) (page 280)

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Outsourcing Through RentACoder (now, vWorker) is a 418 page, 7.44″ x 9.68″ paperback book, fully illustrated and filled with everything you could possibly need to successfully outsource your tasks the first time.

Inside, you’ll find a slew of outsourcing know-how, over a dozen online checklists, worksheets, and more. It also introduces an outsourcing roadmap exclusive to the RentACoder (now, vWorker) website. Order it here.