Outsourcing Contract (Book Excerpts)

Curious about the outsourcing contract? 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. Outsourcing Through RentACoder 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:

• As just mentioned, a coder who takes on more work than what s/he is capable of doing is a coder who’s prone to generate mistakes, turn in work later than its deadline, or just plain give up and violate the terms of a RentACoder contract. (page 32)
• Whenever there’s a dispute over a contract and a lot of money involved, emotions tend to take over what should be approached with logic and common sense. (page 47)
• First things first. Know that working outside of an employer-employee relationship doesn’t permit illegal activity. But it doesn’t exactly jive with what’s enforced in a contract either. (page 51)
• At the time of this writing, RentACoder hosts over 260,000 contract workers with varying skills. (page 76)
• Sometimes a business will ask a contractor to perform extra tasks while a job is already in progress – tasks that were not included in the outsourcing contract. Depending on the size and complexity of those tasks, the coder may oblige and charge nothing. (page 87)
• As mentioned earlier, you can prevent a lot of problems by predicting troubling issues and then addressing how those issues will be addressed in the outsourcing contract. (page 93)
• You have to remember that a contract agreement forms a relationship that needs tending to just like any other relationship. (page 105)
• A non-disclosure agreement (NDA) is a legal contract between at least two parties that outlines confidential materials or knowledge the parties wish to share with one another for certain purposes, but wish to restrict access to. (page 118)
• That doesn’t void the site’s terms of service since those terms specifically address individuals who have no business looking at your ‘stuff’ (individuals who aren’t identified in a work contract, for example). (page 120)
• A company facing mounting costs for example, will essentially fire all of its employees, but then re-hire them as outsourcing service providers (or independent contract workers). (page 136)
• Without a sufficient amount of specifics, the outsourcing contract is just a piece of paper with a bunch of words on it. (page 141)
• “No matter how much experience you have, you’ll fall victim to the occasional scam unless you stick to your guns and protect your business with a contract as thick as the most impervious prophylactic.” (page 152)
• If a separate nondisclosure or confidentiality agreement isn’t used in conjunction with a main contract, the main contract usually addresses confidentiality in its own section. (page 160)
• The interview continues on until you’ve addressed some the most common issues surrounding your type of job. When finished, you have an opportunity to amend RentACoder’s default contract and attach additional materials (specs, images, audio, etc.) as a.zip file if necessary. (page 197)
• It’s important to note that the very nature of any NDA agreement alters RentACoder’s default protection scheme because it is essentially, a separate contract. (page 208)
• Even if you find a few bids that seem perfect for the job, anything could go awry between now and the time you award the winning contract. Having a handful of back up alternatives therefore, is always a good idea. (page 214)
• Issues that should raise red flags are when a coder misses multiple deadlines, turns in work with one or more non-cosmetic flaws, makes insufficient progress, violates copyrights, fails to respond to arbitration questions, or does anything else that violates RentACoder’s Seller Terms and Conditions or breaks a contract. (page 234)
• When a coder fails to complete a project on time, or when a coder fails to honor a contract in any shape, form, or fashion, the rating is adjusted accordingly. (page 241)

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