Outsourcing Deliverables (Book Excerpts)

Outsourcing Deliverables

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Curious about outsourcing deliverables? 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, 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:

• Paying for Deliverables is the simplest method of “buying” outsourced services. It’s a onetime process that’s really no different than buying any other fixed price commodity on the Internet — even when a payment is broken down and delivered in milestones. (page 282)
• Date-based milestones occur at regular intervals between a project’s start and end date. Phase-based milestones occur at each completed deliverable. (page 298)
• RentACoder’s Pay for Time program works differently than RentACoder’s Pay for Deliverables program. With the time program, you can literally watch a coder perform a job and identify problems right away. (page 324)
• A non-functioning deliverable differs from low-quality~work (described above) in that a non-functioning deliverable simply doesn’t work whereas a low-quality deliverable may work, only in some weird, quirky manner. (page 331)
• There’s only an unbiased analysis of how well or how poorly a coder’s work performance or deliverable compares to its contract. (page 341)
• In fact, per RentACoder’s Buyer Terms and Conditions, you agree to never accept any work before deliverables have been 100% tested and you’re 100% satisfied. (page 354)
• Deferring payment until you’ve fully tested a deliverable is expected. Deferring payment because you forgot to pay or because you haven’t had time to address the project however, is not. (page 368)
• This is of course, assuming that you outsource with Rentacoder’s Pay for Deliverable program. The site’s Pay for Time program works differently and it could expose an insufficient budget especially if you don’t stay on top of a coder’s work habits. (page 370)
• Provide the writer with information about the work that is required, that is, the target audience of the deliverables, and the style in which the same is to be written (i.e. marketing, educational, informational, technical, etc). (page 410)

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