Master Outsourcing | Get the best price & save time

Master Outsourcing | Get the best price & save time, available at $79.99, has an average rating of 4.75, with 82 lectures, based on 453 reviews, and has 37452 subscribers.

You will learn about Understand what is and isn't outsourcing Validate your idea's preparedness and eligibility for outsourcing Understand how much to budget and ways to reduce project costs Navigate the biggest outsourcing platforms: UpWork and Freelancer Use advanced search criteria to find and locate more specific outsourcing partners Build a contracting strategy that works with your level of experience and your idea's level of progress Intelligently choose your ideal price point and preferred region Write job titles, descriptions, and settings that bring in high-quality bids Use wireframing tools like Balsamiq to quickly put together mockups of your idea Use advanced techniques to bring your project together faster, negotiate bid prices, and vet potential partners Employ common and uncommon best practices for outsourcing Keep your project on track and increase transparency with tools like Asana and Trello Bug hunt and run QA tests like a professional Navigate the most common scenarios that arise from outsourcing This course is ideal for individuals who are Anyone interested in outsourcing. or Anyone interested in getting a detailed understanding of outsourcing and the best ways of contracting work. or Anyone interested in improving their skills with project or product management. It is particularly useful for Anyone interested in outsourcing. or Anyone interested in getting a detailed understanding of outsourcing and the best ways of contracting work. or Anyone interested in improving their skills with project or product management.

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Summary

Title: Master Outsourcing | Get the best price & save time

Price: $79.99

Average Rating: 4.75

Number of Lectures: 82

Number of Published Lectures: 80

Number of Curriculum Items: 82

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 80

Original Price: $84.99

Quality Status: approved

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What You Will Learn

Understand what is and isn't outsourcing
Validate your idea's preparedness and eligibility for outsourcing
Understand how much to budget and ways to reduce project costs
Navigate the biggest outsourcing platforms: UpWork and Freelancer
Use advanced search criteria to find and locate more specific outsourcing partners
Build a contracting strategy that works with your level of experience and your idea's level of progress
Intelligently choose your ideal price point and preferred region
Write job titles, descriptions, and settings that bring in high-quality bids
Use wireframing tools like Balsamiq to quickly put together mockups of your idea
Use advanced techniques to bring your project together faster, negotiate bid prices, and vet potential partners
Employ common and uncommon best practices for outsourcing
Keep your project on track and increase transparency with tools like Asana and Trello
Bug hunt and run QA tests like a professional
Navigate the most common scenarios that arise from outsourcing

Who Should Attend

Anyone interested in outsourcing.
Anyone interested in getting a detailed understanding of outsourcing and the best ways of contracting work.
Anyone interested in improving their skills with project or product management.

Target Audiences

Anyone interested in outsourcing.
Anyone interested in getting a detailed understanding of outsourcing and the best ways of contracting work.
Anyone interested in improving their skills with project or product management.

People that are skilled at outsourcing can be 10x more efficient than those who are not. Knowing how to outsource effectively is an incredibly useful skill whether you’re an entrepreneur, a manager, a marketer, or small business owner. Being able to incorporate outsourcing into your project, your business, or even your job can dramatically change your rate of success.

Cost is often the single largest factor in whether or not a project succeeds or fails. By mastering outsourcing you can virtually guarantee that you get the lowest and most reasonable price every time you launch or engage in a project.

Learn how to outsource and you’ll make magic with your project’s to-do list. You’ll be able to hit goals sooner while spending a fraction of what you planned. Save your project by going lean and shifting your attention and resources to other crucial areas.

Website development, mobile app development, logo design, market research, customer feedback, email marketing, sales, promotion, scheduling, editing, proofreading, ghostwriting, interviewing, application testing, bookkeeping, employee vetting – these are just some of the things you can outsource.

Virtually every company and startup outsources in some way. Outsourcing has endless possibilities – you just need to know how to use it.�

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction to the course (39 minutes)

Lecture 1: Course Overview

Lecture 2: Join our community on Slack!

Lecture 3: What is outsourcing?

Lecture 4: What you should outsource and what you should not

Lecture 5: Planning your budget and estimating costs

Lecture 6: Section 1 review material

Lecture 7: Review sheets – all in one PDF

Chapter 2: Getting started (70 minutes)

Lecture 1: Where to find outsourcing firms and freelancers

Lecture 2: Introduction to Elance

Lecture 3: Going further in-depth with Elance

Lecture 4: Introduction to UpWork

Lecture 5: Going further in-depth with Upwork

Lecture 6: Introduction to Freelancer

Lecture 7: Using alternative techniques and platforms to find contractors

Lecture 8: Section 2 review material

Chapter 3: Diving deeper (63 minutes)

Lecture 1: Planning your subcontracting strategy

Lecture 2: Deciding between a firm or a freelancer

Lecture 3: Country profiles & how to pick your ideal combination

Lecture 4: The relationship between Price & Autonomy

Lecture 5: The Goldilocks syndrome

Lecture 6: Section 3 review material

Chapter 4: Posting expertise (67 minutes)

Lecture 1: Writing a title that attracts the right bids

Lecture 2: Hands on with writing titles

Lecture 3: Writing the perfect description

Lecture 4: Getting hands on with writing descriptions

Lecture 5: Getting the settings right

Lecture 6: Section 4 review material

Chapter 5: Strategies for minimizing costs and time (54 minutes)

Lecture 1: Rapid cycling posts

Lecture 2: The $50 test

Lecture 3: The "Keyer" question strategy

Lecture 4: Repeating the project back to you

Lecture 5: Getting them off the platform

Lecture 6: The long term strategy

Lecture 7: Using messaging to your advantage

Lecture 8: Fixed rate vs per hour? Use our technique instead

Lecture 9: The Specializations strategy

Lecture 10: Section 5 review material

Chapter 6: Best practices (74 minutes)

Lecture 1: 5 pillars for evaluating contractors

Lecture 2: 6 red flags for contractors

Lecture 3: How important is site reputation?

Lecture 4: Understanding your response rate

Lecture 5: How to handle extra work and specifications

Lecture 6: What is good? Avoid this trap

Lecture 7: How to treat referrals

Lecture 8: Is outsourcing a long term solution?

Lecture 9: Legality with outsourcing

Lecture 10: Outsourcing & Protecting your IP

Lecture 11: Section 6 review material

Chapter 7: Documentation (98 minutes)

Lecture 1: Creating an overview

Lecture 2: Creating a functions list

Lecture 3: Example: Creating our functions list

Lecture 4: Adding pages

Lecture 5: Creating the user section

Lecture 6: Creating the parameters list

Lecture 7: Adding comments

Lecture 8: Intro to Balsamiq

Lecture 9: Going further with Balsamiq

Lecture 10: An example site made in Balsamiq

Lecture 11: Section 7 review material

Chapter 8: Selecting the right person (41 minutes)

Lecture 1: What to look for in their language

Lecture 2: Further analyzing language

Lecture 3: The response rate test

Lecture 4: Dissecting their bid amount

Lecture 5: Section 8 review material

Chapter 9: Internal management skills (23 minutes)

Lecture 1: Getting acquainted with Asana, the king of project management tools

Lecture 2: Going further with Asana

Lecture 3: Section 9 review material

Chapter 10: Bug hunting (19 minutes)

Lecture 1: Becoming a bug hunting master

Lecture 2: Bug hunting on mobile

Lecture 3: Some thoughts on bug hunting

Lecture 4: TIP: Accelerate your testing this way

Lecture 5: Section 10 review material

Chapter 11: Common scenarios and how to handle them (39 minutes)

Lecture 1: Low quality work

Lecture 2: Missing Deadlines

Lecture 3: Repeatedly missing bugs

Lecture 4: They ask for money upfront

Lecture 5: They bid and disappear

Lecture 6: Contractor raises their price

Lecture 7: Section 11 review material

Chapter 12: Bonus Section

Lecture 1: Bonus Lecture

Instructors

Evan Kimbrell
Founder of Sprintkick | Ex-VC | Ex-startup founder

Rating Distribution

1 stars: 8 votes
2 stars: 6 votes
3 stars: 36 votes
4 stars: 140 votes
5 stars: 263 votes

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