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Familiarizing Yourself with the Pros and Cons of Subcontracting
What if your online business seems smaller and smaller everyday for everything – the time, the workload, and the production? Will you wait for your company to fall apart or act now? One solution is to subcontract. Subcontracting is commonly … Continue reading
Always Give a Trial Period When Hiring Subcontractors
The Setup You’ve decided take the plunge and outsource some work to a subcontractor. So, you ask a couple of colleagues for recommendations and they suggest Susie Sub. They say Susie is a hard worker with a variety of skills … Continue reading
Hiring Subcontractors Helps You Concentrate On The Things You Do Best
Sometimes you can get so involved in a project that it’s difficult to focus your energy on the parts that you enjoy. Maybe you love writing, but you’ve been hired to build a website and you’re so stressed out from … Continue reading
Options for Paying Your Subcontractors
Subcontractors or a virtual assistance team are self-employed professionals that can help add value to your business. Your clients pay you, but you pay your subcontractors. While this does create a little more work for you, the increase in your … Continue reading
Ten Tips to Hiring Reliable Subcontractors
You worked hard to grow your service business and feel proud of your success. The time has come for you to make an important choice. You can either keep your business from growing further, or outsource some projects to subcontractors … Continue reading
How to Choose a Subcontractor That Suits You
One recommendation to service providers who are trying to grow their business is to outsource things that don’t have time to do or don’t like to do. This could include anything from cleaning your house to writing your content. Even … Continue reading
Effective Communication With Your Subcontractor
Communication lays the groundwork on which any business relationship is built. This is especially true with your subcontractors or virtual assistant team. Without effective communication, you risk the success of your project, your business and your ability to work with … Continue reading
Give Your Team Time Tools
We are often required to multi-task a great deal during the course of our workday—going to meetings, answering questions from others, handling “fire-drills,” doing paperwork. If we’re not careful, the interruptions and “small tasks” can rob us of critical time … Continue reading
Show Your Team You Trust Them
If you want remote team members to feel both accountable and authorized to work independently towards team goals, you need to trust them. Saying, “I trust you” to a new colleague is a powerful way to make them feel both … Continue reading
Team Member Personality Types
An understanding of the “personality types” of your team members can be useful for avoiding conflict and promoting effective collaboration among your team members, who may differ in the way they perceive and organize information, communicate, and make decisions. People … Continue reading