This document discusses outsourcing work to increase efficiency. It recommends outsourcing mechanical tasks, customer service, research, and content creation. Specific tips are provided for sourcing help through sites like Mechanical Turk, oDesk, and specialized outsourcing agencies. Managing outsourced labor requires being specific about tasks, providing timelines, scheduling check-ins, and asking for task confirmations. Outsourcing allows focusing on more strategic work and maximizes productivity by reducing opportunity costs.

1. presents
Outsourced Life
PATRICK CAMPBELL
@Patticus

2. Samudra Anitha

3. Explore the world of
outsourcing and mechanical
turk to make you more efficient.

4. Agenda
•Why you should outsource?
•What can you outsource?
•Sourcing help
•Managing help
•Utilizing Mechanical Turk
•Q&A

5. Why Outsourcing?

6. Mechanical Work
StrategicWork
Opportunity Cost

7. Massive Intelligence
Samudra
Popular Musician
Masters in Economics
Anitha
PhD. in Physics
Finance Background

8. Cash Money

9. What to
Outsource?

10. •Anything that I find myself doing for more
than fifteen minutes, as long as I am not
required to do the task/project.

11. Examples
• Customer Service Calls/Emails
• Scheduling
• Data entry
• Deck Creation
• Research
• Blog Stumping/CopyWriting
• Prospecting
• Design/Development

12. Things not to do...
• Anything requiring VPN (without approval)
• Anything requiring a personal touch
• Design or HTML work*

13. Sourcing Help

14. The worst part of
the entire process.

15. Sourcing Help
1.Source
2.Test
3.Validate

16. Source
•One off Help
•Mechanical Turk
•Odesk, Elancer, etc.
•PeoplePerHour (US)
•Consistent Help
•Odesk, Elancer, etc.
•BrickWorkIndia*******
•AtoZTasks
•TaskEveryday

17. Asking for Help (one
off)
•Know what you’re looking for...
•Scope the project and be specific
•Break projects down...seriously
•Interview applicants through email or Skype
•Interview applicants through a test project
•Look through portfolios

18. Asking for Help
(ongoing)
•Utilize an agency*
•Phenomenal for repetitive tasks
•Scope the work you want completed
•Fire very quickly
•Run a trial with the company (start small)

19. Test/Validate

20. Managing
Outsourced Labor

21. Managing Help
1. Be specific
2. Provide a timeline
3. Schedule check-ins
4. Ask for confirmation

22. Please research premium pricing for 30
minutes and provide a summary of:
1. the concept and definition,
2. the importance of premium pricing,
and 3. examples/case studies of premium
pricing.
Send me your results as soon as you are
finished. Email me a summary of the task
when you are finished reading this.

23. A Few Other Notes
•It gets easier.
•I schedule an hour each day to go through
completed tasks and write out the
requirements for tomorrow’s tasks.
•Google Docs...amazing.
•Delegate!

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