Savvy Subcontracting

Learn From The Experienced

Not sure about the rest of you but I learn the most from those with experience.  That’s one of the biggest reasons I chose to subcontract for virtual service providers.  There’s not necessarily any traits I look for when chosing a contract project however if I learn they have years of experience I have a [...]

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Eat Pray Love

Over the weekend I’ve been seeing the previews for the recent movie, Eat, Pray Love with Julia Roberts.  That’s when it dawned on me finding yourself in a business is similar to finding yourself in life.  The more I think about it the more I realize I have an appetite to persue a virtual career.   The [...]

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Keep The Tasks You Like Most

Tina Forsythe is someone who I look up to alot.  She was the one that really got me into the subcontracting niche.  In this video she shares what you should delegate and what to keep doing yourself as a business owner. 

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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 blocks where we get to concentrate on our main work, get problems solved, and come [...]

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Is The Virtual Team Offshore?

In recent years many Internet Marketers and Solo-preneurs have embraced the tremendous opportunity to outsource a variety of daily task and projects in order to become more productive and free up time to enjoy more life. Smart entrepreneurs are becoming more profitable and getting more done everyday. Many virtual business owners use outsource resources in [...]

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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 competent and committed. Taking a “prove you are worthy” stance will make them more likely [...]

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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 view the world differently. They differ in the way they: Perceive and organize information Communicate [...]

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Create A Team Role List

Team Roles and Responsibility List should be created and share with all team members. It should include documents items such as: Who is on a (cross-functional) project team What cross-functional role they are filling What they are responsible for in that role Specific duties they’ll perform to fulfill those responsibilities Contact information (optional) Help each [...]

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Let Team Members Speak Up

Speaking up is a key leadership skill, whether or not you’re officially the team leader. Everyone involved in a team effort should actively look for ways to improve, make recommendations, and generally be responsible to the team for the success of the project—to speak up. Speaking up when we see a better course of action [...]

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Staying Focused On Your Virtual Business

One of the biggest things I’ve learned this week is staying focus on my business.  Not only can it make a person able to accomplish more in a week’s time but it gives me a sense of relief.  Prior to this week I wasn’t sure which direction to go each and every day.  With a [...]

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