@joshmvf 161869 wrote:
Every time I think I’ve found somebody that can take care of a campaign for me, or build a website that I want to do, but don’t have time for, it turns out that it comes nothing close to what I had in mind.
People don’t come ready-made to fit your operation, each needs training in how to best handle our specific type of work. I find for the most part I have at least a 6 month training period with close monitoring of all work.
When you hit 5 people, you need to start using a project management program, which lets you assign and store tasks to specific people, they pick it up, do their work and upload it again. They also keep the hour count there.
The number of people we have varies, but 15 is pretty much the minimum number. If you just have one or two, it’s easy to keep track of everything.
Dom, meeting up with your team is an excuse to go to Vegas!
Thanks, we had a great time. You missed our spring meetings, we had a bunch more people this time, and fall looks like we’ll get close to gathering everyone. It’s a logistic nightmare to get them all together in one spot at the same time.
There are really a lot of very talented and motivated people who love the opportunity to work from home, it’s a matter of finding them and training them to do well in this specific type of work. I try to stick with people who play online or are hobby webmasters. I have had several start part time while going to school to perfect skills, and then joining full time. Works for me. 