This is the eighteenth installment of The Black Ink Project series.
In this series, I will be reporting on my participation in Jeremy Palmer’s webinar training course “The Black Ink Project“.
Background
For those of you that don’t know him, Jeremy is the author of the(now free)mega-hit ebook called “High Performance Affiliate Marketing“. In this book, he details how he went from barely showing a profit to a super-affiliate.
You can find the course outline and schedule here.
Today’s Topic: Outsourcing-The Key To Growth And Sustainability
Here are the areas covered:
- Why should you outsource?
- What should you outsource?
- Steps to managing a large project
- Best sources for different project types
- Building and working with your team
- How to build lasting relationships
- The power of basecamphq.com for managing teams
- Are business tasks the only things you should outsource?
Sign up at http://www.theblackinkproject.com for all of the slides, recordings and other visuals.
Highlights
Jeremy had Amit Mehta, of SuperAffiliateMindSet.com, teach the majority of this session. Amit is a superaffiliate that specializes in PPC marketing whose businesses were making over $90,000.00 per month as of April 2007
Amit spent the majority of this webinar teaching us the reasons we should outsource as well as the best strategies for working with different outsourcing portals. He finished with a discussion of how to build and work with a team for maximum productivity and profit.
My Top Take-Away
In order to succeed in affiliate marketing (or any business), we all have to put a price on the value of our time and use this figure when we are deciding to outsource a task.
Too often, we have a tendency to want to save money by doing something ourselves (me) which only causes us to have less time to do the things we really like, do well and make us money.
Does this sound like you? “I spent all day working on my new site but I didn’t really get anything done.” Guess what? You’re being unproductive because you’re forcing yourself to do things you either don’t like to do or aren’t any good at.
You are a prime candidate for outsourcing.
Tomorrow’s Topic: Getting To The Next Level
Amit Mehta, of SuperAffiliateMindset.com, will be giving tomorrow’s lecture.
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