ODesk.com provides a platform for engaging virtual workers. They have 9.3 million workers for 3.6M businesses. Do I need to say that slowly 9.3M for 3.6M – this is a serious TREND? The USA is the largest user of oDesk – AUSTRALIA is the second largest user. Interesting. Freelancer.com, an Australian owned company, is […]
Last March 12, 2015, Mike O’Hagan held his very first webinar. Where he discussed the ways businesses can engage people or services offshore. Included in the webinar are case studies of some businesses that have succeeded. By offshoring some of the tasks or a part of their business operations to lower cost countries such as […]
What is an “all-rounder” employee? Most small or medium businesses start successful global sourcing by hiring all-rounder employees. An all-rounder employee is an office worker able to complete most jobs,roles, or tasks in a typical small family company or business. This employee can answer the phone, check the mail, can respond to simple administrative e-mails, […]
I regularly receive raving comments about the people I employ. Often I’m asked, “How do you get such loyal and focussed people?” It’s really simple: we create them. In this post, I will tell you about the practical ways that I use when hiring staff. Of the 300-400 people currently working for me in my […]
Our tours are designed to help both large and small Australian Businesses to overcome the issues of outsourcing. We run a structured 3 day Business Outsourcing Tour of Manila. This is about experiencing firsthand the DIFFERENT ways you can engage people and services. It also covers how to deal with your processes when outsourcing as […]
In our ever connected world there are massive opportunities: buying, selling and now EMPLOYING anywhere in the world. Now, it’s actually easy to find well educated, highly motivated administration/office workers. Who will work for $120 a week. The challenge is how do you find, engage, transfer your knowledge, and then manage them. Those […]