How I Will Be Rich

I was surfing the web the other day and you’ll never guess what I found. It was a blog post called My 4-Hour Work Week Experiment over at a blog called Small Business Guru. I thought this was very interesting seeing as Joe and I had originally planned an outsourcing experiment. This guy has actually done what we were planning on doing. He looked at three outsourcing companies in particular. He looked at Your Man in India, Brickwork and Elance.

He basically found that:

• Brickwork was not at all cost effective. It was going to be about $600 per month.
• YMII had communication issues and didn’t quite produce the results that he had hoped for and
• He found a company on Elance called Kaya Systems that he just loved.

Joe and I still plan on using a virtual assistant to get a few tasks done and do some experimenting. This blog post, however, has probably affected who we will experiment with. Chances are, Brickwork will be a little more expensive than what we can hang with and if they had issues with YMII (which is actually Get Friday), we probably will as well. I’m thinking about giving Kaya Systems a shot and also investigating some of the other companies available through ELance.

I’m a huge fan of Tim Ferriss’s Book but I’m starting to wonder about the validity of some of his outsourcing claims. I’ve realized that these outsourcing companies are out there but are they really as affordable as claimed?

Anyway, the point is, go check out that blog post if you had any interest in our outsourcing experiment but feel like you were left hangin. (We’re sorry, we will get back to it).

-M

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