Andrew Rondeau

Andrew is the owner of this website and has been a Leader, Manager, Coach and Consultant for the last twenty-five years.

Gain Extra Hours Every Day By Simply Outsourcing Your Life

By Andrew Rondeau
Published 09/23/2008

Some of you will have seen me raving about the best self-development book ever written (just my opinion, OK!).

As a direct result of this book, I have started to outsource my life and gain some valuable hours back every day.

photo courtesy of Seo2

In the past, I have worked on numerous large, multi-million dollar outsourcing deals for large Corporate.

There I was deciding:

who to outsource to
what to outsource
when to start
what contract to have
how to measure the success...

…all on a very large scale.

Now I am running my own business – this article directory for instance - and it takes a huge amount of time and effort.

In addition, a lot of that time and effort is keeping the business ticking over.

Tim’s book inspired me. It got me thinking.

What could I outsource?

Who shall I outsource to?

It’s The Same Questions – Large Or Small

In fact, it is the same questions whether you are a one-man business or a large multi-million dollar corporate.

I use Tim’s recommendations and decided to use www.getfridday.com

GetFriday have the slogan “Life Gets Better With Get Friday”.

I like that!

That’s what I want, I don’t want to spend all my spare time performing admin tasks. I want to market, find affiliations, agree Joint Ventures, develop new products…

GetFriday promise to “Manage my life more efficiently by letting my own virtual assistant carry out my routine and mundane tasks.

GetFriday can undertake any task, business or personal, that does not require our physical presence.

Just tell your virtual assistant and consider it done.”

I wanted that!

I excitingly and quickly contacted GetFriday.

They personally rang me back, asking me how I would like to use their services. They wanted to get to know me.

I signed up for a ‘one-off task plan’. I wanted to test them out.

A few days later, I received an email from my new “executive assistant”. They introduced themselves.

I had the ideal test.

I had not published any of my articles on any ezine directories for months. They could do that. I sent them the articles and the ezines I want them published on.

50 articles, 8 different ezines.

Easy, but I just did not want to do it.

A couple of days later – all done.

Simple!

I then tested them again with another task. Find articles by top authors that I could add to my site.

One day later, I received 20 new articles by Ken Blanchard, Sir Richard Branson, Edward De Bono, Zig Ziglar…to add to my own personal Article Directory.

I read each one. Out of the 20, 17 were excellent additions to my site.

The test was over. Get Friday had completed an excellent job.

I decided to sign up for a monthly plan. Here, you pay a flat membership fee every month, based on the number of hours allotted every month to carry out tasks.

The more hours you sign up for, the cheaper the hourly rate. You can get the hourly rate as low as $7.

First task under the monthly plan: add the 15 new articles to my website.

This was going to be an on-going task, so I decided to video myself doing it first. I completed a couple of examples using Cam Studio.

I then sent GetFriday the video and asked them to load the articles.

Again, all done.

It’s fairly early days but GetFriday now submit my own postings to ezines and find and add articles to my own Article Directory.

Blog Carnival Submissions

Another area of work I have outsourced is submissions to Blog Carnivals.

Over the last year or so, I have spent several hours each week submitting my blog postings to Blog Carnivals.

Then 2 months ago, I received an offer from this Blog Carnival Submission Service.

It offered: "you pay nothing today and can try it free for 30 days".

I signed up straight away.

Now each week I get a reminder to supply my blog posting URL and any comments and hey presto a few hours later I receive up to 20 or so submission receipts from the different Blog Carnivals.

It is that simple.

The service has been excellent and it’s all for $25 a month.

Check out the 30 day free trial (no affiliation) - just click here

So What Have I Been Doing With All This Extra Time?

All this outsourcing has enabled me to produce a new product on the subject of Public Speaking, which I am just about to launch. To receive complementary Public Speaking videos and an e-book sharing proven techniques…just click here.

Am I pleased?

So far, yes.

What shall I outsource next?

What are your experiences?

Spread The Word

8 Responses to "Gain Extra Hours Every Day By Simply Outsourcing Your Life"

Lorraine Cohen

said this on 23 Sep 2008 1:28:18 PM EDT

Great tips Andrew

And a nudge for me to ask if I'm outsourcing enough. It's so easy to get into the habit of doing too much and wondering why I'm feeling tired!

Heer's to more ease,
Lorraine

www.powerfull-living. biz

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Andrew Rondeau

said this on 26 Sep 2008 11:41:54 AM EDT

Lorraine,

Isn't it easy to get into habit?

When will the nudge turn into action?

::))

Andrew

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Daphne Lim

said this on 06 Oct 2008 2:41:42 AM EDT

Hi Andrew,

Great site, and thanks for the tips in this article! I've just started blogging and am enjoying it for now, so I wasn't even thinking of outsourcing but will certainly check out the links you posted and give it some thought!

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Andrew Rondeau

said this on 06 Oct 2008 5:22:38 AM EDT

Daphne,

Thanks for your comments - really nice to receive.

Start with just a small task to outsource and ensure you are happy with the service before comitting to a plan.

What do you think you will outsource first?

Andrew

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Jesse W

said this on 02 Nov 2008 10:43:27 PM EDT

GREAT post and something we should all think about doing!

Jesse W.
http://www.subprimebl ogger.com

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Andrew Rondeau

said this on 03 Nov 2008 2:17:55 PM EDT

Jesse W

Not too sure about the 'think' part! :) We should all do!

Andrew

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Kate

said this on 25 May 2009 11:36:28 AM EDT

Hey Andrew,

Ofcourse, outsourcing is really an alternative solution to get relieved from our administrative overload and Getfriday is doing a nice job as well. But, I've seen there are also some people who are potential and doing an excellent job in terms of virtual assistant services, but never been recognized. One of them are VA INDIA (www.virtualassistantsind ia.com). Nothing wrong in take a look at it while your tea break ;)

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Lance

said this on 23 Jun 2009 4:57:59 PM EDT

Nice article. I have been outsourcing work-related tasks for a while now for my business but I can't believe the things you can outsource these days. Just last week I read a TechCrunch article about VirtualDatingAssistants.c om, a company that lets you outsource your online dating. Unbelievable...

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