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This course includes:

  • 9.5 hours on-demand video
  • 3 articles
  • 13 downloadable resources
  • Full lifetime access
  • Access on mobile and TV
Business Operations Outsourcing

Master Outsourcing | Get the best price & save time

Learn how to outsource like a professional. Master uncommon techniques & skills for guaranteeing project success.
Rating: 4.5 out of 54.5 (349 ratings)
36,350 students
Created by Evan Kimbrell
Last updated 1/2021
English
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What you'll learn

  • Understand what is and isn't outsourcing
  • Validate your idea's preparedness and eligibility for outsourcing
  • Understand how much to budget and ways to reduce project costs
  • Navigate the biggest outsourcing platforms: UpWork and Freelancer
  • Use advanced search criteria to find and locate more specific outsourcing partners
  • Build a contracting strategy that works with your level of experience and your idea's level of progress
  • Intelligently choose your ideal price point and preferred region
  • Write job titles, descriptions, and settings that bring in high-quality bids
  • Use wireframing tools like Balsamiq to quickly put together mockups of your idea
  • Use advanced techniques to bring your project together faster, negotiate bid prices, and vet potential partners
  • Employ common and uncommon best practices for outsourcing
  • Keep your project on track and increase transparency with tools like Asana and Trello
  • Bug hunt and run QA tests like a professional
  • Navigate the most common scenarios that arise from outsourcing
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Requirements

  • No pre-requisites.
  • Familiarity with common online communication tools is helpful but not necessary.

Description

People that are skilled at outsourcing can be 10x more efficient than those who are not. Knowing how to outsource effectively is an incredibly useful skill whether you're an entrepreneur, a manager, a marketer, or small business owner. Being able to incorporate outsourcing into your project, your business, or even your job can dramatically change your rate of success.

Cost is often the single largest factor in whether or not a project succeeds or fails. By mastering outsourcing you can virtually guarantee that you get the lowest and most reasonable price every time you launch or engage in a project.

Learn how to outsource and you'll make magic with your project's to-do list. You'll be able to hit goals sooner while spending a fraction of what you planned. Save your project by going lean and shifting your attention and resources to other crucial areas.

Website development, mobile app development, logo design, market research, customer feedback, email marketing, sales, promotion, scheduling, editing, proofreading, ghostwriting, interviewing, application testing, bookkeeping, employee vetting - these are just some of the things you can outsource.

Virtually every company and startup outsources in some way. Outsourcing has endless possibilities - you just need to know how to use it. 


Who this course is for:

  • Anyone interested in outsourcing.
  • Anyone interested in getting a detailed understanding of outsourcing and the best ways of contracting work.
  • Anyone interested in improving their skills with project or product management.

Course content

12 sections • 80 lectures • 14h 52m total length

  • Preview07:33
  • Join our community on Slack!
    00:00
  • Preview06:17
  • What you should outsource and what you should not
    12:11
  • Planning your budget and estimating costs
    12:13
  • Section 1 review material
    26 pages
  • Review sheets - all in one PDF
    00:01

  • Where to find outsourcing firms and freelancers
    07:41
  • Introduction to Elance
    19:31
  • Going further in-depth with Elance
    02:43
  • Introduction to UpWork
    19:38
  • Going further in-depth with Upwork
    05:51
  • Introduction to Freelancer
    08:44
  • Using alternative techniques and platforms to find contractors
    05:38
  • Section 2 review material
    24 pages

  • Planning your subcontracting strategy
    08:23
  • Deciding between a firm or a freelancer
    19:52
  • Country profiles & how to pick your ideal combination
    18:34
  • The relationship between Price & Autonomy
    08:06
  • The Goldilocks syndrome
    07:38
  • Section 3 review material
    47 pages

  • Writing a title that attracts the right bids
    09:03
  • Hands on with writing titles
    12:37
  • Writing the perfect description
    10:54
  • Getting hands on with writing descriptions
    15:09
  • Getting the settings right
    19:01
  • Section 4 review material
    20 pages

  • Rapid cycling posts
    04:53
  • The $50 test
    04:12
  • The "Keyer" question strategy
    07:42
  • Repeating the project back to you
    04:12
  • Getting them off the platform
    04:21
  • The long term strategy
    05:17
  • Using messaging to your advantage
    06:57
  • Fixed rate vs per hour? Use our technique instead
    09:36
  • The Specializations strategy
    06:25
  • Section 5 review material
    41 pages

  • 5 pillars for evaluating contractors
    16:21
  • 6 red flags for contractors
    07:49
  • How important is site reputation?
    04:52
  • Understanding your response rate
    04:40
  • How to handle extra work and specifications
    02:08
  • What is good? Avoid this trap
    09:02
  • How to treat referrals
    03:14
  • Is outsourcing a long term solution?
    05:54
  • Legality with outsourcing
    10:56
  • Outsourcing & Protecting your IP
    08:57
  • Section 6 review material
    42 pages

  • Creating an overview
    05:51
  • Creating a functions list
    10:29
  • Example: Creating our functions list
    10:33
  • Adding pages
    19:48
  • Creating the user section
    11:07
  • Creating the parameters list
    10:50
  • Adding comments
    02:49
  • Intro to Balsamiq
    19:39
  • Going further with Balsamiq
    03:24
  • An example site made in Balsamiq
    03:20
  • Section 7 review material
    25 pages

  • What to look for in their language
    09:44
  • Further analyzing language
    13:59
  • The response rate test
    06:18
  • Dissecting their bid amount
    11:07
  • Section 8 review material
    20 pages

  • Getting acquainted with Asana, the king of project management tools
    12:25
  • Going further with Asana
    10:01
  • Section 9 review material
    10 pages

  • Becoming a bug hunting master
    11:02
  • Bug hunting on mobile
    04:58
  • Some thoughts on bug hunting
    01:38
  • TIP: Accelerate your testing this way
    00:49
  • Section 10 review material
    17 pages

Instructor

Evan Kimbrell
Founder of Sprintkick | Ex-VC | Ex-startup founder
Evan Kimbrell
  • 4.5 Instructor Rating
  • 71,520 Reviews
  • 569,458 Students
  • 22 Courses

                  Hi, I'm Evan Kimbrell. Thanks for checking out my course. 

**My courses have been featured in Forbes, CNN, Entrepreneur Magazine, BusinessInsider, BuzzFeed, Mashable, TheNextWeb, The Daily Beast, & Techcrunch**

        Currently, I'm the Founder and Director of Sprintkick, a full-service, referral-only digital agency based out of San Francisco. Over the past four years I've overseen the development and launch of over 100 web and mobile apps. Clients range from two-man bootstrapping startups to multibillion dollar Fortune 100s like Wal-Mart, Dick's Sporting Goods, and GNC. 

Prior to Sprintkick I worked as a VC for a new firm called Juvo Capital, based out of L.A. I spearheaded the firm's expansion into Silicon Valley and into the Consumer Web tech category.

                  In the long long ago, I was a co-founder for an educational software startup called ScholarPRO that raised a ton of money and then spectacularly blew up (in the bad way). Before it exploded like the Death Star, I went through five tech incubators (yes, five): Tech Stars, Excelerate Labs, MassChallenge, Babson Venture Program, and Sparkseed. 

                  Hope you enjoy my courses!

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