John Jonas Outsourced Himself 10 Years Ago

Aug 21, 2017

Wes Schaeffer

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Wife was put on bed rest with their third pregnancy
He was running an affiliate business and needed to streamline his work
He turned over 100% of his work to two of his staff in The Philippines, who had already been with him for 18 months
They were already somewhat trained, and he spent a little time with them
He worked about an hour a week for the next three weeks
He found he replaced himself...it wasn't 100% as good as he would've done it, but they were talented, and he had to set them free and get out of his own way
The things John hated doing were getting done
John tried hiring Indians, and that didn't work out
John hired four local people, and they stole his ideas
He hired contractors on ODesk/UpWork to do 50 articles, but then he had to check the articles to see if they were plagiarized and then share them everywhere
Got a tip to an agency in The Philippines and hired his first two staff
- He prefers this to having an agency with a pool of workers that get assigned jobs
He golfed for two months after the baby was born, and he realized he needed to work, so he wanted to see how he could improve his business model
He guided the process and had them execute
Jing helped him create training videos and screen-sharing tutorials
To this day, he'll use tools like Jing and SnagIt 30 times per day to share ideas
Now he doesn't touch anything: programming, content, Facebook Ads, Google Ads
But sometimes
John hated Facebook (6 years ago), but one of his people encouraged him to get on there and execute her plan to leverage Facebook, and it has worked well
They get a lot of workers from India that try to apply to his Filipino job board, and one of his staff came up with an idea to filter them out
Whereas we think we can't trust them, they don't trust us to not berate and fire them for a simple error
If you have zero patience, this won't work for you
He now has over 300,000 resumes
His services keep workers from scamming clients
100% of his work today—2.5 to 3 hours per day—is centered around giving feedback to his team
He now has 21 people
It took a while to transition from using his virtual staff to grow his affiliate business to making them his business
"I don't know what works today...because we do everything."
- Post in forums
- Facebook Ads
- Share on Facebook and Instagram
- Retargeting
- He stopped doing email
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