This is something I am trying and...IT IS FUCKING WORKING!
I would be curious to see someone else try it and see how they fair.
NOTE: I JUST SKIMMED THIS, IT'S BLOODY LONG SO YOU HAVE TO DECIDE IF IT'S INTERESTING/INTRIGUING TO YOU....
....Try to be very careful about calculating EXACT ROI/Profit/Benefits from these actions, i.e. subtract out other factors.
It goes like this:
1) Hire one or several employees. If you don't have the money for that, try high school students, retirees, even get an "intern" whom you should tell
"I will write you a recommendation or serve as an employee reference if you work for me...."
-post on craig's list
-local colleges
-ask friends and family
(note: this may work with unemployed people too as you can tell them the experience on their resume will make them look more attractive to employees....I am just coming up with this as I think but honestly it is reasonable as the longer people have been unemployed some say the less "marketable" they are....if that doesn't work, offer some kinda profit share...)
When it comes to students, some schools even grant some kind of credit for "life experience" so you can tell them you're willing to fill out the paper work to make sure they get something tangible (besides cash if you don't have it) from the exchange...
OK, now you have your "help" - i.e. the brute physical worker
THE SECOND IMPORTANT PART:
Take ONE IDEA you read about from AT LEAST once a week on a WF Thread and IMPLEMENT IT. You can follow the "forum" best practices I used back in the day when I was a n00b (actually I still feel like a n00b it is all relative, but whatever). It goes like this:
a) use the advanced search to search for ideas from specific sections....
b) also, you can search for posts from specific people....
here's an example:
I won't name names...but when I want info on ppc, I go and look for thoughts, reflections, etc from xyz....
domains....abc
keyword research....123
php.....that person
random political, nonsensical bullshit -well too many to name, lol
automation....this person
I could break it down to "go to" knowledge sources for
social bookmarking
ppc add writing
directory link building....
the gist of it is that let's face it. this is a forum and alot of people talk alot of bullshit that's worth jack - hell we all do sometimes. however, if you can quickly skim through the weeds, you can get at what you want fast...
lol
You can identify the "right" people by perhaps looking at their rep points, or perhaps itrader points (not the best indicator, but when people are spending money it's usually for a reason....) and well, just use your judgment. One thing to do is try a suggestion or tool they talk about and if it works, then keep listening to them.
Ok, so now 1) you have your employee 2) you have suggestion....and 3) you have the the plan to implement it in a semi-automated fashion (i.e you just email/tell them - read over this thread and implement it....or, you just write a summary with directions to implement it..
I got this last bit from an ebook and I am not afraid to say it becuase if the shit works I don't care where I read it.
Basically the guy said "your job should be a knowledge worker". Your job should be to put together the vast amounts of information out there and decide, strategize, etc about how to use it. The big money comes from THINKING not DOING these days.
With outsourcing you can pay someone to "do" while you "think". With an international labor market and technology, the "doing" is getting cheaper and cheaper while the "thinking" is getting more and more "expensive".
So because both doing and thinking are important, the whole value of the plan is reducing the "search and acquisition costs" associated with finding good information (i.e there's so much good info centralized here it's easy to find), you can piggy back off of other's thinking and pay someone for the doing.
This week one of the things I implemented was:
-used clicktale which was recommended by mediastar100 (thanks dear -->
http://www.wickedfire.com/design-development-programming/63275-clicktale-data.html )
-tweak a site based on some offline suggestions from a WF member (props to Bofu2u a real automation specialist - btw, where is that code Mr. Penis, lol)
Of course you may fall short of doing it every week, but if you do 1 a WEEK, that's 52 ideas that you have implemented that can really help you out.
Just some ideas.......
ps
also try [keyword] site:wickedfire.com if you are having a hard time finding stuff - the site's pretty well indexed!
Schedule for next week:
1) get some of these scripts tweaked and implemented
http://www.wickedfire.com/design-development-programming/56127-wf-php-functions-war-chest.html
2) implement some ideas from a WF'ers blog that I've been ignoring for at least 3 months (hypocritical slacker I am....)
3) Surf for deals on Gilt.com given I've been paying too much for some stuff-- props to a new WF who offered an invite that I quickly jumpted on!
PPS
anyone else doing/done this in a 1-2-3 kind of way? I'd be curious to read....
I would be curious to see someone else try it and see how they fair.
NOTE: I JUST SKIMMED THIS, IT'S BLOODY LONG SO YOU HAVE TO DECIDE IF IT'S INTERESTING/INTRIGUING TO YOU....
....Try to be very careful about calculating EXACT ROI/Profit/Benefits from these actions, i.e. subtract out other factors.
It goes like this:
1) Hire one or several employees. If you don't have the money for that, try high school students, retirees, even get an "intern" whom you should tell
"I will write you a recommendation or serve as an employee reference if you work for me...."
-post on craig's list
-local colleges
-ask friends and family
(note: this may work with unemployed people too as you can tell them the experience on their resume will make them look more attractive to employees....I am just coming up with this as I think but honestly it is reasonable as the longer people have been unemployed some say the less "marketable" they are....if that doesn't work, offer some kinda profit share...)
When it comes to students, some schools even grant some kind of credit for "life experience" so you can tell them you're willing to fill out the paper work to make sure they get something tangible (besides cash if you don't have it) from the exchange...
OK, now you have your "help" - i.e. the brute physical worker
THE SECOND IMPORTANT PART:
Take ONE IDEA you read about from AT LEAST once a week on a WF Thread and IMPLEMENT IT. You can follow the "forum" best practices I used back in the day when I was a n00b (actually I still feel like a n00b it is all relative, but whatever). It goes like this:
a) use the advanced search to search for ideas from specific sections....
b) also, you can search for posts from specific people....
here's an example:
I won't name names...but when I want info on ppc, I go and look for thoughts, reflections, etc from xyz....
domains....abc
keyword research....123
php.....that person
random political, nonsensical bullshit -well too many to name, lol
automation....this person
I could break it down to "go to" knowledge sources for
social bookmarking
ppc add writing
directory link building....
the gist of it is that let's face it. this is a forum and alot of people talk alot of bullshit that's worth jack - hell we all do sometimes. however, if you can quickly skim through the weeds, you can get at what you want fast...
lol
You can identify the "right" people by perhaps looking at their rep points, or perhaps itrader points (not the best indicator, but when people are spending money it's usually for a reason....) and well, just use your judgment. One thing to do is try a suggestion or tool they talk about and if it works, then keep listening to them.
Ok, so now 1) you have your employee 2) you have suggestion....and 3) you have the the plan to implement it in a semi-automated fashion (i.e you just email/tell them - read over this thread and implement it....or, you just write a summary with directions to implement it..
I got this last bit from an ebook and I am not afraid to say it becuase if the shit works I don't care where I read it.
Basically the guy said "your job should be a knowledge worker". Your job should be to put together the vast amounts of information out there and decide, strategize, etc about how to use it. The big money comes from THINKING not DOING these days.
With outsourcing you can pay someone to "do" while you "think". With an international labor market and technology, the "doing" is getting cheaper and cheaper while the "thinking" is getting more and more "expensive".
So because both doing and thinking are important, the whole value of the plan is reducing the "search and acquisition costs" associated with finding good information (i.e there's so much good info centralized here it's easy to find), you can piggy back off of other's thinking and pay someone for the doing.
This week one of the things I implemented was:
-used clicktale which was recommended by mediastar100 (thanks dear -->
http://www.wickedfire.com/design-development-programming/63275-clicktale-data.html )
-tweak a site based on some offline suggestions from a WF member (props to Bofu2u a real automation specialist - btw, where is that code Mr. Penis, lol)
Of course you may fall short of doing it every week, but if you do 1 a WEEK, that's 52 ideas that you have implemented that can really help you out.
Just some ideas.......
ps
also try [keyword] site:wickedfire.com if you are having a hard time finding stuff - the site's pretty well indexed!
Schedule for next week:
1) get some of these scripts tweaked and implemented
http://www.wickedfire.com/design-development-programming/56127-wf-php-functions-war-chest.html
2) implement some ideas from a WF'ers blog that I've been ignoring for at least 3 months (hypocritical slacker I am....)
3) Surf for deals on Gilt.com given I've been paying too much for some stuff-- props to a new WF who offered an invite that I quickly jumpted on!
PPS
anyone else doing/done this in a 1-2-3 kind of way? I'd be curious to read....
