Joe Valley and Mark Daoust co-host the Quiet Light Podcast. The podcast aims to help you learn the skills and methods needed to turn your online business into a powerful profit engine. Amidst Joe’s COVID quarantine, we were able to talk about the great stuff that happens when you outsource. Joe has just been recently […]
I asked my OFSs why work is being done mindlessly, and I’ve discussed the most popular answers over the past few weeks. This one also came up several times, and honestly, I was curious. One reason work is being done mindlessly is because of Filipino family culture. I learned that when Filipinos don’t feel that […]
It happens to almost all of us; sometimes, we just feel lazy and do work half-heartedly. If laziness is why your Online Filipino Specialist is working mindlessly, there could be something more behind it. I asked my OFSs why a task was done mindlessly, and laziness was one of the top reasons they gave me. […]
Your Online Filipino Specialists know you’re going to see how much or how many they’ve accomplished for the day, and if you notice the amount of work more than anything else, this could lead your OFS to doing more than doing better. Let’s talk about giving importance to quantity over quality leads to mindless work. […]
Have you heard of Hofstede’s Power Distance Index? It refers to the degree of inequality that exists – and is accepted – between people with and without power. According to the model, in a high PDI country, like the Philippines, with a PDI of 94, team members will not initiate any action, and they like […]
Fear is one of the most powerful emotions. It has a powerful effect on your mind and body. Fear can create strong signals of response. I recently asked my team what they think the reason could be behind doing tasks mindlessly. They gave me many reasons, but five stood out. We’ll talk about one now […]
Remember that story about an awful video that got uploaded to YouTube by one of my OFSs? I talked about that video in one of my newsletters and got tons of responses from other business owners about what they think could be the reason why. I found it interesting that there are others who also […]
Business owners often reach out to me and wonder why they can’t find someone for their business. I recently received an inquiry on how they can find someone with technical skills — technical support, network engineering, AWS, cloud support. Etc. Let me just say that these technical people are not hard to find. I know […]
Remember the episode where I talked about a terrible video uploaded by my OFS? That video kickstarted a significant change within the team. Getting poor work from my team is one of the pitfalls of turning over everything to my OFS team, and I wasn’t sure how to fix that until the terrible video happened. […]
Sometimes, we need to tweak our game so we can be better. Ruben Kanya is not a stranger to outsourcing, as he has been working with VAs in his business since 2014. He is the founder and Director of Invested Talent, a video production agency helping real estate thought leaders repurpose their content on multiple […]