- Course Overview
- Join our community on Slack!
- What is outsourcing?
- What you should outsource and what you should not
- Planning your budget and estimating costs
- Section 1 review material
- Review sheets - all in one PDF
- Where to find outsourcing firms and freelancers
- Introduction to Elance
- Going further in-depth with Elance
- Introduction to UpWork
- Going further in-depth with Upwork
- Introduction to Freelancer
- Using alternative techniques and platforms to find contractors
- Section 2 review material
- Planning your subcontracting strategy
- Deciding between a firm or a freelancer
- Country profiles & how to pick your ideal combination
- The relationship between Price & Autonomy
- The Goldilocks syndrome
- Section 3 review material
- Writing a title that attracts the right bids
- Hands on with writing titles
- Writing the perfect description
- Getting hands on with writing descriptions
- Getting the settings right
- Section 4 review material
- Rapid cycling posts
- The $50 test
- The "Keyer" question strategy
- Repeating the project back to you
- Getting them off the platform
- The long term strategy
- Using messaging to your advantage
- Fixed rate vs per hour? Use our technique instead
- The Specializations strategy
- Section 5 review material
- 5 pillars for evaluating contractors
- 6 red flags for contractors
- How important is site reputation?
- Understanding your response rate
- How to handle extra work and specifications
- What is good? Avoid this trap
- How to treat referrals
- Is outsourcing a long term solution?
- Legality with outsourcing
- Outsourcing & Protecting your IP
- Section 6 review material
- Creating an overview
- Creating a functions list
- Example: Creating our functions list
- Adding pages
- Creating the user section
- Creating the parameters list
- Adding comments
- Intro to Balsamiq
- Going further with Balsamiq
- An example site made in Balsamiq
- Section 7 review material
- What to look for in their language
- Further analyzing language
- The response rate test
- Dissecting their bid amount
- Section 8 review material
- Getting acquainted with Asana, the king of project management tools
- Going further with Asana
- Section 9 review material
- Becoming a bug hunting master
- Bug hunting on mobile
- Some thoughts on bug hunting
- TIP: Accelerate your testing this way
- Section 10 review material
- Low quality work
- Missing Deadlines
- Repeatedly missing bugs
- They ask for money upfront
- They bid and disappear
- Contractor raises their price
- Section 11 review material
- Bonus Lecture: How to get your next course for as low as $12.99