Introduction to the course (39 minutes)
  • 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
Getting started (70 minutes)
  • 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
Diving deeper (63 minutes)
  • 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
Posting expertise (67 minutes)
  • 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
Strategies for minimizing costs and time (54 minutes)
  • 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
Best practices (74 minutes)
  • 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
Documentation (98 minutes)
  • 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
Selecting the right person (41 minutes)
  • What to look for in their language
  • Further analyzing language
  • The response rate test
  • Dissecting their bid amount
  • Section 8 review material
Internal management skills (23 minutes)
  • Getting acquainted with Asana, the king of project management tools
  • Going further with Asana
  • Section 9 review material
Bug hunting (19 minutes)
  • Becoming a bug hunting master
  • Bug hunting on mobile
  • Some thoughts on bug hunting
  • TIP: Accelerate your testing this way
  • Section 10 review material
Common scenarios and how to handle them (39 minutes)
  • 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 Section
  • Bonus Lecture: How to get your next course for as low as $12.99