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Another Offshore Manager Daily Routine 11 Apr 2013 | 02:37 am
A good friend of mine, Alexey, is an “offshore manager” for a mid-sized technology company with offshore offices in Ukraine. After reading my last post he decided to sent me his daily routine. I put “...
Offshore Manager Daily Routine 10 Apr 2013 | 12:06 am
Last night I met with Chris, an old friend of mine who manages relationships with a large group of software developers and QA engineers located in Campinas, Brazil. He’s been working with this team fo...
The Bottomless Pit of SEO 12 Mar 2013 | 11:39 pm
If you are a novice blogger, an affiliate, or plan to make a killing by placing Google ads on your site you may believe that SEO will bring you tons of money. It may, but unless you watch every step a...
Finding VAs just got easier 12 Dec 2012 | 04:58 am
Activities that call for out-tasking, ad-hoc outsourcing or “outsourcing your life” inevitably bring us to a not so easy to resolve dilemma – where and how to find a decent virtual assistant (VA). In ...
Finding a great outsourcing coordinator 13 Nov 2012 | 07:13 am
About six months ago one of my old friends, VP of Engineering for an East Coast based company, asked me to help him to find a good offshore manager / outsourcing coordinator. That by no means was an e...
Staying Healthy – progress update 8 Nov 2012 | 06:52 am
A couple months ago I started a “healthy” thread with a discussion about Staying Healthy on the Road, the topic that should be near and dear to most of us involved offshore and in particular to road ...
Top Ten Mistakes in Offshore Interviews 28 Oct 2012 | 09:44 pm
I intended to put a bunch of illustrations in my book, but only four pics made it there. Space was the major limiting factor, but I guess one of the pictures, 3 monkeys, was not included because it di...
What to do when your client doesn’t pay 17 Oct 2012 | 09:38 am
Many of the posts in my blog are written from clients’ / buyers’ standpoint, this one is different – I am switching sides to take a look at one of the most painful issues of working with small busines...
Wanted – Outsourcing Checklists 10 Oct 2012 | 12:48 am
A few days ago I got my hands on a The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande. Not knowing the author’s background I was expecting a book from some professional organizer, a guru...
“Outsource it!” is now in beta 1 Oct 2012 | 06:36 am
A couple days ago my first full size book went into beta and is now available at the publisher website – http://pragprog.com/book/nkout/outsource-it. I feel very happy and relieved that the book is fi...
