One of the things I constantly recommend to people is outsourcing. As you know, I do a lot of outsourcing, in fact this very blog post was dictated by me on a small digital voice recorder and transcribed by my transcriptionist, Loretta Oliver. If you need transcription services I encourage you to visit her and tell her "Mark sent you." (There might even be a nice discount in there for you.)
The problem is once you get more than two or three outsource professionals assisting you it can start to get really hard to keep track of everything that’s going on. Currently in my business I’m using virtual assistants for programming WordPress, writing server programs in Perl, transcribing material, doing web design, doing web site maintenance, building backlinks, submitting articles, building niche websites, and writing content.
It’s actually as many as 10 different people at times working on various parts of my business. Keeping track of all those people by email is impossible, so I started using Google doc spreadsheets to try and keep track of all the tasks. That’s a great first step, but quite frankly it wasn’t really sufficient to meet my needs.
I started looking for project management software that I could use to track all the work that’s going on in the MasonWorld.com empire (okay, it’s not an empire, but that’s my dream.) I started looking at solutions that are very familiar to most people.
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