Ok, so first of all I’d like to say that the first 10 websites I needed to build have already been completed, I still didn’t buy the domains for the second batch of 10 websites for next week, but I will do it tomorrow.
For now everything is going as planned, my money-wise goals for January already have been completed so I’m behind schedule, but I will keep on pushing forward.
I’m currently hiring 1 full time employee (VA) and 1 article writer, the full time employee is an amazing filipino, I’ll talk about her in more posts, but the indian article writer failed to deliver the articles for the first week, so I will have to use the service iWriter.com which costs much more than what the indian costs, the reason I’m gonna do that is because I am going to keep up with the 520 websites for this year.
That being said, I’m going to hire another VA, because currently my VA is doing a lot, and I’m starting to think that its too much, since I give her not only to put the articles on the websites, she also customize the websites, install wordpress plug ins, make hubpages / squidoo, make flixtime video for each website, and posts answers in yahoo answers, I think its too much for 1 person, and so I’m hiring now.
Hiring new worker is never easy, especially when you do it remotely, you must give them a test, to see that they will not run away at the first crisis, you must ask them questions and see how they answer, and then u interview them on skype, its pretty hard but it all have to be done in order to hire someone for your online business.
Other than that, I’ve recently stumbles Anki SRS, its a great software(free!), that show you flashcards in an intelligent way, if you ever need to remember anything, I think its the way to go, so what it helped me with is.. studying Spanish and Chinese characters, since those are some of my goals for this year, I see that now I know about 250 chinese characters, and before I started I only knew about 150, it does the job for me, some of my friends didn’t really connect with the software, so I guess its about personal preferences.
That’s it for now, I wish us all a great week!
Tomer
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Good start dude, 10 sites and growing.. I suppose that with this rate you will grow your income tramendously in no time!
Would love to update on how it goes, keep updating.
Thanks brad, I will keep you guys posted!
Hi Tomer,
It’s cool that you are on a mission to make 520 websites in 2012.
I’ve been in Philippines now for 9 years so if there is any help you need with finding or hiring/managing VA’s let me know.
See you in the DC.
Stephen Warren
Hey Stephen,
Thanks so much for reading my blog, and yeah the mission to make 520 websites this year is a really difficult one, but I’m sure it will worth it.
I’m glad you offered the VA options, currently I have 1 VA and the second just started his test period, I hope to build my own little army
I really love the philippines and will surely visit next year.