Great Book: The 4-Hour Work Week
The 4-Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss
Lately, I've been extremely busy but I did stop by Borders to take my mind off of things and I saw a book I remembered someone mentioning -- The 4-Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss.
To be honest, my last post (Goal #1: Automation) was inspired by this book and with good reason -- this guy is all about outsourcing. In fact, if I were to sum this book up in a nutshell, it would be about removing all your repetative tasks that don't necessarily need you to be involved and outsourcing them to your virtual assistants. This leaves time for you to do the other things you want to do: start new businesses, travel, work on your hobbies, spend time with your family, etc.
Ferriss even goes into detail about getting rid of actual employees and talks about hiring staffing firms in places like India and China to do your work. Rather than outsourcing to individuals in those countries, staffing firms allow you to split test your distant assistants to see who can provide you with a better hourly ROI. Yes, you can even split test your employees. Also, staffing firms come with the added benefit of someone watching over your workers as an added guarantee that things will get done.
There are numerous other great pointers in the book that I won't divulge here but I will say I am thoroughly impressed with the information the guy is handing out. I've been incorporating it into the business and I must say, it does help. I love my assistants and wouldn't go a day without them.
Definitely give this book a read if you want to save yourself thousands of dollars and even more in time and effort.
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March 21st, 2009 at 7:07 pm
Staffing Firms are split tested I didn't knew about that
As I am From India.