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Hello this is West and welcome to the ìHow to get the most out of vWorker tutorial.î
In this tutorial Iím going to share with you tips and strategies to find highly skilled,
cost effective virtual staff for your business. Iím going to share with you little key things
that I do to make a difference in getting those bids.
Once youíve posted your project, your project will show up in your interface as something
that looks like this. Now Iíve done a fair few projects in the past. And these are some
of my really old one. And this is what it looks like when youíve posted a few. Now
were going to focus on one for the benefits of this tutorial.
So letís say for example the graphics one that Iíve posted up. Now, that was a fake
one so we canít use that one. But this one here, we click on it and Iíve already got
a window open. This is what happens when bids start to come in. so bids will start flowing
from in all over the world. All different types of coders, varying skill levels, and
varying backgrounds. And it will tend to look like this coming in one after the other. Now
your job is to choose the best person for the job for the best price. Now I donít recommend
choosing the lowest bid because you tend to get what you pay for. But there are ways to
maximize your chance of getting a good worker. So here are a few little tips that I tend
to do.
This first thing, is in your bid request, you want to type in the words at the start
ìThis is an easy project for a worker who knows what theyíre doing.î Now studies have
shown that that little sentence on its own tends to get no nonsense bids. And people
would tend to bid without trying to rip you off or trying to mess around and basically
waste your time. The other thing I like to do is make sure that they put in a secret
code word when they reply. The reason I do that is because when I first posted a few
projects, I tended to get a lot of auto bids that is basically people who bid on a large
massive scale. And they play a numbers game and theyíre not really relevant to your project.
They might not even have the skills to bid on your project but they bid anyway. And theyíll
put out the fright later on when they get selected. So, in order to make sure that theyíve
actually read my bid request I require them to put the secret code when they reply. If
they donít do that, I automatically disregard their particular bid.
Now the next tip that Iíll show you is how to evaluate a potential worker. So in this
case, lets say for example this is a bide request, now this project is long gone and
long finished. And youíll see slightly different things here. However it will look very similar.
Now if Iím looking at working with this person, the first thing that Iíll do is click on
their name. and it will come up with a little globe about them, where their from, and their
history. Now one of the things I like to do is look at their past ratings. Okay now this
person only has one rating but, usually youíll get workers with multiple ratings. Now once
youíve clicked on the rating button, it will show that personís work history and a summary
of all the ratings that theyíve gotten in the past. Now as Iíve said before this particular
person only has one rating but theyíve got a good one. They got a ten and the comments
were very positive as well. So theyíve worked for me and actually did a great job so I decided
to give them a good rating.
For important projects or bigger projects, I strongly recommend using workers that have
a few ratings, at least five to ten. And I strongly recommend in contacting those people
and finding out if they did a good job. So you might want to get a few referees from
that person, and finding out from the source whether theyíre a hard worker and have the
skills that they claim to have. It will save you a lot of head ache in the future if you
take a few small steps to prevent any problems happening in the future.
Now the third tip Iíd like to give is get them to jump from a few hoops and whn you
initially receive a bid from a person, it opens up a message board and youíll be able
to type messages for them. So I tend to get them to do little things, like get them to
report back to me on what exactly theyíre going to do or get them to give me a bit of
an outline on their proposed plan or strategy for the project. And Iíll get them to do
little things for me to jump through a few hoops. And there are a few things Iíll check.
First, thing Iíll check is the promptness. How often they respond to my messages. If
theyíre really keen for some work, and if they really want to work with you, theyíre
going to reply pretty quickly. Usually within a few hours if theyíre the kind of people
who hangs out online all the time. And thatís the kind of people you want to work for. You
donít want to work with people who go away for three, four, five, six days and donít
attend to their messages. So have a look at their response of reply.
The second thing is have a look at the kind of detail that they reply with. So if you
get them to check out a webpage or you get them to check out one of your sites to potentially
research in order to give a proposal. Have a look at the feedback they provide, a lot
of the workers will actually give you pretty specific and detailed feedback and a plan
of action. And some will even give you a sample or sort of a taster of what they could do
for you. And those are the kind of people that you want to move towards cause their
known quantity and theyíre serious for work. And theyíre not just bidding and hoping that
youíll actually accept them. So thatís the other tip Iíll give you.
So, in summary, ways to get the most out of vWorker, hereís a few tips and strategies
that I use. One, use the ìmagic openingî and secret code technique. Magic opening,
this is an easy project for a coder that knows what theyíre doing. And the secret code,
whatever it is any combination of numbers or words that they must reply with in order
for you to consider their request.
Second, do your due diligence on the worker. Click on their feedback, read their feedback,
have a look at the project theyíve done in the past. Contact some of the workers they
may have worked for. And find out exactly how they did with those people. And make them
jump through small hoops in the message board or give them a really small project first
and make sure that they do it properly, and they do it promptly, and they do it comprehensively
before you give them bigger projects. I hope this has been helpful for you and good luck
in your projects.