Using a remote team allows to you get more things done than you otherwise would. In this episode, Darryl takes us through his tips about finding and working with a remote team.

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Darryl: Hi there, I'm Darryl King; I'm here with my co-host Ed Pelgen, couple of old internet Ex. Who been running our online agencies for over 20 years. We get together weekly to talk about all things online especially for small and medium business owners or executives who are still referring to their sites as their bloody web sites. Each week we look at tackling a range of online issues; put them in plain language, so you, me, everyone can understand them how to make their website work better for their businesses or (0:28…?). We are Episode 31 today and the topic is - How do you use remote workers to achieve your goals? How you doing Ed

Edmund: good, thanks Darryl. Yourself?

Darryl: yeah, really good; so, only to clarify what we mean use remote workers and goals; So in smaller businesses or in this age where; you know, where everyone's busy, stressed but I can't afford to put on a full time worker or you know their local environment; would be at Australia or UK wherever it might be. People look forward about workers to help and or they just say, I can't get it done. I can't get that content produced and we talked into content stuff about engaging writers from different things but it goes to everything about data loading

Edmund: Hmm

Darryl: manipulating photos, loading your blog post, editing your videos, audio transcriptions all of these services that our excuses why you're not doing your thing because you don't have enough time. So whenever you get someone say; I don't have enough time to do that, I can't do that; I can't check analytics; I can’t do my affiliate codes and ends up, whatever; someone else out there is using a remote worker to do that task.

Edmund: Yeah and I think it's important to point out that we're not talking about necessarily outsourcing or just shitty work that you don't necessarily want to do. There are some amazingly talented people especially in your industry, who are doing highly complex work but it's just; it ends up either being more convenient or it does end up being at a lower cost than what you might get domestically but it is flexible; there's a whole range of benefits associated with using remote workers that is flexible for you.

Darryl: Well and if you look at what invariably happens in online is that we get well-rounded individuals that are generalists. So they would have one area that they're a specialist in and then because the company can only afford one person; that person there might have been a programmer. Now we have a doing front-end design, SEO all the rest of it. And this is where problems gonna happen, right? So because your budget is one or two (2:25 Fulltime resources FTS) that you end up relying on those people to do things that might not be this skill set. Now there might enjoy that too and it might be good for everyone because they get skilled up and sometimes you just need people that are good in what they’re doing and like you said; it's about flexibility; so, if I only need a video editor, four hours a week max; like, that's not something that I want a full time person that Something to do it

Edmund: Hmm

Darryl: and if I need someone that's really cool at configuring email automation but I think, do it once a quarter or once a month what server do runs; so like you know there's lots of things,; it could be in any capacity I mean; I know; I know people that do draft; you know, like and they have people off shore that do the high quality work that worked with them for a long time and it is more cost effective. So they scale their business because it works that way; I mean I think business reasons are clear.

Edmund: Yeah

Darryl: Lot of people also do it but