Lets face it if the outsourcers in low cost countries really understood any where near enough about SEO or Internet Marketing to be of real value to your business then they would be making a nice almost passive living off a couple of Adsense or CPA sites rather than selling their time for a few $ a hour.

Its like the old “super salesman” that does want to work on straight commission but insists on a rentainer + commission.

Once you know how it works why would you do it for someone else to profit from ?

Yeah, it is great for some of these tasks – but I’m finding that the more a task involves critical thinking or taking the initiative and the less it can just be delegated to a VA.

Wish there was a better way to this…

Great Post! I’ve just started using VAs for various labor intensive tasks that can easily be broken down into easy to follow steps and I’m loving it. In reference to a comment above, I shy away from the initial work to set up the processes and document each step as well, but once you get it done it’s so great to just shoot off an email and a day or two later have someone deliver the completed work with no time (and very little cost) on your part.

I can’t believe I didn’t start this sooner.

For KR, I tried that before and paid like $200 for a couple dozen keywords. I would not outsource that, especially when there are great tools like Spyfu you can use instead. (See my endorsements page.)

What would you outsource?

Cheers
Gab