Lex DeVille
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Hello everyone, I hope you are well! Fortunately my business is growing and I am slowly delegating some areas of the business to other people.
What I did was select some freelancers on Fiverr. I have created documents specifying in detail how to do certain tasks, in order to free myself from this commitment and leave me free time to do other more important things.
I thought it was enough to do this, but I'm having some serious difficulties finding well trained and hard working freelancers.
Of 4 people find so far:
- One is very good, prepared and precise.
-Another is horrible: he has provided me with jobs that to say badly done is positive. I'm trying to get him to better understand how to do them, but I'm afraid she just isn't capable.
- Two others did decent jobs, but clearly didn't commit. Moreover, while the first time they were good, in the other times they did not follow the instructions (the jobs were full of errors and must be checked in detail).
I am looking for some useful tips to improve in this area, because it seems that it is not enough to make detailed instructions for the tasks. Sometimes, in fact, I felt more like a chicken to be plucked than an entrepreneur with whom to establish long-term partnerships (with benefits on both sides).
For now what I'm doing is:
- Create documents with high detailed instructions
- Specify that if the job is done well we can continue to work together for the long term (and they will earn more money, of course!)
- I have never made any particular budget problems, specifying that I prefer to pay something more for work done well
- Never used deadlines, to avoid work done in a hurry
In my head this was enough, but maybe it isn't. Does anyone have any other useful advice or can recommend valuable books on the subject to find highly skilled freelancers and keep the quality of the work high? Thanks!
How many of these people did you get on a live video call before hiring them?
If none, go to Upwork, not Fiverr.
When you get some candidates, interview them on a video call so you can get a feel for who they are and so you can ask questions and find out if they're full of crap or not.
You can tell a lot about how good a freelancer will perform just by how they show up on a call.
- Are they late?
- Do they have distractions?
- Do they give detailed answers to your questions or do they beat around the bush to avoid revealing how little they know?
- Are they peppy and motivated? Hungry for work?
- Or do they have an attitude and don't really care?
- Are they there because they care about helping you?
- Or do they only care about helping themself?
1. Think about how you can make working with you really valuable for them to attract better quality freelancers.
2. Pay for quality.