Hahaha Awesome!! Please let me know how you like it, I’m pretty positive you’ll find some good tips there <3

Ah I see I forgot about that =D There’s still a couple of things I need to learn I see =) I think I might actually get Happy Outsourcing as well, my plan for this year might need over 10 to up to 30 people and I’ve been mulling over it on how to manage that many people. Your post came at the perfect time!

Haha – interesting on the spam bidders! I haven’t had that experience yet.

I don’t mind hiring people over and over – you could have someone go through and pay them for you, and I never actually END the task – I just keep paying the “milestone payments” in oDesk.

I find it’s worth the time to do that versus letting people run without supervision!

Nice post! I find that even the spam bidders are catching on to the qualifier in point four though =P But I’m surprised to hear that paying per hour is that bad, I don’t think I’ve had that much troubles with it. But then again I’m pretty new and the best experience with odesk is when I paid per task.

But wouldn’t it be a headache to rehire them over and over again for small tasks? I can’t imagine doing it for 10 people let alone 100 people!

Woohoo!! Thank you for picking it up – I can’t wait to hear your feedback!!

Wow – I’m really sorry to hear that, Andy! Are you still a member there? The new owner has been telling me turnaround times have been cleaned up tremendously, quality is better, etc etc – maybe you could email me at rachelreports @gmail when you get a moment to tell me what happened?

I’m glad you like the qualifier part – thank you for telling me!!

Thank you very much for the feedback. I’m really glad you like it! And yes – not paying hourly has saved so much aggravation I can’t even tell you!

Yep, its up and running again. Now I’m off to study “Happy Outsourcing”!
Terry

Great post, Rachel. Having a qualifier is a very good tip.

I was a BurnYourToDoList customer and the service became a nightmare after you sold the site. It has been the worst customer service I’ve ever experienced.

Thanks for the ifo, Rachael. Before reading this post I was clueless on the questions to ask potential job seekers. I also like the idea of paying per task rather than on hourly wages (A real money saver). This is an excellent post. Keep up the good work.