Trey03 - 3:58 pm on Jun 25, 2005 (gmt 0)

I have outsourced to guys in <offshore> twice mainly because of economics. I let the first team have free reigns and they did a resonable job after 6 months (100 related links). They boast of being able to obtain 100s of links but I spent a great deal of time denying links and the deal ended up going bad.

For the second team I broke the project down. I mined 3000 sites and let them screen them/collect email addresses. We just started the contacting part of the campaign and in the last two days they've collected 2 pr 5 links and about 30 PR4/PR3 50 PR 2. Granted... they probably wouldnt of done it without guidance. If these people just knew how to use Arelis and Seo Elite, they have the potential of doing really well on their own.

I suggest breaking the project down and outsourcing cheap. Be sure to explain in great detail what you are looking for. Make sure you hold their hand or look over their shoulder on the first campaign.

[edited by: martinibuster at 4:51 pm (utc) on June 27, 2005]
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