Welcome back. Got another episode about outsourcing. John Jonas here. Creator of
virtualassistanttool.com. And in this video we're talking about what life
would be like without outsourcing. Now, we filmed a few videos earlier today and we
kind of referenced the fact that we're in a new paradigm.
I've been hiring people in the Philippines for 9 years now and you
said 13? -Yeah. -13 years. So, we live in this world where outsourcing is our
everyday thing/ I've got 10 full-time employees. You've got 24. So, where do you
think life would be right now if we had never learned to hire people in the
Philippines? -I mean. where would life be? I don't know. man. That's. what... -My company
would not exist. The services that I offer, I could... -I wouldn't either. -Yeah. -I'm
sure I would have something else, right? But there were so many things that I did
along the way that weren't possible without understanding this. I remember...
I'll give you an example. -Sure. This didn't happen for me. I was
working with 2 guys. One guy had this big drop ship... I'll talk about the
whole thing. -So, like guys here in the U.S? -In the U.S.
Yeah. One guy had a big drop shipping catalog. And I was working with someone
else who understood a whole bunch of business stuff and connecting the 2
together of like, "Hey, he's... His drop shipping catalog is being sold to a
little bunch of people and he's letting them pick pieces out of it. But we want
to take the entire thing and put it all online." As a website, right? And it was so
daunting to take the idea of we have thousands of products here and we have
to write descriptions and content around him and adding them into it. Because
there's no he doesn't have a feed. It's all... It was so daunting to take that, that
we just gave up. Right? So, this business never happened because I didn't know at
the time what was possible. If I had had the knowledge that I have now of like, "Oh,
I can hire a couple people in the Philippines who are smart
and they're going to take this and write good content. And they're going to
organize it correctly and it's going to be well done. I would probably have a
website today that was selling a whole bunch of things that are drop shipped."
For me, that was like... I think about that often like... I just... I had... I didn't have to
knowledge. I didn't know what was possible. I didn't know that I could hire
someone for $400 a month for full-time work and they're intelligent. -Yeah,
looking at the... If you do an internet search around outsourcing, most of stuff
that you find is pretty negative. It's... There's a positive stigma about things
that are made in the USA. -Yeah. -But it's... It's kind of hypocritical because
everything that we buy is manufactured... I mean, you know, this is an older iPhone.
The iPhone 6S. But it's what a made in the USA. And like, we shop it. We shop at a
grocery store... Well, let's use Walmart. -Yeah. -All the items on the shelves, you
pick it up and we'll say made in China or made in Indonesia, made in Brazil. So,
obviously, I guess... You know, if a product is made in USA, somehow that makes it
better but... -So, when I got started I tried hiring people in the US and it just
didn't work for me. And there were multiple factors involved. Whatever, okay.
Today, I have 24 people in the Philippines and I have a couple people
in the US who work for me. And that wouldn't exist... Those jobs don't exist
without outsourcing because I don't get to this point where I can afford these
really specialty people in the US without my team in the Philippines
getting me to that point. -Well, it... Totally applies in my business as well. I mean,
I've got some amazing services that I offer and it's not... My services
are not cheap. So, to work with me on my done-for-you service, it's a 6-figure
package. -Okay. -It's an expensive service but that is because it's actually
extremely affordable. We're creating like a year's worth of episodes and we're
able to do all that and do it at the quality that we're doing it because of
our amazing team in the Philippines. -Yeah. I don't think we realize what our
quality of life is because of outsourcing. -I definitely think we take
it for granted. -Yeah. -So, yeah. The blessings that we have of
living in a great country like this with the freedoms that we have. But especially
the prosperity that we have. The comforts that we enjoy. We really live like
kings and queens. You know, that things the luxuries that we enjoy in our home
that just rewind a hundred years. -Yeah. -Well and I see people all the time that
you know, I'll talk about this. I'll talk about how you can hire someone full time
who was intelligent and talented and hardworking and loyal for $500
a month. And they're as competent as the person that you would have paid
$15 an hour in the US or more. You get this and... And when people hear this and
they hear all that goes into it and their loyalty and and the kind of work
that they do. Often they're like, "Oh, my gosh. You just opened up a world for me."
And they didn't know that. And so for when for me, when you asked, "What would
the... What would life be like without outsourcing?" I see so many people that
like have no clue. -Yeah. -And then they're like, "Dude, you got to make this
more known." Because they start a business and they succeed with it and that's kind
of the reaction I get often. -I mean, it's it's such a great blessing, it's such a
great help. It provides so much more to be created. You know, all the different
services I've offered through the years from Web Design the marketing services
that I've had the different video services, they would not have existed for
small businesses at the the price point and the the value that... They would not
have existed without outsourcing. And thinking about like what you said,
there's a lot of people around me that I associate with that they have no idea
that this opportunity exists. That's part of the reason why I love making
videos like this is because it's like, "Come on guys. This this is available." -Yeah.
So, what would it be like? I guess it would be like what it's like for them
where they don't... They're not... Their business was growing really slowly. -Yeah. -I
hope this video was helpful. if this brings up any other questions, I want to
continue this conversation about outsourcing. I'm in the paradigm of... I've
been outsourcing fir from 9 years. You even longer. So, there's probably
questions that you have about outsourcing that we would know exactly
how to answer. We just don't know what those questions are. So, whether on
YouTube or on LinkedIn, comment below and that will give us ideas of future
episodes that we can come out with. Until then, we'll see in the next episode.