Python for Entrepreneurs Transcripts
Chapter: Getting help (contracting, design, and more)
Lecture: Inside Michael's projects at Upwork
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In the introduction to this chapter I showed you a job I posted. Let me give you a look inside Upwork, how that went.
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So here is the job, it's already closed so nobody can come apply for it, but this was the job I posted to have somebody help edit my podcast.
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I said I am willing to spend up to $75 on this, now since then, I have spent a lot more money on that because the person I hired for this one job,
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it was one podcast, actually turned out to be really good, and I've been using them ever since.
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And I actually pay a lot less than $75 per episode to get it edited. OK, you can see about ten months ago it was posted,
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apparently I have 23 good reviews, five stars, so this is a sort of bidirectional market place;
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like I said, I can verify the people that are applying for these positions,
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they can verify that I am not some kind of crazy person, that I pay my bills, I am easy to work with, all these things, it works in both directions.
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So let's just scroll through and have a quick look. So you can put in whatever you want in the start here,
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I said look, I am going to record these episodes, here is information about the podcast,
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I've been doing this myself, I would like to hire someone to do it, I'll share the files with you via Dropbox, things like that.
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And then I said I'd like you to do this in Audacity, at least maybe do it in Audacity because I am recording it,
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at least at the time I was recording it in Audacity and I wanted to send them the files directly so they had to highest quality.
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But it turned out I am not sure if the guy in the end uses Audacity, it doesn't really matter,
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but, you get to ask specific questions, there is the section
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where you can say enter a bunch of questions and these are really important to keep the back and forth down, right,
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if you want them to use Audacity, make sure you put a question that says "are you familiar with Audacity?"
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If you want to know their experience with some particular thing, put it in here, right,
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so you'll get a place where they have to basically fill out these questions
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and that be really helpful on both ends, so you can quickly look through and go yes, this person has skills, or the background that I need.
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OK, so that is the ad. Let me show you some of the applicants. So over here, once you actually accept the job or give the job to one of the applicants,
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the rest of the people go into this archive, so I posted a job, you can see a couple of people withdrew their applications,
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that doesn't really matter, but look at this, we have 71 applicants, and those are the people I didn't hire, and the two that withdrew
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I think they withdrew when they saw that the job was closed. So, we had 73 people, really 74 apply for this job,
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that was really surprising to me how many people were willing to come work on this project,
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and if you have 74 people apply for a job with lots of background information and whatnot, there is a good chance that that is going to workout well,
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and if it didn't workout well, right, suppose I hired this guy and he for some reason didn't workout, didn't do a good job or was slow or whatever,
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there is 73 other people I could come and then pick for the next round, so one of my pieces of advice to you is start small,
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in little small pieces and that lets you both build trust with each other.