4.   Webinars and Screen Sharing and Screen Capture

Webinars and screen sharing are great ways to communicate your ideas with outsourcers.

This is because somebody else’s interpretation of what you want can be completely different to yours.

If you can learn to communicate effectively from day one using something like a screen share, you’ll be amazed at how much more accurate the results you get, are.

Long distance, you can verbally explain to somebody while showing them on the screen exactly what you want. It’s as close as you can get to speaking in person.

Personally I use www.dlwmmm.com/camtasia to do this, though there are many other solutions.

5.   Project Management Software

Using project management software allows a record to be kept of all new tasks and bugs. These can often get overlooked, or ‘go missing’ via e-mail.

With project management software, everyone can see what needs to be done and by who. And there are no excuses.

Streber is the one I personally recommend: www.dlwmmm.com/streber Streber is free, and is butt-ugly—but it’s simple to use and does the job. (I  prefer it over www.dlwmmm.com/base and many of the other alternative popular solutions, though it is not for everyone.)

6.  How to Give Detailed Instructions

If you are not very specific about what it is you want your team to do, everyone will go off on their own tangents.