Friday, July 10, 2026

What will you delegate to your $3/hr employee? We have ideas.

Not sure how to get your Filipino worker started or keep them busy? Here’s how it boils down:

In our experience, it’s best to outsource two things:
1. Things you’re REALLY good at.
2. Things you have NO IDEA how to do.

At the risk of sounding a little shocking and anti-OCD, let me explain. And remember, I’ve been doing this for a long time and it really works.The key is to let it go.

Outsource things you’re really good at:
What aspect of running your business are you really great at? Something you’ve mastered?

Outsource it.

You can teach your Filipino worker every detail of that task. Teach and train, teach and train. Their work may not be as good as yours, but it can come close. And that’s OK. Let it go.

It’s VERY important that you don’t become a micro-manager with these tasks. The point is for your worker to complete the task so you have time to fry bigger fish. You have more important things to do than spend 30 minutes perfectly aligning the margins on your Wordpress site. Delegate to your Filipino virtual worker.

Their performance will improve with each task. Have the patience to teach and train, teach and train. And soon, you’ll never have to perform that task again!

Outsource tasks you have no idea how to do:
This one is pretty simple. Think of something specific in your business that you want to implement, but don’t know how (like creating a website, SEO, graphic design, social media marketing, digital publishing…).

We’ll call that thing “it.”

Guess what? Doesn’t matter what your intentions are or how well you think you can do “it.”

If you don’t know how to do “it,” then “it” is not getting done. Let “it” go.

Hire someone to do “it.”

However your Filipino online worker performs, their work will be way better than nothing. Which is your current situation...nothing. Don’t wait for the day when you finally have time to teach yourself how to do “it,”or the day you can afford to pay hundreds/thousands of dollars to hire a local contractor.

Outsource “it.”

And just for kicks, here’s a list of seventeen “it” tasks that Filipino workers perform extremely well:

  1. Programming
  2. SEO, driving Web traffic
  3. Link-building
  4. Managing business processes
  5. Customer service
  6. Social media management
  7. Telemarketing
  8. Digital publishing
  9. Writing
  10. Webmaster
  11. WordPress
  12. Graphic design
  13. Web design
  14. Accounting/bookkeeping
  15. Real estate management
  16. Data entry/repetitive tasks
  17. Thinking work (where they’re given training and asked to work through problems or situations)

Find and hire your “it” specialist here.

Happy hiring,
John Jonas and the OnlineJobs.ph Crew

In my next email, I’ll teach you how to craft a compelling job post. With so many other employers on the market, I want you to stand out!

You’re welcome to send questions, comments and feedback to support@onlinejobs.ph (You can look forward to a human response from one of our very own first-string Filipino virtual workers).





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What will you delegate to your $3/hr employee? We have ideas.

Not sure how to get your Filipino worker started or keep them busy? Here’s how it boils down: In o...