21 April 2008
Hiring Local Staff
I’ve only done this a couple times before and have always ended up regretting it, but I think I’m going to start hunting for some local staff. I’ve got awesome contractors I work with on my internet marketing projects and outsource-worthy web development contracts, but I always end up with the smallest, most tedious stuff landing on my desk. I find it so hard to do programming or site updates for $xx/hr when I’m concocting plans to make $x,xxx,xxx/yr that I end up just procrastinating on both.
I like the local service business because it’s reliable and people actually pay their bills in a timely manner (I’m so sick of NET30 I could yell bad bad words at the wall). It’s also refreshing to work on short term, definitively-solvable problems that cause people to say “thank you” when you’re finished. Those of you that have seen multiple internet projects through their entire lifecycles (including gruesome deaths) will also understand that it can sometimes be gratifying to point to something physical and say “that’s what I built.”
There is a local campus of Miami University right by my office, so I’m going to make some fliers and post them there and in the local coffeeshops. I hope that will do the trick, since the last set of contacts I got through a craigslist ad didn’t net me anyone within 45 miles of my office. Wish me luck.
lmk what i can do from over here in bear country.. g/l on the local staff - best bet is hittin up the univ’s! hope ya score some contacts - lata