By Maren Kate
Recently my company, Zirtual, went through a series of changes. Everything from changing our primary business model (twice) to letting a dear member of the team go.
It’s been an incredibly difficult and eye-opening period for me and I thought I could share some of my experiences in hopes that this will help some of you down the line.
It’s not where you start, but where you end up
When I started outsourcing years and years ago I would only hire contractors who were offshore. I did this for several reasons, I was poor (I had just started my first business and had very little extra cash to throw around) and I had been fed the kool-aid that you get the exact same quality of work from offshore virtual assistants as you would from someone in your home country (mine... More...
