Am I Hiring?
This will be kinda introspective (had to look that up to make sure I was using it right). Ok, so I have a bunch of internet projects. Some are successful and some are major flops. But I have a pretty decent system for going from idea to implementation to profit (or loss). At this point it is really just a matter of copying it over and over to scale things. [and no it isn't a huge secret. pick a niche, research, build, test, repeat until you have success (or fail) and move onto the next one].
This puts me in the spot of looking to hire. I have been watching and learning from others who outsource outside the US. There are horror stories and success stories. If I hire outside the US, I don’t have to worry about office space, extra taxes, employee benefits, extra taxes (did I say that one already? 
). But it also means that I will have a significant amount of turnover (not too bad if I have everything documented rather well) but still something to deal with. As far as hiring in the US, I’ve thought of taking someone who is honest, smart and hardworking and just training them in the skills they will need. Trust and smartness are way more important then skills (you can learn what you need in this business).
Thats where I am at. Hire someone? Keep writing computer programs to do things for me? Hire someone to write my programs to do things for me (plus all the other cool stuff I do)? (Some things can’t be done automatically — but lots of repetitive things can) If I do hire someone, do I hire local, mid west us or foreign? Hire someone local who I can trust and teach them what they need to know (or pay for their training)? I don’t expect to have an answer right away, I am still mulling things over. Feel free to offer advice.
PS. I haven’t forgotten about that free PPC app. I work on it while I am flying in a plane (which only happens twice a week).
