As my web development business was growing I knew I needed to find a way to scale the delivery of our service quickly. Offshoring repeatable tasks to allow me to focus on more valuable tasks seemed like a no-brainer, particularly when high-calibre university-qualified staff in the Philippines can be employed for as little as $4/hr.

So after deciding to build an overseas team I set about wasting hundreds of hours searching for, shortlisting and testing staff on Upwork, Freelancer and other online portals. I had some success but the majority of the time I was disappointed with the quality of work and the outcomes I was able to produce this way. Maybe you can relate?

Next I looked into hiring talent through managed office spaces (known as BPO’s). But after visiting several I never felt comfortable with the idea of these companies ‘leasing’ the staff to me. It meant they were never truly my own team or paid directly from me. If I ever outgrew the office or if a relationship went south with the supplier I could lose access to my team members for good.

Not only that, I found most BPO’s would pay team-members a very low salary and then add huge margins on top of their rate before leasing them to me. This meant the team members were unhappy with their pay and I was unhappy with the rate. The only one who seemed happy was the BPO!

So I decided to travel to the Philippines, launch my own company and hire a team directly. Since then we have grown our team to 75 members in the Philippines and recently built two new buildings which house over 420 desks.

So, If you want to know how to build a high performance team of talented Filipinos fast and affordably, then learn from someone who has already done it. Book a call with my team below, and find out how you can access one of the desks in our new buildings.