Replace myself? “yeah right”, that’s what I said 2 months ago but now I’ve changed my mind. You see my business revolves around offline consulting and affiliate marketing, like most internet marketers, I was working silly hours and doing practically everything myself. I literally felt exhausted from internet marketing because there was so much work that needed to be done and it was only “me” doing it. I was the content creator, website designer, traffic gal and marketing consultant – yep just one person doing everything. I was fine talking to clients but when it came time to “doing” the work, there was barely enough hours in the day to service every client.

I couldn’t keep up and although I had outsourced little things here and there on elance, the thought of having someone else (like a full time VA) to replace myself actually scared me. I had all these preconceived notions about hiring a virtual assistant, like:

• “Having a VA is going to cost a lot”
• “It’s too hard to train them”
• “They’re not going to do work properly because I can’t monitor them”
• “There’s going to be communication problems”
blah blah (you get the drift)

Looking back they were all excuses and at the time, I honestly didn’t know where to find high quality virtual assistants that I could trust…until I found “Replace Myself”. So having experienced the Replace Myself program, I’m going to give you my personal review about the pros and cons of the Replace Myself Program by John Jonas.

What is Replace Myself?

Replace Myself in a nutshell teaches you, the online business owner how to outsource your work to Pilipino workers. The creator of this program is John Jonas, a successful internet marketer who’s been online since 2004. The Replace myself program gives you all the tools and resources you need to start outsourcing your work. Initially, my thought was like “no way!”, so I started subscribing to John Jonas’s list and got his free hour long audio recording about outsourcing and was immediately impressed.

The audio (now revamped into a free webinar) really changed my view about outsourcing. I was blown away by the quality of information John provided within this recording. It was the type of information that I would have normally paid for and it was solid content – not rehashed stuff from wannabe marketers who never applied themselves. Sorry if I’m being harsh but there is so much garbage online that it’s doing major damage to those just starting out online. After listening to the outsourcing recording, I shifted my mindset to having full time employees help me build my business. It was time, I invested in my own business instead of outsourcing “one off” tasks. By having my own employees, I could train them the way I would do more work and to me it was simply a no brainer.

How Is Replace Myself Any Different To Places like Elance.com or Freelancer.com?

I get asked the above question a lot and here’s the difference, Elance/Freelancer is a online job portal that matches employer needs with freelance professionals. These freelancers work on several projects at any given time and they charge on an hourly rate or a fixed project amount. When you have your own online worker, they work purely for you and there is no hourly rate. Although your online virtual worker may agree to working 40 hours a week, if you’re running late on a deadline, they will often work extra hours without asking for anything in return. Pilipino workers are loyal and always willing to go the extra mile.

What Do I Get With The Replace Myself Program?

The Replace Myself program literally gives you all the video training tutorials required to train a newbie online worker into a super virtual assistant. As part of your first month’s membership, you get access to the below training modules:

• Module 1: Complete Outsourced Worker Hiring and Management Training, Keyword List Creation Training, and the Complete ‘Business in a Box’ Package.
• Module 2: Complete AdWords Training for your workers.
• Module 3: Complete Training for your Employee on How to Build a Mini-Net, to drive natural, free traffic to your site!
• Module 4: Complete Training for your Employee on Video Marketing…promote your site as an authority site through the use of easy to create Videos!
• Module 5: Complete Training for your Employee on Article Marketing…through the use of unique articles that your employee will write for you, your site will shoot up through the search engine rankings!
• Module 6: Complete Training for your Employee on Web 2.0 – Your workers will learn how to harness the power of Web 2.0 to bring natural traffic to your site!
• Module 7: Complete Training for your Employee on Directory Submission – Use free directory submitter software that we provide for you ($97 value) to submit your site to Hundreds of Directory sites!.
• Module 8: Complete Training for your Employee on Myspace/Squidoo/Facebook Marketing – use these sites to dump traffic to your site!
• Module 9: Complete Training for your Employee on the Msn Loophole and Creating Podcasts Training – Two Training Modules in one!
• Module 10: Script Installation Training for your Employee – Your workers will learn how to install a variety of scripts that you can use to make your site more dynamic!
• Module 11: Complete Seo Training for your Employee – this is an absolutely vital aspect of internet marketing….if you aren’t doing it, you are leaving traffic on the table!

It doesn’t stop here, Replace Myself provides a project management website so that you can manage your employees. You also get free access to a fully fledge online job board called Onlinejobs.ph where you can scout for the best Philipino workers. Personally, the two most compelling reasons for me was the large collection of ready made video tutorials and the online job board that was continually being updated with fresh applicants. I don’t have time to sit around and create hundreds of video tutorials to train an online worker, the replace myself membership solved this problem for me.
Every month, you receive a new training modules that are designed for your workers not you. Each training module comes complete with training videos, audios and PDFs to teach your employee step by step on how to be good at writing articles, social bookmarking, link building etc all the monotonous tasks that you should NOT be doing.

Why the Philippines and Not India?

Well for starters, the Philippines are hard workers with a strong work ethic. It’s an ideal place to outsource because they have a westernised culture and speak American English. In terms of hiring in the Philippines, I’ve have had some amazing success – having hired a virtual assistant for as little as $150 a month working 40hours a week! She has a degree in Commerce, writes great articles and open to learning new things.

Well for starters, the Philippines are hard workers with a strong work ethic. It’s an ideal place to outsource because they have a westernised culture and speak American English. In terms of hiring in the Philippines, I’ve have had some amazing success – having hired a virtual assistant for as little as $150 a month working 40hours a week! She has a degree in Commerce, writes great articles and open to learning new things.

How Much Does The Replace Myself Program Cost?

Being a marketer myself, I expected to be sold and knew that John Jonas wasn’t giving away free information for nothing. The Replace Myself program that John was selling came with a monthly fee – $97 per month. Yes, I was horrified at first but when I sat down to calculate how many hours it would take me to setup the outsourcing system John had, I came to the realisation that my time was worth more than $97. If I was to break it down even further, it was only $3.50 a day, the price of a latte – I could live with that. I also realised that even if I just hired 1 person at say approx. $250 per month, this fee was insignificant and I could cancel anytime. All over the internet marketing forums like the Warrior Forum, people were leaving solid real reviews about Replace Myself so I went ahead and purchased it and have never looked back!

Last Thoughts On Replace Myself Program:

Outsourcing today is a necessity and the Replace Myself program plays an important part in your online success. If you want your business to grow then you will need full time people working in your business so that you can spend time researching new ideas. You do have to put some capital aside to hire someone full time but seriously… $300 per month salary is a minimal amount for someone working 40hours a week. It takes pressure off you, stops you from trying to do everything and is the only way to move your business forward. If I could turn back the hands of time, I would have enrolled myself into the Replace Myself program and reached my online business goals by now.

Don’t let this happen to you, register here for the Replace Myself webinar and get ready to explode your business!.