Hiring - Go with Trust or Experience?
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I have to hire someone to do a bunch of installations of WordPress. This raises an interesting question as it seems to put me into a choice between hiring someone I know and trust or someone who is a pro and experienced WordPress person. A possible third option would be to outsource it via eLance or Scriptlance for a much lower cost.
The problem is to do a full site roll out, this person would need to have many passwords and the potential for damage to my business is pretty high.
I think favoring long term thinking is usually the best way to go, so I went with hiring someone I can trust and investing the time to train them [they do have a technical background].
As a side benefit, while I love working on an online business, it is refreshing to have someone come over to my house to work with me in person.
What I am learning is, where is the real value in a circumstance? It looks like I need someone to install WordPress, but I also need someone I can trust. The first has a pretty low value and the second could make the difference between a good night’s sleep and a nightmare or the ability to enjoy a vacation or to be tethered to a laptop.
Just like everything else in business it come down to leverage and scale and I’m learning that even concepts like trust fall under these two pillars. Trust can be leveraged and scaled out a lot farther than just getting a task completed.
- Jon Symons
Newbie at business building.
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Comments ( 4 )
Jennifer added these pithy words on Jan 18 07 at 7:52 pmIf you only use Wordpress, why not go with a host that installs it in one click??
I use Bluehost. They do this. There is a link to them on the left sidebar of my site.
Jon added these pithy words on Jan 18 07 at 10:55 pmHi Jennifer, when I say install WordPress it is a bit of a partial view of things. I am really bringing a new site on to the network, so it goes everywhere from buying domain name, to creating a header, to setting up emails and configurations of stats, RSS etc. So the WP install is only a small part of it.
Kimber added these pithy words on Jan 19 07 at 10:09 amA pro should be trustworthy, Jon. Pros don’t risk their reps for short term gains. Too much to lose.
J added these pithy words on Jan 20 07 at 11:14 amWhen you go into most traditional businesses the accounting group is usually comprised of low paid clerks… and these are people who have direct access to checks and other highly sensitive information.
Something to ponder, not that I think its right or wrong neccesarily.
What about setting up some sort of document control system?
-J