I am creating jobs

[Narz]

I've hired 9 part-time people and 1 full-time person online all for about $750 a month over the last week to do SEO work and writing work.

$750 on average? What type of business?

Sadly, people are tightening their belts. We need to spend our way out, not save.

Stop saving dumbasses and max out your credit cards some more! If you want to fight terrorism go to the mall!

 

[downtown]

Is your target consumer in America, or elsewhere?

Do you ever struggle with communication or cultural issues with your offshore team? My company just fired almost all of our India employees, as did my previous employer...and I think my industry is starting to move away from them entirely.

 

[Birdjaguar]

I have an idea to create jobs. We all know that consumer spending is a big driver of the economy, and many people are saving every dime they earn (I admit to doing this). So why not have the government force people to buy stuff? If you accumulate too much money in your bank account, the government will take it unless you spend it.

Yes I know, this goes against pretty much every personal liberty we have in the U.S., and it would never happen. But I do wonder if it would work. I'd rather the government force people to spend their money, rather than steal our money in taxes.

The major downside is it is wasteful of resources to have people spending their money buying cars and stuff they don't need.

Jobs follow demand. Create demand and jobs will follow.

Government spending is one way to create demand. Another is to give money to those who will spend it on "stuff". And the people who have a 100% propensity to spend are those households who make less than $100,000 a year. They are the ones who need both money and jobs to turn things around. So to put money in their pockets, we should cancel all debts of every sort for those who earn less than $100K a year. With debt relief those folks will see a permanent increase in their disposable income and go on a spending spree creating demand that will create jobs.

I'm sure the banks will figure a way to make ends meet. They created this mess and should be the ones to pay the price.

 

[Archbob]

Is your target consumer in America, or elsewhere?

Do you ever struggle with communication or cultural issues with your offshore team? My company just fired almost all of our India employees, as did my previous employer...and I think my industry is starting to move away from them entirely.

My business is a website man. I can get SEO work by people in India and still target people in America. Communication isn't a problem, most of the people I work with have excellent english skills.

 

[Hygro]

Actually, the idea of the small businessman as a job creating engine is a bit of a myth.

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It all hinges on how you define a "small business".

Job growth tends to come from new firms and young firms. They tend to be small. There's a reason people credit small business, but the terminology is chosen politically to be more inclusive.

 

[wolfigor]

Do you ever struggle with communication or cultural issues with your offshore team? My company just fired almost all of our India employees, as did my previous employer...and I think my industry is starting to move away from them entirely.

In my company we had the same problem, and we simply had to shut down the development center we had in India (and opened one in Poland).
We have much better results with development in China (even if now there is a huge competition to hire talent, our main asset is to be an European company with all the social perks you get from it).
Outsourcing is a double edge sword and you have to handle it with extreme care.

Interesting enough also the previous companies I worked with had exactly the same issues and "solutions".

we need to shore up consumer demand, and/or invest in worker reeducation, so we have more qualified applicants for the jobs we DO have. I have dozens of job req orders where I can barely find anybody qualified to interview.

Same problem here man!
It's more than a month that I'm looking for a Digital Marketing Manager and i just got 3 losers that applies (ok moving to Oslo may not be appealing to all, but still)

Spoiler :

Responsibilities:
- Website optimisation: Conceptualize and initiate tests in order to continually improve key metrics across download channels.
- Other tasks may include online marketing, direct marketing, email marketing, web app distribution, customer relationship management
- Customer loyalty/Retention: Analyse conversion, user and retention statistics and propose ways to improve these rates
- Search Engine Optimisation: Develop, track and report on SEO activities

 

[BasketCase]

I will tell you right now that whatever the heck the tax rate is does not effect my decisions. If the tax rate were 60%, I'd still hire. If it were 0%, I'd hire the same amount, so that has no effect at all.

What causes a company to go bankrupt? When it runs out of money. Kudos to you for keeping expenses below income for your bizniss. Lower taxes simply makes that easier. And also allows you to pay your employees more.....

Mixed bag.

 

[downtown]

My business is a website man. I can get SEO work by people in India and still target people in America. Communication isn't a problem, most of the people I work with have excellent english skills.

Well, yeah, but that doesn't mean you wouldn't have a specific target market.

In my company we had the same problem, and we simply had to shut down the development center we had in India (and opened one in Poland).
We have much better results with development in China (even if now there is a huge competition to hire talent, our main asset is to be an European company with all the social perks you get from it).
Outsourcing is a double edge sword and you have to handle it with extreme care.

I'm sure a lot of these problems are industry specific, but I wonder if others are unique to India? My previous few firms had better luck sending very low level work to places like Poland and Jamaica...but staffing services for North American openings have not gone well. We have better luck finding European openings out of a Poland office though.

 

[wolfigor]

I'm sure a lot of these problems are industry specific, but I wonder if others are unique to India? My previous few firms had better luck sending very low level work to places like Poland and Jamaica...but staffing services for North American openings have not gone well. We have better luck finding European openings out of a Poland office though.

My experience with outsourcing is limited to software development for projects in mobile telecommunication.

The problems I routinely encounter with India and Bangladesh are mostly related to the fact that employees there are not very proactive and efficient.
For any task that is not trivially self-contained, you need to micromanage them to the point of exhaustion.
They also need constant supervision and some people that resolve their problems, else they'll get stuck and deliver nothing.

As a friend said: you pay peanuts but you also get monkeys.

I also notice that credentials are usually misleading and you can't trust anything that is written in their CVs or certifications.
Competence varies wildly ... at least with EU people (e.g. Polish) you have a consistent baseline and a way to know what you get.
Already in two companies I saw quite good results by hiring in Poland: the relations between quality and cost is pretty good.

 

[Archbob]

What causes a company to go bankrupt? When it runs out of money. Kudos to you for keeping expenses below income for your bizniss. Lower taxes simply makes that easier. And also allows you to pay your employees more.....

Mixed bag.

No man, taxes are on net profit, the tax rate has nothing to do with it.

 

[MobBoss]

Sadly, people are tightening their belts. We need to spend our way out, not save.

That makes no sense what-so-ever. Typically an attempt to 'spend your way out' merely leads to failure and ultimately, bankruptcy. At least thats how it works out with most people.

 

[GenMarshall]

That makes no sense what-so-ever. Typically an attempt to 'spend your way out' merely leads to failure and ultimately, bankruptcy. At least thats how it works out with most people.

Ahh yes, the old attage of profits ahead of people.