We are proud to introduce a highly requested feature — the ability to leave feedback on user profiles. You can now leave feedback on people’s profiles and respond to feedback left on your own profile. We wanted to keep this as flexible as possible. We expect people to leave reviews as well as constructive criticism and suggestions.

We’re more than happy to feature guest authors, whether you’re an entrepreneur, a professional internet marketer or a site member looking to voice your opinion and gain exposure. Just fill out the form below if you’re interested in writing an article for us and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible.

For those of you who didn’t know, EasyOutsource has a forum.  We encourage you to use and participate in our forums to connect with fellow workers or employers, share your experiences in using the site, give comments and suggestions to the site’s admins, or just plain hang out.

We check the forums everyday for new posts that may require our answer or attention.  See you there!

Yesterday, June 7 2010, EasyOutsource was down from about 4 pm CST until around 4 am CST the following day. I want to first apologize to everyone for the inconvenience. We’re a business productivity site, and we’re not helping your productivity when you can’t access our site.

Second, for anyone interested, I want to let you know what happened and what we learned from it. This information may be useful to other website owners navigating the obscure world of hosting and server administration.

What Happened

EasyOutsource lives on a dedicated server in Los Angeles hosted by WebNX. Yesterday morning at around 11 am CST, the server stopped responding and required a hard reboot. Because the server stopped responding to the network before our monitoring services could collect data useful in diagnosing the problem, we weren’t exactly sure what had happened. After a quick reboot, everything seemed to be running fine.

Then, a few hours later, the server went down again. This time it did not recover from a reboot. Our server [...] Continue reading

You may have noticed a new link at the top of the site for the EasyOutsource Forum. We would like to hear your feedback about the site so that we can continue to improve the experience, so please add your thoughts over at the forum. What we’d like to know is: how can we improve the site? What are your most needed features? What areas of the site are confusing or difficult?

Feel free to create additional forum topics to discuss things other than site feedback. One of our goals with the forum is to give people an outlet to share their experiences and hopefully meet some new people in the process.

This weekend EasyOutsource passed the 1000 member mark. As of this writing we have 712 workers, 293 employers, and 136 open jobs. We hit 500 members on March 16th, so at this pace we expect to have 2000 registered members by August. As this community grows it becomes easier and easier to find qualified workers and high-paying jobs, so make sure to tell your friends!

We are happy to introduce a number of updates to EasyOutsource. We are constantly looking to refine our service and we hope you will enjoy all of the improvements.

1. Feature Updates
   • Due to requests for enhanced privacy, users’ contact info is now hidden from logged-out visitors
   • Jobs now have associated categories
   • To reward active users, Hire Workers page now sorts results by recent activity
   • Redesigned the task bar (for logged in users) to make the site easier to navigate
2. Minor Fixes
   • Fixed issue with time stamp sometimes being incorrect
   • Fixed pagination issues on Worker and Job directories
   • New messages in inbox are formatted correctly
   • Hire Workers page has a clean URL
   • Improved “helper text” throughout the site
   • Refinements to the overall design

As you’ve noticed by now, yesterday we rolled out a brand new design for the site. Our goal for the new design was to create a relaxing, inviting look and feel that’ll make people feel good while using the site. Our tropical island theme alludes both to the fact that we specialize in outsourcing to the Philippines, a nation of tropical islands, and to the fact that employers and workers can use our service to improve the quality of their lives and spend more time on tropical beaches. We think that by helping people to feel relaxed and to focus on the positives, our new design will add to the “Easy” aspect of our service.

We want to give thanks to the creator of our new design, an EasyOutsource worker, designer Jhove Baron in the Philippines. Jhove is fantastic at creating colorful, lively animated scenes that capture attention and make the user feel good.

I’d love to get your feedback on the new design. What do you think?

Today is a major milestone as EasyOutsource has hit 500 registered users. As of this writing there are 315 workers, 185 employers and 59 open jobs. Congratulations to Jay Rivera on officially signing up as the 500th member!

Thank you to everyone who has contributed to the growth of this community! We look forward to helping workers find jobs, helping businesses grow, and creating a community where we can all improve our business lives together.