"How I hired 9 people in 7 cities in 21 days using EchoSign"

This was simply a great and rather humorous post on how web services can dramatically accelerate your business:

"Here’s what I faced: I had about 3 weeks to hire 6 to 9 people to work as City Editors for the CultureMob blog. They were going to be located in 7 different metro areas and we could only pay them a small monthly stipend. Like many start-ups, we had no money and even less time to waste.

Given enough time, I’m certain I could have found people one by one, but there was simply no time to do so. Instead of Dinner Impossible, this was Hiring Impossible.

I turned to [six] low-cost and free tools online to find people, interview them, and get them signed to a contract. I started on April 23 and got the last contract signed on May 13. Here’s how I did it: ..."

More here with his nod to EchoSign:

"6. Echosign.com. ... This application is so good, and so bullet proof that it was worth the extra $15 to easily get e-signatures on the contracts. It’s clear that this application could handle everything from a small business to a massive one."

More here on making 9 hires in 7 cities in 21 days with Craigslist, Gmail, Excel, Genbook, Comcast VOIP, and EchoSign.

Net results: 9 hires for $165.  Disruptive technology indeed.

We're not all quite like Mike yet.  But we're all getting there, on one path or another.

Comments

[Mike Showalter]

Thanks for this summary of my post, EchoSign. If your product isn't best in class, I can't imagine what else could beat it. It was the easiest part of the entire process.