How To Attract And Hire World-Class Overseas Talent With Nathan Hirsch

Nathan Hirsch is the Co-founder and CEO of EcomBalance and Outsource School. EcomBalance is a monthly bookkeeping service for e-commerce businesses selling across multiple channels. Outsource School teaches business owners effective hiring methods for hiring and retaining top-tier, offshore virtual assistants. In 2015, he co-founded FreeUp.net, scaling it to $12M in yearly revenue before exiting in 2019. Nathan has appeared on over 400 podcasts and is a social media personality.

In this episode…

Offshore outsourcing involves contracting individuals or service providers located in different geographical regions. In-demand business functions and industries such as IT services, software development, finance and accounting, customer support, and data entry have sparked a need for outsourcing virtual talent. Additionally, there are a multitude of benefits to using this type of service, including cost-effectiveness, scalability and flexibility, time zone advantages, and access to specialized skills.

As with any type of business, outsourcing comes with many challenges. Nathan Hirsch, a longtime entrepreneur, experienced years of hiring trial and error. The lessons he learned along the way led him to scale businesses beyond seven figures using only virtual assistants. Eager to share these methods as an online educational resource for other business owners led him to co-found the Outsource School.

In this episode of the eComm Breakthrough Podcast, Josh Hadley interviews Nathan Hirsch, Co-founder of EcomBalance and Outsource School, to discuss finance and business operating systems. Nathan shares the challenges of outsourcing talent, proven hiring methods for acquiring offshore talent, the benefits of using Outsource School, and business owners’ common bookkeeping mistakes.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Josh Hadley on LinkedIn
• eComm Breakthrough Consulting
• eComm Breakthrough Podcast
• Email Josh Hadley: [e-mail]
• Hadley Designs
• Hadley Designs on Amazon
• Nathan Hirsch on LinkedIn
• EcomBalance

Special Mention(s):

• Kevin King 
• Roland Frasier on LinkedIn
• Michael E. Gerber on LinkedIn
• Chad Rubin on LinkedIn
• Mike Mayer on LinkedIn
• Profasee
• Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek

Related Episode(s):

• “Kevin King’s Wicked-Smart Tips for Building an Audience of Raving Fans”
• “Seven Acquisition Strategies to Scale to Eight Fig