Originally Posted by Zen-

Hi, as for question 1 installing and setting up the script should take less than a day to do. Populating it however would be another matter.

question 2) this is a sort of how long is a piece of string question, how are you tracking/measuring his work progress? You will need to manage his time to get the most of of his work, regardless of how much you pay him people are human so you need to find the right buttons to push to get him to do the right amount of work in the way you want it done.

I myself do something first and refine the process a bit before throwing it over the fence for someone else to do. This way you also can know if someone is lazy and doing no work, because you have been in the trenches and done the work before. Don't be afraid to get on a skype call / do a teamviewer sharing and see how he is doing stuff to see if you can give pointers on how to improve.

Write out a job spec of tasks you expect him to do, try and guesstimate how long each task takes and how many he needs to do minimum per day and maybe try think of other ways to motivate him, bonuses, paid days off perhaps. You can't just pay someone and say "go" and expect good results. A book I like that I recently read "1501 Ways to Reward Employees" find it on Amazon.

HTH

-Zen