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Work ON Your Business, Not IN Your Business
Business owners everywhere are working
seven days a week, struggling to sell their products
and services, as well as attending to all the daily
tasks of keeping the business going. The paperwork alone
can be a full time job. Few seek help, often saying,
"I can't afford to hire someone...I barely make
enough to pay myself!"
The truth is, you can't afford not to
hire help for those mundane tasks. This is especially
true if those tasks require expertise you don't have.
Every minute you spend learning how to do something
is precious time you could be spending on developing
your business.
Self-made millionaire, Cory Rudl, said
the best business decision he'd ever made was to hire
someone to help him. Although he was paying out almost
half his earnings to his employee, that move freed him
to develop his business into a money making machine,
to the tune of millions of dollars.
You can do the same for your business,
and it won't cost half your earnings either. By creating
"mini projects" you can hire a freelancer
to do those routine chores and pay them for the hours
you need them.
Creating those mini projects will take
some effort at first. It means you have to stop and
think before you tackle a task, "Is this something
I have to do myself, or can I delegate this to someone
else?" Even after getting started on a task, it's
important to be aware of your time spent - if it takes
you too long to do it, you're wasting your time! That's
the signal to hire a freelancer who can do the job for
you.
Although many freelancers can come to
your business office, you can save even more money with
"virtual assistants." The craze for virtual
assistants has taken the Internet world by storm.
Virtual assistants are capable, competent
people in every country who are looking for work they
can do from their own office. And their rates are incredibly
low. For $2 or $3 per hour, you can have your website
developed, all your QuickBooks transactions entered,
have a software program developed to make your life
easier...the options are endless.
For a few more dollars per hour, you
can hire the best available copywriters, marketing gurus,
graphics designers...you name it. The key is to define
your mini project, decide what you're willing to pay
to have it done and get the word out.
The Internet is a great way to get the
word out about your project. Websites such as www.GetaFreelancer.com,
www.ScriptLance.com, www.Elance.com and www.RentaCoder.com
have hundreds of professionals eager to work. Post your
your mini project on these websites and you'll have
20 bidders or more in a few hours. In a very short time
you'll be able to choose the best qualified professional
for your project at your price.
So, if you're working in your business,
doing everything from sales to bookkeeping, decide now
to get help. If you want your business to grow, you
can't afford not to.
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