Welcome to Day 52 of the Dropified 60-Day Challenge!

Digital marketers and entrepreneurs are the worst bosses (to themselves).  We are prone to take the attitude that we can ‘do it all ourselves’ and hold on to that idea, until something happens that reminds us, it’s a little bit unmanageable for one person.

Most business people understand that if they need help, they should delegate the tasks that can be done by someone other than yourself.  But how many times have you heard a business owner say, “By the time I train that person to do the task, I could have done it myself”.  Then there are the considerations of the cost out outsourcing for assistance.  The cost (when you can do it yourself) is also a deterrent that can make you avoid outsourcing.

Do you think of your personal time in terms of being an investment?  Yes, it does take some work to find the right person (or people) to delegate to and train them.  And yes, it’s an expense that is going to bite into your profit margin.  But when you consider the amount of time you will be freeing up to focus on more vital and advanced business tasks, entrepreneurs find that their businesses actually grow more quickly, once they have learned to outsource administrative tasks.

Where do you find affordable help to work with, once your business starts growing?  How do you organize that individual and delegate the tasks that will offer you (the business owner) the most benefit?  Chase and Lowell have extensive multi-business management experiences to share about building in the time (and expenditure) to get more hands-on deck when you need it, and how to work effectively with a virtual assistant.