What to Prepare Before You Hire a Content Assistant

You know that you’re not being intentional with your time and energy. You’ve looked back on your day, and the first thought is, wow, I’m not being strategic about where I’m investing my time. You feel a little all over the place. That feels annoying to you because you value being intentional. You’re debating if you should hire someone to help, but you’re also not 100% clear on how to guide them since you don’t feel like you have good systems. Let’s be real: the last time you hired a team member, it did not end well. Here is what to prepare to hire a content assistant.

I’m Preaching To The Choir

I’m guessing you already know what the problem is; I’ve seen it with so many entrepreneurs. When it comes down to it, you love to create content. You have a heart of service and you desire to make an impact and an income.

And let’s be real: creating consistent content takes a lot of work; it is hard and overwhelming. Before you know it becomes a whole big thing, your pocketbook begins to feel the effects of your inconsistency.

Consistency is truly the thing. And what makes it so difficult, as entrepreneurs, is that there’s so much for us to do that our focus is divided up. We are just all over the place, trying to keep all the balls in the air. Getting as much done as we can. Before you know it, you do it again. You’ve become yet again an Inconsistent content creator. Sound familiar?

It Really Comes Down To This

You talk about being overwhelmed by all the things you do as an entrepreneur. Heck, your husband knows it because you talk about it to him all the time. You know you’re not being as strategic as you could be. You’ve been debating for months, yes months, about whether you should hire a content assistant to help, but you’re not 100% clear on how to guide them since you tell yourself that you're not good at leading.

When you’re the owner with all the things falling on your shoulders, you’re in a constant battle that you’re stuck in because you’re trying to do all the things. You know you can’t do them all by yourself, you really aren’t in the position to bring on a team member because your stuff is a hot mess express around your content systems.​

When it comes to hiring someone, you're scared because you're not making multi-millions yet, so it’s not like you’re comfortable with it. If you hire them, it won't be very efficient, because you don't have your stuff together. It's like you have that awareness, but you're stuck there, unsure how to get out of the cycle.

Here are a few things to consider when hiring a content assistant for your remote team.

• Know your budget and consider how much extra time you’ll have each week.
• Begin slow and ramp up. Do not dump everything on them at once. Start slowly with one thing and only a few hours per week. As they get the hang of it, add more tasks and hours. When you do a slow roll, it is far less overwhelming for everyone involved.
• Be sure to know what they like to do, what they want to learn, and what they feel they have already mastered.
• Know that the fault lies on your shoulders if something doesn’t go right. When it doesn’t go as smoothly as possible, we want to shift the blame. But, if something doesn’t go right, the fault lies on your shoulders. In most cases, if something didn’t go right with a team member, it was because something was missed in the process or the communication on how to do it was poor. When we do things 100 times, we sometimes forget those tiny, important steps along the way. If you always know that the fault lies on your shoulders, you look at things from a different perspective

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