How do you know when you’re ready to outsource?
If you’re asking the question how do you know when you’re ready to outsource that’s a good sign that it may be time to hire a virtual assistant or an online business manager.
Too small for outsourcing
You’re barely making any money in your business are you too small for outsourcing? However, let me ask you could someone else do the job better and faster?
For instance your social media. You could easily have someone else manage the posting and you can handle the engagement.
To clarify, with outsourcing, it doesn’t have to be hours and hours. You could find a virtual assistant to help with a few small pieces of your business.
Keep a log of where you’re spending your time. What tasks do you despise? What tasks do you love to do and it causes you to procrastinate on income-generating tasks in your business?
What is DYI costing you?
While I get it, some things are better done by you. But, what is DYI costing your business? Are you wearing too many hats in your business and running around and not really getting anything done?
Certainly when you focus on short term outcomes continuing to doing it all yourself may seem like the cheaper option.
However, when you begin to look at the long term goals of your online business what is the actual cost of doing it all yourself?
Above all, the one thing that you can never get back is your time.
You have all these great ideas but zero time to develop and implement
Is this you? You have all these great ideas but, the day to day routine tasks are hindering your growth by preventing you from implementing all your great ideas.
Consequently, you already have more work than time and even thinking about all the tasks that would need to go into developing your idea into reality seems overwhelming.
This is a sign you're ready to outsource.
Your mind is filled with Never Enough Time
Your mind is constantly going with all the tasks and ideas. While you’re working on one tasks you’re thinking about all the tasks that still need to be done.
You started your business for a purpose and now you’re stuck in the backend of your business with no end in sight.
You need to grow but you can’t do it alone with all the routine day to day operations that take up all your priceless time.
This is a sign you're ready to outsource.
You’re simply tired of wearing all the hats in your business
This is a sign you're ready to outsource.
Okay, Friend, you see all the signs that you're ready to outsource
Now you ask, who’s the best fit to outsource tasks to in your business? First of all, this is determined by what stage you’re at in your business.
Therefore, let’s take a look at the different service providers' roles to figure out who’s the best fit for you and your business. The roles are a Virtual Assistant (VA), a Techie Virtual Assistant (TVA), Certified Online Business Manager (OBM) or all of the above.
Depending on what stage your business is in all three may be what you need to take your business to the next level.
Virtual Assistant|VA
Commonly, your first hire is going to be a virtual assistant, that special hero that gets you back to why you started your business and take all those routine day-to-day tasks and creates more time in your day. Hallelujah!
Friend do I need to remind you that wearing the busy badge will not generate more income in your business? Stop trying to be everything to everybody and just focus on what you do best.
A Virtual Assistant will get you out of your inbox, organize the to-do list, protect your priceless time on your calendars, simply be the organization and time-saving hero for you and your business.
In short, a Virtual Assistant will be a doer of all the routine day-to-day tasks that you have in your business.
Techie Virtual Assistant|TVA
Do you need to learn a new skill or fine-tune a skill to take your grow to the next level?
A Techie Virtual Assistant is going to be a subject matter superstar on a software application.
The Miss Task Team is a group of Techie Virtual Assistant or Subject Matter Superstars. Our Techie Superpowers are working with WordPress Website Design and email service providers, such as MailChimp, MailerLite, ConvertKit, and Ontraport. We also work with the all in one platform Kajabi.
To sum up, a Techie Virtual Assistants take the hassle out of having to learn a new skill. Leaving you more time for income-generating tasks in your business.
Online Business Manager|OBM
An Online Business Manager or OBM for short. An Online Business Manager actually supports the business owner and manages the business.
An org chart for an online business would have the OBM directly under the owner managing all the team members. The focus of the OBM is on the how and the who. How the vision of the business owner is going to be carried out and by whom.
We manage all of the things. An OBM manages all the people, all the operations, all of the things that are going on with the projects that you have in your business so that you're able to focus on your vision and the income-generating tasks that only you can do in your business.
Little Side Note
It is the Pareto Principle that 80% of your results are caused by 20% of your effort.
Two Resources
What? Yep, I have two resources that you could download. First is my Overwhelmed to Outsourced Planner. Second, is my 100+ Ways An OBM Can Boost Business.
Want to know if we would be a good fit? Fill out an inquiry form and let’s chat.
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