4 Reasons Outsourcing is Essential for Your Business to Thrive & Expand
Outsourcing is a popular method to grow your business without putting more work on YOUR plate. It’s all about team work. Your team members can do the support work so you can focus your efforts on money-making tasks. In other words, don’t waste your time doing bookkeeping or sending emails because you’ll make more money, and probably be happier, selling your signature program or coaching clients.
So how’s a business supposed to run smoothly when you’re not doing those necessary support tasks? Simple…you hire people to do those tasks for you. There are expert Virtual Assistants who can handle your email marketing, social media, marketing tasks and customer service. Proffessional bookkeepers find joy in numbers and will balancie your books each month. And there are still others who adore creating online content and graphic design. This is the team you need to create.
If you’re not convinced yet, here are 4 reasons you should embrace outsourcing.
There’s Not Enough Time in Your Day
If this is your excuse for not getting tasks done, then it’s time to hire at least one team member. Make a list of your most pressing tasks that need doing and hire the appropriate person for the job. Start small if necessary, paying a Virtual Assistant for 10 hours a month, for instance, and then work up from there as you become more comfortable delegating tasks to her. You’ve just gained 10 hours in your month to spend on what you love to do.
You Can’t Clone Yourself So You Need To Outsource
How on earth can you coach your clients while also getting prospects into your sales funnel and creating books or other signature programs? You can’t, plain and simple, because there is only ONE of you! This leads back to you doing the money-making tasks. Hire a ghostwriter to write your book or programs; hire a Virtual Assistant to help with administrative tasks; hire a copywriter to create copy that resonates with your audience and inspires them to take action. While they work, you work on building relationships with your clients and prospects.
You Don’t Have Time (or Desire) to Learn the Latest Technology
Technology is wonderful and keeps improving every day but who has the time to learn all these programs and apps? And let’s face it, everyone is not technically inclined to lean and understand these programs quickly! Canva is certainly a cool tool for designing graphics but instead of fooling around for hours to design your book covers or social media graphics, hire a graphic designer who already knows about design and color principles and likely has the latest and greatest design program. There’s no learning curve here. You only have to explain your vision to the designer and let her take over.
I Don’t Know What Tasks to Outsource
Giving up control can be intimidating but if you have a business plan and know exactly what tasks YOU want to handle, the art of delegation becomes much easier. A tip I share with people I talk to who don’t know what to give up is to take 3 days and write down every task they either don’t like doing, feel like it’s a waste of their time or don’t feel competent completing. These are the tasks you can and should delegate.
Building a sustainable business requires that you leverage the talents and time of others. If I’ve convinced you, take a look at my services page. With 16 years of expertise working with business owners like yourself, I’m a professional, online business manager providing exceptional service to my clientele.
I LOVE to make things simple, smoother and easier for you. Don’t waste a minute more of your valuable time, together we’ll get your business running like the well-oiled machine you need it to be.