When To Outsource As A Solo Entrepreneur
As a small business owner, you wear all the hats. I mean, all the hats. You gotta be scrappy and everything counts. We’re talking about an accountant, social media manager, content creator, brand director, CEO, administrative assistant, and that’s just scratching at the surface. It’s pretty easy to acknowledge that when you’re first starting your business you’re going to have to hustle and DIY everything yourself, google and I have become BFF’s. But what about when you find yourself, exhausted, and at a plateau?
Hard business truth: you can do anything, but you can’t do everything.
When you find yourself loosing excitement, overwhelmed, opening your inbox with one eye open, it’s time to outsource.
Outsourcing is when you hire someone (either as a contractor or an employee) from outside your business to provide services for you. Every biz owner reaches a point where in order to scale, they need to invest. Yes, you’ll see a dip in your profit for a hot minute, but you’ll quickly be served with even more income because now you can focus on client work.
What tasks to outsource.
The number one signal you’ll be served by the universe telling you it’s time to outsource is when you are left with little to no time to work on business development. You don’t want to wrap up a project, only to discover you have nothing next in line.
When it’s time to outsource.
The number one signal you’ll be served by the universe telling you it’s time to outsource is when you are left with little to no time to work on business development. You don’t want to wrap up a project, only to discover you have nothing next in line.
Hot tip: go download the free software toggl and start tracking where you are spending your time. As you do this, toggl will create a nice pie chart for you with percentages showing you how much time you’re giving to each task.
Next, you’re going high-level and figuring out where your time is best spent and what you can cut loose to someone else.
Every business experiences growing pains. Finding someone you like and trust to outsource to is not an easy thing to do, but you got this.
Common roles you can outsource.
- Project Management
- Photographer
- Drawings
- Branding
- Copywriter
- Accountant/Bookkeeper
- Website
- Marketing
- Administrative assistant
- Social Media
Find the right people for the right jobs so you can get back to designing.
