As your business continues to grow and increase in its profitability, so does your workload. As a result, you have less time to be with loved ones, to relax, and to have fun. You can never seem to get away, at least, not if you want your business to continue being profitable. What can you do?
The key is to hire people who can do the more repetitive tasks of your business as well or better than you can. By doing this, you'll not only gain the time to do more productive tasks that you would have spent doing those repetitive tasks, but those tasks will be done more efficiently and more effectively than if you had been doing them yourself, which will increase the productivity and profitability of your business.
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No matter how hard you try, you cannot get more than 24 hours out of a day. Additionally, you will very likely not be able to work 24 hours out of a day on your business, as you do need to eat, sleep, bathe, and spend a little time away from the business. Therefore, you need to utilize as much as possible the time you do spend on your business in order to make it as productive and as profitable as you can make it.
An online business involves the following tasks:
- Email marketing
- Copywriting
- Creating websites
- Uploading websites
- Creating product offers
- Uploading product offers
- Posting on related forums and message boards
- Posting on social networking sites
- Etc.
Certainly, you could do all of these tasks yourself, but would that be the most efficient and productive use of your time? It wouldn't because you have to decide upon what future product offers you will create, what target markets to present them to, and other important aspects of the business that only the owner of the business can decide, and that person is YOU.
Therefore, you need to hire people to complete these repetitive tasks for you so that you can focus on the primary activities that will make your business more money. The Internet makes it easy for you to find and hire these people.
There are websites that have freelancers and virtual workers who can do all sorts of tasks, from article writing and copywriting to forum posters and website programmers. These sites include Elance.com, RentACoder.com, and ScriptLance.com.
Many of these sites will show profiles of these workers and the ratings they have received from people who they have worked for in the past. These ratings can help you determine whether they provide consistent, quality work or not. Still, you should interview them via email, instant messaging, or even by phone to further determine whether they are the right person for your project. You could evaluate him/her even further by assigning a minor task to see how well and how quickly he/she completes it. This way, you can be more confident in determining whether you want this person to be working on a critical project of yours or not.
Most freelancer sites will enable you to post a project, wait for freelancers registered on those sites to bid on your project, and accepting the freelancer's bid who you feel will do the best job at the price you want to pay.
When you are communicating with a freelancer on one of these sites, it is better to use the communication/email system on those sites instead of your own or a Web-based email system; all of the emails on these sites are archived, so if a dispute evolves, a documented record of what the two of you discussed will be present so that a dispute can be easily resolved.
When you do find quality freelancers to work for you, you should try to form a consistent relationship with them. This means giving them compliments from time to time, providing occasional bonuses (either cash or gifts, such as laptops, iPods, MP3 players, etc.), and consistently going back to them for all of your tasks and assignments.
There are accounts of freelancers only working for specific clients and no one else because those clients treat them very well. It's important to realize that freelancers from other countries, such as Romania and India, earn what they would consider to be a small fortune from just a assignment. In the United States, doesn't seem like much, but in countries like India and Romania, is much more than the average countryman there can earn in a week or even a month's time. As a result, those freelancers will be committed to providing quality work regularly if you continually go back to them.
By utilizing freelancer sites to hire quality freelancers to work on and complete repetitive tasks that need to be done for your business to successfully operate, you can focus on completing tasks that more directly impact the productivity and profitability of your business. This will lead to you getting more done in the same 24-hour period than you could do when you did all of the tasks by yourself, and, provided you hire the right freelancers for your projects, those projects can get done as well or better than they would have been done by you.
Therefore, you should begin interviewing freelancers and finding at least one quality freelancer you can depend on so that your business provides more free time, proficiency, and profitability for you!
Mike Filsaime discusses how to position and structure your business for long term success by getting the right people, in the right jobs, at the right time in greater depth in Module 5 of "The 7 Figure Code". Go there now and learn.
How Hiring Freelancers Can Boost the Long-Term Success of Your Business
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