Time Saving Tip: Outsourcing

Posted on 13. Jan, 2010 by Mary Lutz in Time Savers, WAHM Biz Tips

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Today’s time saving tip came to my mind in the middle of the night last night. Don’t you just love it when that happens? As I was laying there thinking about my business, and yours, and how to make it the most efficient as possible, I couldn’t pass up the importance of outsourcing.

If you’re brand new in your business, or just beginning to see some profits, you may be thinking, “I can’t afford to outsource” yet. So, here’s a little challenge for you: rethink that thinking. Here’s why: many hands make light work. Think about it. When there’s a big job to do, or even a small one, think of how nice and efficient everything gets done when there’s a team working at it together. So, that’s what I want you to think about: building your team. For now it may be just one more person to do the things you don’t like doing, like going through your email and sorting out the good from the bad, filling your blog with quality content on a regular basis, updating and upgrading your plugins, moderating comments, etc.

When you free yourself from doing the things you don’t enjoy, you make more time for the real money making activities you love to do.

When you’re able to focus on the real money making activities, you’ll be making more money, so you’ll be able to afford to outsource. Is this starting to make sense?

Here is a list of activities you might consider outsourcing:

Customer service phone calls
Email maintenance
Blog/website content management
Blog/website maintenance
Social networking
Article marketing
House cleaning (got your attention now didn’t I)
Preparing shipments (for product based businesses)

Are you beginning to get the idea now? Choose the time consuming activities, that don’t make immediate money but must be done, and hire someone else to do them. And because they’re getting paid to do it, they will most likely do a much better job than you anyway.

Stop wasting time and start making more money by outsourcing. I happen to know a virtual assistant who would love to take on those tasks you don’t enjoy doing….me. That’s right. In case you’re new here and didn’t know it, I’m also a virtual assistant. I love helping others save time so they can make more money, which is why this blog was born.

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