Do You Run Your Business Or Does It Run You? It can be hard for an employee to transition to a business owner, even after they started their business. It has to do with mindset. This is especially true if you're in a service-based business. But the fact of the matter is that if you want to be the owner of your business, you need to find a way to let go of the worker tasks.
What's great is that you can do that through outsourcing.
Change Your Mindset
Work on your mindset as a business owner. It can be difficult if you're running a small home business, but you can actually run a huge business from home. Lots of great businesses started in the garage or home office. Yours can be amazing too and a lot more profitable than you may initially think if you change your mindset to one of owner instead of worker.
Set Up Processes
Before outsourcing, you need to know what work has to be done each day in your business. Set up processes that you or anyone else can follow to get the job done. Create checklists and step-by-step processes to get the work done in the most efficient manner.
Record "How To" Information
When something is hard to explain in writing, take a moment to record how to do it on your screen. Save it under a good name so you can easily find it, add the link to your documentation and now anyone can learn to do it.
Create a Standard Operating Procedure Manual
Put everything together into a big document. It can be an MS Word document, or it can be an online document that your contractors have access to. Either way, make it easy to search and go through for anyone trying to do a task that you've assigned them. For example, if you hired content writers, it helps to give them formatting information and all requirements for accepting the articles they write in one document.
Find Great Contractors
The key to enjoying outsourcing is to find amazing contractors, but that is often easier said than done. One thing to do is ask your group of influencers who they use, and you'll likely get better options.
Let Go
This is the hardest part of outsourcing. But if you really want to transition from worker to owner, hire the best contractors you can afford, give them clear direction and guidelines, and then let them do their job.
If you're not sure what to outsource first, find the busy tasks that you must do to run your business that aren't income-producing tasks. Things like bookkeeping, customer service, content writing, social media marketing, and website management and maintenance all are great places to start.
Outsourcing is one of the most cost-efficient ways to grow your business. It's how the biggest and most profitable businesses in the world generate the wealth and freedom their owners enjoy.
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