The Outsourcing Corner Grow a Team to Scale Your Business

By Lorianne Vaughan Speaks

You can’t scale yourself ! There is just so much you can do in a day. When you get to the point when you are just exhausted and still have two more hours of work to get done before you crash into your pillow, it’s freaking time to hire someone...if not a whole team.

You know when it’s time, but it can be scary.

The first step is to hire an assistant (whether local or virtual), this can be done by hiring a 1099 candidate for minimal hours. The beauty of virtual assistants is that you can contract for as little of 5 hours a week. Let them take the filing, research or clerical/ administrative duties off your plate while you focus on the high earning offerings - or your zone of genius.

Other things that take you hours like billing could be farmed out to a bookkeeping service, or tweaking your website can be contracted out to someone who can set you up in hours versus the days it would take you to figure out!

I have a quote on my website that says: “Within nine months of hiring my first virtual assistant I went from making $1500 a month to 6 figures! That was because she took all the things that I was doing (that I was having to learn how to do) off my plate and I could focus my high priority activities.”

-Melanie Benson Host, Amplify Your Success Podcast

You can stay safe and play small, or you can believe in yourself and get the right people around you to take your business to the next level.

Do your due diligence in hiring and take time to hire the people who understand your business and whose personality jives with your own. But quit thinking small or living in fear - take the step to growing your business through contracted specialists who will share their zone of genius with your company.

In the gig economy, which will grow even more with the Covid aftermath, now is the time to focus on your strengths and hire others to bring theirs into your business.

In past articles I wrote of how to hire a VA and where to find them. Check these out at https://issuu. com/successchampions/docs/ sept-success-magazine and https:// issuu.com/successchampions/ docs/january-final?fbclid=IwAR 12vqp0ROJjIb2vuB36wbxPr5h_ yfKWejUb5tNnyutv3tbi2nSQKSc3I. Or reach out as I will be happy to guide you through the process.

Lorianne Speaks is an expert in the area of Speaker/Author support. She amplifies the visibility of Authors/Speakers/ Messengers while they do what they love - SPEAK! Lorianne has helped spearhead multiple best-selling book campaigns - editing, proofing, through to launch and social media marketing to help authors create buzz and momentum throughout the social media platforms and increasing their message World-Wide. Lorianne and her team have made it their mission to empower speakers to deliver their message by handling the rest of the details!