There comes a point in a growing business where you can’t afford not to hire someone.
You don’t have to tell me what a difficult step this is to take.
It’s not easy to write those first checks to someone else for a task you know you could do, but your business can’t grow as long as you continue to do everything by yourself.
Let’s look at six situations where you should get help from others.
1. Data entry
You just shut down an exhibition and are blessed with a guest book full of names and addresses. Blessed and cursed. It’s daunting just looking at it, but thinking about acting on it is more than you can take right now.
Get someone else to do it!
Hire a student to do this kind of work for you. The same student could also address postcards, schlep boxes for shipping, and resize your images.
2. Bookkeeping
This most certainly is not one of your strengths. Crunching the numbers, generating reports, and