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DELEGATE, HIRE, OR OUTSOURCE.

As a smart home business owner you will quickly find yourself playing “chief cook and bottle washer.” Often for the sake of saving money, you’ll want to do everything in-house as much as possible.

By the time my first business really took off, I was buried in administrative tasks like database management and quarterly marketing campaigns while negotiating new business and fulfilling on what I already had. I was starting to dislike my business because I was so overwhelmed. (Michael Gerber discusses this phenomenon in The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It, required reading for anyone starting a business.)

Until the day I became a smart home business and found an intern who turned it all around for me.

Spreading myself too thin was defeating the purpose of having a home business and enjoying my life. With my intern, I started to get really good at delegating – so good in fact that I eventually hired her part-time. She became invaluable to me and the growth of my business.

Sometimes it’s worth it to pay others to do things – even if we’re able to do them ourselves. If you’re in such a quandary, ask yourself, “How much is my time worth?”

If you’re spending a lot of valuable hours on tasks you’d rather not be doing, it’s time to give those duties to someone else. The dollars you spend giving those tasks away will be well worth the dollars in time and energy you waste doing them yourself.

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