Comments on: Delegate or Die – How to Hire Locally to Grow Your Business

By: Brad

Brad — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:47:37 +0000

I have to agree, if you try to do everything yourself you end up side tracked and you loose focus of the big picture. Delegate and Administrate. Something I am yet to do
But as it turns out, it was just today when I decided to start looking at outsourcing some of my workload.

By: Roger

Roger — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:34:56 +0000

First of all congratulation for such a great site. I learned a lot reading article here today. I will make sure i visit this site once a day so i can learn more.

By: BlogSavvy

BlogSavvy — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 05:13:25 +0000

You make some great point for the local, market, i have found that college intern make great employees, as they aren’t looking for a ton of money, they want experience, and if you can give them something to do that is great as well. Good post.

By: Codrut Turcanu - AdSenseProfitTips.com

Codrut Turcanu - AdSenseProfitTips.com — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 03:37:38 +0000

Exactly, in order to get what you’ve dreamed from your own business, you have to have a business plan in place right from the beginning.

In fact, if you’ve done so, then quite possible you’ve planned to hire someone for delegating tasks whether local or virtual.

By: Noobpreneur

Noobpreneur — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:38:18 +0000

Yaro / Jason,

Delegating is definitely a key to grow your business… while staying sane

People always worry about the how-am-I-going-to-pay-them things – IMO, your investment in people will return you many, many more times than if you do the work yourself.

Cheers!

By: Fadzuli

Fadzuli — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:04:28 +0000

Alright will look forward to it. I’ve subscribed to your RSS.

By: Brad Spencer

Brad Spencer — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:24:29 +0000

Learning to delegate has been one of the hardest lessons I’ve learned in business.

I used to try to do everything and basically…nothing happened. I would get caught up in tasks I sucked at or hated beyond imagine. I learned that spending a bit of money on freelancers and developing friendships with them allowed me to focus on what I enjoy (which also happens to be what makes me money…idea generation and marketing).

Of course, you have to do things you hate sometimes but usually once you plan out “your way of doing it” you can outsource it to someone else.

Freelancing article writing was one of my best investments in both personal satisfaction and money/traffic.

I really loved this article for putting the “delegating” issues on the forefront as it needs to be!

Cheers,

Brad Spencer

By: Quitting The Day Job

Quitting The Day Job — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:45:22 +0000

Exactly, especially since they get all the training and inside knowledge, ON YOUR DIME.

I had one person do that to me, and I had no legal papers at all. I will NEVER do that again. Working for me is worse than working for government, all the documents I make people sign.

By: Kent

Kent — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:04:28 +0000

In his book, Michael Dell talks about a time when one of his managers came into his office because a Coke machine took someone’s money. Mr. Dell asked why he came to him with the problem instead of just handling it himself.

His manager’s answer? “Because you have the keys to the Coke machine.”

You really have to know when it’s time to hand off the keys…

By: JohnCow

JohnCow — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:16:50 +0000

I will talk about that in the managing employees section. The biggest thing is having a non disclosure and non compete agreement. The last thing you want to do is be training someone that will just end up competiting with you.

By: Don V

Don V — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:53:49 +0000

This is a good post, and covers some of the most popular pitfalls for small businesses looking to hire — I think back to my first few jobs and wish my employers had put a little bit more thought into their investment (me), especially where training is concerned. What I was expecting you to cover, though, was where to FIND these people…you can hire locally, sure, but it still requires the use of some kind of job board. Craigslist has become the standard for small business hiring, although I’m pretty lazy when it comes to sorting resumes so I usually just use a recruiting site like Dayak. Now, sites like these have lower fees than most recruiters (there’s a kind of recruiting revolution going on right now) but they will still cost more than say, Craigslist or monster in dollar amount. But they save time, and connect you with talent faster.

My question to the crew is, what is more valuable? I’ve had this argument around 5 times already this month with a colleague of mine. Where do you post your ads?

By: Fadzuli

Fadzuli — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:58:26 +0000

This is totally awesome post.

The planning part is important. Just like you I learn the hard way. I did a little planning but I didn’t have contingencies if the plan did not work. I ended in more debt when I hired my freelancers. Kind of a hard lesson learned.

So how do you treat unloyal employees? This is an era where there is no such thing as employee loyalty, employees tend to switch jobs when they like it or when they are offered better remuneration. So its kind of frustrating when you already train them and then they turn their back on you.

By: Will

Will — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:53:17 +0000

Hi Yaro,

What are you hours now that you’re not working from home?

By: Nima

Nima — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:15:03 +0000

Great post. thanks for the info. I recently started my business too (couple month ago) and am about to hire my first employee….

I also recommend the book “Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It”.

By: Ultimate Blogging Experiment

Ultimate Blogging Experiment — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:04:11 +0000

“You will never hire someone that is as dedicated to the success of your company as you are, so get that hope out of your mind right now.”

That is so true. Too many people hire others who aren’t as motivated and expect you to do most of the work.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:54:21 +0000

Hi Yaro and John,

thanks for the great post. I actually made some notes to keep things in mind for when my projects grow bigger.

Take care

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:42:47 +0000

Big fan of having a business plan for a website, or what I call simply a site plan.There would probably be a lot less websites out there if market analyses were actually conducted before building a site.

In regards to delegate or die, myself, and a few other small business owners were just talking about this. We came two two for sure items to having a successful business. Don’t spend money unless you absolutely have to, and grow or die. Hiring new people is part of that growth.