Time To Hire or Hustle?

It's super buzzy in the solo entrepreneur world to hear about your peers who have decided to hire help and it can immediately feel like you are falling behind! I mean, if they need help, what about you? Are they selling more than you? Should you have already hired? It can be a confusing to navigate on your own. Today, I'll share some simple questions to help you know once and for all if you are indeed ready to hire or if you need a little more time before you take the hiring plunge.

Three simple questions to determine if it's time for you to hire:

1. Do you live with the constant feeling that you don't have enough time to accomplish everything for work each week? Let's be honest, there is a huge difference between the romanticized feeling you got when you first launched your own business and the orders/clients started to trickle in and the deluge of work that comes with a rapidly growing business. If you need an adrenaline rush just to make it through your day, it might be time to hire.

2. Do you spend 10+ hours a week doing hand assembly, customer service, product ordering or website and inventory work? These tasks are the most simple and most effective ways to free up time in your week. As few as 10 hours a week of part-time help can literally clear the path so you can research and implement new apps, sales strategies, and marketing ideas that could help your business grow! If you can afford to invest between $500 and $800 per month to let someone else take on the more simple and repeatable tasks, you can free up yourself to start making even more that you did before you had the help. Not sure you can afford it? Ask yourself this:

3. Do you pass up money making opportunities because of a lack of time or help? The magic of a small business is the agility you have when you want to try a new strategy or chase after a new client or partnership. Pitching to your dream client and landing them? AMAZING! But when you find yourself too burned out to dream up your next big thing, what then? Nobody but YOU is going to drive your business forward, but lots of things will hold you back. Not having help and passing on these dreams is a price not worth paying.

Convinced that hiring might be right for you or confident that you still have time to grow solo?

It's totally fine if you are still in the early stages of your business! If you have the time and brain space you need to dream and execute, then you are exactly where you need to be. If, however, you find yourself running out of steam each day and the creative bucket seems to be draining faster than you can refill it, consider hiring. Never hired anyone before? You are not alone.

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