Delegating and Outsourcing to Free Up Time
Because your time is so precious as an Online Entrepreneur, you want to hand over any tasks that makes sense for someone else to do. Not everything is able to be handled by another party.
In fact, you don’t want it to be. Part of the reason you got involved in this career may be because you want to be your own boss and make all of the decisions. There are some things that only you can and should be handling.
But there are many tasks that are considered grunt work or menial tasks that you can put on to someone else’s plate so that you can work on more important things. Think of everything you do in your business that takes a lot of time and effort.
For example, content creation can be a very tedious task for many online marketers. You may not have the skills it takes to be able to turn out content for your products, email autoresponders, social networking posts, blog posts, and more On a regular basis.
Finding a good ghostwriter or using private label rights content can be a great way to outsource the task to someone else. If you use a ghostwriter, you will be assigning a specific piece of work to someone else and waiting for it to be completed.
If you want to outsource the content aspect, but you don’t have time to wait, then you may want to invest in bundles having private label rights content that allow you to edit and tweak the verbiage and put your name on it as your own.
Another thing you can outsource or delegate to someone else is the publishing of that content anywhere you need it. And administrative assistant can post to your blog, put the content in a social marketing group for you, and send out an email on your behalf.
The key to success in delegating like this is to find someone that you trust. They must be reliable in terms of time and consistency. You don’t want to hire anyone with a volatile personality who may try to sabotage your business at the first sign of a disagreement.
Even the networking that you do can be outsourced to someone else. If you are a vendor who wants to create and launch your own product, then you need to know how much time and effort it takes to cultivate a relationship with perspective affiliates and get them onboard.
Tasks like these can be outsourced or delegated to an affiliate manager. These project managers will operate on your behalf and approach those who would likely benefit from the launch.
Not only would they inform them of the details such as the time and date of the launch, but they would provide them with their affiliate link, details of the product, and review access.
If you are an Online Entrepreneur who has a lot of interaction with your customer base, such as a full inbox on a daily basis, you can outsource the customer service aspect of your business to someone else.
As long as you trust them to represent you appropriately, and to act on you and your customers best behalf, then this is a task that someone else can routinely take care of for you while you work on other niche leadership projects.
Using Tools and Templates to Cut Corners Effectively
One great way to utilize tools and systems within your online entrepreneurial business is to embrace the concept of tools and templates. Many newbies like to hang on to old fashioned ways of doing things because it’s what they’re used to.
If there is a tool that can quickly and easily help you achieve any of your goals, you may want to set aside the funds and invest in it. For example, instead of having to methodically map out your search engine optimization (SEO), you could use a plugin on your blog that has a form that you fill out to ensure everything is taken care of.
Templates are a great way to systemize elements of your business. Canva is a great example of this. This is a free tool that also has a professional paid level, that you can use to create many different things.
You can tap into ready-made templates that you can use for things like eCovers, slide presentations, social marketing posts, and more. Using their free system, you can tailor these items to whatever types of fonts and colors you prefer.
If you want to, you can even create your own templates to use within their system over and over again. You can start from scratch once and then return to your own template repeatedly whenever you need to make a new object.
You can also create a template for things such as sales letters. If you sell the same types of things over and over again, it makes sense to have a template that you have tweaked to perform well for you, where you can simply update it for each new launch.
This cuts down on your time and effort and gives you a better return on your investment. Instead of having to start from scratch each and every time, you are able to open up an existing template and make some simple edits.
Overtime, you will find new and better ways of doing things in your business. It’s okay to alter your routines and systems according to what you prefer, what works best, and also how your personal life is going.
There may be times when you are fully capable of handling a daily schedule just fine. But when you are a child become sick, you need to automate a portion of your business. That’s a significant perk of being your own boss and knowing the importance of embracing routines and systems you can rely on in times of need.