subject: The Benefits Of Outsourcing Tasks To Online Employees [print this page] Isn't it funny that an average person in today's world does not have time to share a cup of coffee with neighbors or watch the sunrise? We are all the time running against time and running after money and can do only that much in a day. Though technology is supposed to have made our life's chores easier, we find that we are becoming slaves to technology and are still running short of time.
If you are an entrepreneur running your own business, then you have a golden opportunity to get time for yourself and enjoy something precious. Instead of spending whole day running office chores and administrative tasks, you can now hire virtual assistants at very low rates with required skills and experience to do the job for you.
Yes it is true that when you start off your business, you would have to do all the jobs and stretch yourself to work round the clock if necessary. But then as you grow your business you cannot do all jobs yourself, nor can you employ someone on full time basis and add to your cost.
So before you do anything further, first analyze your problem in detail. Understand where your time is currently being spent, list out all tasks and jobs that are required to be done routinely and assess the amount of work that has to be done only by you.
The best way forward would be to break down your goals and business plan into actionable items and identify the tasks that have to be done on monthly, weekly and daily basis in order to reach your goals. This will give you a macro as well as micro picture of what you need to be doing daily.
You may not be able to draw up this plan overnight. Better would be to start noting down all points and time logs on daily basis and add relevant information from the log to the action plan at the end of the day and review the same. You should also break down tasks to those which have to be done only by you and those which can be done by others, in which case your would need to ascertain the amount of work required to be done by others.
Once your detailed plan is ready, you can re align the tasks and identify dependencies and group similar tasks together and thereby refine your plan. List the constraints for the tasks and keep a watch on those which constraints. Now with the tasks that can be outsourced, start looking at options of hiring temp staff or students for a few hours per day or explore other avenues of using contract agency or virtual assistants.
This is the way every intelligent entrepreneur will work towards balancing and prioritizing his work to be able to focus on taking his business forward. The secret lies in balancing your time, money and energy.
by: Martin Cauldron
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