Simple Tips to Get More Done in Less Time

Simple Tips to Get More Done in Less Time

Leverage your time and core genius

Let’s get real about time management. Sure, scrolling through social media and completing daily to-dos are satisfying, but will they translate to success? Likely not! These activities are like sidekicks, important to keep the business chugging along, but they won’t be the superhero bringing in the major cash.

What is the best use of your time and expertise?

Your core genius: something you love to do, is effortless, creates a sense of joy and contentment, generates a fire within and time disappears. It could be coaching, writing, graphic design, speaking, leading, selling, training, motivating, marketing or whatever your passion is. When you are focused on your CG, you are alive, vibrant, and producing outcomes.

As an entrepreneur, when you can maximize your potential by focusing on your core genius, you not only follow your passion but can devote your time ON your business rather than IN it. You become more productive and efficient.  While many daily business tasks require attention, it doesn’t necessarily have to be on your time. Delegating the lower return projects and tasks gives you back your time to build your business, develop strategy, nurture relationships, foster loyalty, seek partnerships, and focus on your bottom line.

Compare the individuals, the business owners, who dedicate their time to every task, every project, even those that they don’t like, don’t truly have time to do, or the ones that are more menial “time robbers.” These people are taken away from their core genius and focused on the back end, admin-type projects instead of building their companies and concentrating on income-generating projects.

“Most entrepreneurs spend less than 30% of their time focusing on their core genius and unique abilities. In fact, by the time they’ve launched a business, it often seems entrepreneurs are doing everything but the one thing they went into business for in the first place.” Jack Canfield

Everything we do is an investment of our time. When you choose to watch television or engage on Facebook that is an investment of your time. In many ways, time is more valuable than money, as you always have the opportunity to make more money, but you cannot recreate lost or wasted time. It is gone forever. If you think of time as a commodity and all of your actions/choices as an investment, it may change how you approach your daily activities.

Think about the return on your time invested. In a recent article by Anthony Iannarino, “Return On Time Invested,” he suggests measuring each activity, the time you spent, and the return. If there was no return on your time, then you must realize that that task or activity is not worth doing. A better use of your valuable time is to focus on those activities that produce a desired, profitable, and rewarding outcome.

Leveraging your time and effort is a fundamental strategy for success. There are only so many hours in the day that you can work and by only using your time, you can only accomplish so much. When you choose to utilize other people’s time via delegation, you intensify your productivity and efficiency to an extraordinary magnitude.  It feels great to do more in less time.

  1. Eliminate unnecessary activities
  2. Prioritize so you focus your energy on those tasks that provide the highest rate of return
  3. Set long and short-term goals with action steps, motivating you and keeping you on target
  4. Learn how to effectively delegate
  5. Outsource non-core tasks/projects

Action Step:

  • Identify the daily activities that are devouring your time by keeping a journal: logging activities, projects, and time spent
  • Build a plan to delegate the time robbers that are taking you away from your CG
  • Call Ace Concierge to discuss your delegation strategy and project timeline
Essential Tips for Email Marketing Success

Essential Tips for Email Marketing Success

Essential Tips for Email Marketing Success

Email marketing is a basic, yet elemental solution to reach out to millions of people in a matter of seconds. Your personalized message is a cost-effective business tool to touch a larger target market at a much lower cost than hard-copy mass mailings or print ads.

Email Marketing Will:

  • Help you build lists
  • Increase website traffic
  • Generate sales
  • Stay in touch with clients
  • Share data about your company
  • Create an instant call to action
  • Enhance your brand or corporate image

As a form of direct marketing in the digital world, your communication is sent directly into the hands of your consumers, delivering impact and content. This isn’t simply a mass broadcast, but a carefully crafted bulls-eye message to your interested audience. Your email marketing campaigns are delivered via different types of email or messaging platforms. Tip: don’t spam your readers and ALWAYS ask permission before you send a newsletter, a text message, or add them to a list. OPT-IN!

  1. Transactional – triggered by consumer action. When a customer buys a product, pays via credit/debit card, or even makes an online reservation, emails or text messages are generated based upon this activity. This type of communication provides the marketer with an immediate opportunity for another touchpoint with the consumer to deepen the relationship and buyer satisfaction.

The Transactional emails have 8x more opens and clicks than any other type of email, and can generate 6x more revenue. Experian

  1. Email Newsletters – regular emails delivered to opt-in subscribers containing relevant industry content, solutions to pain points,  and company news in addition to some promotional news/e-commerce products. These help to keep your audience connected and informed during the purchase or marketing cycle.
  2. Mobile Messages – text messages for appointment reminders, sales, special mobile opportunities as well as typical campaigns read via a device.  Mobile messaging continues to grow at exponential rates – be mobile-ready, mobile-friendly, and responsive.

Ace Concierge email marketing

 

A fundamental purpose of your email marketing is to make it simple and easy for the consumer to act. You want them to opt-in, click, engage, share, purchase, and be your brand evangelist.

Guide Your Audience

  1. Add a signup box in your email signature, website, social platforms, and other marketing collateral
  2. Make your content rich and relevant
  3. Solve pain points and address gnawing issues (How can you improve their lives?)
  4. Add share buttons
  5. Embed links to your blog, products, and services
  6. Always use a CTA (call to action) in your emails

Engage Your Readers

  1. Readers want to know, ‘What’s it in for me?’ Make sure your email delivers
  2. Your email needs to capture their attention immediately. Use a clear and captivating subject title
  3. Content should be relevant and engaging. It’s too easy for your reader to click the delete button. If either of these two expectations is not met, your reader may delete or unsubscribe
  4. Encourage your readers to share your e-newsletter by offering incentives
  5. Keep it short and sweet
  6. Add links to drive traffic to your site or to reference other attention-grabbing articles
  7. Develop a reputation as value-added – a resource in your industry

There are many email marketing platforms to choose from so it is important to review the features, benefits and cost structure of each of them, learning which one best suits your company and your needs. Consider your present situation as well as future expansion. What might work now, may not work in a few years. As with any marketing or social media communications, consistency is key, as is your content marketing. You are writing for your reader, not for yourself. Understand their wants and needs. Hold off on sounding spammy and merely pushing products and services – it becomes overkill and annoying.  Your marketing efforts should be to not only educate and inform but more importantly, build the relationships with your audience. This is the heart of your business! Thanks for reading. I hope you found this post useful and informative. What successes have you experienced with email marketing? Please leave your thoughts in the comment section below.

Business Tools for the Freelance Economy

Business Tools for the Freelance Economy

Business Tools for the Freelance Economy

If you want to talk about an explosion of proportions not seen since the Industrial Revolution, simply take a peek at the freelance economy.

Expansion of the freelance economy is growing at exponential rates evidenced by 53 million freelancers representing more than 33% of America’s labor force today. By the year 2020, this number is expected to grow by 50%. That is a significant amount of the workforce in a work-for-hire demographic poised to change business as we know it.  While not all freelancers will be full-time independent contractors, they will be part of the  fast gig group providing on-demand services from remote offices. These remote warriors may be found behind a desk, at a coffee shop, in a tree top or at the beach because the location simply doesn’t matter. The lifestyle does. Where else can you choose to wear pajamas, sweat pants or a power suit?

The draw here is that freelancers have the opportunity to maintain independence, generate income and enjoy a better work-life balance – all from the comfort of their own “office”. I’ve been in the business since 2002 and have never looked back.

Who Benefits from the Freelance Economy?

The rise of a freelance nation provides a multitude of lifestyle benefits, but it isn’t just advantageous for the worker. The employer and other business owners who “hire” the qualified contractors REDUCE overhead and expenses by NOT paying for benefits, office space, supplies, health/workers insurance, paid vacation/sick time, or training. It is an excellent opportunity to source high-level expertise, leverage costs, and hire for work on a project basis. Since most freelancers work on an hourly or fixed-rate billing system, employers eliminate the need to carry full-time employees through non-project time slots.

The real-time freelance statistics speak for themselves – a way of life has emerged that is changing the landscape of how business gets done.

Hiring independent professionals, virtual assistants included, of course, offers employers a workforce with an increased knowledge base, deep experience, and refined skill sets. Much like a veritable shopping cart full of tools, the mobile assets available and varied technological advances have set the stage for enhanced productivity without the confines of an office. Anyone can provide needed services without being hindered by geographical boundaries or by a lack of equipment. It’s pretty incredible to think about how far we’ve advanced over the last few decades, no longer being tethered to an office and a time clock.

The Freelance Economy: Business Tools for Success

Being fortunate to work remotely does require you to learn or become familiar with a variety of tools, platforms, and apps to maintain your autonomy and earn a living. It may seem like a challenge at first, but without them, business as usual can be incredibly difficult. I for one, am not ready to trade in my mobility for a desk because the lifestyle win over-rides the investment in personal development.

Let’s jump into some of the key tools that have contributed to my success, connected me with remote organizations, and given me the freedom I crave.

Project Management (PM): Operating a business takes dedication and organization. As a freelancer, you are building your personal business and the tools are the face of your brand.

Redbooth is my go-to program for PM. It streamlines all communications, tasks, projects, accountability, files, and timelines. Here’s an overview of their features. It is very user-friendly and simple to set up. Give it a try.   I was NOT partial to Basecamp or Trello.

Communications: In my experience, I find it best to have some fallbacks to bring to the table, but more importantly, what technology is your client most comfortable using? Additional features of some of the tools below include secure SSL encryption, file transfers, group and private chats, easy screen sharing, and sync’d mobile capabilities.

I don’t have a preferred platform but I use Slack, Zoom, and of course good old-fashioned text, email, and phone.

Organization: Get your ducks in a row or you will be shaking those tail feathers pretty quickly. Showing the client how organized you are will build confidence and trust.

In addition to using Redbooth, I also like to employ the good graces of Google Drive and Dropbox for cloud storage and sharing documents with clients.  Another extremely helpful tip (which came from a client) is to create Chrome user profiles with individual tabs and bookmarks.  I cannot say enough about this Chrome feature. The separate profiles enable me to have each clients’ social accounts, Chrome extensions, industry-specific bookmarks, and profiles in their own browser space.  This is one of my all time organizational favorites.

This last tool, If This Than That, is a free service of 347 channels with “recipes” to help optimize your business, your life, and your content. You create triggers “if this” happens “than that”, the action, pushes the data to your desired channel. For example, you can create recipes to:

  • Push RSS feeds to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or Buffer
  • Receive a text message, email or phone call when a particular hashtag is posted
  • Have Facebook or Instagram images sent to Dropbox
  • Receive a text message if there is a forecast for rain
  • Star a Gmail and have it delivered to Evernote

Being organized is a key tune-up for your productivity. If you are willy-nilly about filing, social media strategy, scheduling, or daily business operations,  you waste valuable time and energy and you risk appearing unprofessional. Make it a habit to not only create your systems and processes but to use them consistently.

Every digital hero drives their business with a variety of tested tools to help ensure their entrepreneurial success and support of your business. I reached out to some well-respected pros in my network to help give you a broader scope of what they use, how and why.

Corina RamosCori Ramos, of Not Now Mom’s Busy, a multi-niche blog for women who wants to make money from home, blog like a boss and achieve work-life balance, uses three main tools on a daily basis: Hootsuite, Microsoft Outlook and Dropbox.

I’ve been using Hootsuite Pro for about three years now and I love it. I can access all my social media pages and I get suggested content to share with followers. Not only that but we can schedule posts in advance. This comes in handy when you want to promote your business or product. Sometimes I get caught up in other daily tasks that I forget to promote my blog and product. Now I take time one day (usually on Sunday) out of the week to schedule the days/times I want to promote my blog or eBook.

What can I say about Microsoft Outlook. I’ve had a love affair with it since 2000. Besides accessing my email, I use the calendar religiously to keep up with appointments and deadlines. And I can access other email accounts like Gmail on there as well.

I love the easy access I get with Dropbox. Since I’m on a laptop, desktop and mobile, Dropbox allows me to access files, docs and images from all three places.

And what’s even better is I can access these tools on my mobile phone. So even when I’m out and about, I can still receive emails, check my social media pages and access any document I need.

Jacqui Barrett Poindexter 2015-for mediaJacqui Barrett-Poindexter, Chief Career Writer, Master Resume Writer & Storyteller of CareerTrend.net shares her 3 most favorite tools/program.

 1. Desktop Task Timer: A free download that I use on my MacBook that I use daily to track ‘everything I do!

It’s simple, really. A tiny little tool in the corner of my screen where I track client projects, administrative, operational – including sales conversations – and other initiatives every single day, down to the minute.

This gives me a sense of how much of my energy is going to which ‘tasks.’ It also helps me to focus in. For example, if I am writing, and I want to ensure at least XX amount of hours on a certain project for the day – or for the week – I refer to this tool. I can also download results into Excel to calculate time spent over a period of months/year or more and use this for future planning.

2. Droid Turbo with Google/Gmail Interface. It allows me to keep in touch on-the-go without having my MacBook open or even with me (for shorter trips). I can email, review Word documents (where most of my projects are housed), check in on social media and so forth.

3. Evernote. I track blog post and other content development ideas here, as well as a plethora of other random ideas and insights and links, organizing them by topic.

Michael TrowMichael Trow, President of Alderbest Solutions shares his insight, stating:

Although I run a business offering services related to technology, I’m not biased when I say that I don’t know how people can run businesses without embracing the powerful, and affordable, technology at our disposal today. What’s even more important is that technology is becoming interoperable, meaning that one tool is likely to be able to integrate with another providing many benefits to you, and the people associated to your business.

We wouldn’t be able to run on a daily basis without:

  • A true Customer Relationship Management solution (Salesforce, Zoho CRM, Microsoft Dynamics etc.)
  • A Landing Page Solution (Optimize Press, Lead Pages etc)
  • An Email Marketing Service (MailChimp, Constant Contact, Zoho Campaigns)
  • An Invoice/Accounting Solution (Zoho Books, QuickBooks, FreshBooks etc.)
  • An Online Meeting Tool (Join.me, UberConference etc.)

We use Landing Pages to promote our content pieces, push the data of the people that ‘download’ to our Email Marketing Service which sends a series of automated emails and the email solution simultaneously pushes the data through to our CRM solution so that the prospect and opportunity can be managed from a sales perspective. For all sales we use the Account Solution to manage the Invoice and Payments.

The two biggest benefits of an ecosystem like this are that 1) we have visibility of all customer interactions and actions in one place (the CRM) 2) most actions are automated saving time and meaning we can manually interact with more people on daily basis.

John LusherJohn Lusher, President of John Lusher Consulting and is Team Member and Partner in The Social Buzz Lab says:

One of the main reasons I made the decision to go into business for myself was the freedom and flexibility to work how I wanted, and at the location that worked for me and my lifestyle. Working in marketing consulting and social media management has expanded the ability to accomplish this in my home office, while on the road or even in the middle of the ocean during a vacation cruise.

Some of my favorite tools include tools that help me to manage my schedule, team workflow and managing content distribution and tracking for my own social platforms as well as those for my clients.

Buffer  provides a platform to curate and schedule content for multiple social platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google +, Pinterest and Instagram. Buffer also provides the ability to bulk schedule posts as well as provides analytics on the performance of the posts on your social platforms.

Sprout Social offers the ability to schedule content as well as a streamlined method to replying to Tweets and Facebook comments or messages. For my use, Sprout Social is one of the best tools that provides valuable insights on the performance of my content and various social networks.

Google Drive is key for working with multiple team members, especially if those colleagues are working in various geographic locations. With Google Drive we can share photos, files and work on documents together while reviewing with a client or during a planning call.

Dropbox For my business, I use Dropbox to store, share and transfer large files such as videos or photos, but it can also be used to share documents or other types of content. The ease of sharing a single file, folder or my entire Dropbox Drive with someone makes it a key asset in working remotely.

Flipboard is a news gathering content app that provides the ability to follow content from multiple users and content publishers such as magazines or new sites while also providing an avenue to publish client’s content. 

Each of these tools provide free versions and paid versions, based on the number of social networks, users or features that you require. While these tools are instrumental to my business, I encourage you to try a variety of tools to see which ones work best for you or your clients.

Ted Rubin, Social Marketing Strategist, Keynote Speaker, Brand Evangelist and Acting CMO of Brand Innovator, Return On Relationships (#RonR) sums it up quite succinctly because it isn’t simply the what you use to perform your job. It’s the person, the impassioned entrepreneur, behind the tools that brings your business to life.

 

My Most Important Social Media Tools…

1 – My personality

2 – My passion

and…

3 – My obsessiveness with being connected

Each of these colleagues and members of the freelance economy exploit the accessibility of the latest mobile tools and technological advances to effectively operate their business and deliver their expertise to your door.

Where else can you find like-minded driven professionals to support your dream while at the same time, reducing your overall costs?

If you’re still yearning for more freelance tips and tools, check out the list below. You’re sure to find some valuable resources to help support your business, gain some new knowledge and better assist your clients. Self-education keeps you ahead of the curve.

Over to you: What tools or services help make you successful and support your business operations?  Please post in the comment section below.

 

10 Things You Must Do If You Want to Blog Like a Boss

10 Things You Must Do If You Want to Blog Like a Boss

Ace Concierge Guest Post - Blog like a boss

Before I get into the things you should be doing if you want to blog like a boss, I want to take a moment to thank Suzie for inviting me to be a guest author on her blog. Since this is my first time here, I’d like to take a moment to tell you a little about me and how my blogging journey got started.

I had been in Corporate America for over 15 years. My last job was working for a telecommunications company as a sales manager and coach leader for a team of service reps.

The pay was great, the benefits were even better and I was making my way up the ladder but it came with a price.

I was working 12+ hours a day and I was never around for my family. And when I was home all I wanted to do was rest. Eventually, my health was also affected. In 2005, I was diagnosed with depression, anxiety and mood disorder.

Needless to say, I had to make a change and quick.

I finally resigned from my job in 2007 and began working from home taking on different jobs and projects until I found something I really wanted to do.

Then in 2011, I decided I wanted to become a blogger and share what I learned about working from home and the different ways there was to do so.

I had no clue where to begin. I had no writing skills, had no idea how to build a community, I didn’t even know what blogging in general was. And what the heck was a WordPress? Talk about wet behind the ears, I was the poster child for it.

All I knew is that I wanted to show people who wanted to leave Corporate America that it was possible for them to create something they can call their own and do it from home.

My first two years I’ll chalk up to a learning curve. It was longer than I had anticipated but I allowed myself to soak up all there was about blogging and make those newbie blogger mistakes so I can learn from them.

I followed some fab bloggers who showed me the ropes like writing in my own voice, how to write great content that really gets people hooked, how to optimize content for search engines without it coming across as robotic and I learned what it took to build a solid, engaging community.

That’s the condensed version of my story and here I am today on my fifth year of blogging.

How to Blog Like a Boss

The basics I mentioned above are all important and every blogger should learn how to do, right? But what if you’re ready to take your blog and your blogging skills to the next level and blog like a boss?

There is more to it than that. Much more and I’m about to explain.

If you’re at this point in your blogging journey, there are certain things you must do if you want to blog like a boss and be considered as one by your visitors and even your peers.

I put a list together and came up with these ten. If you want to blog like a boss, you want to:

  1. Bust out with awesome, valuable content for your visitors.
  2. Blog consistently. Whether it’s daily, weekly, or once a month; decide what your posting schedule will be and stick to it.
  3. Engage with your visitors and followers on your blog and social media. Remember, without your visitors, your blog posts will never be seen or read.
  4. Reply to comments on your blog post and social media posts.
  5. Introduce tools and resources to help visitors and followers.
  6. Recommend other bloggers for visitors to follow. You can do this in a round-up type blog post. Here is one I did that’s titled 18 Boss Bloggers You Should Be Following Now.
  7. Share the work of fellow bloggers.
  8. Always be willing to help a visitor or fellow blogger.
  9. Be genuine. Blog in your voice and don’t try to be like other bloggers. Trust me, your visitors will see right through it.
  10. Continue to learn the latest blog trends and improve your writing skills.

And there you have it.

Is there a rule in place that says you have to do these things? Of course there isn’t but if your goal is to someday make money with your blog then yes, you should strongly consider doing these things.

If you’re asking yourself does doing what’s on this list work, take a look at the top bloggers in our community – some who you may be following – and you will notice they not only talk the talk but they walk the walk. And they’ve set the bar for bloggers like you and me who want to grow up to be like them – and their success proves that it does.

There isn’t a 100% guarantee. I’d be misleading you if I said there was. But if you add these ten things in your blogging plan and do it consistently, in time you will see the magic start to happen.

What I can guarantee is if you don’t do these things, they can become the ten reasons why your blog visitors don’t stick around.

Over to You

Thanks so much for letting me share what I think are the most important things to do if you want to blog like a boss. Now I’d like to hear from you, dear reader.

What are you doing to blog like a boss? If it’s something that isn’t on this list, I’d sure love to read about it. Let me know in the comments section below to continue adding to this list.

By the way, if you’re a new blogger and struggling in this area, I can show you exactly what to do to become a boss blogger. I laid it out all on my new eBook called How to Become an Expert Blogger and Blog Like a Boss In No Time available on Amazon.

Guest Author Bio:

Corina Ramos

Hi there, I’m Cori. I’m a blogger, freelance writer and I do a little web design on the side. I left my job in Corporate America so I could work from home and be with my family.

Now I blog about the different ways to make money from home with anyone who is ready to leave Corporate America and create something of their very own.

I also love helping new bloggers improve their skills. I recently published an eBook titled How to Become An Expert Blogger and Blog Like a Boss In No Time to help new bloggers go from just a blogger to a boss blogger in no time.

I’d love to connect with you. Follow me on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram. And stop by my blog Not Now Mom’s Busy for the latest about blogging and making money from home.

Business Growth Starts with Effective Delegation

Business Growth Starts with Effective Delegation

Ace Concierge Business Growth Starts with effective delegation

There will come a time in your business when you feel overwhelmed with the day to day operations. There is simply too much for one person to achieve while remaining efficient and effective.

As an entrepreneur, the CEO of your company, you have a limited number of hours to work both IN and ON your business. Constantly flipping your hats not only takes time, but a shift in focus, a reorganization of your priorities and it disrupts your workflow. It probably makes you a little crazy or insane. You may end up overlooking important business details or even client needs because you are buried in the trenches instead of running the front line.

There’s just not nearly enough time to get everything done and still operate your business. It is this realization, the “Ah ha” moment, that you recognize delegating these projects and tasks to an assistant will make your life and your business, much more productive.

Delegation is an advantageous productivity tool we frequently hear about— one that will transform your businesses in terms of greater income and more free time for you! And who doesn’t love both of these?

BUT, many are timid about beginning the process for fear of relinquishing control of parts of our business processes and procedures. Mine! Mine! Mine!

It’s time to give up this thought process and embrace a growth mentality for your business.

Focus on the high payoff activities that model your organization’s vision, foundation, and core competencies.

Effective delegation for entrepreneurs is essential! When you outsource your tasks and projects, you are able to focus on more important responsibilities that only you can do to cultivate your business and generate revenue. The art of delegation is an indispensable part of establishing your growing business.

When you delegate properly and use software to help you delegate, you’ll find that your company runs more efficiently, productivity levels rise, people are happier at work, and your quality of work improves immensely. Amara Pope – timedoctor.com

You know you need to start delegating if:

  • You spend 7-10+ hours online, curating, scheduling and managing your social media and it takes away from time with clients, colleagues, partners etc.
  • You need to implement some systems to streamline your business processes
  • You have wished for a like-minded brainstorming partner
  • You are ready to scale, but don’t have enough hours in the day.
  • You find it hard to concentrate and stay focused because there is too much for one person to do.
  • You have some projects or platforms that are barely started or only half-finished.
  • You lay awake at night wondering how you will manage everything.

What stops people from delegating:

  • They feel they are too disorganized to illustrate what needs to be done.
  • They believe they don’t have the financial means. (It is actually more cost-effective to partner with a Virtual Assistant as you only pay for project time).
  • They feel their schedules are too hectic to take the time to delegate. (If you are this busy, your time restraints will only increase without delegation).
  • They feel someone else won’t do it the same way or be as efficient (A virtual assistant is a solopreneur like yourself: efficiency, productivity, and industry expertise IS our business. We know of different tools and tips to professionally manage your projects in a proficient, resourceful manner).

Each of the above objections emphasizes the necessity to delegate. As long as you continue to clutch the tasks that stop you from growing your business, you will feel exasperated, overwhelmed, and unproductive.

Delegating will free up your time. It enables you to eliminate low-priority tasks while allowing you to concentrate your efforts on those business systems that enhance your productivity and your profit margin. Your time and energy should be committed to creating new products or services, networking, consulting with clients and prospects, forming strategic alliances, expanding into new markets, business development, social media engagement and so forth. These are tasks that only YOU can do. They are your CORE GENIUS.

Ask yourself:

  1. Is delegating a logical next step to help grow my business?
  2. How much time am I spending on tasks that impede my progress and waste my time?
  3. What are my most pressing issues or pain points that eat up most of my time?
  4. Have I been able to accomplish ALL of my daily To Do list items?
  5. If I delegated tasks, how would I use an additional 5-8 hours per week?
  6. How would I feel if I only worked on income generating tasks and outsourced the rest?

Delegation is the perfect low cost, high impact tool to help expand and develop your business without having to increase responsibilities or sacrifice your personal time with your family.

The bottom line is that effective delegation is the sensible alternative to help you scale your business and get more done.

It takes courage, intelligence, and humility to delegate in ways that actually drive productivity, engagement, and success throughout an entire organization. But every leader should aim for that high standard, rather than shrink from the risks it entails. Baird Brightman

Do you have a minute? Please share in the comments below your thoughts on:

What has been your greatest success or disappointment from delegating tasks/projects?