Hi everyone, itís Tyrone from Tyroneshum.com! I want to share with you today a really, really
common question I get all the time. This is usually for the newbies who are just starting
to outsource. As like me, Iíve been through and when I first started looking at outsourcing
my business, outsourcing all my tasks and get people to do the work, I go ìWho shall
I outsource first to?î, ìWhere should I find the first person?î I want to answer
those questions who should you hire first or who should you outsource to first and thereís
many ways or options to go about this but Iím giving you just two simple options.
The first thing is I would firstly look for someone to work for you full time. Donít
hire any contractors, donít hire anyone whoís just going to be here and be just doing one
of the tasks because once you spend time training them, youíre going to lose those skills.
Thatís the first thing, hire someone for full time. If you canít afford someone on
full time, go for someone whoís part time because when you hire someone part time, at
least theyíre going to be working for you minimum 20 hours a week.
If you hire someone full time, itís 40 hours a week and theyíre going to be managing whole
business for you or managing a lot of your tasks that youíre currently doing yourself.
The mindset to have is not to think ìOkay, because Iím going to offload say 40 hours
of my work, Iím going to do twice as much work.î Yes, in many ways you can think that
might work at first but what youíre trying to do is actually cut down your hours so youíre
probably working at most 2-3 hours a day and for your staff to be working for you 40+ hours
a week.
So thatís the first tip, to hire someone full time. The second thing that I recommend
you do is to hire someone specifically for a skill. Now, every single person out there
that youíre probably looking for has different skills. They could be focused on for example
being a virtual assistant, being a programmer, a writer, and so forth. I donít recommend
hiring someone thatís going to be overall because youíre not going to be able to find
that person.
You canít find someone whoís going to be doing all your administration, transcripts,
writing your posts and doing programming at the same time. That person doesnít exist
because that person is basically going to be you. So I recommend if you want to get
someone whoís just going to start your administration work such as posting your blog posts onto
your blog, handling your emails, just general overview of handling all the day-to-day tasks
thatís very monotonous, hire a virtual assistant.
Thatís what I did from my experience. My first virtual assistant I hired was from India.
That experience wasnít very good for me and Iíve learned from those experiences because
I realized that itís a culture breakdown. Iím not going to go to the story about what
happened there in terms of my experience with hiring a virtual assistant from India but
since I found someone from the Philippines, I had an absolutely amazing time with them.
Theyíve been stuck with me for as long as Iíve been running my business so Iíve been
very, very happy and exceptionally proud with what theyíve done. The kind of work theyíve
put in and loyalty theyíve had with me has been of high value.
If you want to have those kinds of things or offload those things, I firstly recommend
hiring a virtual assistant. Iíll give you just a quick way to be able to let go of all
the day-to-day things that are probably taking lot of your time and no doubt you might be
thinking blog posting might not just take me half an hour just to put it up myself or
to render a video, putting a video online for me might take 10, 15 minutes or so. Well,
you add that all up and youíll have multiple things to do and it adds up to your time.
You should be spending a lot of time that you have to be focusing on dollar productive
activities such as building relationships with leading people that will be able to help
you refer business or you might be spending more time marketing and advertising your business
to get more leads to come through.
Those are the things that you might probably want to consider. You can eventually outsource
all these things as well but if youíre just starting out like how I was, your virtual
assistant would help you there. Thatís just something where Iíll go and as soon as you
build your team and youíve trained the first one and you get that person to train the second
person and so forth then you start to develop a team that you can rely on and outsource
all your work to.
Thatís what I would recommend doing and hopefully, that answers the questions that a lot of people
been asking me. I hope to see you in the next video. This is it for me today, and if youíve
got feedback or comments, I love to hear them so simply put your details down below and
leave a feedback and comment of what you think about this video and any other questions that
you might have as well. Iíll speak to you soon. Itís Tyrone Shum from Tyroneshum.com,
Iíll see you in the next video.