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The New Year is just around the corner and with it comes all kinds of great advice about what you should be doing to achieve your goals. How about what you should not be doing? As the go-to person in this industry on productivity, profit explosion and business optimization, I’m here to say that some people just SHOULD NOT delegate.
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Curious?
Here are four reasons why you should absolutely, positively NOT delegate or outsource to expand your business this year:
1. The idea of making more money is revolting.
Why allow other people to help you get more money making tasks done? That’s just silly! You love staying stuck exactly where you are because you must do everything yourself. I mean come on, money doesn’t grow on trees so why should you wisely invest it in capable, hard-working, efficient associates who help you achieve more in a week than you normally do in a year?
Even if you could see proof that learning how to hire “A” players to manage your social media, update your website, handle your organic SEO strategies would free you up to triple your income, why bother with stuff like that when you’ve got so much to do today, right?
2. Doing tasks that suck the life out of you is the highlight of your day.
When you wake up you are ecstatic knowing that you’ll get to update your bookkeeping records or spend 2 – 3 hours answering routine questions from tire-kickers who never plan to buy. But the highlight of your day – filing! Why, cause it’s an excellent use of your time. Who wouldn’t want to spend countless hours putting papers in folders when they could be putting together a launch strategy that could results in over $100k in revenue?
Then there are your personal favorites…the tasks that make you feel like a Mac truck ran over you. You know the ones ….you feel completely exhausted afterwards. As you dig into these tasks (if you ever get to them) you think how luck you are to be an entrepreneur with all this freedom. Why would you ever want to spend most of your time doing things that make boat-loads of money?
3. Perfection, not progress, is the only route for you.
You are committed to getting things done yourself — correctly. Can you really trust someone else to do things right (I mean really what does Bill Gates know about delegation…he’s the genius in the business.) As you release every product perfectly with great pride, you somehow overlook the consequence of this choice – it takes you 5 – 10 times longer to get things done.
Even though you are frustrated with your slow progress you fear handing things off to someone else. You witness your peers who have discovered the secrets to hiring “A” players soaring to new heights and wonder what must be wrong that you can’t get these same results.
The last option is to buy the content straight-out. You can get a ghost-writer to produce it and still make a hefty little profit in the process.
Again, no matter what path you take, make sure you're producing content that people are actually willing to pay for.
4. Sleep and a social life are highly over-rated!
Who needs sleep, right? There is so much to do you can barely get a few winks at night let alone actually meet your friends for a nice evening out. Family? Who are they? Oh those people who walk up and down your hallway waiting for you to come out and have dinner together.
Don’t they understand that you have hundreds of tasks to accomplish in record time and you don’t have anyone to help you out? Not that you couldn’t – you just have your head in the weeds and you haven’t yet seen the brilliance in slowing down, hiring some capable people and multiplying your accomplishments in record time.
All silliness aside, why on earth should an entrepreneur delegate or outsource? Because it’s how you create a business that can grow into six figures and beyond, profitably, without losing your mind!
When you pay attention to the business owners who consistently generate high six and seven figures, you’ll notice the one thing they all have in common is: they don’t do it alone.
The key is not just delegating to the cheapest labor either. What works is learning how to hire people who will take tasks off your plate so you can focus on doing what you do best! And that requires a system of identify the right tasks to hand off, the right people who can do the job, and the right delegation techniques to ensure the tasks are done correctly the first time.
Stay tuned over the next few weeks I’ll be sharing with you some of my insider secrets to exponentially growing your revenue and results through delegation and outsourcing!
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I think it is the best in his year, it will be very effective and good for company's profit and employee’s achievements…
This is a great post!
One question:
What might you suggest for a young, recent convert to entrepreneurship who has little money and is bootstrapping? It seems like it could be a bit more difficult to delegate with little capital to invest in the company.
My thought would be that if you can't delegate all of your tasks, delegate only the ones that you hate. I also think you might suggest freelancing.
I'd love to hear your thoughts!
Great tips i think I'll take it into cosideration…happy new year..
That is so funny!! BTW great article. Thank you for sharing it with us.
Great article, thanks for sharing. Like a joke, you should create a post about "not to delegate when volcanoes erupt".
Great stuff! Will deff. take some of this advice into consideration when bringing in the new year. Happy Holidays!
thank you…
This was a good post with some well made points, and some funny ones also…
thank youu…
Great stuff! Will deff. take some of this advice into consideration when bringing in the new year.
Awesome article. very nice tips. its really useful and informative article. thanks for sharing that.
This is so funny! .. i mean.. i will never sacrifice my new years eve for anything!! thanks!
perhaps get someone else to write the strategy too?
Thank you for your information.
Why i find this so late!
Our college would not run without adjuncts. There are probably 4 adjuncts for every 1 full-time faculty. Being among the ranks of the greater number . . . we are left out and overlooked. No benefits and low pay = no respect and no voice.
your article does make sense to me….
Very nice tips i will take them for myself very good post.
In the New Year, everybody takes a new resolution… It's good for company's profit and employee’s achievements…
"sleep and social life are highly over rated"… this ties in well with "no rest for the wicked"!
I always read the posts and make appropriate comments on others’ blogs. It irritates me to no end to see all the comments that are completely unrelated, obvious that no one has read the blog. I am considering opening my blog to dofollow just to help people out but I don’t want to have to mess with all the junk that gets added.
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This was a good post with some well made points, and some funny ones also…
very nice tips/. will take them for myself.
Very interesting article for the new year…Why I allways arrives late?
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Regards,
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Very good points made which will benefit any business… and I love the way it was written – fantastic way to grab my attention!
It can be really difficult to choose the right time to delegate tasks to others in order to help yourself more efficiently run your company. I advise many computer consultants starting their own businesses, and they often tell me that knowing when to hire additional help is really challenging. Sometimes I find that business owners have a hard time giving up control of elements of their business. But in reality, does it make sense to waste hours of time on simple tasks like break/fix computer repairs or simply “minding the store” at the expense of important marketing tasks, generation of new leads or critical networking that will lead to more long-term clients to sustain your business? On the other side of the coin, sometimes the computer consultants I work with hire help too soon and end up underestimating the cost of additional labor (I provide a “back of the napkin” cost calculator for hiring additional help in both my Computer Consulting Kit Home Study Course and also my blog). Knowing how and when to delegate is an interesting dilemma, but one that can be managed well with a strong business plan followed to the letter and revised often.
Hey Melanie, what a great way to catch my attention! I have to say doing it "right" is definately one of my down falls to outsourcing. Can't wait to hear how you propose getting the right people who will do it "right" to my standards of course
Thanks for sharing something valuable
Hello,
I'm so thankful for dragging such an important topic to our attention, that's the kind of staff we need to know nowadays.
regards,
I would like to thank you for the information, and the clear tips. Keep it on!
Regards,
As the saying goes "if you want something done right, you need to do it yourself". Sound business advise indeed
hahahaha, very funny, although i kinda agree with the last one, there just arent enough hours in the day!
This is a bright idea for 2010. We should keep things slow and in moderation before coming into big decision. Thanks for the tips you share with us. That will be a great eye-opener!
Thanks for the precious tips, and for the great job.
And I've taken some of your ideas in this new year.
regards,
I love the sarcasm. This is pretty hilarious! I am working hard at letting go and letting other people do the work. Especially the repetitive stuff.
The reasons you have given are very perfect and motivating.do it all and now maybe I can find an assistant to help. Just one little defined task at a time.
very nice blog . just want to say keep posting these good things.
Great reasons to be read out.. Great year
your article is really an eye opener for me… thanks for sharing these ideas.
Hi – Boy she does make it sound simple. I do it all and now maybe I can find an assistant to help. Just one little defined task at a time. Thanks a bunch.
Let's all have a successful year!!
Rose Quaranta
Great thoughts. I've already forwarded them to several other people.
just loved it
thanks – Happy New Year !
Interesting article.
Some pretty good points.
Hi there – we LOVE your blog and agree with a lot of what is being said. Being from Sydney Australia it's refreshing to hear views from others around the world and to know we are not alone in thinking about this. Keep up the good work!
Regards
Associated Counselling Psychologists Sydney
Thank you all and successful new 2010.
Actualy is that I personaly start using past few months online services is very handy.
John
That is very good thread and the sarcasm you are using is very powerfull, thank you for your ideas.
Regards
The reasons you have given are very perfect and motivating.I liked them.Happy New Year…
The views about delegation and outsourcing won't be accepted by all.May be only few would have benefited by this idea.Any how wish you all a happy new year.
The reasons given here make yous think on these lines at least for once why not?
The views about delegation and outsourcing won't be accepted by all.May be only few would have benefited by this idea.
Any how wish you all a happy new year.
I didn't know where to post this, so I just took a stab at it here.
You'd think that StomperNet Might consider giving digital access to Decembers issue free somehow. hmmmm
Just a passing thought
Gary.
Great stuff! Will deff. take some of this advice into consideration when bringing in the new year. Happy Holidays!
Joe Hudson