If you’ve only been a solopreneur for two minutes, you already know one thing to be true: When you’re a one woman shop, you’re typically wearing no less than 10 hats. From creating the actual *thing* your business sells, whether that’s jewelry, websites, or monthly P&L reports for clients, to also being the… The marketer/copywriter/photographer…
In a perfect world, you’re a solopreneur with a perfectly assembled team of specialists to outsource to, who you’ve onboarded with ease. Your business is running like a finely tuned machine. Work gets done on-time, with expert quality, and all the moving pieces gel sublimely. Except that sort of situation is exceedingly rare. So at…
If you’re an entrepreneur, it’s probably safe to assume that “create a welcome video for my website” is somewhere on your lengthy to-do list. But somehow it’s migrated lower and lower over time to live among other long-forgotten tasks like “clean out my inbox” and “start working out again.” I don’t blame you; video is…
I love being on Instagram. I love sharing my tips and ideas. I love interacting with people. I love searching through hashtags and finding awesome new people to follow. (I also love shopping via Instagram — which isn’t so great for my bank balance.) What I don’t love is taking photos or creating graphics. As…
Much like a homeowner, a solopreneur must be able to rock multiple hats at once. Another similarity? Both homeowners and solopreneurs are often operating on shoestring budgets. While a homeowner could reduce costs by taking the DIY route for painting, landscaping and wallpapering, we can most likely all agree that it’s best to call in…
Editor’s note: We’re kicking off outsourcing month here at OWS! This post serves as a primer for deciding what tasks you might want to hire a pro to take on. For many of us, we start our businesses out in bootstrapping mode. You Google search. You consume blog post after blog post. You ask for…
