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Outsourcing Workload to Grow Your Business

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Intro: Evolving and Growing your Business

Stacey Trock

Business > Outsourcing Workload To Grow Your Business > Intro: Evolving And Growing Your Business

Outsourcing Workload to Grow Your Business

Stacey Trock

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17. Intro: Evolving and Growing your Business

Lessons

Class Trailer
1 Class Introduction 09:48 2 Destined to Fail: Trying to Do It All 18:05 3 The Basics of Hiring 13:11 4 Who to Hire and Why 19:51 5 Hiring Technology as a Resource 15:03 6 Intro: What's Best for your Business 02:21 7 How to Analyze your Business 32:10 8 Building a Hierarchy of Outsourcing Needs 06:46
9 How to Document Your Business for Success 16:04 10 What's a Virtual Assistant? What to Expect 06:42 11 How To Shop For Your Freelancers 27:24 12 Intro: Outsourcing Product Production 01:06 13 How and Why to Leverage Your Best Selling Product 18:45 14 Getting Started with Small Scale Production 17:22 15 Bigger Scale Manufacturing 14:22 16 How To Avoid Relying On Manual Labor 16:32 17 Intro: Evolving and Growing your Business 01:16 18 How to Avoid the Pitfalls of Growth: Scale Your Business Wall 13:40 19 How to Implement Changes that will Grow Your Business 10:58 20 Setting Future Goals 10:16 21 How to Use Profits as a Vehicle for Growth 10:29 22 Secrets to Growing your Business from Mei Pak/Tiny Hands 29:35

Lesson Info

Intro: Evolving and Growing your Business

So this section is about evolving and growing your business. So, we're gonna talk about basically, our goal is to grow our business, for most people, to be a full time job. And that has a lot of scalability issues associated. So first I'm gonna talk about how to avoid the pitfalls of growing and how to scale your business well. We're gonna talk about implementing some changes that will allow you to grow your business bigger. Goal setting, how to use your profits as a vehicle for growth. And then, I'm really excited, secrets to growing your business with Mei Pak. So I'm gonna get through the intro stuff quick as I can, without speed talking. So that we have the most time to talk to Mei as we can. Because she has a hugely successful business and she also has been through all of these steps that we've talked about. So it's gonna be really great. I've also done many of these steps too. So I'm gonna be sharing a lot of my examples from growing Fresh Stitches. Just because you have a busines...

s that's making money now, doesn't mean that you have a business that's scaled to grow well. So that's really what we're gonna be talking about in this first lesson.

Class Description

Most small business owners begin by doing it all. But as you grow, you’ll probably find that you need help. But what kind of help? And where do you go to get it?

In Outsourcing Workload to Grow Your Business Stacey Trock will show you how to navigate the options for getting the help you need for your business. From bookkeepers and accountants to graphic designers, photographers, and web designers, to virtual assistants, to production assistants, to overseas factories, to marketing agencies...there is a whole world of freelancers able to help your business run more smoothly!

In this class you will learn the following:

  • The range of freelancers that are available, and what role they can fill in your business
  • How to write a procedures manual for your business, making the delegation of work as seamless as possible
  • How to hire a virtual assistant and streamline your business into tasks that can be carried out by someone other than you
  • The difference between a contractor and an employee, and the pros and cons of each
  • How to outsource the production of physical items for your shop, including working with local artisans and navigating the process of ordering custom items from overseas factories (via Alibaba)

By the end of Outsourcing Workload to Grow Your Business, you’ll learn how to decide what is truly important in your business and what your time is worth.  The secret to successfully turning over portions of your business is to structure your workload into systematic and well-defined capsules, which can be handed off to a largely-independent freelancer; freeing you up to do the things that you really love!

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