Whether you're looking to hire in your business now, or you can't even comprehend hiring someone, today's episode is worth a listen. You will at SOME POINT need to pay a human to help your biz grow and run.

I’ve had a few one on one business clients recently hire a VA, or outsource for certain jobs within their business and it made me think about you humans, knowing when and how to hire. Because it can be an overwhelming part and time In business.

First off, one size does not fit all.

I have friends and colleagues who took a completely different approach to hiring than I did. So at the end of this, it’s important to do what makes sense for you, your vision, and the needs of your business.

And even if you aren’t ready to hire right now, I think it’s important to understand what to be looking for in your business before you actually get to the point of meeting to hire. More often than not, and I include myself in this, entrepreneurs end up hiring later than they probably should have.

And when I say hire, I am not talking about hiring full-time employees of your company. Or even a part-time employees of your company. Especially in the online world, it’s pretty common to take two or three different approaches for hiring contractors.

You have options:

Outsource for a given repeatable task within your biz - formatting and scheduling emails or IG posts. Some kind of task that happens on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis in your business. And having someone take over these tasks that don’t directly require you to do them, can free up space for you to either do less work, or do the work that is required of you to take your business to the next level.

I would also put hiring coaches in this category. You are essentially hiring more of your self or fill in gaps within your offer so maybe you do strength training online and you need to hire a nutritionist or registered dietitian on your staff and that is who’s going to work with all of your clients on nutrition. Or you’re simply hiring other qualified coaches within the strength world so that you can generate more revenue through your current offer. 

Another option is:

A certain one off project - editing videos for a program, building out your website. They should be hiring a person who has a specific trade and you need that trade within your business. Now, you might hire this person one time and then hire them again in the future for a similar task. But they’re not someone that you’re paying on a consistent monthly basis. A great example of this for myself is hiring the person who built out my workshop funnel for me, or hiring my brand photographer to do brand shoots for me every six months or so. I am paying people to complete a one off task for me in my business that makes my life easier and allows me to generate more profit. But they are not an employee of my company and I do not pay them monthly.

The last option that we’re going to go over is:

Hire a jack of all trades - virtual assistant. And let me remind you that you can do all three of these as well. It’s not like if you have a virtual assistant you can’t hire someone to help you build out your website that’s not what I’m saying. I’m just trying to kind of categorize types of hiring that you might consider when you are ready to hire someone for some part of your business.

And one virtual assistant may do something different for one entrepreneur than a virtual assistant does for another entrepreneur. So it’s a very broad section. But essentially you would just need someone to be able to fulfill the tasks that you have listed out for what you...