I remember my first hire for my first company as if it were yesterday. I had an amazing part-time, hourly employee who desperately wanted to work for me full time. I knew I needed her. So I worked my butt off to bring in the revenue so I could pay her....and I paid her before I ever paid myself.

When you first start your business hiring help seems like the most daunting undertaking there is. Often times you don't have the resources you need to hire the person you want. And you think that you can just do it all yourself. But NEWSFLASH...you can't. Investing in a team and in help for your business is only going to help you grow your company---far faster than you would think.

Even when you're bootstrapping, you can still find the help you need. Sometimes, you just have to get creative.  In today's episode I go into detail on these  SIX creative ideas and ways that you can get the help that you need to grow your business:

1️. Find a Co-Founder: This idea isn't for everyone. However it's something I often wished I had done when I started my first company. As someone who was a creative and marketing/sales oriented, having someone early on to handle finances and operations would have been a nice compliment to my skill set.

2. Go the totally opposite direction as above and hire a student or an intern. You have to remember though---you have to PUT TIME into an intern in order to get what you want out of an intern. (Also, make sure you look into labor laws, free Internships are a concept of the past in many states.)

3. In today's working world there are so many people who want flexibility or will work part-time. Today in my stories I'll talk about how I hired a part-time Controller. So many women want to come back into the work place after kids, or want to take a step away from the work place to be with their kids. FIND THESE PEOPLE and hire them to complete projects and tasks you cannot.

4. Find someone who you can trade services with. Help them with a project in exchange for them helping you.

5. Again, another idea not for everyone. But, if you're going to fundraise, or really scale your company, paying a team in equity from your company can serve multiple purposes. Not only will you get the help you need, but you also will have a team who is invested in your brand. Just make sure if you go this route you hire a lawyer to help.

6. Your community is already invested in what you are doing, start off trading your product or service, as you grow you can pay them increasingly more.

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