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We are so excited to share with you our recent interview with Chris Ducker! We were thrilled that Chris agreed to come on the show. Chris is a best-selling author, speaker and founder of Youpreneur. We chat to Chris about the amazingly successful Youpreneur Summit and his new book which is out today! Full show notes & links over at the.huddle.co/chris

Welcome to the 10th episode of The Huddle podcast with Ceri Gillett and Aby Moore.

Today is all about Outsourcing.

Outsourcing scares people, as they think it's going to cost a lot. People also think that they can do it themselves, so maybe they should just keep doing it themselves..

Often people don't like investing before they are making money in their business.

You either pay with your time or your money

For it to be a business you have to treat it like a business.

You couldn't even start a hobby without investing in something.

2 main issues:

1. Finding someone
2. Then loosening the reins enough to let someone help you.

We chat about bartering and getting started on Fiverr to dip your toes on the outsourcing water!

We have both had various things done from people at Fiverr - logos, editing, graphics, jingles, research for blog posts.

Outsourcing can be such a weight off your shoulders.

What we outsource - social media scheduling, engagement, graphics, research, running groups.

Strategic things we will do ourselves.

We also cover how to actually hand tasks over to a VA and ways to get started and set up for success.

In today's episode we are going to be listing 3 things that we highly rate, our top 3 told you need to help you start or grow your online business.

1) Good theme for your website. We love a pretty theme and often get pretty over functional. It doesn't have to cost the earth.

2) The business generation model book - Over 20 top level business minds combined the best parts of business planning from their lived experience and they created this crazy plan that works.

3) Now you have a site, you might have traffic, you now need a way to capture that traffic. You need an email list! Therefore an email marketing provider is vital. I use Convertkit (* Aff), so I can tag and segment them to make sure each subscriber gets content specifically for them.

4) So you've got planned and then, then i feel you need permission to take yourself seriously and for me that's - A mastermind - so a mastermind is a group of people, not too many who com together at a set time and 'mastermind'

5) Now have site and way to capture traffic, we now need traffic, in a sustainable way that won't send you mad. Enter Social Media Schedulers. You can't post everything in real time. Schedule most so you have more time to engage. Aby uses Social Oomph* (aff) for Twitter and Grum for Instagram (which isn't against IG rules!). Don't focus on free schedulers. Social Oomph is less than a Starbucks!

6) Web presence - you don't need to drop 3k on a website in order to look professional and get taken seriously online - don't do that. To start an online business you just need to be online somewhere, a post in a Facebook group will do!

Head to the-huddlepodcast/8 for detailed show notes.

In this episode we talk about why business planning is a MUST!

Aby admits to not having a business plan when she started. It was just a hobby when she started and it just evolved. The ladies discuss, why we have certain goals, rather than think about what does that money means? They chat about the money hang ups we can have.

They discuss Ceri's favourite resource for business planning and also delve into reverse engineering and using both business plan and properly formulated goals to get you where you want to go.

We confess that we both have Shiny Object Syndrome (SOS). We chat about why we have it, give you a peek into some of the things we have bought over the years.

Why we have SOS and what you can do about it. How do you get your focus back? Don't worry we've got you!

Today we're chatting about the value of self-promotion. Why you need to get over your concerns and get on with it. We also talk about how to avoid being 'one of those people' who only talk about themselves. Grab a cuppa, put your feet up and join us for a chat.

Why you need to know your figures and not be scared of money The ladies discuss why you may need less than you think and the importance of figuring out what you need to earn each month as a baseline.

Don't leave this money stuff to chance.

They also cover diversifying your income streams and the importance of networking to bring in the dollars!