How to Know When it's Time to Hire

Welcome to episode 310 of Hit the Mic with The Stacey Harris.

Let's talk hiring, so a lot of us tend to, and I'm totally raising my hand on this one, guys, wait too long to hire help, and so today I want to talk about some ways you might know it's time to hire help, and some different ways that you can get help, because I think there's a lot of perception around, "You have to have XYZ, and that has to work," and that doesn't necessarily work for everybody, because we all have our different needs. We all have our different strengths, and that's okay. That's totally okay.

All right, so let's start with how you might know it's time to hire someone?

Number one, you want to make more money, and you have no time. Not in a you need to trade more of your time of money, kind of one to one thing, but it's hard when you're slammed with keeping up with the business you've got, to do two things. A, market your business, so you continue to have consistent income, instead of that peaks and valley roller coaster kind of vibe, when it comes to your money, which sucks. Okay. There's no two ways to talk about it. It blows, but you also don't have any time to grow anything outside of your one to one offerings.

Maybe you want to create a passive income product, to not necessarily replace your one on one, but to supplement it, or maybe you want to create a group program, so that you can serve more people at a lower price point, because you know that there's a group of your audience, who really wants to work with you, but they can't. They can't swing your one on one rates yet. They're not there yet, so you want to have a lower cost group program, or something like that. Maybe it's you want to have the time to create a passion project. Maybe it's a book.

Maybe it could be anything, really, but to have that space, and that time to make more money through some of those other avenues, you got to get some of the stuff off your plate, and now we talk about this a lot on the Your Biz BFF podcast I do with Brandy Lawson, where we talk about not just delegating, but deleting, and so that may be something you need to do, but there's going to be some of that stuff that does need to get delegated, and it does need to get put on someone else's plate, so that's a really good indicator that it's time. Number two, there are things you are avoiding that have not been done in a very long time.

A personal example of this is my accounting. Before I handed it off, it would sit, and wait until, quite frankly, I absolutely had to do it, which is usually tax time, and then I'd have a year's worth of receipts, and invoices, and just stuff to input, and check, and verify, and find, and it sucked. It sucked hard, and so it ended up usually taking a lot longer than it needed to take, but also, I really, really, really needed to get someone else to do it, and so that's what happens now, is I don't do it, but if there's something like that for you, it could be keeping up with your social media, it could be your accounting, it could be getting started with consistent content, it could be getting transcriptions for your podcast, another one for me.

It could be absolutely anything. If there's something you're avoiding that you know can't be deleted, it can't be skipped, it needs to be done, that's a good indicator that it's time to hire, so those are the two things I want you to focus on, on initially. I think, a lot of times, we think, "Oh, it's time to hire a VA, because someone in the world told me that that's the only way I'll be successful." Th

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