Often entrepreneurs try to run their business completely on their own. This certainly has it’s merits in the early going of any business but you are fooling yourself if you think it is scalable.
You must invest in infrastructure and administrative help and you must build these costs into your model.
I have seen more and more companies utilizing virtual assistants to help them make the transition from doing everything on their own to hiring full time help.
“A Virtual Assistant (VA) is an independent entrepreneur providing administrative, creative and/or technical services. Utilizing advanced technological modes of communication and data delivery, a professional VA assists clients in his/her area of expertise from his/her own office on a contractual basis.”
No matter what path you take the sooner you acknowledge that you cannot do everything needed to run the business yourself if you are going to have any chance of growing the sooner you will start to grow.
We are at the point where we have a number employees dedicated to running the business so that Mike can spend time working on the business as Michael Gerber says.
I would love to know how you are making the transition from doing everything to putting people in processes in place that will allow you to scale.
Josh
