There’s something we’ve identified you need to leverage in 2017 to help you:
- Win more customers
- Get more out of your marketing efforts
- Increase your profits and productivity
- Get more of the work/life balance you’re looking for
If you’re like most business owners I talk to in our community, you’re probably looking for a way to stop working yourself so hard, and start leveraging your time and your business.
Now, this is topic that’s been around for a little while, although it’s really coming into it’s own and moving from a “novel concept” to a “mainstream must-have.
That concept is OUTSOURCING.
Maybe you’ve tried outsourcing and not got the results you wanted.
Or you’re not sure where to get started or if you can afford it.
Or maybe like a lot of business owners you suffer from what’s been called ‘super-hero’ syndrome.
This is were you end up doing EVERYTHING yourself, wearing many hats – boss, salesperson, copywriter, website developer and much more.
If this is you, you’re not alone.
It’s no wonder why so many people give up the dream of starting a business – it’s just too much for one person to handle.
Here’s where outsourcing comes in.
Outsourcing is a cost effective way to get the support you need and to finally free you from those tasks and responsibilities that are keeping you stuck on the treadmill, never really breaking through to the next level of growth and profit you’d like.
Building a business can be draining – you’re working around the clock for long periods and that can lead you to burn out, putting your health AND your desire to STAY in business at risk.
The key to being more successful is NOT necessarily working harder or longer hours. (It took me a LONG time to figure that one out.)
One person who knows this all too well is entrepreneur, outsourcing expert and author Chris Ducker.
When I interviewed Chris Ducker, he told the story of his burnout in 2009. He’d grown this really successful business, had 120 staff. Then he hit the wall. Really badly.
If you’ve every thought, “I am no longer running my business, my business is running me” – then you’ll appreciate Chris’s story.
This happens way too often – especially when your business is at a tipping point – for example if you’re going through a growth phase or experiencing a high stress/transition phase.
Chris was able to turn things around using Virtual Assistants to get his life back and to grow his business.
And he wrote a great book on the topic of outsourcing called Virtual Freedom.
One of the most powerful things Chris shared with me was his 3 Lists to Freedom Exercise.
And I want to take you through that now.
This one simple process can TOTALLY revolutionise your business and completely change the way you look at running your business in 2017.
You will want to grab a pen and paper for this. Yep, I’m suggesting an old fashioned pen and paper and a quiet space.
Get a piece of paper and make three columns.
The first step is to make a list of the tasks you HATE doing.
So in the first column, write down a list of all the tasks you’re handling on a day-to-day basis that you REALLY HATE.
In the second column, create a list of all the tasks you STRUGGLE with. Don’t allow your own Superhero Syndrome (that’s actually Chris Ducker’s term) to get in the way of reality here. What is it that you really can’t get to flow, you do it but it weighs you down.
Step three is to create a List of Tasks You SHOULDN’T DO.
As the business leader, are you doing things that someone else could do. Are you wasting time on things that are NOT building the business?
Think long and hard here.
I know I can get really caught up in administration, for example – and get really busy and I love to check things off lists.
But that is NOT where my time is best spent and it’s probably not where your time is best spent either!
Chris calls these lists your “Three Lists to Freedom.”
And this is the priority list of tasks you want to get off your plate and delegated to someone else as soon as possible.
When I interviewed Chris he shared a range of REALLY valuable tips for building and managing your outsourced team and you can see the full interview with Chris in the Online Learning Centre, inside of his Virtual Freedom webinar training which you’ll find on our website.
There are also a number of other trainings in the Learning Centre that cover a range of topics related to successful outsourcing and leveraging yourself, including:
THE SUITCASE ENTREPRENEUR – You can build a business from anywhere and design a lifestyle you want. When we interviewed Natalie Sisson about her book The Suitcase Entrepreneur she told us how to do just that. You’ll find that training in the online learning centre.
We have also presented a training called OUTSOURCING TO GROW YOUR BUSINESS. People loved it so much we presented it twice. You’ll find it in the library.
Finally, you’ll find the CREATING A VIRTUAL TEAM training in the learning centre too. This one shows you how to make the most of limited resources in your business.
All of these trainings are priced at $59 each… or you can get access to the entire library of over 170 trainings valued at $10,030 as part of our special Summer School promotion for just one small payment of $147.
If 2016 was “crazy busy” and you feel like you just couldn’t get to a lot of the trainings you wanted to, THIS is your ideal chance to “catch up” during the downtime over the holiday period.
Learning is one of the MOST valuable things you can do for your business and I know it’s hard to find the time – that’s why we’ve put Summer School together.
You get full access for 30 days.
You have flexibility about when, where and how you dip into the trainings and you can watch or listen to it as many times as you like.
Go here now for full details on how you can access Chris Ducker’s Virtual Freedom training and to learn more about his great book, plus all the other trainings mentioned in this video AND our entire catalogue of more than 170 programs for just $147.
So go ahead and get your access to Summer School here, I will see you in the Summer School!
