These are some of the most leverage points I had with my career development
. These actions helped my career enormously. The first thing was to find an accountability partner of whom I can share ideas and resources with. The second has to be outsourcing.
Many people do all the work themselves and say that they can't afford to outsource their work. But there comes a time in your online business where you can't afford not to. You get to the cross roads of your career, then just take a leap of faith. I found that I made a lot more money doing this. I hired a full time assistant to come in and at first I said I can't afford to do this. But when I hired her it freed up a good majority of my time to create other important products for my business.
I went from not being able to afford her to earning more money as well. You just have to take the leap of faith because outsourcing can be huge. It was a lesson that I wish I would have learned a long time ago. You can't create your business model with you doing everything because you're going to outgrow what you're doing and have horrible growing pains.
Sometimes it is difficult to outsource, but you can do everything on a ticket system. All you have to do is do a search for outsourcing project management and you'll find some free services to use. It makes it easier on your business when you have a base camp for everyone to report to.
Many people sit there and dream about success with no business coming in. I've worked with both virtual assistants and ones that come to my office. Both worked out fine, but it just depends on what you need for your business. Right now I don't have an assistant that comes to my office because I do a lot of traveling. So it just depends on the business model you have set up for yourself.
I have virtual assistants now. I hire those that are from my country and who speak the same language as I do. I prefer to hire from a pool of people that I know, this way I can give them the creative freedom to do as they want without them always coming to be asking me a bunch of questions.
It just depends on the business that you currently have. If you're running a service based model, your going to have to hire someone to answer the phone for you. You need to prepare yourself for doing this even though you're doing the work yourself right now. If you're just selling other people's products then hiring a virtual assistant to do some of the work for you is the way to go. Those are just some of the things I did with my career development.