7 Things You Don't Know About Hiring & Outsourcing
Listen to this free audio (no registration required) to learn 7 counterintuitive and surprising truths about hiring and outsourcing. Learning these "secrets" changed everything for me.
What you'll learn in the audio:
[1:33] Why almost everyone falls into the trap of "I'll start delegating and hiring later, when I have more time and resources and money" and why we don't see that this seemingly logical and sensible choice actually makes it much more difficult to grow our businesses.
[3:15] Most of us believe that we have to figure out a task first by doing it ourselves, creating a system and procedure and making sure it's solid AND THEN hire someone and have them just do the exact steps we laid out. For most tasks and projects, you don't need to do any of that! You can pay people to think. You can pay people to create systems for you. You can pay people to create procedures and processes for you and then do them too. And you can find these people for $25/hr or less!
[7:41] Why this common belief is DEAD WRONG 99.9% of the time: "There are a lot of things I have to do in my business that I just hate doing."
[9:28] A simple strategy that will radically decrease the amount of time, energy and effort you spend finding great people, at great prices, to do the stuff you hate doing (and shouldn't be doing).
[14:32] When you stop believing "ONLY I CAN DO THAT," you will discover something truly amazing, that you never thought could be true, and it will make you VERY HAPPY when you experience it for the first time!
[19:56] The secret, untapped market of millions of freelancers who are dismissed and passed over by most companies. They're smart, tech savvy, hard-working, ambitious, affordable and available.
[21:58] Why most people fail at hiring and outsourcing and never experience the incredible leverage it can bring to a small company (HINT: it's because our brain is naturally wired to make us give up too fast), and...
...[25:57] the unusual situation that forced me to learn the right mindset and the right method for making hiring and outsourcing really work, consistently.
[28:57] What you must do AFTER you find and hire great people, why almost no one does it, and 5 unusual, but highly effective ways to do it.
[40:45] ___ _____ ______ are the most powerful leverage point in your business, and your most valuable asset. (Almost no one gets this.)
[44:04] Why most of us need a hiring and outsourcing INTERVENTION to really understand that hiring and outsourcing is not something "I'll get to later, after I grow," it is exactly what we have to do in order to grow.
[48:25] How to give yourself permission to spend money on hiring and outsourcing. We share a back-of-the-envelope method to quickly calculate the return on investment you can get from hiring and outsourcing.
[54:30] What you are really doing to your business every time you decide to do work that is not the highest and best use of your time.
[59:42] Most of us know some hiring & outsourcing tactics, and you need the tactics, but you'll never use the tactics consistently, properly, and effectively until you have the right strategy and mindset.
