Once Upon A Time there was another young entrepreneur – this one slightly wiser in years and experience than our first, but still with much to learn in the ways of the Outsource.
Said this young entrepreneur, “My inbox has topped 80,000 unread messages! My Facebook page is out of hand! I need help, and quickly, to remain afloat in this wave of work!”
So she paid an agency a pretty penny to screen and interview VAs for her, thus avoiding the trap in which our first young entrepreneur became entangled. And she was quite pleased with the VA they found. “She’s experienced, she’s cheap, and she worked for Dora Toader,” the young entrepreneur thought. “What could possibly go wrong?”
Our intrepid duo charged forward, with the young entrepreneur attempting to explain the intricacies of an inbox receiving everything from client communiques to Mary Jay makeup newsletters. What should be deleted? What needed unsubscribing? What needed immediate attention? The questions were endless, and both the young entrepreneur and the VA soon became frustrated.
There must be a better way, the young entrepreneur thought, and she switched the VA to working on backlinks and article rewrites. But the VA was industrious and soon blew through the work in, and the young VA was at a loss to come up with enough to keep going. Finally, with a heavy heart and a lamentation at the waste of money, she let the VA go and corralled her mother into helping her weedwhack her inbox down to something more manageable.
Now older and wiser for her experience, the young entrepreneur swore to prepare extensively before she hired another VA – and to wait until she had at least 80 hours of outsorceable work per week to do so.
Interested in outsourcing but afraid of becoming a horror story? Learn the path to the land of outsourcing next Friday in Kirsten’s class 5 1/2 Tasks You Can Outsource For Under $100 That Will Save You At Least 10 Hours/Month.
Entrepreneurs are bound to make mistakes. Not only are entrepreneurs often risk takers, they are decision makers who act on plans, instincts, and sometimes just act on impulse. As an accomplished failpreneur, I will focus on some of the most common mistakes made by young entrepreneurs.
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