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It’s Melissa Ingold from TimeFreedomBusiness.com. What do you do when outsourcing doesn’t
get you results? Most people quit. What I hear from a lot of
people is that when it comes to outsourcing specifically is that a lot of people tend
to say, “I had a bad experience, it didn’t go very good. I’ve given up, I don’t outsource
anymore. It’s too much work. It’s too much time.” There’s just excuse after
excuse for why they haven’t done it. My advice to you is that you have to give
it time. That is the most important thing, you have to give it a chance to work out.
In the beginning you’re going to have to get used to the way that your assistant or
your team works together and how you communicate, you’ll have to get all the little kinks
and stuff out of your systems and really narrowing down on the things that need to be done. If
you don’t give it enough time, then you’re probably going to feel like you had a bad
experience, that you didn’t get what you wanted.
That’s not to say that there aren’t a lot of people who really do have bad experiences
outsourcing. I’ve had a lot of my own bad experiences with outsourcing, but I definitely
wouldn’t quit and give it up – and I didn’t, even back when I was first getting started.
I’ve run into a lot of crazy situations when it comes to outsourcing, but at the end
of the day it is worth the work and the time that it takes to really create a great relationship
with your assistant and building a team. It’s going to benefit you in the long run,
even if it takes a little extra work now and it kind of seems like a hassle because you
have to train people and get everyone used to it. Sometimes it does seem a little bit
easier just to do the work yourself. But you have to stick with it, because it’s going
to benefit you down the road when you suddenly have more free time to be creating those trainings
and products, going to those events, or just saying yes when you get invited out for dinner
with friends or to a movie, or being able to leave your office during the day to show
up at your kid’s school for a special event they’re doing, just having that free time
or being able to walk away from your business for a week or two and going on vacation with
your family without dragging your laptop with you and having to be on your phone all the
time working. That is not what you signed up for, I know
it’s not. You did not sign up for a business that keeps you tied to your desk and working
hour after hour. I know that’s what you signed up for. The only way you are going
to create a business that you really want and get the time freedom that I know you crave,
because who wants to be in their office all the time. What’s going to get you there
is having team – people who support you and help you move the business forward.
All I can say is if you’re not getting the results you kind of expected from outsourcing
or that you really want, my advice is don’t give up. Give it time to work.
Now, of course I don’t want you to keep working with people that just aren’t working
out. That’s not what I mean. You need to let those people go, move on and try it again,
and try it again. I’m telling you, it will pay off. Some people get lucky and they find
the perfect person or team right off the bat. Other people it takes time. Also, your needs
change. Sometimes the people you’re working with decide they want to do different things
and you move on, that’s just the way it goes. But do not give up. Give it enough time
to really start working. If you give up after a couple of months because
it doesn’t seem to be working, stick with it. Please, stick with it and give it some
more time. If you really want to make sure that your
assistant is doing all of the really great things that will benefit your business and
grow your business to help you make money, which is what your team should be working
on, they should be doing things that are going to be helping you make money. Not everything
they do is going to make you money directly, but it will help you grow your business. I
want you to go and check out my Train Your VA to Make Money for You program. It has tons
of videos that will help you train your VA. Basically you take those videos, you give
them to your assistant, and they will know exactly what you want and what to do to help
you make money. I’m not going to go into all the details here, just click the link
below this video to go over and check the page, there’s a video there and you’ll
get all the information that you need. I’m giving you permission to take the videos I’ve
personally created and you can give those to your assistant so they can do the great
things, no back and forth in an email trying to explain what you want or just thinking
up things to assign or anything like that. Again, give outsourcing time. That’s the
biggest thing that I can say about this if you feel like outsourcing isn’t getting
you the results that you want. Thank you for stopping by. I’ll see you
next time.