Looking for help - management

Where does the time go? Billable time. As a consultant, your attempt may be doing reasonably well; you're charging $100-150 an hour. As an autonomous consultant, you're almost certainly also doing the lot from grinding the chocolate to control the umpteenth draft of your brochure.

To absorb where you spend your time, list and catalog all your actions into clerical, authority and other apt groups. Assess how many hours you're spending on each-daily, weekly, monthly, annually. Some you enjoy, some you're really good at, some are a pain in the neck The point is, no one is paying you to do them. The more time you spend on client work, the more you bill. The more you bill, the more money you have existing to pay a big shot else to take care of the stuff you'd fairly not do or ought to not be doing yourself.

The time you spend on unbillable tasks makes you a very exclusive bookkeeping worker. Keeping the cash to manually sounds good, until you certainly think about it. You wouldn't pay a escritoire $150 an hour, but that's correctly what you're paying yourself. Your time is constructive and be supposed to be spent earning money or on tricks that grow your commerce like marketing or artifact development. The rest is just overhead-costly overhead. Can you give not to hire someone?

And, it's not just the on-going office and administrative stuff you can be helped with. Many of our own clients come only after having spent hundreds of hours demanding to build their own marketing materials.

Entrepreneurs brightly resist charitable up any responsibility. You know the refrain, "If it's going to be done right, I've got to do it myself. " They struggle endlessly with business plans, and analogous behavior unrelated to their field of expertise.

You may definitely ask, who better? The counter is, your certified colleagues. They may allegation the same hourly fee, but the job is done in much less time and they bring neutrality and fresh ideas.

This is not only less costly in the long run, but these effects will also be done better. The repercussions of doing a deficient job on your affair plan, marketing materials, accounting, etc. can be severe.

Certainly, keep an eye on things; but don't spend more time than you must. Leave the grunt work to others. Hiring priestly and certified help is practical, and necessary-if you want to squeeze the most out of your practice.

Keith Thirgood, Creative Director, Editor Thrive-on-Line http://www. capstonecomm. com Capstone Data lines Group Selection businesses get more business all through innovative marketing Markham, Ontario, Canada 905-472-2330 Subscribe to Thrive-on-line http://list. capstonecomm. com/mail. cgi?f=list&l=thrive_on_line