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"Small Business Multi Tasking Blues" -- Any and All advice is welcome!

Where do small business owners find the time?? As I sit here with 15 client jobs to publish, and over 50 listings to post into Social Media portals for clients, I'm answering phones and taking orders for more. Multi-tasking is killing me!

Now that I've done this for over 4 years, I'm finally realizing that I can no longer do it all on my own. I know that I need to hire some help, but it's so hard to release the reigns to someone else in fear that quality may suffer, even if only for awhile until the person(s) I train can produce the same results.

Of course when I started this business, I thought that if we just opened shop and put our information out there, people would be knocking our door down. Fortunately for us, it has been a very steady increase of traffic that has been easily managed. It was nice to get our feet wet prior to getting where we are, but with more business comes many more fears and issues to overcome.

Some of the questions that frequent my mind are:

  • Can I afford to hire someone and lose the income that I would have been making by doing it by myself?
  • If I hire a professional, they may be reluctant to learn my company process'.
  • If I hire an intern or assistant, they may not be with me for long and I'll waste time training.
  • What if we have a complaint, and get some bad press?
  • What if I train them too good? They could become my competition!
  • Employment tax looks like it may be another headache! Where do I even start?
  • Do I need an accountant?

There are other thoughts that cross my mind as well, but these seem to be at the forefront. I truly enjoy what I do, however there are times when I look back in time and try to remember when it was actually possible to take a vacation and times were a little less "on the move".

Any advice would be helpful, as I don't want to jump in to this without knowing more about what may happen depending on the decisions that are made.

Thanks and Happy Days!

Posted Tuesday Aug 31