The Mindset
Have you ever been on a flight where the captain comes back to take your drink order? Have you ever seen a doctor take your insurance information and weigh you in before an appointment? Have you ever seen Keith Richards plug in his own guitar? Me neither… and there’s a great reason for that.
Delegating duties that allow you to stay in your King or Queen on a project makes everything better. From the way you feel to the energy you give the project, from the way it starts to the way it ends – the more you choose to stay in your zone of brilliance the faster, better, and more impactful your projects become.
The fact that you can do something is a terrible reason to do it. Your ability has nothing to do with whether or not you should be doing it. The litmus test for any task in a creative endeavor, in this world of abundant outsourcing possibilities, is this: Does this task require me to be completed?
If we insist on doing everything ourselves in an attempt to save time and money we are costing ourselves much more than we’re saving. Our time, energy, creativity, and capacity is a valuable and limited resource.
If we insist on learning to design, build, research, manage, and/or every other simple or complex part of our project it gets cold and dies on the vine.
Today we will look at the most valuable ways to keep you in the left seat of this project and let the crew do their parts. The value of a team is something that can inspire you to bring your A-game, while they bring theirs. The compounding growth of your project will feed your soul, capacity, and success.
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The Fast-Action
- Look at your timeline from yesterday
- Put a dollar value on your time when you are in full brilliance.
- What are the tasks leading to each milestone that slow you down?
- What are the steps you are ready to let go of?
- How hands-off can you be in the growth of this project
- Pick one task in this project, or in your business that you never want to touch again
- Commit to outsourcing it on a limited-time trial
Photo of the Day
Danno asked about my studio and here it is. I showed it at the beginning of today’s session. If you have any questions about this, please ask. All of us have the ability to have a broadcast quality studio to share our art, message, or movement. It’s not a big deal anymore. Everything I know I learned from these 2 crazy kids!
Chat Roll
00:00:24 sara kunz: Morning!
00:00:30 Kyle Gresham: morning
00:00:42 Sora Iriye: Hi! Good morning!
00:00:46 Kyle Gresham: ha!
00:01:09 Kyle Gresham: cool
00:01:30 Sora Iriye: Oh that’s awesome!
00:01:40 Colin Campbell: WOW
00:10:43 Danny Orleans: good morning. Here. I’ve been increasing my outsourcing. Have guy to edit videos ($24/2 hours of work) and another to tweak website. …… Barry is SO SO right about this. Outsourcing gets the job DONE. and DONE is what we want!
00:24:05 sara kunz: OK! putting book on my desk now :p
Resources
Here are some of my favorite outsourcers. If you have a need that they can’t meet, please ask me. I’ll add new people to this list as they are requested.
Video
Goran Andric – Serbia – He does just about anything you could need with video. I simply send him a link (Dropbox or Google Drive) and he does what I ask. He works best with screen capture videos although his English is really good. He can bring as much creativity to it as you wish, or just follow your vision. He’s done all our lessons for 30 Days Sugar Free, SBBP, and other client projects. $10/hr
VA Work
Emerson Francisco – Php – I started using Emerson through UpWork and he’s rock-solid. Research, image optimization for our websites, etc. Here’s his list from UpWork. You can hire him through UpWork or contact him directly.
✔ Data Entry – Microsoft Office Tools
✔ Video Editing/Camtasia
✔ Internet Research – Lead generation, Tables, Charts, Reports
✔ WordPress: Creating and editing posts. Using the Admin panel, Elementor, Divi themes
✔ SEO
✔ HTML/CSS – PSD to HTML for Mailchimp
✔ Social Media Management – Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Youtube
✔ Google Docs/Sheets/Slides
✔ Uploading products in Shopify store
✔ Order Fulfillment
✔ Aliexpress
Mayla Pable – Php – Mayla is a whiz at website stuff. She and her team redid over 300 recipes for our new site design and knocked it out in a day – at $2/each! She’s typically $5/hr and I’ve never had her say, “I can’t do that” to what I asked. Research, database, curating content, etc. You can hire her directly via email.
Website – Sam Wood is an extremely talented designer and programmer. He makes the entire experience a pure joy. I just finished a huge B2B project for one of my clients. He’s also done a couple major upgrades to my personal business sites. You can see samples of his work here.
Sites
UpWork – The entire gambit of outsoucers for anything you could need.
Hire My Mom – Have landed two of my best VAs from here. Partners for life.
Craigslist – So much local talent is available. Video, housework, anything that frees you up to stay in the genius and pleasure.
Fiverr – I get a lot of quick/dirty work done here. PDF layout, graphic ideas, research, voice overs, etc… it’s not alway the highest quality but if you know what you’re looking for you can get in and out pretty easily.
This is a big one for me! Every time I’ve outsourced it’s been fantastic (book cover, artwork, website stuff), but sometimes it just seems harder to explain the job than to do that job!
REALLY jealous of that studio. It helps, of course, that you run it all so smoothly and make a Zoom session feel like network TV.
Hopefully, you use screen capture to explain to outsourcers. I don’t write that stuff anymore. Thanks for the comparison to Network TV. It’s really fun to run it. My production manager is my left hand. (It’ll make more sense when I do the walk-through).
Q: I can’t tell what your main camera is, but it doesn’t look like a little webcam. What do you use to make the camera talk to the computer/internet? Is there some converter or interface that does that magic?
I use a chicken bone…
Hey I’ll do a walk-through as a bonus for this group. There are a lot of moving parts but it’s easy once it’s set up.