There is no better feeling than having someone else turn all your great ideas into reality.
Want to hold a teleseminar? Great, we’ll take care of it! Want to launch a new article submission or media campaign? No problem! How about holding a 72-hour coaching product sale? Done!
Is that too good to be true? Not at all – with your very own virtual team. Just hire people who specialize in what you need, and you’ll be able to create the ultimate lifestyle business. Perhaps it’s not as simple as it seems…or is it?
Hiring someone to work for you requires several mind shifts, especially if you run your coaching business from home or if you’ve never had anyone work for you when you had a job.
- First of all, why would you hire someone else to do what you are perfectly able to do yourself?
- Second, isn’t it expensive to hire someone who will do a good job, especially if you’re not even making that much money yourself?
- Finally, isn’t going to take a long time to train them or explain what you want done, and isn’t it easier just to do it yourself?
These are just some of the questions going through your mind if you’ve never hired anyone before. I hired my first person when I realized that if I have to submit one more article or design one more web site, I am going to kill myself. Ok, perhaps too extreme. But these are the things I absolutely dreaded and was thrilled to discover that someone else could do it for me!
So, how do you know if you’re ready to hire someone?
Here’s my quick checklist of questions you’ll want to answer:
- Do you know exactly what you’ll be delegating or outsourcing?
- Can you easily make the connection from the outsourced job to increased bottom line?
- Do you know exactly why you want to hire someone?
- Do you understand that someone else can do your job faster and better?
- Have you determined the qualities and skills of the ideal person you’d like to hire?
- Can you clearly communicate your ideas and desired outcomes?
- Do you have a clear vision for your business?
You may also design how you want your ultimate team to look like in 1-2 years. What may help you get clear is creating your roles first. Here’s my mindmap of the roles I’d like to fill in my company within 12-18 months, most of which I already have in place:
This doesn’t mean I am going to have 14 people working for me all year long full time. It simply means that I’d like to have a pool of 14 different skills and talents to tap into on an as-needed basis. Only 5-7 people would be working with me regularly.
And you don’t have to hire them all at once – in fact, that would be insanity! 
After hiring my first team member 6 years ago, I realized how much energy and excitement I felt once again! That’s when it hit me – while all my administrative work was getting done, I could actually set up new marketing channels and create new income streams. My creativity went through the roof and I was on fire! My lifestyle was transformed and I was in love with my business once again.
Have you ever felt like that? Are you still struggling being the chief, cook, and bottle-washer?
I understand. It’s not an easy decision to start paying someone out of your hard-earned money. Sometimes it takes a bit of hand-holding, coaching, and guidance to hire your first person. And that’s exactly what we’ll be doing at the Coaching Millions Super Summit this year. Here is what you will learn:
How to Create Your Own Virtual Team in 30 Days
- The 10 reasons entrepreneurs don’t hire a virtual team and how to easily overcome them
- Specific jobs and tasks to delegate to your team
- What your “Starter Team” should look like and how to grow it over time
- How to create and manage your team without consuming lots of your time and energy
- Where to find highly professional talented team members at $5-$10 an hour, yes even in North America!
- How to evaluate new team members before you hire them
- Steps to take to create a trust-based relationship with your team members
- Live step-by-step demonstration of creating a job description, posting it online, receiving dozens of resumes, and selecting the right candidates for your virtual team!
Every successful entrepreneur figured out how to hire people who can do the work for them, and make their business run smoothly and grow faster. It’s hard to grow your vision on your own, and there will always be a limit to how much you can do.
Come to the Coaching Millions Super Summit and join us for this Bonus “Build Your Virtual Team in 30 Days” session on Saturday, where you’ll walk away with everything you need to create your own virtual team.
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Great article Milana:
A few months ago, I decided to not become an expert in things like SEO, web design, copywriting, and shopping carts. I’ve created a team of experts who help me with these activities.
Now I have more time to devote to doing what I do best, creating interesting, compelling content and working with my coaching clients, helping them achieve the career and life success they want and deserve.
I’m happier now, and I do a better job of doing what I do best — not trying to learn things that others will always be able to do better than me.
Thanks for writing and sharing this great article.
Bud Bilanich
The Common Sense Guy
http://budbilanich.com/success.html
Love the mind-map and especially, the “personal” assistant.
Some of them are essential year-round!:)
This is good stuff, Milana!
Reading this makes me “oh so excited”!
In my last business, which I sold in 2007, I struggled for the first 6 years doing EVERYTHING by myself. Then, my husband joined me and he was an amazing sales person and our revenue doubled every year for the first 4 years – during that time all that increased business nearly did me in because I was still doing everything myself.
I finally listened to the advice of a mentor who said, “Get some help!” When I added a team our business became a million dollar business – and I had the freedom to enjoy not only my business but my life.
What a difference this makes – and yes, everything I outsource I can do myself but not everything I can do myself is profitable. My mentor told me to spend my energy on only the things that will earn me the highest income and let someone else do the rest.
This was the best business advice I have ever received.
The above is a beautiful blueprint for Virtual Team Building. Thank you.
Wow awesome feedback, guys! Melody, your post reminded me that there are 2 more people I’d love to have in my back pocket: a sales person (aka “enrollment specialist”) and an event co-ordinator (which I am very lucky to have found 2 years ago!)
Hi Milana and others who are sparked by this notion of building your team! I sat in the “I will wait until I have higher revenue to hire a team member” and was doing everything myself. Then I had the light bulb moment – “perhaps I will have more revenue if I hire a team member”! That being said, I was strategic with building my team and added people that I felt would help me impact the revenue/bottom line of my business. I have a wish list for future growth as I am new to creating a team – my mind map is currently small – me, web designer/maintenance, virtual assistant – tasked with social media marketing, affiliate research, and admin tasks that are now off my “to do list”, while I focus on serving my coaching clients, creating programs/products aimed to inform and inspire my target market (busy professional woman who want time for themselves – their health, passions, self-care, self-discovery, clarity, balance, etc. in the midst of it all). There is lots to learn about expanding and being smart about growing a team – Milana, thanks for so openly sharing your inspired blueprint. You are truly raising the bar helping us coaches become skillful and wise business people as well. Thank you, Lynda http://www.creativewellnessworks.com
“added people that I felt would help me impact the revenue/bottom line of my business” – that’s key at the start of your team building adventure. Thank you for sharing that Lynda!
Thank you very much for the informationon virtual team for coaches and entrepreneurs. This information was just what I was seeking. Please Feel Free to send me whatever information you have available. One day in the near future I will send you some words of wisdom. God Bless.
Milana,
Am I reading this right?
“Where to find highly professional talented team members at $5-$10 an hour, yes even in North America!”
Can you share?
Yes! Amazingly there are people who’ll do the work for very low pay because it works for THEM. I have a Ph.D. writing all my stuff for me at $12 an hour! There are many sites out there, you just want to craft the right ad and know how to select the right candidate
Ali, you simply MUST come to the Coaching Millions Super Summit – if nothing else, then may be THIS will be compelling enough reason for you to be there?
Speaking of people that impact botton line success, not just a cleaning person, but a professional, fulltime housekeeper having a love affair with groceries and laundry, should be included in every business plan. It gives added definition to the word “success”
My lifestyle/business plan takes me to the South of Spain at that time and thru December; otherwise, I’d be there in a New York Minute!
Thanks for the very nice article. I am a copywriter myself, and work for a virtual team, and can relate perfectly to the figure you have drawn of the possible roles a virtual team member can play. In fact, a telecommuter can play just about any role a knowledge worker in an office does.
I recently created a video on the subject of day to day working in a virtual team you might want to look at – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na3Tao39sjg