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Originally Posted by deltav
What Ja$on said about upscaling and delegating I think is good stuff, and is what separates those of us who are narrowly focused and therefore vulnerable from those who've got a bunch of diverse income streams. I actually struggle with that some in my online projects, being a one-man operation. In my mainstream offline ventures I have no problem subcontracting work out left & right, but haven't yet built a comfort zone for doing it in adult...
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I'm in the same boat, essentially being a "one man show". But I figured out how to use ODesk and outsourced labor for the 'heavy lifting' (editing, uploading) that was taking up 70% of my daily time.
It took a few weeks to tweak the operation and get the employees working the way I wanted them to but now it's fairly smooth. I was looking at my weekly payroll last week and thought: "Well, I could lay off about 5 people here and save a few hundred a week..." but then I thought about how little time I have now, juggling so many programs, sites and projects. I could never go back to that kind of grind. So the few hundred I'm paying the employees, while it looks like a lot especially during a slow sales week, the alternative is no life at all, 16 hour days, 7 days a week.
Try ODesk for some basic tasks, to start. We're talking maybe $80 a week for a full-time employee.
Good luck man!!