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Building the right team for your business will speed up your success and boost your income. It’s one of the best business investments you can make. In this series of posts we talk about the kind of team members that you need to find to keep your business growing.

One of the great things about Internet business you can start a business on your own even with a limited budget. But eventually you’ll find out that running the business by yourself will hold you back. There’s just too much to do.

No Entrepreneur is an Island

One of the most important things I learned as musician is that no artist is an island. I created my best work when I worked with other musicians to write the songs.

The same lesson is true for entrepreneurs. You can’t do it by yourself forever. There are too many hats to wear. If you try to wear them all at the same time, you’ll go crazy.

As time goes on, you need to spend your time doing the things that you are best at and letting others do the rest. This requires building a team.
This doesn’t mean hiring employees. The team we’ve assembled for Internet Business Mastery is made up of freelancers from all around the world. Most of them we have never met in person.

Here’s a list of the members of our team, what they do for us and how we found each.

Virtual Assistant

Our full-time virtual assistant does a number of general tasks for us including:

• Research
• Customer service
• Link-building
• Editing videos
• Posting content to the blog, You Tube, etc.
• Posting articles to article directories
• Basic editing of WordPress and web pages
• Data Entry
• Anything else we can think of and train her in

She lives in the Philippines. We pay her $380 a month — a good salary for her position in the Philippines. She works for us 40 hours a week.

We found her using the resume searches provided with John Jonas’ Replace Myself site (affiliate link). A number of Internet Business Mastery listeners have used that same site to find their own virtual assistants.

Audio Editing

Since we produce a lot of audio content, it’s nice to be able to record the content, upload it and have it taken care of by someone else after that. We found our audio editor through a referral from another podcaster. We pay about $25 per hour.

Bookkeeper

This is a great task to outsource as early as possible. It’s a pain to do, often gets ignored and when you finally get around to doing it, you probably do it wrong anyway. Our bookkeeper was referred to us through a business colleague, Alice Seba.

Our bookkeeper is worth every penny. It’s such a relief just to know that every month things are up to date and we will have an accurate report of our finances. We spend about $100 a month on this service.

To Be Continued…

In the next post we’ll continue listing the members of our team.

What has your experience been with hiring a virtual assistant and bookkeeper. Please share your ideas for questions in the comments below.

This post is in: Automating, Streamlining and Outsourcing

Tags: Freelancers, Team, virtual assistants