4 Ways To Find Key People For Your Business
When you start a new business, you'll quickly discover that your progress often amounts to two steps forward and one back, though there are many days when the opposite is true.
This experience can be particularly frustrating, especially when the problem you're trying to solve seems as though it should be fairly easy to overcome.
Attempting to do it all yourself, usually for financial reasons, is an attractive and, to a certain extent, noble endeavor; but usually, it's quite impractical.
We'd all like to be experts in everything from product creation to marketing to accounting to web design; but all of these areas and many others have become so sophisticated that even if you could do all of them, you wouldn't have the time.
This is another way of saying that it's better to do what you do better than anyone else, and to obtain the expertise you need from someone else on a job by job basis.
Business networks are an especially good resource for this.
Feel free to "look over my shoulder" as I explain how I do this.
1.
Depending on the type of assistance I need, I usually start with my business coach.
After all, he has already faced these challenges and has a method in place that works.
Why should I reinvent the wheel? 2.
The next place I look is in my LinkedIn network.
With more than 3,000 first connections to choose from, the odds are that I'll find someone here.
But, that's not always the case.
Sometimes, I have to move onto a third source.
3.
Ecademy is my next port of call.
In fact, it was through one of their groups that I found someone who would code my web sites the way I wanted them for very reasonable money.
I've been using him off and on for a couple of years at least.
4.
Very occasionally, I'll use Twitter.
For me, this is an untapped source, only because I usually have identified someone by the time I get this far.
I belong to other networks, too; but most often their members consist largely of those who are already in the more established business networks.
When you need someone to solve a problem for you, however small, then tap into your business networks.
After all, that's one reason why you either asked them to join yours or became part of theirs.
This experience can be particularly frustrating, especially when the problem you're trying to solve seems as though it should be fairly easy to overcome.
Attempting to do it all yourself, usually for financial reasons, is an attractive and, to a certain extent, noble endeavor; but usually, it's quite impractical.
We'd all like to be experts in everything from product creation to marketing to accounting to web design; but all of these areas and many others have become so sophisticated that even if you could do all of them, you wouldn't have the time.
This is another way of saying that it's better to do what you do better than anyone else, and to obtain the expertise you need from someone else on a job by job basis.
Business networks are an especially good resource for this.
Feel free to "look over my shoulder" as I explain how I do this.
1.
Depending on the type of assistance I need, I usually start with my business coach.
After all, he has already faced these challenges and has a method in place that works.
Why should I reinvent the wheel? 2.
The next place I look is in my LinkedIn network.
With more than 3,000 first connections to choose from, the odds are that I'll find someone here.
But, that's not always the case.
Sometimes, I have to move onto a third source.
3.
Ecademy is my next port of call.
In fact, it was through one of their groups that I found someone who would code my web sites the way I wanted them for very reasonable money.
I've been using him off and on for a couple of years at least.
4.
Very occasionally, I'll use Twitter.
For me, this is an untapped source, only because I usually have identified someone by the time I get this far.
I belong to other networks, too; but most often their members consist largely of those who are already in the more established business networks.
When you need someone to solve a problem for you, however small, then tap into your business networks.
After all, that's one reason why you either asked them to join yours or became part of theirs.
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