Control Freaks!

It must be human nature to be control freaks because we all like to do it ourselves. We think it is cheaper because our time is some how free, we can do it better or faster than paying someone else. Maybe we are right, it is better to change the light yourself than it is to pay someone else to do it, but people take this to far in business when they fail to adjust their stance to allow the business to grow from a small one man operation to a real business.

Case in point: I do real estate along with tech and many other things, and fortunately I am a heavy user of Supply Chain Management. In layman's terms, I have a team of subcontractors that are non-employees that run my business. Because of this I do not run a vertical business, its completely horizontal.

The real estate agent finds the renters, as well as finds new rental deals by using an excel I gave them to help judge a property for rental investing.

The contractors put in proposals and fix/rehab the properties as needed based on that same excel the agent has.

The Agent also takes any calls about problems and passes them to me or the contractor to be addressed and fixed.

My day starts off with a quick 5 minute call with the agent, and a once or twice a week call with the contractor. I will pop my head into one of the units when we go to buy them, or I just have nothing to do. I used my books and other reports to tell me if everyone is hitting their numbers. Thus I'm managing my supply chain in real estate, and have free time to go hiking, play golf, whatever...

On the other hand: I have a good friend that runs real estate as I do, however with one thing being changed. He does it all himself.

He hunts his own deals, he gets his own rentals, and he does his own construction/maintenance.

What is interesting is that he spends less or the same amount I do in the end doing all the work, however he still makes far less money as he is unable to keep up with the pure speed at which a managed team can perform the task.

As a internet marketer you should think the same way. You can not spend your entire life being a vertical company doing everything. Pay a service to submit your articles, hire someone else to build a template, setup a site/domain, write some content (Not saying the entire thing, just some peace, page or bit). You get the idea. When people work in teams you can build better products, work less, and make more money as you learn to master this skill set.

When I first started using this I only worked online. At first I would farm-out small items that I did not want to spend the time on, or I knew it would take longer to learn how to do compared to paying someone. As time moved on I learned that I could replicate my success to infinity if I just got myself out of my own way.

So the next time you think that doing it yourself will product better, cheaper, faster results, give it a 2nd thought.

Additionally if the people you hire to do things, do not product the results you wanted or expected, it normally is not their fault. It is yours because you failed to clearly tell them what you wanted.