Reinvesting

Pay people to:

- make more content

- find more keywords

- build more links

- write more auto-responder messages

- build back end products

- create videos

- and anything that holds you up during the day... The key is (at least in my mind) that you should be the project manager and everyone else should be doing all of the grunt work.

exactly what Sean Ski said, invest in people or nothing can ever progress.

I've no objection to outsourcing, but I'm a great believer in productivity software (Incansoft's Traffic Mania bots, for example) and I'll almost always look for a software solution first. There are undoubtedly times when there's no substitute for a human, but by off-loading as much as possible onto software, I've usually got plenty of time to be the human in question.

With the help of the relevant software, I find it's generally more reliable to teach my computer how to do do something in the way I would and let it get on with it, rather than outsource to someone who probably won't care as much about the final outcome as I do. Although it's not something that's the deciding factor for me, one advantage of productivity software is that it's often a one-time cost, as opposed to the cost of outsourcing which is on-going.

You have to decide for yourself, really. If you're bad/too slow at something that requires human involvement or just don't enjoy it (e.g. article writing) it makes sense to outsource it to someone with a better handle on it all as soon as you can afford to. However, if such things aren't a problem then you can devote more time to these or life in general by investing in software so that your computer can do the more mundane things that would otherwise take up a large chunk of your day.

Invest to duplicate the processes that work by outsourcing, softwares or building systems.

This creates more work with less time by you.