Lauren BatemanGuitar Teacher; Founder of the 7 Level Guitar System

When to hire your first employee #shorts

22 Nov 2023 · 1 min

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A short YouTube clip by Lauren Bateman advising entrepreneurs that if they're asking when to hire their first employee, they are likely ready. She emphasizes delegation—hiring even a part-time virtual assistant (10–12 hrs/week) or outsourcing tasks like video editing frees the founder to create content and grow their audience. She shares that her first hire was a video editor who saved ~20 hours/week and allowed her to focus on content and subscriber growth.

Questions this video answers

November 22, 2023.

About 10–12 hours per week.

A video editor.

About 20 hours per week.

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When's the perfect time to hire the first employee in your business? Well, if you are considering this, or even asking yourself the question, you're probably ready. I find most entrepreneurs wait too late, okay, to hire their first employee. And delegation is so key. Even if it's a virtual assistant that you hire for 10 or 12 hours a week to do mundane tasks like answering emails, it'll free up a lot of your time to focus more on your content, your courses, whatever you're working on. My first hire in my online business was my video editor. It was not something I excelled at, and it wasted a lot of my time. And just by outsourcing that 20 hours a week, I was able to focus more on making content that reached my audience and grew my subscribership versus wasting time editing and playing with fonts.