A short YouTube monologue (by Mark Evans DM, uploaded Aug 27, 2023) advising that the first hire should be an assistant. The speaker argues everyone should hire an assistant to outsource daily tasks, regain time, and improve efficiency—calling the assistant the simplest first hire because they remove routine work from your plate and make delegation straightforward.
First hire was an assistant. Everyone should have one. Outsource everything. Absolutely. But you got to start somewhere. Start with the assistant. It works. You're buying a lot of time back. The reason I always say the assistant first is because the assistant is the simplest person to hire. Why? Because they're literally taking stuff off of your plate that you're doing every single day. If you can't hand off stuff that you're doing every single day, you can't share vision, you can't share problems. Like, it's so easy.
