How to start outsourcing - with Tega Diegbe

Team members. I would have done everything myself, right? I would have done everything myself. So what Alan's method is is for you to make a note of everything that you do for a period of about seven to 14 days. And in those seven to 14 days, you grade things according to how essential it is. Essential being this task brings money into the business, or this task is one or two notches away from bringing money into the business. And then the other grades are, this task does not bring money into the business. And for fun, you can say, I really hate doing this task, and it doesn't bring money into the business. Right from the jump, if you see a whole bunch of tasks going in that last column, which is, I really hate this task, and it doesn't bring money into the business, that would be where you actually want to look to start outsourcing things, in my opinion. But before you go ahead and outsource or bring anybody on board you, you need to make sure that your. You need to make sure that your SOPs are all on cue. When I say SOPs, that's just standard operating procedures. And back at the start, whenever you asked me what's the number one mistake people make, I said they treat their business like a hobby and not like a business. If you go to any McDonald's in the world, I'll use McDonald's, because everybody knows McDonald's. You can say with nine out of 10 certainty that what you get in one country is what you're gonna get in another. And the reason that is is because of sop, the fries are cooked a certain way. The fries are cooked for exactly the same length of time. They use the same kind of fries. Some may argue that's bad environment because the type of potatoes that they use for the fries are quite difficult to produce. So they use the same kind of potatoes the world over. Burger buns are toasted the same way. The burger pops are toasted the same way. Everything is. It's almost like everything is built on. Like a. On a production line. What you want to do is you want to look at how you can actually start building that production line for your own business. So rather than thinking, I'm gonna get Sallie Mae over here, who's a virtual assistant to help me do my social media. You need to think, what do I need to do on social media? And when you say, what do I need to do on social media? That's how many times do I post? How do I create my social media images? How do I create my social media captions? Where Do I find images if I haven't got images, am I doing video? Where am I finding music for my video? Am I using stock footage for my video? So when you answer all those questions and you have that documented, when you then find Sallie Mae who has to do your social media management, it's easier for you to then give that task to Sally and make Sally responsible for doing your social media as opposed to if the SOP wasn't there.

What are you doing then, Taega, to help hospitality owners or just business owners? Anybody that's tuning into this, what are you doing? What have you seen a gap in the market and what have you created and what are you doing to help sort of match tasks to potential virtual team members?

The biggest opportunity point that I see right now is so cheap. And with most businesses going online right now, there's no reason why you cannot hire, for lack of a better term, like a number two or a number three who's just one removed from your number two and have them do the things that you don't want to do. So we're using the term outsourcing a lot. I prefer to call it delegation because when you delegate things in the business, you maintain responsibility for it, but you don't have the need to be the one actually doing the grant.

I've realized that I need help. I really want to go about delegating and finding a virtual team member. Do you have a website? Is there anywhere that people can go where they can find out more? Obviously we're going to have a talk about a link or a blog post, but where's the best place for people to go to to find out more about you and what the work that will be?

My website, simply my first name and my last name, takeadiegbe.com if you can't spell that, Mark is gonna be nice enough to put this in the show notes, I assume. Yeah. So that will be the best place to. That would be the best place to go. I mean, right now on the website, there is a blog post which I put out, which breaks down my entire process, actually how I hire people. The next post that I'm working on is how to manage people virtually. Because whenever people talk about outsourcing, they tend to sell you the sizzle in the sense that when you outsource, you free up your time. When you outsource, there's going to be people working for you for like between $2 and $4 an hour. When you outsource, you're going to have the freedom to actually live the life you want to live whenever you started your business. But what they don't talk about is how do you manage the people that you've just brought on? So with what I'm doing and the content I'm going to be putting out, it will be mostly to answer those questions. As I said, the first one is how to find someone reliable. Because that's the process that I use, from deciding who I want to hire to actually put in a job post out, to interviewing the person to getting the person on board as part of my team.