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How many of you are wearing all hats in your business, doing your own marketing, your own administrative tasks, etc.

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Danielle Keister, The Relief Virtual Assistance
Administrative Support Services for Business Consultants and PR Professionals | Founder, Virtual Assistance Chamber of Commerce

I do everything myself...but I like it that way,I`m such a control
freak I guess!

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Sarah Founder www.sarahsperfectgift.com Gift giving made easy

Here. Here.  I do have a PR consultant that runs our PR, but I do everything else.  My business partner still works full time so everything falls on my plate at this time, including the production of the product.  Lots of fun!

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Tammy Graham, Founder & CEO, True Genius Apparel Company: fitting your personality; www.mytruegenius.com. "You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

Do you have a game plan for when your business grows to the point that you can`t take care of everything yourself?

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Danielle Keister, The Relief Virtual Assistance
Administrative Support Services for Business Consultants and PR Professionals | Founder, Virtual Assistance Chamber of Commerce

Yes.  When we get to a level where we feel that we no longer can handle everything, we will outsource more than just the sewing of our materials, as we do right now.  We will outsource more of the production, and more of the admin. work; maybe hire some staff.  All depends on a lot of factors.

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Tammy Graham, Founder & CEO, True Genius Apparel Company: fitting your personality; www.mytruegenius.com. "You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

For everyone working in their own business......

I`d like to suggest a great read,  The E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber.  You can get through this book in 4-6 hours depending on your read speed.

We`re doing everything ourselves, simply because we can`t afford to do it some other way. The plan is to have enough from this bootstrapping to make a convincing loan or grant application, then have the product machined. From there, it`s a typical business process, and we`d outsource or hire for the basic tasks.

For now though, it`s pretty much fun doing it ALL. Yes, it gets tiring, nerve-wracking, and stressful, but It`s an Adventure! :-)

We do almost everything ourselves with the exception of our online marketing and some admin tasks.  For those we have hire a virtual assistant.

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~Kate / Allegro Accounting, Inc. / www.allegroaccounting.com / www.web-bookkeeper.com / Your one-stop shop for everything eBay/e-commerce accounting!

Right now, I`m doing everything myself but within a year or two, I think I will need a part-time secretary and outsource some of my work at elance.com so that I can concentrate on the the true money making activity in my business....marketing.

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This is a really interetesting topic and it`s great hearing everyone`s answers too.

I`m actually a Virtual Assistant, but my business partner and I do everything ourselves right now; however, I still hope to hire an assistant to the company someday.

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