What Every Business Owner Can Learn from My 7 Year Old Son

By Jason Swenk on September 26, 2013

how to outsourceDo you have trouble letting go and outsourcing work?Today was pretty cool when I saw my 7 year old son outsourcing his chores to his 3 year old brother. I asked him what he was doing and why his brother was doing all the work. He said, “Daddy, I’m going to pay him to do my chores.” I asked him how much and he said “$1.”

I found that pretty interesting because we pay him $7! 🙂 My son figured out how to outsource. I then asked him why he wanted to do that and he simply replied, “Because I’d rather watch ‘Sponge Bob Square Pants’ than do the dishes and clean up.”

The morale of the story is that my 7 year old realizes his time is valuable and better spent doing other things and that he can have someone else do the small stuff.

What Can You Learn from Outsourcing Work?

I think every business owner needs to look at everything they do all day and come up with their list of small stuff that they can hand off or outsource because their time is better spent communicating the vision and running the company.

Would you like an easy way to decide what activities are your highest impact and which are your lowest and can be put off until last? You’re in luck… I’ve written an entire post about productivity here and you can even download my Product Funnel for FREE.

Become a Better Digital Agency Owner

When you start outsourcing work to your team, it will allow you to work smarter and focus on growing your agency as well as other agency problems you are either ignoring or aren’t even aware of that needs your attention. This is where I can come in and provide you support.

In all my years, I have more than likely experienced all if not most of the different struggles you have and can help you from what I have learned. From what to do with your bad agency clients, how to develop agency products and how you can build authority for your agency.

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As well as this, you can learn more about my career as well as tips, tricks and insights by checking out my blogs that cover a wide variety of topics.

I also hear the experience and advice from other successful agency experts in my Ask Swenk series and more of my videos on my Youtube channel.

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