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Ok. I've gotten to a point when I have a lot on my plate. I have a day job and I have a very busy freelance schedule, a schedule that's becoming harder and harder to maintain because I'm working a multiple "fronts".
Most of my clients come from SC of course but I also have a couple of long terms I'm doing business with for ages.
Problem is: I'm still getting new clients! Really, I'm getting overwhelmed. Thing is, I can't really outsource my services, for the most part, it has to be me, what I can outsource I'm already outsourcing.
I used to never refuse a client, I always accepted and figured out how to deliver later. Recently I was offered an administrator position as well as to re-design two old websites and switched them to Wordpress. This is a very serious local client that I know personally, really thinking to turn the guy down in the end.
What do you guys think? Should I just stop and focus on my current clients? Or should I accept everything that comes my way and figure out the problems later?
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Have you ever thought of hiring some employees to come on and help you out? If you continue on this route you will easily be able to pay them hourly and above minimum wage. In time you will be able to have a dedicated team to work on all the projects and you can mess around with research and development, which is super fun
Last year I had way too much work than I could handle and I had to bring someone on to do some work for me. I paid him $12 an hour which is pretty good since he didn't have a degree and no experience. I trained him how to do what I needed him to do and he took the initiative to to learn more than what I was teaching him. After every day he would have a good amount of knowledge from what I taught him and the next day he would be asking 100 questions about SEO and Marketing. I could definitely tell he was doing his homework and over achieving I told him it was a temporary position and he could stay on as long as there was work, but with SEO the client retention isn't great unless you have a contract, which we didn't for most clients.
You could also hire a cheap VA (Virtual Assistant) but they don't go to the extent that you would hope they would. You can get them to do basic data entry but that's about it Turning down clients is always bitter sweet. On one hand you have more time to focus on your current clients and you can do their jobs more efficient but on the other hand you are willingly turning down a paycheck because you don't have the time to work on it. Have you ever thought of hiring some employees to come on and help you out? If you continue on this route you will easily be able to pay them hourly and above minimum wage. In time you will be able to have a dedicated team to work on all the projects and you can mess around with research and development, which is super fun :D Last year I had way too much work than I could handle and I had to bring someone on to do some work for me. I paid him $12 an hour which is pretty good since he didn't have a degree and no experience. I trained him how to do what I needed him to do and he took the initiative to to learn more than what I was teaching him. After every day he would have a good amount of knowledge from what I taught him and the next day he would be asking 100 questions about SEO and Marketing. I could definitely tell he was doing his homework and over achieving :D I told him it was a temporary position and he could stay on as long as there was work, but with SEO the client retention isn't great unless you have a contract, which we didn't for most clients. You could also hire a cheap VA (Virtual Assistant) but they don't go to the extent that you would hope they would. You can get them to do basic data entry but that's about it :(
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