Why Hire Staff?

Why Hire Staff?

Hiring a team member for your business is an important decision, to say the least. When considering bringing someone on board, consider the following:

1. Business growth - are you spending all of your time doing everything yourself? If your business is growing, you had better be able to handle it. Are your clients being served well? If they aren't, they will take their business somewhere else.

2. Positioning - are you putting enough time and effort into building relationships with your clients and bureaus?

3. Opportunity - are you missing opportunities like attending NSA meetings, creating or updating your web site, getting competitive bids with vendors? Do you have personal life?

4. Money - do you have time to invoice clients?

5. Guilt - are you constantly feeling guilty about the time you spend on your business? Does your life reflect things other than speaking?

6. Image - would you be better positioned in your market if you had staff? For example, if you speak on teambuilding but have no way to relate to your topic with a personal story, do you think your credibility factor may be a little low? Or, if your topic is customer service, but you lag in response time to customer requests, can this reflect a lack of integrity on your part?

Remember, if your business is growing, you had better grow with it. A viable business is one that is in constant "movement". Sometimes this can mean adding an employee in response to new needs.

Mike McKinley says "If we fail to change...we fail!"

Lois Creamer runs "Book More Business". She works one on one with professional speakers who want to get more clients by being well positioned in their markets and maximizing exposure. She is the author of "Working Smart, Not Hard". She can be reached at 314-822-8225 or Lois@bookmorebusiness.com. Her web site is http://www.bookmorebusiness.com 


Copyright (c) 1999 Lois Creamer.

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