How to build up your business team

Why Should You Delegate Responsibilities in Your Business? The one man band strategy might be a great way to save money at first, but it’s not the smartest way to grow your business and will not lead to success in the long run. If you are at a point in your business where you want to start assigning and outsourcing tasks to others, here are 15 things that you can delegate

• Social Media Marketing – Management of your social media pages and platforms (Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram)

• Web Design and Development – via The Business Minder (Yes, that’s right, I am now helping business owners to build websites for their businesses).

• Marketing - Social media marketing, internet marketing, offline marketing

• Promotional and Advertisement Material Designs – Creating business cards, stationery, logo, brochures, door hangers, etc

• Customer Service - Resolving customer complaints, handling issues, giving information on product and service inquiries

• Bookkeeping – Maintaining your company’s financial records and preparing financial records

• Computer Support - Repairing your computer systems,maintaining your systems

• Market Research – Target market research , demographics, scoping out the competition, trends in your industry

• Social Media Profile Designs – Creating designs for your Twitter, Facebook and other social media profiles

• Accounting - Tax preparation, analyzing financial statements

• Administrative Tasks – Making phone calls to customers, scheduling appointments, managing your calendar

• Data Entry – Entering customer information into your CRM’s and databases

• Lead Generation – Creating free educational guides and whitepapers, press releases, eBook creation

• Travel Arrangements - Flight reservations,hotel reservations

• Email Management – Checking your email, managing your inbox, sorting email

A Few Tips for Delegating Tasks

• Give a trial task or project to candidates before you hire and assign bigger projects to them

• Create detailed job descriptions for the tasks that you want to delegate and outsource

• After selecting the right candidate for your project, communicate with them frequently. A mistake that is easily made in the beginning phases of delegating and outsourcing tasks is that managers do not communicate enough with new staff. When you hire someone to work with your business, checking in with them frequently will help avoid any confusion with your assignment and ensure that your tasks are completed on time.

The Business Minder is a business consultant and management service and operates in SE Asia with clients in Bali, Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia.