However, I have been in your shoes. I’ll tell you what I did to start. When I first started, I went very slow with it.

Actually, when I first started, I didn’t pay anything. She first started out by bartering (which I happen know you personally love!)

She took care of posting some articles on various places and a couple other little things basically for free to me. I gave her a lot of free advertising from it.

As she took care of some little things for me, I was able to take care of some other things which of course increased my income. We worked that way slowly for a while until we skipped it up a notch.

Next she started taking care of one section of my advertising per advertiser. In other words, I would pay her $5 for every listing that came through my direct sales company directory.

Eventually, we came up with a per hour rate that worked for the two of us and I just used her as need with some things.

I can’t remember what it was but I didn’t have time to do it. It only took her a couple of hours to do it for me and I paid her. It was more on an “as needed” basis.

Anyway … basically what I’m saying here is if you have small things that need done that you’d like someone else to do, start out small.

As you get more things accomplished, your income is bound to increase. From there, you can work up until you’re where you want to be at outsourcing.

Remember – outsourcing can start with as small as hiring one person to write one article for you. Work it into your budget as needed as you make more money.

And you may be quite surprised – VA work can end up being not quite as expensive as you thought. You have do a little research and price comparing but often you’ll find very reasonable wahm to hire (which if I know you like I think I do, that’s the type of VA you would want to hire anyway.)

Pick one little task, look around and give it a try for one task – I bet you’re pleasantly surprised.

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