Struggling to figure out whether you should handle tech yourself or hire someone else? 🤔 In this episode of The YouCan Podcast, we’re tackling one of the biggest decisions business owners face when it comes to technology and automation.You’ll learn: ✅ When it’s smarter to DIY your tech and when to outsource ✅ The key questions to ask yourself before diving into a new tool or platform ✅ How to avoid wasting hours (or even days) on tech that an expert could solve in an hour ✅ What to look for when hiring a tech expert or freelancer to avoid costly mistakes ✅ Why up-skilling yourself (even just a little) helps you make better decisions and avoid being taken advantage ofTech overwhelm is real—but you don’t have to figure it all out alone. Whether you’re setting up a CRM, automating your sales funnel, or improving your website, this episode will help you make smart, strategic decisions that save you time and money.🎧 Tune in now to master the art of balancing DIY and outsourcing for business tech success!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/you-can-inspiring-women-in-business/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
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Hello and welcome to the You Can Podcast. I'm your host, Sarah Jolly Jarvis, and we are on episode 33. How has that happened already? Well, I've been talking over the last couple of weeks around automation and tech and when to use it, when not to use it, the value it brings, how it can free up time, how you want to be using it at the right time to create opportunities in your business.
So, you know, you've kind of got clear on, should I be using it? Should I not? And now it's kind of like, well, okay, do I do it myself or do I pay someone else to do it? And that is the next step we're going to be talking around today is to DIY or to delegate. And so I'm going to be sharing with you my own take on this, plus some key things to think about when making this decision.
So the DIY versus hiring dilemma. Yeah, it's a decision that often comes down to budget. OK, particularly if you're in the early stages of business, you feel you have to DIY it. You have to do it yourself because the cost incurred with people doing it for you.
But if the timing's right, so please, if you haven't done so already, do tune into last week's episode, so episode 32, where I share with you when is the right time, then your offer is priced, and your offer is priced correctly, you should have the funds to get help, unless you are taking too much money from your business, which is what I covered in, I can't even remember what episode it was now, but you can be in a position where if you're taking out too much to cover your own expenses,
then your business isn't in a position to support itself. And so, you know, if you haven't got the funds to ask yourself, why do I need to be putting this automation into place yet? And if the answer is, yeah, you know what I do, then it's like, okay, well, where is that money gone? And remember it's your business.
So if you want to take all the money out of your business, if you don't want to have that money in your business,
for development then that's your choice okay but it's being aware where has this money gone why can't i spend it in areas that would help me and potentially speed up the process and give customers a better experience just because you can do it yourself okay just because you've seen that other people do it and people have shared with you their journeys or you've looked on youtube and you've seen how people talk people through it it doesn't mean you should okay or does it
Well, the things to think about if you are thinking, yeah, you know what, I think I'm going to do it myself, is how much do you actually need to learn? So for me, I am not an overly techie person. I have done little bits with websites. I can do updates. I'm generally quite good when something is in place to follow a process to get things up and running.
I have delved in deep on things like go high level with the CRM and areas like that because they have been relating to my skill set. which is the sales, which is the marketing. And so it has made sense for me to upskill myself on these elements because I am constantly in people's CRMs.
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