Take the time to create documentation.
Operating a solo enterprise eliminates bogged-down procedures and crimson tape of working with an organization. Need to make a pivot? You’re the solely decision-maker. Need to change a course of? Go forward and do it.
However sooner or later, each solo enterprise proprietor begins to consider development. Which may imply bringing on a full-time rent or fractional assist. At that time, chances are you’ll discover that you just’re scrambling to elucidate the processes and procedures that exist solely in your head to a different individual.
I bumped into this a number of months in the past after I employed a digital assistant. Inside a brief time period between signing an settlement and her begin date, I wanted to create some customary working procedures (SOPs). The SOPs defined the work she wanted to do and in addition why that work was necessary for my enterprise (to provide her the suitable context).
Since then, I’ve created customary working procedures (SOPs) for different elements of my enterprise, even people who I’m nonetheless doing myself. I don’t know what the longer term holds or at what level I is perhaps passing off a few of that work to different folks. It’s higher to create the paperwork now and tweak them than be in a mad scramble sooner or later.
