Small Business Scaling

robertbanking

Hello you wonderful people, hope you had a great start to the week.

I have for several years ran a business on my own, starting blogs and doing online marketing. I even experimented doing some buying from china and re-selling on eBay and made a small profit. I have retained profits but struggle to know what i can do to scale things. I really want to try work less and have more time for myself, like going to the gym and maybe trying to get a girlfriend again. Can anyone kindly point me in the direction or steps i need to take to scale the business please, so i can work less and try automate things as much as possible?

Many thanks again for any help you can give. Take care and have a lovely week. Thanks again for your kindness.

Pennywise

These days, the trend is for people to subcontract out various roles, such as book-keeping, administration, marketing, operations, etc. so you don't spend as much time on the "boring" and time consuming stuff.  Lots of freelancers out there doing all kinds of work.

Mistral001

If your blogs bring in an income and are not just a means of advertising the goods you are for selling, then have you tried various streams of income such as Youtube?  With selling goods on Ebay, there could be labour-saving devices you could buy do to streamline that business, such as label printers and packaging equipment.  As Pennywise has said hiring specialists could be an option.  I am thinking about book keeping, graphic design, even legal work.

gavinaw

Pennywise said:

These days, the trend is for people to subcontract out various roles, such as book-keeping, administration, marketing, operations, etc. so you don't spend as much time on the "boring" and time consuming stuff.  Lots of freelancers out there doing all kinds of work.

Virtual assistants have been growing.