How to create a work Life balance with a team

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Today’s guest post is all about showing you how to balance your life while building your business to include a team. What am I referring to? I will let Barbara talk some more about this.

Here we are in the second decade after the millennium. We are experiencing a shift in how women work. We have women entrepreneurs who are also balancing home life.

Let me help you with what a work-life balance looks like for you. Every entrepreneur needs to think about how they spend their days. Ultimately, creating a work-life team is about you being able to spend more time with your husband and children in a way where you are not stressed.

Work-life balance is all about recognizing you can’t do it all alone. Fortunately, for us, there are many women who are out there every day offering services to help others. Get their jobs done more efficiently. For instance, there are many women who own a variety of service oriented companies.

They allow other entrepreneurial women to decide whether they’re going to have someone else do their print, mailing, or copywriting. This allows you to better plan out what balance looks like for you and your family.

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How to achieve a Work-life balance with a Team!

A work-life team is a group of people coming together to support one another making life easier. Many times they barter services ensuring everybody gets their needs met. Then everybody gets references from people who they are working with as a work-life team.

This is a group of entrepreneurs who you seek out to help each other by doing things they struggle with or do not have time to tackle.

The group of people becomes a team by meeting together regularly to understand how each person fits into each vision.

I recommend you stay at a bartering level to avoid legal and taxation issues.

There are many options for both home and work as team options.

Copywriter
Virtual Assistant
Accounting
Childcare
Cleaning service
Chef

Figuring out who needs to be on your team really means taking a step back and looking at what your needs are. What you can handle and what you would prefer someone else’s support you in doing.

You need to build a Work-life Team.

There are three things you need to consider as you build a work-life team.

Shared Life Values
Integrity and References
Getting Value Beyond Cost

Shared Life Values

Find teammates who share your life values. Your home and business are the foundations of your life. How you build your team is important. You want to find people who are in agreement with you. The best way to figure this out is to ask yourself what are your top five values. As you talk with potential teammates ask them what their top five values are. Finding those folks who agree with you on 4 of the 5 is a good place to start.

Integrity and References

This is probably the one area where most entrepreneurs fail to give it their all. You are building a team to be geared towards supporting you and becoming an integral part of life for you and your family.

Step back and take the time to ask the tough questions. Be thorough. The more time you spend scoping out the members of your team, the fewer issues you will have later. Ask for references and call them.

Ask them to be very specific with you regarding their work ethic, efficiency, and dependability. Sometimes people are reluctant to be open. The one question most people will answer. Given the opportunity– Would you use their services again? A no answer speaks volumes. Take the time to build your team carefully and deliberately. This includes any new members.

Getting Value Beyond Cost

There are things every person needs beyond getting a particular job done. A housekeeper who is kind to your kids is a value beyond the cost of the price of getting the house cleaned.

As you are thinking about the roles other people will play on your team consider what kind of person you need. What kind of attitude, aptitude, and personality type is going to work?

The ultimate reason to build your work-life team is to free yourself up to be more present in both your personal and work life. No person becomes successful on their own.

Search out business directories where you can get in touch with others, use online groups to ask for references or put out a request for help.

When does a team become necessary?

There are four factors which will let you know it is time for a team.

Your workload has become too much.
You find yourself working instead of spending time with your family.
You are tired and stressed.
You have little time or inclination to take care of yourself.

As you move toward more growth and success, be sure to consider building a work-life team.

Good luck building your team.

Bio: Barbara Harvey is an expert in parenting and early childhood education. She is nationally certified through Temple University and Strengthening Families Worker. She is Executive Director of a parenting development group called Parents, Teachers, and Advocates in Atlanta Georgia. It is her passion to do group and individual sessions with parents that are dedicated to training parents to inspire, motivate, and empower their children to become remarkable adults.

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How to become successful in your industry, once it’s online!

12 / 15 / 16 1 / 30 / 18

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Some people have been tremendously supportive on my journey to becoming successful online, and so I wanted to share some of these lessons I have learned. I have put together 10 tips that you can use in your industry for you to be successful as well.

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Tips I have learned over the course of my journey to get your business going.

♥ When you are branding your business, make sure all platforms have the same font size, colour, images as well as the same theme across all social media platforms.

♥ If you prefer to use a particular social media platform use 3 that you mainly want to focus on and divide each with about 30 minutes of your time engaging with prospects and sharing content. Another useful tip is to always be mostly engaged on off-peak times.

♥ If you do not have a website, you can create a Facebook business page, start putting yourself out there by adding value and not to spam other person’s group. No matter if you are in the fashion or coaching industry when you decide to invest in a website, WordPress is the way to go. It’s ranking with being found on Google is far way better than the other platforms, and it’s free.

♥ If you are going to do an AD, make sure you have an opt-in for your ideal clients and before the opt-in, make sure you have an autoresponder to build your list.

♥ Whether you blog, share or nowhere to be seen, get yourself out there by giving value, even though this may be similar to number 2. You can start off by writing and sharing your expertise this can be done by way of video, using the social media platforms that offer you to record yourself doing a tutorial such as Periscope, or even a simple video tip. Whichever way, it’s always best to let others know you are an expert, even if you think no one is looking. When the time is right, you will appreciate that you have started somewhere.

♥ Don’t sell your services or products to prospective clients on the first meeting. When you decide to do so is entirely up to you, but I would have hated if each time I came across you, I was being pitched to. Show them you care and add value and benefit by being outside of the box. Being helpful and supportive goes a long way, more so than making a quick buck. It’s better to build relationships than services.

♥ Just because your business is online does not mean that your services/products will have to be online. Get yourself out there and network with others in your industry, even with those who are your ideal clients. “Building relationships here again”.

♥ Sharing is caring; you do not have to limit yourself to only being an expert in your industry if your clients can benefit from another service that someone you know offers; you can mention this in a post or even allow that person to guest post on your blog.

♥ Always be in a supportive group where you can learn and grow in your industry. Chances are, you are the only one in your family at present who is working online. Even though your family might get this, they do not understand its entirety. It’s always a great idea to be in a group or community with others who are experiencing the same issues as you are. Don’t be afraid to share, as you might inspire someone who was on your journey a year ago, also learning new trends and courses are always essential to be successful in this business.

♥ Lastly, self-care, you would have thought that this will be the first one for you, but I know you are always taking care of others and you are last on the list, but yet you know that if you do not take care of you, you will suffer, the business will suffer, the household will suffer…we can go on and on with this but it’s best in the beginning of your business to start scheduling those days for you, whether it will mean that on Mondays you will go to the hairdresser to do you, do it with no hesitation.

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Work less and create passive income for your business

11 / 3 / 16 6 / 15 / 18

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You know that as an online business owner, there are times when there will not be any income coming in unless you have long-term, consistent monthly clients. If so, and you know this is not the case for your business; it’s best to create some opportunities for passive income for your business.

Why you need passive income for your business?

You might be asking, what’s this passive income about? It’s the extra income that you use to earn passively when it’s not really your main income. This can be in the form of creating an additional income other than your main source of income.

What you choose to make this passive income is really up to you. I have created my passive income by creating additional courses that will take the form of an e-book or a video tutorial. I can sell this course over and over again without making any effort and that’s one way of creating passive income, without doing anything.

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You can create as many options for passive income!

Another main way of creating passive income is through affiliate marketing.

This is actually allowing other persons to purchase a product or service through your unique ID that you sign up with.

Each time someone signs up to buy that product, you earn a percentage of that income and that is actually another way of creating income passively. There are numerous ways that you can think of creating income that you do not need to do much work for. One is teaching a course through a webinar or even a video course. It really depends on what platform works for you and how you want to deliver that work to earn the additional income.

There are numerous ways that you can think of creating income that you do not need to do much work for. One is teaching a course through a webinar or even a video course. It really depends on what platform works for you and how you want to deliver that work to earn the additional income.

But do not limit yourself to those days when you will not be earning any money besides your main source of income. What I normally do on my off days is learn something new as well as creating those PDF guides that I need to use as passive income.

Use blogging as another passive income for your business.

Another income generator is blogging for money. There are numerous sites where you can become a guest and they actually pay you to blog for them. Even online owners need content consistently, so if you are a writer who is passionate about writing one way is to present your written words to your audience. This is another method for you to create income such as blogging for profit.

Another favourite of mine….

One of my favourite platforms is signing up to stock photo sites and this can take the form of affiliate marketing, where you promote their site and allow others to sign up using your unique link. As an online business owner, your individual preference is based on what will work for you and your business at this time.

I am recommending my favourite virtual assistant site to you.

Now I want to recommend a platform that I like to use a lot as a virtual assistant. Why recommend this platform to you? It’s a FREE forum that has a one stop shop for VA related news, services, rates, job board and also how to hire a VA and if not, how to become a VA yourself.

You might also know of someone who can benefit from such services on how to be a VA. I know it did come in handy when I was starting my virtual assistant business online. You can learn so much information and did I mention that they offer FREE resources and information right at your fingertips!

Now that you know that you can make passive income, from using affiliate marketing, blogging for business and signing up with stock photos sites to make extra cash. I hope you do get the rewards that you have worked so hard on.

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Until then, happy hiring, and best wishes with your business.

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