As you get rolling with your Internet business, you will find that it takes up more and more of your time. Eventually, you’re going to be thinking about getting somebody else to do some of the grunt work that isn’t the best use of your time.
I can tell you from experience that it can be very hard to make the transition to outside labor. The following things are in play:
- The feeling that nobody can do it as well as I can.
- The time it takes to train somebody else to do the things you can do very quickly.
- The fact that this other person probably doesn’t really care too much about your business and is only doing this for you as a J-O-B.
It can be frustrating, but the one thing you absolutely HAVE to have to EVER outsource anything is documentation.
It would be a wise move as you build up any business (as well as an online one) to take the extra time to document your procedures as you go. Write the documentation such that it is easily followed by somebody else. You want that person to be able to go through the documentation and be able to start doing things just as YOU would do them.
By creating this documentation, it will keep you from having to train every new person who comes down the pike.
You can use text documentation. You can also use video. Using a program like Camtasia to simply record your screen and make a movie out of it can allow you to quickly show people how to do things. And those videos are reusable later on for other people (as long as the procedure doesn’t change, of course).
If you are just getting started, start taking the time to write down your procedures as you develop them. If you are already in business, then start systematizing things into easily followed steps and then document it. You want to make your post occupiable by somebody else.
That is the key. Do this now and you’ll be much happier down the road. Take this advice from a person who didn’t know this when he got started. 
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