Comments on: Stop Doing and Start Delegating

By: sam

sam — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:46:27 +0000

It’s the biggest submit button I have ever seen!

By: Future of Online Advertising and Problogger Meetup Recap

Future of Online Advertising and Problogger Meetup Recap — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:52:07 +0000

[...] Ryan Carson gave a great real world presentation on how he advertised the Future of Online Advertising conference and what worked (and didn’t work) for them across many different channels. Cross-promotion with other sites and bloggers worked far better than advertising on high-traffic advertising industry sites. This sort of solidified the point that leveraging personal relationships with people you know and cross-promotion are far better strategies than throwing money at mass advertising channels. [...]

By: Robin

Robin — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 13:29:18 +0000

For anyone interested in learning about how VAs work and can help your business in ways you never imagined, check out a book called “The Obsolete Employee, How Businesses Succeed Without Employees – And Love it!” by Michael Russer (www.theobsoleteemployee.com). The foreword was written by Michael Gerber and is one of the most powerful endorsements of a book I’ve ever seen! This book will open your eyes to an whole bunch of possibilities for your business – and it gives some great insights to VAs too.

By: Rob Smith

Rob Smith — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 07:50:49 +0000

Ryan – you should check out Keith Cunningham’s stuff on Business Growth:

http://www.keystothevault.com/

It’s got some great stuff in it I think.

By: Maya

Maya — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 19:44:46 +0000

If people need some ideas on what to delegate to Virtual Assistants, I started a brainstorming list — customer service, editorial, web maintenance, research, reminders… the little and big stuff to deal with the day-to-day. Got anything to add? Feel free to visit: http://MayaAndMarketability.com/use-your-virtual-assistant/
or
http://AskAVirtualAssistant.com

Thanks for the post. We all need to remind ourselves, “We should be working on our businesses, not in them.”

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 03:47:43 +0000

That is exactly right. We should be working on our businesses, not in them. Nail on the head. – Chris

By: Leon

Leon — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 14:56:55 +0000

Right, as Michael Gerber says, working on the business, not working in the business. Delegation could help, but even CEO wouldn’t delegate everything, he still need to do what he is required to do.

@Jim: Don’t worry, it is just the part of the effect from reading the book The Four-Hour Workweek. ;-) I have read the book as well and interviewed the author Tim Ferriss – some of his ideas are pretty provoking.

By: Khoa Bui

Khoa Bui — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 04:04:42 +0000

EMyth is an excellent book :) I read that book last year and was able to boost productivity like anything! The story that inspired me was the Hotel manager and the way he managed his whole business. Great book!!

By: Kathie Thomas

Kathie Thomas — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 03:57:04 +0000

Hey Ryan, here’s your coffee:
http://www.funnies.com/coffeebreak.htm

I couldn’t email it as I don’t have your email but this way everyone else gets to enjoy a coffee too!

So good to see people talking about their VAs and how life has been made easier for them. I have been operating for over 13 years now and my main client base consists of business coaches, public speakers and trainers, all of whom know and enjoy the benefits of having virtual assistant support and they also let others know about us too. Good thing for me I have a back up VA team of my own – there’s no way I could provide the same service to everyone I come in contact with!

Re Michael Gerber – he has some really great information for all entrepreneurs and I was very fortunate to meet him many years ago when he was in Australia just as the internet was raising its head here for business so it must have been around 1995/96. I spent the day with him whilst we worked on the filming for a TV show that was really before its time – about people who work at home.

By: shooperman

shooperman — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 03:16:14 +0000

I definitely agree with you on management by delegation, it’s a big leap for small business owners like ourselves.

I did just that earlier this year but let me tell you this – “every time you try to get out, they get you back!” It takes time for the delegated to take on the responsibility.

Enjoy the ride, Ryan!

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 22:27:17 +0000

“As you all know, itâ€™s vital that the leader of a company (CEO, Director, Founder, whatever) is thinking about the direction of the company and is actively planning and thinking about the future.”

While this is certainly true, don’t you think you are getting a little ahead of yourself here? In all of your recent posts you’ve sounded like you run a Fortune 500 company. Honestly this whole “Life of a CEO” bit is a little annoying…who calls themselves a CEO in a small business?

At your stage in development (paying your personal bills is a sizable percentage of your company’s expenses), you can’t just delegate everything and dream.

By: Gustav MÃ¶rtberg

Gustav MÃ¶rtberg — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 20:55:42 +0000

I’ve been searching for some way to contact you, but i haven’t even found your email on this blog.

Do you think that you could shoot a mail, i got a few questions for you that would make my day if you could take a few minutes to answer. :)

Thanks, Gustav.

By: Ryan Christensen

Ryan Christensen — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 20:08:53 +0000

I couldn’t agree more… this is one of the biggest lessons learned from running my first business. We didn’t delegate near as effectively (or often) as we should.

I’m just about to launch our second “go” at it, so we finally have another opportunity to put those lessons to work!

By: Lisa C.

Lisa C. — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:59:23 +0000

Excellent! I own a virtual assistant firm. Ryan, now if only I could have a coffee boy! Your points are valuable! Keep up the good work, or eh…. at least keep up the good delegating.