What happens when you’re ill?
I’ve been very quiet recently, for a number of reasons. A couple of illnesses, a house move, power outages and then being flooded. All great fun in the overall scheme of life – well it is when you look back on it years later, at least!
But it’s rather disruptive to a good work cycle so it’s pushed back several things I’ve been planning. And as many of you will know, catching up is sometimes not easy.
Anyway, I’m just putting the finishing touches to a new product. It’s an automatic niche blog builder service with a major difference. Right now it looks like it will be ready to go live either tomorrow, or possibly next week depending on a couple of outside factors.
It should have been ready a month ago, but as I said, I’ve been playing catch up for a while now. Things are finally getting back to normal.
So, to return to the question in the title of this post: what happens when you’re ill? Do you have systems in place to deal with work? Does your income stop? How does it affect your daily life?
For me, the one thing it shows me is that I need to outsource more of the technical aspects of what I do. The simpler things are easy to outsource, but that’s because they’re simple. There should never be too serious a problem getting someone to handle those jobs.
But the more complex stuff, well that takes a little more time. Time to build trust, time to teach systems. So right now that’s one of the things I’m going to focus on in the coming weeks.
2010 is coming soon – just a few weeks away, actually. My intention is to start 2010 with a stronger strategy for delegating work.
What about you? Add a comment – let me know your thoughts, ok?
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Hi Amin
Housemove, Flooding, Poweroutages, and illness, honestly i thought it was only me that got that sort of luck. (Luck of the Reilly’s) is a bad luck thing here in the UK lol.
I looked into outsourcing, i still don’t trust people yet, i cant detatch myself from my sites. I offer it now to my subscribers, i didnt before but a video i made to show a mate online how to do a wordpress install ended up being used as webinar content and that got some rave reviews, miffed yes but it gave me a confidence boost. I love the technical side of things, installing scripts, setting them up and all that.
My goal this year is to put a system for myself in place, i used to use systems all the time, i dont know why i dont do it online. if i can put my system in place then i can duplicate it for others so its easier for me to show how i want things done then i can maybe consider outsourcing.
Then again i have 5 kids, theres my Webdesigner, article writer, backlink marketer, listbuilder and script installer all raring to go, once they each reach 10 years old that is.
I hope the illnesses weren’t too bad, i took medical retirement from the army due to being diabetic, it kinda keeps me at home now so gives me that freedom to be online anytime, just trying to future proof the house now.
I’m interested in your automatic niche blog builder, im pushing those that im working with to use wordpress as a business starting point, its so good to work with and so viral when you want it to be.
Thanks for letting me ramble
James
James,
I got started doing script installs for people, several years ago. There’s still a huge demand for it – a lot of people just don’t want to learn technical stuff and they’re willing to pay for that. If you have techie skills I think you could do pretty well just hitting that market – as you said on your blog, focus on what you know and what you do well. That’s good advice for anyone.
Good luck with getting your kids to be your outsource staff – my two won’t go near the computer, unless it’s for Facebook and MSN!
Have a look at Instant Blog Wizard and if you have any questions let me know on the support desk – it has an affiliate program paying 50% recurring commissions so it might be something suitable for you to promote and the price is going up in a week or two to $67 a month. I’ll probably let up to 50 people in at that level and then up it again to $97. It’s not a membership I want huge numbers signing up to so increasing the price will help to keep out the not so serious.
Amin
P.S. I find it hard to move about too much since I fell down a spiral staircase a few months back and hurt my knee pretty badly. It swells up like a balloon if I do much walking. It’s a good job I work from home!