Delegate or die: the self-employed trap.

1 · · Jan. 23, 2011, midnight
Most self-employed people get caught in the delegation trap. You’re so busy, doing everything yourself. You know you need help, but to find and train someone would take more time than you have! So you keep working harder, until you break. Here’s my little tale of how I broke into the delegation mindset. In 2001, CD Baby was three years old. I had eight employees but I was still doing “everything else” myself. Working 7am to 10pm, seven days a week, everything still went through me. Every ...