How To Build A Team Easily | 7 Marketing Team Building Tips
Your business is growing and you know you need help to keep up with it. However, you’re also on the fence about delegating and hiring others to help you.
You’re not alone. Many solopreneurs find it challenging to delegate tasks. Two of the common reasons are: (1) they think delegating is risky, (2) they think finding the right people is hard.
But things couldn’t be farther from the truth! When you’ve got the right process laid out and you know where to find the right people, building a team could be a breeze.
And today, I’m here to help you learn how to build a team and manage a team.
You will learn:
- 7 effective team building tips
- Why it’s important to be clear with your expectations
- How to communicate with freelancers effectively
- Where to hire reliable people
- How to pre-qualify freelancers
- Team management tips
Are you ready to find talented individuals to help you further grow your business? Try these tips and let me know how it goes!
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VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION:
“Welcome, Freedom Hero!
In this episode, you’ll find out about how to build your team easily. I’ll walk you through the top 7 tips for building your marketing team that will help you to grow your business efficiently.
My name is Istvan Bujdoso and this is The 47 Marketing Show that reveals smart tips and efficiency hacks for busy entrepreneurs to get more marketing done in less time.
One of the biggest business mistakes that a lot of solopreneurs make is believing that “delegating is RISKY, finding great people is HARD.”
And because of that, they try to do everything themselves, but they seem to always run out of time and energy. And their business can’t grow as fast as they want it to. Does this sound familiar to you?
The TRUTH is that it’s a lot easier to come over that issue than it seems. For the past 8 years, I’ve been outsourcing quite a few things, including a lot of marketing activities.
In that time, I had my fair share of bad and good experiences.
And along the way, I worked out a proven method to successfully build and manage your own team who can save you a lot of time and money, and help you grow your business efficiently.
In a moment, we’ll start going through the top 7 tips for building your team. And right after that, I’ll share with you something special related to team building, so make sure you stay till the end.
And now, here is tip #1: Be Really Clear About Your Expectations
This means things like what results you expect from your team, how and when, what you expect them to do, how, and when, why you want to hire them and so on.
If you are NOT clear about your expectations… the bigger the chance that you’ll face unexpected situations and will be disappointed. So be really clear about your expectations. Create a list of them.
Tip #2: Communicate Your Expectations Clearly. Knowing your expectation is one thing, communicating that to your team clearly is another.
Explain tasks, requirements, and other things as simple as possible. It helps to avoid misunderstandings.
Describing visual things in words is a lot more complex and difficult than showing them, and can lead to mistakes. So always share visual things with your team through short and simple videos, or screenshots.
We are all humans, from time to time we can forget things. To minimize the negative effect of that on your marketing and business…
…have every important process in written format or in videos, and in an organised way. So your team can find what they need any time without bothering you.
Tip #3: Only Hire Through Reliable Source. For example: from Upwork, which is a well-known and reputable freelance portal. It acts like a middle man, connecting entrepreneurs with freelancers.
It also provides information and an easy to use platform for hiring and managing your outsourced team.
It includes features like finding the right freelancers, super easily taking care of the contract, time tracking, payment processing and a lot more.
And most importantly, besides the efficiency and convenience, it gives a great level of safety to you with features like… The escrow, which works this way.
Before the job starts, you pay the agreed amount for the work into the escrow. So your money is in a safe place with Upwork. The freelancer does the work.
And you only release the money from the escrow to the freelancer once the job is complete. This way you’re protected from the freelancer disappearing with your money without doing the work.
Another great safety feature is the platform creates screenshots and logs on what the freelancer is doing while working for you on an hourly basis.
So you can kind of look over their shoulder and check if they are truly, actively working on your tasks.
Tip #4: Pre-Qualify Freelancers Before You Even Talk To Them. Another benefit of Upwork is that they provide all the useful information for you to pre-qualify people.
Check things out like how many hours did they work through that portal? If they’ve already worked a lot of hours that shows they are more serious about freelancing.
Check what kind of reviews do they have? If their previous clients were happy with their work, the more likely they will do a good job for you too.
Also, have a look at if they’ve done similar work previously to the one you have in mind? If yes, they are more likely to work faster and better. See what’s the quality of their profile overall?
An organised and well-written profile increases the chance they will provide quality work. Then check what’s the quality of their portfolio?
A high-quality portfolio means they will probably give you high-quality work as well. And the last thing to check is how much do they charge? Is that matching your expectation?
Is that below the average fee of other similar freelancers? I do NOT recommend you to pick somebody with BELOW the average pricing.
Usually, it means they will provide you BELOW average quality work as well.
Tip #5: Talk To The Best Candidates.
This is NOT about finding out how good they will work! It’s more about how well they communicate and how the two of you are resonating in general.
Ask the candidates to tell you about the project in their own words so you can see how well they understand your expectations. Look out if they are asking questions at all and GOOD questions.
If they don’t ask any good questions it means they either don’t care or they are afraid to ask.
Either of those is true, that means they most likely will assume things instead of clearly understanding your expectations, and you probably won’t always get what you want.
Tip #6: Hire Your Choice Of Freelancer For A SMALL Job FIRST. Even if you follow every tip you heard so far in this episode, there’s still a little chance they won’t be the right team members.
The best way to test the freelancer is to get them to complete a SMALL, real, and relevant job. That way you can truly see if they can deliver the agreed results, and how it feels working with them.
Tip #7: Start Small And Scale Up Step By Step. The benefit of working with freelancers is that you don’t have to hire them full time.
If you only need 1-hour help a week then you can hire a freelancer for that. This way you can get started with minimal investments. Gain momentum quickly. And start getting used to delegating.
Without feeling overwhelmed. Then, step by step, you can smoothly scale up by giving your freelancer more marketing or other work, and extending your team with other members.
Earlier, I mentioned I’d share with you something special related to team building to help your marketing and business efficiency and that is…
…on top of these 7 tips, you’ll find out about 12 more team-building tips in the next two episodes.
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