You have worked for years at large companies with many centralized support departments. What is it like now, having to do everything yourself?

Jeff Powlowsky
Solara, Inc.

You have worked for years at large companies with many centralized support departments. What is it like now, having to do everything yourself?

The last company I worked for we had more than 200 in the one office that I was working in and I really had a lot of support. I had 2 assistants; I was at an executive level in the company. I had 20 people alone in my sales and marketing. So we got a lot done. And I certainly didn't do it all myself. So I think another challenge that I found in a home based business moving from that corporate setting where there was a lot of support and I was able to delegate tasks was actually having to do just about everything myself. And you know most people aren't good at everything and I'm certainly not. I have my strengths and my weaknesses. And my core competences focus on and I found I really needed to prioritize on my time. I have a to-do list that I use every single day. I sit down at that the end of the day and fill up my to-do list for the next day. I work through that each day and I try to prioritize. And I'm also not good at things. I am not great at accounting; I am not great at a lot of the details and the bookkeeping and some of the operational functions and what I had to do is I had to find help. I had to hire a bookkeeper. I had to hire a CPA to help me with my taxes. I needed to find some outsource partners for the web and for fulfillment and customer service and some of the things that I do with my e-marketing business and I needed to outsource I needed to find partners because I wasn't good at those functions and that has helped me immensely to focus what I am good at and outsource what I'm not.