No Money to Hire When You Need It

I hear from clients all the time who are completely overwhelmed.

They needed to hire someone months ago.

Orders piling up. Customer service suffering.

Working 70-hour weeks just to keep up.

But they can't hire anyone because they don't have the money set aside.

They thought they'd just figure it out when the time came.

Bunow the time is here, and the cash isn't.

This is more common than most business owners want to admit.

When we talk to ecommerce business owners about whether they have a plan for personnel growth and if they've been setting aside funds to cover future employees, only about one in twenty say they're doing both.

Most have no plan at all.

Some of you have thought about it but haven't actually prepared financially.

You know you'll need help eventually, but there's no real strategy.

Then all of a sudden, you hit a growth ceiling because you can't handle the workload alone.

You're turning down opportunities because you don't have the capacity to take them on.

You're burning yourself out trying to do everything while competitors are scaling with teams.

And when you finally realize you need to hire, you're not ready.

You don't know what role to hire first. You don't know how much it'll cost or when you can afford it.

You keep pushing, hoping you'll figure it out later. But later never comes.

So be different.

Set aside funds for hiring.

Know what roles you need and when.

Don't scramble when it's time to bring someone on, just make the move.

Drive your growth.

Do you have a plan for growing your team and the funds set aside to make it happen?

Take the Ecommerce Business Performance Assessment and find out where you really stand.

Cyndi