{"id":2018,"date":"2015-06-03T07:39:36","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T06:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inspirationalcreatives.com\/podcast\/?p=2018"},"modified":"2015-06-03T07:47:13","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T06:47:13","slug":"056-outsourcing-delegating-creative-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inspirationalcreatives.com\/podcast\/056-outsourcing-delegating-creative-work\/","title":{"rendered":"ICP 056 Your First 4 Steps to Outsourcing and Delegating Your Creative Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Listen<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div class=\"player_container player-2018\" ><div class=\"spp_player_textabove\"><b>  <\/b><\/div><div id=\"sm2-2018\" class=\"playercontent sm2-bar-ui compact flat full-width full-width-player\"><div class=\"bd sm2-main-controls\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"sm2-inline-element sm2-button-element\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"sm2-button-bd\" style=\"background: transparent 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You&#8217;ll identify tasks and work which others can do for you.<\/p>\n<p>In this short action episode, Mike Russell shares his best ideas on outsourcing and delegating your creative tasks and work.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicradiocreative.com\" target=\"_blank\">Music Radio Creative<\/a> host and founder, Mike Russell, is no stranger to outsourcing and delegating.<\/p>\n<p>Today, his entire podcast series has been outsourced.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll learn where to find the people with the skills you need and how to test them to take on the work you care about.<\/p>\n<p>Mike shares the essential steps to getting started as well as revealing some of the benefits that come with being able to move on to other, more important tasks, that only you can do.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;That&#8217;s what you have to do\u2026 give that trust away&#8221; &#8211;  Mike Russell<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2><strong>Items mentioned in this episode (quick access):<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span>[0:00:42]<\/span> Introducing this short action episode about delegating and outsourcing.<\/p>\n<p><span>[0:01:35]<\/span> Mike shares what the outsourcing process has been like for him.<\/p>\n<p><span>[0:02:05]<\/span> The importance of trying out a few people with simple tasks first.<\/p>\n<p><span>[0:04:00]<\/span> Recruiting good people. Useful resources.<\/p>\n<p><span>[0:05:41]<\/span> Mike emphasises the benefits and savings that can be made outsourcing your work.<\/p>\n<p>[00:6:07] Summarising your first four steps to outsourcing and delegating.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/inspirationalcreatives\/ICP056-outsourcing-delegating-creative-work.mp3\">Right Click Here To Download This Episode Now<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Links and Resources mentioned in this episode:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicradiocreative.com\" target=\"_blank\">Music Radio Creative<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upwork.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Odesk.com (now upwork.com)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elance.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Elance.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>If you enjoyed this podcast, you&#8217;ll also like:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inspirationalcreatives.com\/podcast\/055-mike-russell\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mike on The Reality of Podcasting<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inspirationalcreatives.com\/podcast\/052-boost-daily-productivity\/\" target=\"_blank\">Two Practical Ideas To Boost Your Daily Productivity<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inspirationalcreatives.com\/podcast\/040-give-yourself-permission\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Brogan on Giving Yourself Permission<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Thanks for listening<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Good luck outsourcing today. <a title=\"How did you get on?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.inspirationalcreatives.com\/podcast\/contact\/\">Let me know<\/a> how you get on!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen (Less than 8 minutes) Right Click Here To Download This Episode Now Scroll down for detailed episode notes and quick access timings In this episode you&#8217;ll learn: The one thing you need to first How to find good people to work with Why you need to test a few people with a simple task [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38,32,35,6,2,76,23],"tags":[92,44,46,91,7,25,33,53,28,90,13,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-2018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-action","7":"category-entrepreneurs","8":"category-mindset","9":"category-motivation","10":"category-podcast","11":"category-podcast-show-notes","12":"category-podcasting","13":"category-productivity","14":"tag-action","15":"tag-business","16":"tag-confidence","17":"tag-creativity","18":"tag-entrepreneur","19":"tag-habits","20":"tag-mindset","21":"tag-motivation","22":"tag-overwhelm","23":"tag-podcast","24":"tag-startup","25":"tag-stuck"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationalcreatives.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationalcreatives.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationalcreatives.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationalcreatives.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationalcreatives.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2018"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationalcreatives.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2033,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationalcreatives.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions\/2033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationalcreatives.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationalcreatives.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationalcreatives.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}