 Hello everyone, so this video here is for those of you who might already be freelancing and maybe are earning something, earning a living even, but you're finding yourself constantly stressed out, you're finding yourself not wanting to deal with all the stuff that's coming up and constantly chasing after stuff, always two steps behind based on whatever's going on, whether it be invoicing, chasing up payments, trying to keep up with you know whatever marketing you need keeping up with your actual work and keeping the clients happy etc etc etc. because there's a lot you need to do and when you're a freelancer, when you work on your own, you need to do everything, you wear all the hats from the marketer to the manager to the person who fills up the coffee machine and buys the staples. So it's very easy once things get going to find that it's you're always one step behind and trying to keep up with everything happening and in a way this is a good problem to have because it means you have work and you're earning a living, you're at least earning something, but in a way it's very bad because you got into this business so you could be your own boss but you find yourself never having time to do anything because you have to handle everything going on and so it can be very stressful and so I've found and I've seen with other people that the best way to deal with this is to well create a system and what you want to do is you want to divide up what you're doing you want to look into all the steps that you're taking whether it be as a translator if you're a freelance translator whether it's the marketing the troubleshooting the admin stuff and this can also include the back and forth with the client and dealing with that the payroll the invoicing keeping up with the payments coming to you and getting supplies getting I mean whatever it might be you have all these different departments if you will and that's how you should treat your business it is a business so you should have head of marketing department head of admin and general manager and this that and the other and you should have these titles and you should lay them out I found what was best for me was actually to write them down as if I'm creating a company organizational chart but you should at least keep it in mind and yeah if you can just write these down and under each title write your name because you're the one who does everything right and then when you go through this you should you should look into okay what do I like and what don't I like why did I get into this business is it to do this and that and there are a couple there that you probably like or enjoy you know maybe if you're a translator you like the translation part you actually don't mind that part and that's what you're good at anyway but maybe you really don't like having to chase payments or you know doing the marketing aspect or doing admin stuff for something along those lines so you should separate out what you're good at what you like doing and what you're not so good at and what you don't like doing and once you have this organizational chart then what you can do is create this system to make it work without you and what do I mean by that basically basically I mean outsourcing finding other freelancers to handle this stuff and for this you can use the same websites that you've been using to find jobs until now and especially ones that are generic like Upwork.com and I mean that's the main one you also have Freelancer.com and others which I don't like nearly as much but I would suggest to go to Upwork.com and see if you can find someone to help you out with certain aspects of this look at the beginning as with anything you do it it'll be more work because they're going to have to explain to someone be like okay I need this done I need that done I need you know this marketing stuff done or I need to chase up these payments also you're going to have to see how much you want to share at the beginning regarding the payments you know maybe you want to leave out some personal information which is something you need to add or subtract and figure it out but once you figure it out it can make your life a lot easier it's true for a month or two it's going to be more hectic which is hard and that's why you should take this in individual steps but gradually things can get a lot easier if you want to start with something easy let's say it would be marketing and I say easy because most of us aren't in the marketing field and so whatever we're doing probably isn't that good anyway but if we can find someone else to help out with maybe social media marketing or something along those lines and then we don't have to think about marketing for a while and while they're doing that then we can concentrate on the other stuff like say maybe finding someone who can handle payroll and look if you're making enough money there are actually companies who handle payroll and you can try to hire one of those companies when you're first starting out though you might want to check with freelancers and this is the same also for lead generation or maybe if you need to keep up with I mean designing your pamphlets or stuff like you know there's a million and a half things that need to get done and so you really should start seeing yourself as a company and when you do you can create this organizational chart and then create the system so that other people can work on stuff now you can say okay you know I know what needs to be done say for the marketing or for invoicing or something but how do I explain to someone else the best way there again is to create it like a company I would do step by step processes like if you're a boss and you have to hire someone new and they need to be taught what to do chances are they would have gotten a file with you know step by step okay what you need to check for this you need to make sure the payment is in every day or every week or whatever it is if it's not in then then see what happens sends one email you know maybe after a week you send a follow-up email and then you do you have a system in place for whatever the job may be and the easiest way to create the system by the way is just to see what you do go through a month of what you do or a week or whatever it might be and just jot down what you do and how often you usually do it because whatever you're doing is probably working and so this is a system you can write down and create for someone else the handy thing about creating a system by the way is that you can also notice maybe if they're inconsistencies or something that could be done a bit better and also if you give it to someone else to work on having another set of eyes and someone else working on it you know they might come up with something and say hey why don't we just automate this or do that or something and that can help out as well so you want to you don't want to forget why you got into this business and it was to do something else anything else that needs to get done as long as you're earning something and making money you can find a way to outsource it you can find a way to find someone to help you out with it you can find a way to create a system so that other people can do what you don't enjoy doing and that way you can do more of what you enjoy doing and grow your business even more while at the same time having more spare time just to concentrate on that because all this stuff you don't like doing is being taken care of so once again this is for people who are already in business basically and already earning something and so I hope you can find this useful in continuing your business and in helping to grow it to the next level to a level that you couldn't grow you couldn't hit that level if you have to do everything yourself at a certain point you have to start finding other people to help you out and this is just the preliminary the first way to do it and you know so you can start creating a real business and yeah so I hope this helps and I hope you find it useful if you have any other recommendations or things that you like to do in order to lighten the workload then feel free to let me know in the comments below and otherwise I'll see in the next video if you did find this useful please don't forget to click like and yeah I'll see you next time thanks bye