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I just hired a brand developer. 8/10 of his ideas are better than mine. He makes me look like a moron.<br />
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I just hired a web developer. He is a Shopify wizard and the things he can do in 15 minutes, would take me days (if I could ever do it).<br />
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I just hired a copywriter. He knew the core principles of my businesses better than I did. He clearly articulated thoughts that I hadn't even formulated yet.<br />
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The result will be an extremely polished and professional presentation for our brand.<br />
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I paid good money for all of the above. However, I'm counting on that being LESS than the amount of money I would've lost, had I attempted my own mediocre marketing,design,web development, and copy.<br />
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I think it just depends on the job. If I have 40 hours of mindless repetitive work to be done, I don't really care if it's a braniac. I just want someone to do it as I would. In these types of tasks, there's not a lot of value-add by being more capable or more qualified.<br />
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However, in any work that requires a brain, or some creative output... I agree with you completely.
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Where did you hire them? What were the rough prices for each job?<br />
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I've been hit and miss. Some cheap people were amazing, some expensive ones were terrible. Most jobs I end up holding their hands, but I usually get some better ideas too from them. <br />
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One of the most successful hires was I went through Instagram on a new account and followed about 200 accounts that were relevant to my niche, I then paid someone $20 which was the cheapest quote to go through and make a spreadsheet of every account name, email addresses, how many followers, followings, their bio, Kik, everything, she had it done perfectly the next day. I think it's good for low level tasks like this.</div>
