With Outsourcing, Comes Boredom?
Posted in Productivity on 16. Mar, 2011
I’ve been experiencing and interesting effect in my quest to build web sites and work on SEO campaigns. I have started to outsource many of the common, repetitive tasks to help scale out the projects. While this is pretty nice, I’m finding myself a little lost on direction while having so much of the work in the hands of others.
Where I used to spend hours hunting down possible links, or hours developing page copy, I now sit and monitor progress of various people that are doing the work for me.
I’m finding this to be a little boring. But that’s okay because this is also the way I need to operating at this point. I reached near-burnout by trying to do everything myself at one point, even though I felt more “in the trenches”.
I almost need to relish in this new situation and get used to it. I need to focus my time on monitoring sites, making sure I’m getting good quality content and link building help from my workers, and overall looking at the big picture.
I guess it’s not so much being bored, but it’s just getting used to not being so overly busy. Am I working smarter rather than harder? I hope so. I just have to get used to the new pace.
