Help! I'm Overworked and Can't Afford to Hire Someone

Many online entrepreneurs are one person companies. Me included. Whether you sell on eBay.com, Amazon.com, Half.com, Bonanzle.com, Clickbank.com, a bunch of niche websites, or all of the above, life as an entrepreneur can get overwhelming at times. Some people throw in the towel because of all the pressure of trying to do it all by themselves. They think they can't afford to hire someone or several someones.

There are, after all, so many tasks one has to do to run a company, even a small company. There can be accounting tasks to control the financial side of the business, legal activities, phone calls to make, letters to write, research to do, websites to create, programming to be done, marketing, graphic design, and many others. What is a busy entrepreneur to do?

Well, good news! Freelancers are willing to help you with these tasks on a one shot basis or a regular basis for very little money. How do you find them? There are websites that these freelancers enroll with to help you find them. One that just came to my attention is Fiverr. This site's claim to fame is that you can hire anyone on the site for only $5. Every freelancer on Fiverr will tell you what they will do for just $5. You can browse or search. Take a look.

Fiverr is certainly the most varied of all the freelancing sites in terms of what people will do for your $5. Most jobs offered are meaningful, useful tasks that may help you is some way. But some are out of left field. For fun here are a few I wouldn't have thought to ask for:

1. I will write anything of your choice on my face with a Sharpie for $5
2. I will tweet about your product or service to 3800 followers 5 times a day for 4 weeks for $5
3. I will read your palm for $5
4. I will do any voiceover work for $5
5. I will leave flirtatious/didn't-we-have-so-much-fun comments on your Facebook wall for $5
6. I will give you 60 GB of cPanel web hosting for 1 year for $5

There are many other freelancer websites available. In most of these, you describe your project and freelancers send you bids on what it will cost. You then have the ability to negotiate and question the freelancer about their qualifications and even request samples of similar projects they have completed previously.

My top six freelance website picks in addition to Fiverr are:

eLance, - From creative work like graphics and writing to computer programming.
FreelanceSwitch - From marketing, to writing, to graphic design to programming.
Guru, - From Web and Graphic Design to Programming to Business Consulting.
Allfreelancework - Projects posted on a variety of subjects.
Rentacoder - From simple web pages to programming jobs that could last for months.
ProgrammingBids - From web and graphic design to flash to software development.

(Note: I do not recommend any particular site mentioned above. I have no connection with any of them. I get no remuneration from any of them.)

Go find some help!

Dr. eBay