Are you ready to hire?

The Seattle Gift Show is in open down at the Convention Center and I was there opening day with a friend who is in the process of opening a business.  After we got our badges, were scanned in and walking down aisle after aisle of booths, she starts telling me about hiring an employee.  Her business isn't open...she's not generating any revenue yet...and doesn't have a business or marketing plan.

So this go me thinking - how many business owners get frustrated with the long list of tasks it takes to launch a business and wistfully dream of having someone do the work for them.    Over the years I've started three businesses and I can testify that I had the same dream.  But if your bank account is low on funds, you have no sales or revenue coming in, you certainly can't justify the expense of hiring an employee.  And if you have no business or marketing plan what tasks would this person be doing??? 

Instead find a buddy to partner up with.....maybe someone who will trade their expertise for yours....or even better dig down deeper to find out if you really have what it takes to be a business owner.  

There are no short cuts in business....just lots and lots of work and the reward is the business is yours...that's a good thing.