As a follow up to my previous idea on bartering and skill swapping, I took up a class at Brooklyn Brainery called Outsourcing Your Problems, and it couldn’t have come at a better time.

I just transitioned into a new set of entrepreneurial projects both for myself and clients, and boy am I swamped already. On my plate right now is the following (spoiler alert: I’m a busy woman!):

• Entrepreneurship Branding @ WECREATENYC
• Co-Founder & Community Bed-Stuy Crawl
• Host @ likemindbk
• Speaker Coordinator @ DigitalUndivided
• Assistant @ With Love, From Brooklyn
• Assistant @ Gumbs + Partners

I basically have booked up my entire seven days of the week with the bulk of my time being on email, at meetings, and strategizing campaigns. It’s been a bit overwhelming though highly enjoyable.

With the chaos going on as a one-woman machine, I just cannot do it all. I’m passing on the torch to someone who can conquer small tasks so that I can focus on bigger picture stuff.

Enter: outsourcing

Taking the teacher’s advice, I made a list of things I do that take up way too much time and headache on a regular basis. I also am experimenting with time-tracking through RescueTime to see how I can free up my days. I’m scared to see their results.

So here’s what I am going to outsource:

Business 

• update inthebiz! Tumblr (theme, content, Disqus & ShareThis functionality)
• export and move inthebiz! Tumblr blog content to WordPress or Squarespace (which do you think is better and why?)
• email and calendar management (organize, prioritize, and upkeep my folders/labels and daily schedule)
• create automated bookkeeping and accounting system (invoice clients on time, track income and expenses)
• organize address book (extract contacts to prioritze for outreach purposes, import business card contacts)
• newsletter/mailing list campaign (optimize monthly content and marketing strategy)
• create whitepapers to sell (use my bucket of resources and social media pro-tips for a digital package)

Personal

• clean up office supplies to donate, sell, or trash
• research the perfect, budget-friendly bike for me to buy
• optimize interior/apartment space for better organization and usefulness 

I’ll provide guidelines, rules, negotiated rates, schedules, and an agreement to get things going. Like I said before, I can provide:

• PR assistance
• free co-working space
• social media consulting
• tech/web tools

Interested in being my outsourcer? Email me: alishamiranda[.]biz[@]gmail[.]com with your 1) name and contact info 2) what project you can do 3) your background and 4) availability.