On-line businesses are becoming more and more popular.
That means more competition.
You are to some extent in a race to establish yourself in your chosen niche(s) before others beat you to it.
Your focus needs to be on mission critical items that can assure success and not on lower level tasks that drain your resources.
At the inception of your at-home business, it can be difficult to balance at-home tasks with building your business.
However, you have to be able to break through and achieve the laser like focus necessary to give yourself a fighting chance.
As such, there are certain mundane tasks that cry out to be outsourced.
Some are housekeeping and some are business related.
 Some can be accomplished through the use of a Virtual Assistant and some require part time assistance from others.
You could save 13-26 hours on average per week if you outsource just these tasks...
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*all times include travel and prep if any* Lower Level Tasks That Need to be Outsourced

• Grocery shopping - A needless time sink that compounds because you have to be out of your at-home office to accomplish it.
  Alternatively, use the grocery delivery services that a lot of the larger grocers off after choosing your groceries on line.
   Time Saved: 2-4 hours
• Clothes washing/drying - free yourself from this complete waste of time.
  You don't need a full time maid to do this.
  More than enough people will be grateful for the opportunity to perform this task for you.
  Time Saved: 5-6 hours
• General home cleaning - Ditto for the previous task.
  Get the same person to accomplish both.
  
• Bookkeeping/Bill Paying - You need to become generally familiar with the basic concepts of recordkeeping, but getting up the learning curve and maintaining this activity is ridiculous.
  Get a virtual assistant to perform this for you.
  Time Saved: 2-5 hours
• Appointment Scheduling and Confirming - As you grow, this will become more of a burden on you.
  The trick is to get this accomplished without having to hire a full time assistant.
  I have seen Virtual Assistants perform this.
  Alternatively, have someone come in for a few hours per week.
  Time Saved: 2-3 hours
• Website design/development - Unless you already have this skill, don't waste your time learning it.
  I learned the hard way and burned weeks and weeks with little to show for it.
  On-line resources will perform this for you remotely for surprisingly little cost.
  Time Saved: 1-5 hours
• Shopping Cart/Auto Responder linkup - This is a necessity for most on-line businesses but once again should not command your attention.
  This can be tricky but is not overly value-added for what you need to accomplish.
  Get a virtual assistant to perform this.
  Time Saved: 1-3 hours

  Higher Level Tasks That Require Your Full Time Focus (a) Networking and customer building (b) Strategic direction (b) Copywriting (d) Identifying niche markets to enter (e) Understanding the target customer (f) Capital resource management Consider the above lower level tasks as a sort of "Self Worth Checklist".
Work towards ticking off every one of them and you will be amazed at how much time you wasted when you look back.
You owe it yourself to provide the best environment for your at-home businesses success.
Invest the money now to achieve higher multiples of your investment back.