Managing Your Time

The whole point of hiring employees is to help you better manage your personal time. What's the point of making a lot of money from an eBay business if you have to work 20 hours a day to do so? It's okay for your eBay business to be a full-time job, but you don't want it to be more than that. You have to learn to manage your time in an efficient mannerand offloading some work to others is just part of that process.

A large component of time management is developing processes and a schedule. You can't run a big business if you treat every sale as a special event. You need to plan your time so that you handle things in batches. Maybe you handle all financial transactions in the evening, or all your packing on a certain day, or make just one trip to the post office a week. You have to strive for efficiency, or else you'll become overwhelmed by everything you need to do. And don't forget to offload some of that workload to your employeesthat's why they're there!