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If you want your company to grow, and you want to gain long-term benefits, you have to learn to delegate. This comes with a good support system and committed staff, and your trust in them. Learn to let go of all the different tasks that you have been doing alone. If you have family and reliable staff, enlist their help and cooperation. If you are already benefiting from the help of assistants, occasional or seasonal staff, or teachers with specific qualifications (e.g., in special needs education), then you have already seen the rewards. (Read Chapter 8 for advice on hiring employees.)

When you have established your business, you will probably want to hire an accountant or a bookkeeper. He or she can help you keep your finances in order while you spend your time doing other things to increase your business.

You may also consider hiring a lawyer for legal advice on such matters as zoning laws, and for dealing with liability issues. He or she will be up to date on current laws and will save you time researching and understanding complicated insurance forms and legal issues that may arise.

As will be discussed in Chapter 7, Creating Your Web Presence, you may also want to delegate your website design (and all of the updating this entails) to a professional web designer. This could save you many hours of research and frustration!

For personal support (in addition to any family cooperation you may have), I suggest you consider hiring domestic help. At first, doing so may seem unnecessary or too expensive, but I found that a cleaner every two weeks kept the house in order and my housekeeping duties to a minimum. Each visit meant that I saved four or five hours of cleaning time. I could then spend more time on other business-related activities such as networking and mining for more prospective clients. Or I could spend that time recharging or being with my family.