Why Dave Decided to talk to Tim Francis: For entrepreneurs, time is often one of the most valuable things you have. The more time you have the more money you are able to make, and Tim is here to help you get more of both. Tim asserts that he is able to charge $1,000/hour because he learned how to delegate his time with an assistant and then make better use of the time and money he bought back. Listen in for helpful tips on who you should hire and when you should as well. Tips and Tricks for You and Your Business: (1:41) Do You Know Tim’s 3 Tips for Hiring Assistants? (5:23) Tim charges $1,000/hour because he hired an assistant, it’s not the other way around (7:38) This is When HIRING an Assistant Starts to Help You Make More Money (10:16) Dave Had His Assistant Free Up His Time Through Email (13:08) Being the Surgeon in the Room for Your Business (18:16) You Are In Fact Worth It, Invest In Your Business So it Will Work For You (20:26) Tim Has Had to Master Delegations, Let Him Tell You (22:59) Tim had to teach what’s known as a “Hiring Funnel” Quotable Moments: (4:52) “One of the biggest problems we find is that you end up doing things that are not worth your time now or most importantly it prevents you from getting closer to where your biggest ROI is.” (8:36) “I generated so much extra time and money that I could actually afford to take higher level classes which then allowed to charge more for my services.” (17:04) “The amount that you can decline that 80-20 curve and spend your time in the top 10% of highest value activities happens real quick and it’s very exciting.” (22:52) “One of the biggest blind spots that entrepreneurs have is around opportunity-cost.” Other Tidbits: Hire within your timezone, it’s worth the penny pinching. Use a “Hiring Funnel” Important Episode Links:  GreatAssistant.com/ToolBox FunnelHackingLive.com FunnelHackerRadio.com FunnelHackerRadio.com/freetrial FunnelHackerRadio.com/dreamcar ---Transcript--- Speaker 1: 00:00 Hey everybody, welcome back to funnelhacker radio. This is going to be a lot of fun today. Uh, this is a topic that's super near and dear to my heart and I wanted to bring on Tim Francis to introduce kind of how this is all gonna work. So first and foremost, the May introduce you to our friend Mr Tim Francis. Good day. Great to be here. Thanks for having me Dave. So one thing I'm really excited about is helping people understand the importance of scaling and how to grow and build their businesses, especially as a solopreneur or a small small to middle sized business. One of the things we find is that people get so hung up on trying to figure out exactly what to do and how to do it and they, they spend too much time on the how instead of. The one thing that you could find out about tim is Tim, a company called great assistant.com and whole focus behind his business is helping people actually hire their own virtual assistant. Speaker 1: 00:49 And most importantly though to make sure that virtual assistant is here in North America. A couple different things that we're going to talk about as far as how and why, but to give you a little background, timps hired over 200 assistants and first clients and things and really what I want to make sure you guys understand is this whole idea as far as who, not how I'm going to go through that and just a few minutes, but again, want to allow him to say a few words here. Introduce himself. Anything I did not mention that you want to add, Tim, but by all means, please speak to our audience and let him know. Yes, Speaker 2: 01:18 thanks for having me. So for a. So the very first thing is I have three super quick tips that will help anyone when it comes to delegating. A number one is don't write everything out. Instead use something like [inaudible], which is a great tool to be able to capture desktop and share a link. Secondly is a don't use email to communicate with your internal team. Huge productivity killer. Instead, using a communication tool like