Standard Operating Procedures for Solopreneurs

Take the time to create documentation.

Working a solo enterprise eliminates bogged-down procedures and pink tape of working with an organization. Wish to make a pivot? You’re the only decision-maker. Wish to change a course of? Go forward and do it.

However in some unspecified time in the future, each solo enterprise proprietor begins to consider development. That may imply bringing on a full-time rent or fractional assist. At that time, you could discover that you simply’re scrambling to elucidate the processes and procedures that exist solely in your head to a different individual.

I bumped into this a couple of months in the past after I employed a digital assistant. Inside a brief time frame between signing an settlement and her begin date, I wanted to create some commonplace working procedures (SOPs). The SOPs defined the work she wanted to do and likewise why that work was vital for my enterprise (to offer her the suitable context).

Since then, I’ve created commonplace working procedures (SOPs) for different components of my enterprise, even people who I’m nonetheless doing myself. I don’t know what the longer term holds or at what level I is likely to be passing off a few of that work to different individuals. It’s higher to create the paperwork now and tweak them than be in a mad scramble sooner or later.