📉This $15/hr hire could make you millions | Lean Leverage #008

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Nathan Fales
July 29, 2024 • Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes

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This Week’s Lean Leverage Tip:
Why isn’t your time worth more than $15/hr

If you’re like most people I talk to, you probably think your time is worth more than $15/hr (which is below the poverty line just FYI.)

You’d point to the great results you get for clients and the big contracts you’ve won.

That’s all well and good, but if your time is worth $50, $100, or even $500 per hour, why are you still doing jobs that you could get someone to do for $15/hr.

There’s so many tasks you can delegate, but by far the biggest mistake I see from business owners is that they refuse to delegate the project manager role.

“no one can do it like me”

“I don’t know where to find someone good”

“It’s really not that much work”

that’s BS.

Especially as you grow, you don’t have time to perform at a high level at sales, management, and fulfillment.

Without knowing it, you’re probably the reason your fulfillment is subpar and your sales aren’t growing as fast as they should.

All because you refuse to let someone else handle the primary operations role: project manager.

What they help with:

  • Following up with open tasks

  • Answering questions from the fulfillment team

  • Communicating with clients

  • Ensuring compliance with Standard Operating Procedures

  • Doing quality assurance on deliverables to clients

  • Making sure the business stays organized

Where to hire them?

  • Romania (most expensive, but tons of ex-Amazon talent)

  • Serbia (solid middle choice)

  • North Macedonia (cheapest, least experienced)

How much should this cost me?
The range can vary depending on the exact job description and how much experience you want

Do you want someone who’s ex-Deloitte or ex-Amazon? You might pay $25/hr+ (Although that person is going to be more of a general manager or operations director than a project manager.)

Want someone solid who knows how to get things done? About $15/hr

Someone less experienced but reliable? As low as $12/hr

If you want me and my teams to help you draft your personalized job description and recruit the role for you, book a free consultation with one of my recruiting specialists here.

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Dani is the ops queen. Currently an operations manager at Amazon, Dani has also been an operations manager and social media manager at a digital marketing agency in Romania. If you need an ops manager and run a digital marketing agency, you would be crazy not to interview Alexandra. You can hire her for $24 per hour through Go Carpathian.

Tomislav has forged himself into one of our best eCommerce project managers. He’s worked with brands big and small in the agency setting to ensure quality and keep the company working smoothly. If you are looking for someone to maintain quality and work with your dev teams and clients this is your guy. You can hire him for $10-$12 per hour through Go Carpathian.

As a former head of marketing and chief project manager, Alexandra leads a team of 7 and oversees the day-to-day operations of her company. She established over 40 processes in the company including a newly optimized onboarding for clients. She manages the accounts of over 50 clients. You can hire her for $20 per hour through Go Carpathian.


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