Should I Hire an Employee or Stay Solo Longer?

Originally aired Wednesday, January 21, 2026. Businessing is now a weekly show with a new episode every Monday.

Short answer: If you're a solo owner who needs more work done, try contractors, written SOPs and automation before you hire. Qualified applicants are hard to find, and a new employee means you also become their trainer and the person who keeps them engaged. Hire when you have the time to do that job too.

Today I dug into four headlines that all point at the same problem. Owners can't find qualified people, hiring is shifting to skills over degrees, employers worry about critical thinking, and employee engagement is dropping. Put together, it means that when you hire, you also sign up to be the training department. So I made the case for staying solo longer with contractors, SOPs and automation. In the Idea Slam, I answered how a solo owner can manage their time better. My answer is three steps: protect your time, cut the busywork, and schedule tasks close to when they're due. We also talked about a huge winter storm headed across the country that week.

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Key takeaways

• Before you hire, write down your standard operating procedures and automate every repeatable task you can.
• Use contractors for narrow, specific jobs so you can grow without taking on an employee too early.
• If you do hire, plan time to train them and help them grow, because you are now the training department.
• Go through your last two weeks of calendar and cut pick-your-brain calls and networking that no longer pays off.
• Block study hall time on your calendar and schedule each task as close to its due date as you safely can.

Questions this episode answers

Should I hire an employee or use contractors for my small business?

Try contractors first if you can. A contractor has a narrow skill set and does a specific job. You don't take on training and engagement the way you do with an employee. Pair contractors with SOPs and automation and you may be able to stay solo longer.

Why is it so hard to hire good employees for a small business?

Four things are stacking up. Most owners say they can't find qualified applicants. Hiring is shifting to skills instead of degrees, and employers worry about applicants' critical thinking. Engagement also drops once people are on the job. That means a new hire usually needs training and development, which takes the owner's time.

How do I manage my time better as a solopreneur?

Stop trying to get everything done and focus on getting the right things done on time. Protect your time by cutting calls and events that don't pay off, plus busywork and other people's priorities. Schedule each task close to its due date so deadlines do the work for you.

How do I stop feeling overwhelmed by my to-do list?

Put each task on the day it actually needs to happen, close to its deadline. That gives you permission to forget everything that isn't due today, which frees up brain space for the work that matters right now.

Worth quoting

The best way to manage your time better is to quit giving so much of it away.

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90 minutes of deep work will split the atom if you're actually getting stuff done.

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when you bring an employee on, now you're signing up to be a training department.

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There's a big difference between how do I get everything done and how do I get the right stuff done, and how do I get the right stuff done at the right time?

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On the show

• Idea Slam question: How do I manage my time better as a solopreneur?

In this episode

• Show open and market jitters
• Why hiring is so hard right now
• Stay solo longer: contractors, SOPs, automation
• Idea Slam: how do I manage my time better?
• Step one: protect your time
• Step two: cut the busywork
• Step three: schedule tasks by due date
• Winter storm warning for owners

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Full transcript

Good morning, January 21st and we are Businessing. This is small business's weekly show. How you doing? I'm your host, pat Miller, founder of the Small Business Owners Community. Thanks for tuning in this morning. The show is made possible by our sponsors, the Ever Good Looking and Nice Smelling Gen Head and Enji.

Both of those are great partners and we'll tell you more about them later in the show. On today's show. First of all, can we just start here? I'm just excited that we're doing this. I'm so glad that you're joining me again today because this is the weekly show for small business owners and I'm having an absolute blast doing it.

So thanks for tuning in and make sure you say good morning in the chat. We might even promote your business. I'll tell you more about that in a second. On today's show, we're gonna talk about hiring. Adding to your team. So maybe your business is like starting to roll, things are going great. Well, the traditional way to grow has always been, okay, I'm gonna start adding people.

But the adding people business right now is, it's tough. There are four reasons why it's tough. I'll share that in a minute because maybe the move right now. Just to stay solo, we'll do an idea slam segment on how can I get all of the stuff on my list done. If you feel overwhelmed getting it all done, you really don't have to be.

I'll give three different strategies so you can make sure that you're not falling behind on your to-do list. And I hate to break it to you, but the mother of all winter storms is on the way today. As in OMG, feet of snow, inches of freezing rain, and temperatures as low as 40 below. For real. So all of that is here for you this morning, and make sure you stop in to the chat and say Good morning.

So wherever you're watching this show, when you talk to the chat, I'll see it and then I can bring the chats up on screen. We're broadcasting on X, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Dailymotion. The toaster, the refrigerator, the billboard on the highway we're everywhere. So all of those chats come in here because that way we can see who's tuned in.

And what I'd like to do is I'd like to promote one of you each day. So drop in the chat and tell us who you are and what you do. Put a link to your business in there as well. And I'll bring on one person to be our small business spotlight sponsor of the day. Little bit of self-promotion, little bit of conversation.

So I would love to hear from you this morning. Drop it in the chat so I can give you some love. So if we check the news, if you remember on Monday, I shared that there's a ton of economic anxiety, like stored up. It was like static electricity, you know, like when static electricity starts to build up and, and your hair, well not mine, but your, you may have hair.

Your hair starts to like stand up 'cause there's all of this energy that just needs to zap. Well it was storing up and it was storing up. Trump and Greenland was going on that us may be striking the military, uh, strike in Iran was happening. Uh, all the stuff that's happening in Minneapolis, like the markets were just kind of, ooh.

The markets weren't open on Monday because it was Martin, Martin Luther King Jr Day. So when the markets opened on Tuesday, they fell like immediately. At the end of the day, they were down 860 points. This morning they battled back to about that last check. Let's see, they're up 300 from that low, so it kind of recovered, but that's what's been going on in the markets because all of this energy was happening, uh, all at once.

So that's what's happening economically. The other thing I wanna share after Monday's show. Man, I was just overwhelmed with the feedback and the followers and the interaction in the chat and, and the love that you showed for this new show because, you know, this show needs to exist because you're out there building your small business all by yourself, and where can you go to talk with other peers that are trying to do the same thing?

Like we're all building our own business dream, but we're all doing it by ourself. This show, especially when it goes daily, as of February 2nd, this is gonna be your island where we're gonna talk about the things that you care about and you get to be a part of the show. So one thing that we do is, obviously we have the conversation going on in the chat, but I want you to come on the air and be a guest.

And there are two different ways to do it. The first way to be a guest is to click the link that I just put on the screen and into the chat. Tell us what you can teach other small business owners. We're gonna bring guests on the show, not so we can just like learn all about them. We wanna learn what you can teach us.

It's a killer self-promotion opportunity, but it's also a way that you can use your expertise to help other small business owners get ahead. So click that link or scan the QR code. We can schedule you for an upcoming show. The other way you can come on the show is we're going to do, and again today we'll do it.

An idea slam segment where I take on a tough challenge or an opportunity in your small business, and you can come on the show and we'll talk all about your business again, another great self-promotion opportunity for you, but also a resource that you just don't get any place else. Where can you get a coach and an entire community standing by to help you solve your toughest business problem?

It exists. So scan the QR code or click the link inside the chat. And we would love to include you in an upcoming show. It's the most fun thing that we do, the idea slam, and we want you to be a part of it here. So scan those two codes, click the links, and we would love to have you on the air. And one more thing, thank you to everyone that sent a message, shared the show with your friends.

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So the question of the day, question of the day today is something that I hear all the time. And when I read the news headlines this morning, there were four different headlines that all talk about the same problem. How can I get help to grow my small business? So the small business success story has always been, you start something, you start getting some clients, things are going great, things start to accelerate, and you bring on that first part-time employee.

You're your first full-timer and hot damn. I'm no longer a solopreneur. Right. You grow by hiring, but if you have a young person in your house, or if you've tried to hire recently, you know that hiring is not the same as it used to be. Hiring seems to have gone through this like weird Frankenstein thing, and it just doesn't work the same.

So if you're in the situation where your business has become successful enough that you need to add team members, or at least to be more precise. You need to get more work done and you can't do it all. We need to talk about how you're actually going to do that. So the headlines that came up today tell a story of a labor market that's just fracturing.

So the first issue is, okay, I need help. Great, you need help. How are you gonna find employees to do the work? And it's not what some of the boomers or bald people like me are saying, oh, nobody wants to work anymore. No, that's not it. It's that people can't find qualified applicants. People that know how to do the stuff you need people to do.

89% of the business owners can't find qualified applicants. Yo, that 89%, nine out of 10 can't find the qualified applicants. So that's a problem. So you've got this mismatch of what people know how to do and what your business needs to have done. So that's problem number one. Problem number two is that.

Many employers are starting to move to skills-based hiring, not degrees, not years of experience. It's a conversation around what do you know how to do? Yeah, you were a school teacher before, but now you're a web developer. Cool. That's your skill. I don't care that you were a school teacher before. I care about your skills today, and it's not only your skills today, it's training the roles.

So I've heard some people say that they're just hiring for personality at this point. They want someone who's gonna show up on time, someone that's going to not leave early, someone that's gonna work hard, and I'll train them on how to do the stuff that I need to do because nine out of 10 don't know how to do it in the first place.

So you have to think about, okay, I need help. And if I'm gonna bring on an employee. Do I have time to train them? Do I have time to train up the skills that they're lacking? Because if you're like me, you don't have an HR department, maybe you do. So if you don't have an HR department and you can't find qualified people and you can't find people that have the skills already, when you bring an employee on, now you're signing up to be a training department.

Do you have time for that? The third story that stacks onto this, and this one is really scary. I don't know if you've seen this, but I swear I've seen this in the wild. There is a growing like chasm with critical thinking right now. Gartner put out a report saying that there's gonna be a trend for employers to do AI free skills assessments.

Basically sit someone down with no screens and see if they can actually think. Hi, how are you? We don't need to answer any questions. I just need to have a conversation with you. Can you think, can you think your way out of a paper bag? And they're finding that people can't think their way out of a paper bag.

And the reason is generative AI is destroying their ability to actually think their way out of a paper bag. They used to be able to think critically, but now they don't. 'cause what do they do? Hey, chat GPT. How should I reply to this email? It's like really becoming a problem for employees. So that's the third reason why you can't find someone good.

But wait, there's more. The fourth reason you can't find great employees and have your team work is that once they're on the team, they're not engaged. A new study came out and it showed employee engagement. So should you find someone that has the skills and should you train them up on doing what you need them to do?

And should they be able to think out of a paper bag when they start working? They don't care. Thanks for the job. I don't care. Employee engagement has dropped. From 88% to 64% for the average employee. So six outta 10 days they'll care. Four outta 10 days. They don't care. And when asked what will drive up employee engagement.

What did they say? Professional development. Professional development. Again, go back to the skills issue. Do you have time for that? Do you have time to be the HR department and the skill department when you are a solopreneur that's holding on for dear life, trying to get it all done? What does this all mean?

You can't find talent. And if you can, they probably don't have the skills. And even if they have the skills, AI is destroying their ability to think. And even if they can think and they have the skills and you find them, they don't give a damn 'cause you're not developing them professionally. So at this point, like.

What are we supposed to do? What are we supposed to do? If you're a solopreneur, what are you supposed to do to add members to your team? Well, maybe we're better off alone. Maybe adding a part-time or a full-time employee is not the right way to scale the business. Stay solo as long as you can. So how can we do that?

So I've laid out the groundwork. Here's the issue. It's impossible to find good people, and when you have them, it's impossible to keep them engaged. So how can we solve this labor problem that we have? We have to maximize our productivity somehow. First thing, build automation and SOP standard operating procedures and try and hire contractors as long as you possibly can.

Now. Why contractors? Well, contractors are people that have a narrow skillset and they're on the planet to do a very specific thing. They're not there to be your employee. You can't tell them when and how to work, but you can tell them, do this thing and they'll do the thing. So if you can get the work done using contractors, maybe you can hold on a little bit longer.

The other thing you can do is automate literally everything that you can. Blatant plug, gen head. Gen head. The CRM can help you automate things and Eng g for what it's worth, can help you automate your social media. So creating these strong SOPs, creating these strong workflows. Maybe you can get around hiring someone with this kind of alternative growth plan if you get to the point where you can't deal anymore with just contractors.

Okay. Now you have to swallow the tough pill that says, I'm gonna have an employee now. And I'm not just the leader of the business anymore. I am now the head trainer. I am now the employee engagement officer. I am the person that's going to make sure that they feel like they're getting ahead on the job.

It's not just I'm giving them a paycheck, it's I'm giving them a leg up for what they're gonna do next, because I can't find the study on the fly here, but I've heard. People are bouncing around so quickly. It's basically a short term stop. No, no matter where they're working. So when you decide to bring on a team member, you also are in the training and development business, which is obvious.

But when you're a solopreneur, we have to make sure that you have time for that. So, four reasons why finding people is tough right now. And the solution is probably automation, SOPs, contractors. And I hate to say it 'cause I want to have jobs. I want to have, uh, an environment where we're helping people get ahead and we're lifting them up, but the stats are showing us that's not really what's happening right now.

So good luck to you if you're trying to scale like good luck. Hey, good luck with that. And if you want to talk about it, of course, in the small business owners community and here on the show, we can do that. The idea slam is coming up. I've got a great question today. How do I manage my time better? As a solopreneur, so if you're trying to get all the stuff done, kind of ties in with having enough free brain space to get all the work done.

I'll give you some advice on how you can get more of your list done on a daily basis in just one moment. Businessing is sponsored by Gen Head Scale Systems, not Chaos. Now this system, which I use and it's fantastic, is built for early stage businesses like you and me. Gen Head systems are designed for founders and solopreneurs.

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'cause right now on your to-do list, you'd like a little feedback. There's something that you'd like my expertise on the people in the chat to help you out with. Maybe you're naming something or maybe you're not sure if this package makes sense or you get an email from a client that you don't know how to answer.

Come on the show, we'll brainstorm live and you and I will work it out together. It's gonna be fast and fun and it, it's my favorite thing to do. So if you wanna participate, click the link that's on your screen or in the chat and we can do that together. So we're gonna get that going as soon as we can.

So here's what we're talking about today. We're gonna talk about how do I manage my time better? As a solopreneur, it's the most common question we have. We just talked about adding employees. Now we need to talk about how do I get all of my stuff done? And I wanna refine the scope of the question. So if you were here and said, pat, how do I get everything done?

As a solopreneur, I would challenge you to think just a little bit differently. I would challenge you to think, okay, how do I get the right stuff done on time? There's a big difference between how do I get everything done and how do I get the right stuff done, and how do I get the right stuff done at the right time?

Because if you try and get all the stuff done, well, you're gonna end up with a list that never ends because there is a never ending list of things to do as a solopreneur. So these are the three steps to get the right stuff done on time. So you need to deliver for your clients so you can get paid. We know this and these critical work function functions that only you can do, move the business forward.

So the first one is time protection. Now this is a big plank inside the Fridays off theory, which I teach small business owners, which is basically we have enough tools right now that you only need to work four days a week and you can take Fridays off because time is compensation. Time protection is absolutely critical.

So how do I manage my time better? The best way to manage your time better is to quit giving so much of it away. If you looked at your calendar in the last two weeks, you're gonna find pick your brain sessions. You're gonna find random one-on-one intro calls that someone said, Hey, pat, you and Johnny should meet. And then you sit on a call for 40 minutes and wonder, why am I here? You're gonna see networking events that used to pay off for you and they don't anymore. You're gonna see a bunch of stuff that you're just giving away your time and you wonder why you have no time to get your stuff done. So you gotta go back through and see where are you giving away your time.

Time protection is the very first thing because if you can take 90 minutes back from a networking event that doesn't work for you. 90 minutes of deep work will split the atom if you're actually getting stuff done. So I encourage you. To block out an appointment on your calendar, you should have what I call study hall time, couple of times a week, maybe it's nine to noon.

Inside the small business owners community, we actually lead co-working events for this on Monday and soon to be on Wednesday, where you can go and say, I have a meeting. But that meeting is with yourself to get stuff done. So if you look at your calendar right now and it's full of just random one-on-one, and pick your brains.

That's not a thing. You need to look at your calendar and say, where are my study halls so I can get things done? That's step number one. Step number two, to get everything done on time, you gotta eliminate tasks. You're performatively busy. Most likely. If you look at your to-do list, it is full of things that you think you should do.

Oh, I, I, I saw like. Yeah, there's these people on Twitter that are doing a thing and maybe I should do that. And you go down a rabbit hole and it has nothing to do with serving your clients or getting new ones. Get it out of there. There are things that are other people's priorities. Someone asks you to do a favor or make an introduction or set up a meeting and it's, it has nothing to do with you or the business, but you feel obligated to do it for some reason.

Get rid of it. And delegation. If you don't have contractors, you are falling behind. So we just talked about the contractors and how to get them. You gotta have people you can delegate to because there are things that you shouldn't be doing. So the first way is to stop the performative work. The second way that we talked about is make sure that you have study halls on your calendar.

And then the third thing, and this is my favorite thing, the internet isn't big enough for me to do the entire rant. On the day Planning, organizing Tool Todoist, that's a whole separate show, but through Todoist or your day planner app, we've gotta get clearer on the urgency with all of the stuff that's on your to-do list, because you need to do the most important things right before they're due.

So don't think about what are the important things I have to get done. Think about. What are the important things that have to get done today? Now, why is that important? Deadlines, they're magical because if you have a deadline, it's gonna get done. You've heard of that? Parkinson's law. Parkinson's law. The work will expand to the amount of time that you give it.

If you have 10 major priorities on your list, and they're all important. There's no deadlines. You're gonna start drowning in all of this stuff that you need to do. I got all this work I need to do. No. What is the work you need to do today? 'cause you're gonna work tomorrow. You're gonna work the day after that.

And if you have something that takes 15 minutes or 30 minutes and it's due tomorrow, you're gonna find time to get it done. If you've got something that's not due for two weeks and it takes 30 minutes, it'll just sit there and you'll keep pushing it along. I mean, how many times have you rescheduled that task?

For real. So I think you should and I coach people, take the task and say, okay, here's the task. How long is it going to take? Cool. When is it due? Great. Put it as close to that due date as possible to make sure you have enough time to get it done. So if it only takes 15 minutes, it could be the day before.

Send Nikki the email tomorrow. Do put it the day before and you'll get it done. This will do two things. It will lower your overwhelm so it doesn't feel like your to-do list is totally outta control. It will also give you free brain space. It gives you the permission to forget all the crap that's on your to-do list in the first place.

If your to-do list has a hundred things on it, you've now got a hundred tabs open in the browser. That is your brain. If you've got something on your to-do list for two weeks from now, and you don't need to do it until two weeks from now, you have the permission to forget that task, and that's just one fewer browser tab that's open so you can spend more time on the stuff that's absolutely critical today.

This additional momentum, this additional time that you have to think. It's an absolute game changer. Absolute game changer. So do not think about. All the things that have to get done. Only think about the stuff that you have to get done today. And there's one last style point here that's pretty important as a solopreneur or a small business owner, as the person that signs the checks, you no longer have a boss, which is good and bad.

It's good because, well, not having a boss is kind of awesome, but it's bad because you've got no one holding you accountable to get stuff done. So you have to create these systems to know what to do and when, 'cause you are the one that's in charge of doing it. So this is a way you can kind of clear the decks of what's important, schedule the study hall time so you have protected time to get things done and then add urgency.

To the tasks. 'cause when your tasks have urgency, you're gonna have time to get them done and look at all these beautiful people that are here this morning. Morgan, good morning. It's great to see you, Morgan and Terry. Let's see. Terry Kerr's with us. Oh my gosh, Terry. Terry, bring everyone on as a contractor first.

Yep. Revisit whether or not you want them to make an employer or employer relationship. Yeah, it's like a test drive where you'd have a chance to work with someone in advance and then potentially flip them over. Awesome point there. And Barbara from B Face Painting, great to see you. Such a supportive community.

We love having you with us as well, Barbara. So drop into the chat that you're here with us this morning 'cause I would love to say hello and feature you on the show as we move on. There's a wild weather event that's coming. It is brewing, and the meteorological people are using words like historic and Armageddon.

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Okay. Let's talk about this winter storm that's coming this weekend. Did you see this? Some of you are weather nerds, so you're probably listening to the ham radio and listening to all the weather nerds talking it out. But this show has had the good fortune to talk to people all across the country, and we intend to unite all the entrepreneurs here in the US and Canada.

Terry, great to see you, and this storm is huge. This is not a local event. It is gonna go all the way through the center of the country. Look at this map. This is the map that shows where this is gonna go. Now, if you look at the significant weather storm map, what does this mean? This means the blue part is a ton of snow.

Some of the maps that I've seen have shown feet, plural, plural, over 12 inches of snow, and then inches of ice and freezing rain. Which I think I'd rather have the snow 'cause you can move it. For those of you in the southern part of the country, like freezing rain is, as you know, shuts the entire city down.

And if you live in Atlanta, it's not like they have an army of snowplows hanging around. It's gonna shut these cities down. So if you are not paying attention to this storm, you need to because it's going to be brutal and it's gonna show up on Friday here in the upper Midwest. It's gonna get ridiculously cold.

My weather app is showing me a high of eight below a high of eight below on Friday. And when you go to the north, when you add in windchill, I mean we're talking like, uh, negative 50 windchill, negative 40 windchill, depending on where you are. It's unbelievable. So I thought. I need to tell people about this.

You need to get to the store. You need to look into your small business and see, do I need to close? Do I need to tell my clients not to meet on Friday? And, and is there beer in the house? That's really the most important part. Is there beer in the house? The weather's gonna be so bad. I saw this and it made me laugh.

I guess this is a thing when it gets to be 30 or 40 below, like it really gets bad. Uh. Something happens I had never heard of. Look at this map that I found exploding. Tree risk. I guess when the weather gets so cold, the moisture in the trees expands and trees like explode. I, I didn't know that was a thing.

So up here, and you'll see, that's pretty much where I'm at in Wisconsin and Minnesota. Woo. Watch out for exploding trees. Get to the store. Stock up on your food and please drive safely. As we get ready to wrap up the show this morning, we need to go back to a story that I shared on Monday. I asked you to go to your chat tool and generate an image based on how I treat you.

So go to chat GPT and simply type in generate an image. Based on how I treat you. And after I put that prompt on the show, I saw a bunch of them on social media. There was a thread going on Facebook, a thread going on LinkedIn. And it was kind of fun. And almost all of them look like this. Like, aw, look it chat, GPT likes me.

It's not gonna murder me in my sleep. Aw. But then I was having dinner with a friend, uh, local consultant named Brad Herda. And those of you that know Brad. Um, he can be, um, he can be crusty sometimes in a charming way, right? I'm like, Hey, Brad, did you do the thing? He said, yeah, I did it. I'm like, oh, what did it look like?

Whoa, this is so great. So his chat, GPT is obviously not very happy. Like he's got a finger point like I'm pointing at you, and it's like it's smoke coming out like his chat. GPT is not very happy. So it's a reminder to be kind to your robot overlords because someday they will control everything. So if you haven't done that prompt yet, ask chat GPT to generate an image. Of how uh, you are treating it. It's kind of fun. I'd love to continue the conversation with you inside the small business owners community. This is the nationwide online community for solopreneurs and entrepreneurs. This community is connecting people and helping them collaborate and grow together inside the community.

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Our next episode will be Monday, January 26th at 11:00 AM So until then, let's get connected online. Let's get you scheduled for an upcoming show, and let's say thanks to you for tuning in this week on the air. I'm Pat Miller, founder of the Small Business Owners Community. Thanks for being a part of today's Businessing.

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