The Nervousness In Hiring Personnel

Knowing When To Hire

There is always nervousness as a new entrepreneur when you hire personnel, especially when it is your first time. Sometimes it seems like you can do it all yourself, but once you hit a point where growing is stagnant you must hire personnel to reach the next level.

Jim Boykin, CEO of We Build Pages an Internet marketing company, realized this when his site suddenly ended up at #4 on Google for the Internet Marketing keyword.

Here's what Jim had to say about the subject.

I remember the first few years starting out, when it was just me, and I was promoting the "We" in "We Build Pages", when I was marketing the phrase "internet marketing firm". Shortly after I started in this game, I realized that 3 SEO’s could do so much more, but the only 3 I had in my "We" was "Me", "Myself" and "I". I recall that often in 2002 I debated on "do I dare hire someone or not?".

That internal debate was laid to rest in Dec 2002 when webuildpages.com went to #4 in Google and Yahoo for "internet marketing". I hired 3 people instantly and within 6 months we had 6. A year we were up to 15. We’ve stayed around 15 since then (not counting about 25 writers of whom we also work with, and a few outsourced programmers).

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