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Entrepreneurship: I've grown from being a solo PR consultant, to adding an assistant. Now maxed. How to take the next step? Get new clients or hire senior help first?
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Ian Ippolito, Serial tech entrepreneur. Former CEO of vWorker. answered:

Hi. This is a great question that I hear a lot. This is one of those questions that typically has no correct answer if you simply pick one of the options. Unless you have a huge pot of money sitting around idle, you can't hire senior help without clients and revenues to pay them. And you can't take on new clients without more help or existing clients will suffer (and the new ones won't stay).

The only solution is to find a creative way to do both. You may be thinking, "there's no way I have the time to do that" (or money/budget or whatever else your limiting factor(s) is/are. In my experience, when I talk to people about their specific situation, there are always ways we can think of that allow them to do both.

So my advice to you is to forget the constraints of the no-win "either/or" situation and come up with a genius "and" solution.

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