As a Solopreneur, How Do I Hire Help (Especially During Times of COVID)?

AskPat 2.0: A Weekly Coaching Call on Online Business, Blogging, Marketing, and Lifestyle Design

Pat Flynn

Business Advice, Marketing, Podcasting, Getting Started, Business Strategy, Business, Small Business, Passive Income, Online Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Maddie Kertay is the BadAss Quilter, who says that she's "always going to stand on the side of love, diversity, and blazing a path for more people to become fabric artists." On this AskPat 2.0 episode, Maddie and Pat chat about everything she's doing to spread her message and grow her community (The BadAss Quilters Society), and the many directions she could go next: growing the private community, a podcast, sponsorship, affiliate marketing, merchandise . . . When would be the best time to reopen her community to new members—before or after she launches her podcast? Should she hire a virtual assistant (VA)? What things could she, as the CEO (and self-proclaimed micromanager) trust a VA with? (Note: This episode contains mentions of the "A" word, in case little kids are around.)

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0:00.0	AskPath.
0:02.8	Askpat.com.
0:04.4	Dot com.
0:06.2	Askpats.
0:07.8	What's up, everybody?
0:10.7	Pat here and welcome the episode 1,136 of Ask Pat 2.0.
0:16.0	You're about to listen to a coaching call between myself and an entrepreneur just like you.
0:20.5	And today we're talking
0:21.4	with Maddie. And Maddie is an awesome, awesome person who's doing some amazing things in the
0:26.4	quilting world. And she's doing so amazing that she's built this incredible brand that is actually
0:33.4	very progressive in the quilter space. Yes, progressive in the quilting space online.
0:40.7	And it's pretty awesome. And I will say from this point forward, part of her brand has the A word in it.
0:47.2	So I'm going to be saying it because it's part of her brand and I don't want to discount what that means for what she's doing.
0:56.7	And so if you have little ones around and you're not in tune with the A word, just know that I'm about to say it because this is the name of her brand.
1:02.9	Badass quilterssociety.com. How badass is that? So if you check out badass quilters society.com, you'll find her brand that she
1:13.3	started. We get into the origin story a little bit, but also what this means in the world of quilting,
1:19.2	which actually her brand often gets the cold shoulder from a lot of companies because they
1:25.4	dislike the angle that she's taking. So we talk about that a little bit. We also talk a lot of companies because they dislike the angle that she's taking.
1:29.5	So we talk about that a little bit.
1:30.7	We also talk a lot about hiring help, especially during times of COVID, and then planning
1:36.7	launches, and we talk about memberships.
1:38.7	We talk about a lot of things here.
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