You'll Go Further If You Build A Team - RD283

<p><a href="https://resourcefuldesigner.com/episode282">Last week</a>, I talked about how you should view your worth. How you are a one-person team. I gave the example of a website project you might start where you take on the role of salesperson, researcher, UX and UI designer, developer, bookkeeper, etc. and how each one of those "people" should be compensated accordingly.</p> <p class="p1">That episode relayed a precious message that many designers don't understand. That message is that you are worth more than you think you are, and you are probably not charging your clients enough for what you do for them. Because, if you needed to hire each one of those people individually, chances are you would pay them more than what you are charging your client for the same services.</p> <p class="p1">But what if the situation wasn't figurative? What if you did have to hire each one of those people? Would you know how to go about it? That's what I want to talk about today, building your team.</p> <p class="p1">I know that many designers are not comfortable hiring contractors. I know, I used to be one of them. I used to have the mentality that my clients hired me; therefore, I needed to do the work myself. I even turned down projects because I didn't know how to do parts of them.</p> <p class="p1">I've shared before how I turned down a $50,000 website project because I didn't know how to code in PHP. I kick myself now for that decision. But that was my mentality back then. If I couldn't do it, it wasn't a project I could take on.</p> <p class="p1">A couple of years after that, I stumbled upon a line in some self-help book. I wish I could remember which one, but I don't. But I do remember the line that stuck with me.</p> <blockquote> <p class="p1"><strong>Client’s don’t hire you to do a job. They hire you to get a job done.</strong></p> </blockquote> <p class="p1">And there's a vast difference between those two statements that many designers don't get. You're job, the reason clients hire you is that they have a problem they