Hello everyone and welcome to the first post of this month. It’s crazy how time flies so fast. I wish you guys a wonderful month. Today I’m going to talk about something important. Well, for people who want or own a business and are solo owners working alone. Here is the business guide: How to choose your role with no team.
When you just started or you can’t afford to hire people. You will need to know this and make sure that you are doing it right. That is what makes these tips and this business guide very important. Hopefully, you guys find this very helpful.
Business guide: How to choose your role with no team

Let’s talk a bit about the post before and understand more about the roles and why you need them. I think it doesn’t have to be a business to have roles organized. Because even if you just have a blog. It will require you to have multiple roles.
When you read the word “Role” what does come to your mind first? If you don’t know about it try to guess. Well, I will tell you now, but if you got it right. That’s cool. The roles are positions that have tasks or responsibilities.
Once you have a business, you will need a lot of roles. And you will need to hire people. However, when you just starting or still growing. Then, everything will be on the business owner or blog owner as well. Therefore, you need to organize yourself. Hopefully, this post about “Business guide: How to choose your role with no team” will help you with that.
The goal of this post is to help you understand the roles and how to choose them. Since you are alone, you will keep choosing multiple every day, but how can you do that? And that is what this post will be about.
Some people would wait until they hire people. But, I don’t think it would be a good idea. You can start now because it will help you and do what you can. And as you keep growing, things will change and get easier on you.
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Extra tip:
If you can’t do more than one or more two roles. Make sure that the consistency is in there. Maybe plan something for the future that will help to make it a source of income. But, whatever you do. Don’t just focus on if you are serious about it or want it to be your job in the future. It will take you a long time to get it done.
Also, this should be a practice to get ready when you start hiring people. It should help with organizing people and tasks. So, why not start now and prepare for the future, you know?
Anyway, this is for people who own a business but don’t have anyone to help. And it can blog, or YouTube channel. As long as you are serious about it. I’m sure you will need this. The Business guide: How to choose your role with no team.
1. Research the roles
Let’s start with the most important step of this business guide: How to choose your role with no team. You will need to do some research on the roles. This way, you understand more about them. And understand how it works to help organize your business or blog.
This is a process to help you later to choose roles for your business. And since you are the only. Remember, you will need to be in more than one role. Because you will need it. So, try to stay organized and understand what you are doing.
However, how can you be different roles in your business if you don’t understand anything about them? And it will help you to put the roles in your business. Because each business needs different roles. Therefore, it’s to research it.
If you think you don’t need them. Being a content creator on the internet does require you to understand this. When you are a content creator, most of the time you aim to turn it into your main income. If not, then you can do what you enjoy and that’s it.
Also, I recommend you write what you learn. And make it a reference in the future. At some point, you will need to revise what you learned or look for something important. Well, that’s at least how I feel and did as well.
2. Determine how many roles your business needs
Now, it’s time for you to determine the roles of your business. If you are a blogger, you can also know what else you need to be. And what are you mainly doing? You can work without this, but it’s very important most of the time.
Well, this is the most important part and doesn’t mean you are serious all the time. Some people don’t want to be so serious about blogging or working being as content creators. However, it’s just another thing part of the process and you will need them in the future. Therefore, it’s important to prepare it.
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Make sure to include your main role as well. Because you will need to change from one role to another. And it will help you if you know all the roles. You don’t want to be all confused about what to change and what you mainly do.
If you find out that your business/blog needs a lot of roles. Don’t freak out, you will have time to plan everything. Including how you will manage to do most of the roles without being exhausted or overwhelmed. However, this business guide helps you organize the roles, and it’s your job to plan how to do them.
You don’t need to do every role. Because later I will mention something that will help you. The Business guide: How to choose your role with no team focus on different things about managing business work. Therefore, I will mention something to help you with that.
3. Determine what are you good at
When you finish the first two steps. You are ready now to choose and the first step would be to see what you are good at. The business guide can help you but also you need to spend some time to know which thing you can do better.
Well, that would be your main thing, but you also will need some other things. So, as you focus on the main thing. It will help your business grow if you focus on more than one role. Consider the main role when you put together the plan.
Sometimes you already know what you are good at based on how you started. But also, you need to find your weakness. This will help you a lot when planning and choosing roles. And some roles that are difficult for you. Try to hire people who will take that work from you.
If you started doing a variety of things. Don’t keep going this way. It won’t help you and sometimes won’t let you enjoy what you are doing. Stop and try to determine what you are good at. Because there is one thing on this list of this business guide that will help you.
This business guide: How to choose your role with no team is not just about how to choose but also making sure that it’s easy for you.
Most of the time, you will know quickly what you are good at. But try to spend some time to figure this out. Don’t rush the process because it’s important to know it. Everything will depend on what you mainly do. Even the other roles and all the planning will depend on this. Business guide: How to choose your role with no team will be important to spend time on it.
4. Organize and write the roles and tasks
Now that you have everything. Choosing roles can be complicated and sometimes confusing. Therefore, you will need to write them down. But not only that, you will need to write the tasks for each role. Make things easy for you. And hopefully, other things in this business guide: How to choose your role with no team will help you achieve that as well.
And that’s another purpose for this business guide: How to choose your role with no team aims. Even if it’s only two roles that you will need. Write them and make sure that all tasks are included as well. This way, it will be easy to change.
Use a tool to help you write them on your PC or laptop. For me, I use Notion to help do that. And I find it pretty cool that I know everything about what I want to do and who I should be. Also, easy for me to switch and be another role for my blog.
There are a lot of tools that you can use which are available to download and for free. So, if you already have one, that’s awesome. You will need to find a good that will help you do this.
5. Focus on the important role first
Last one on this list of the business guide: How to choose your role with no team. Something that will help you with getting a good result. First, when you are thinking about which one should you choose? Well, focus on the important one first.
This will depend on your work. What you do and what you need to do. This is when you are planning the process of working on your business or blog. It should be easy for you to know what is the important role first. Now, this is the most important one in this business guide: How to choose your role with no team.
Extra tip:
Sometimes you will have two important roles at the same time. This might happen to you. And you don’t need to stress about it. Because there are some factors of how important the role is. So, you can compare and see which one is more important.
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And you can do one at a time. You don’t need to run out of energy trying to do everything at the same time. Because it won’t help you be successful. Therefore, it’s not a good thing. Once you finish that role, move to the next, and so on.
If you are doing it for fun. You would need one main role and the rest should be whatever. But if you are serious. I’d highly recommend that you organize things. It will make life so much easier for you and don’t be confused about changing from one role to another. Especially when you are alone. Hope this business guide: How to choose your role with no team can help you somehow.
6. Limited time for each role
You might have a lot of roles to do, but you can’t have all time to spend on one role. Therefore, it’s very important to put time into each role your business need. You can’t finish a lot, but as many as possible would be fine.
Either you put the tasks to be in the time given and do more the next day. Because you won’t have time to finish all things. The other one is to do them fast, which is not good. You will need to take the time to get better results.
It’s good to limit otherwise we will spend a whole day doing one thing. And it will help you to get as many things as possible. But doing it randomly will not help you to be more productive. Something you can get following these tips in this business guide: How to choose your role with no team.
This will help you to be more disciplined and do more things and have different roles. Don’t worry if you can’t do them all. As long as it’s important to get the progress going. If there is one thing you need to focus on is consistency. All roles and tasks should be first to keep the flow and consistency.
Sometimes one task can take longer than planned. And you will need to be ready for that. Try to be ready for that in case you face it. It will help you to recover when that happens because it’s important to keep the progress going.
7. Improve the speed of doing each task
Another thing that can help you is how to manage your business. And also it will help you to do as many as possible. Sometimes, we need to do more things. Doing things a little fast is good for our business. Since we have more roles to do as solo business owners
Try to practice doing them fast. Because you will need to ensure doing tasks perfectly. This way, you don’t let speeding won’t ruin anything. And later, you can fully trust the process and just focus on doing them fast.
I mentioned improving the speed, and that means slowly increasing it. Some of us would feel pressure and stop working. That’s not good for the business or how to manage your business. Also, it depends on the type of tasks.
Remember that some tasks would take a bit longer. And that’s ok because we can’t rush all the tasks. Therefore, if we can’t speed it up, don’t worry about it. I’m sure there will be tons of tasks that we can rush or improve the speed of doing them.
What I’m going to talk about is also something we need to improve. And you can improve them both at the same time. You might think it’s not important at the beginning, but as you keep blogging, you will find that we need it more than anything. Therefore, I highly recommend that you focus on it. When you try to learn how to manage your business.
8. Be able to work under pressure
Another thing that will be good for our business. And how to manage your business, we need to be able to work under pressure. Working alone needs to ensure the quality is good, even when doing different roles. And working on many tasks alone.
This is something we improve overtime as well. Therefore, you can’t rush it and it will take time. So, make sure to start and slowly improve your way. You can practice this by putting more tasks to do in a short time.
Since we are the boss of ourselves. We will need to find a good way to help us improve working under the pressure. Find a good plan for you that helps to improve your ability to work and finish tons of tasks in a short time.
It’s important to improve this and focus on it over time. I’m still working on it even though I’ve been a blogger for a long time haha. The best time to start is the beginning of your journey. Because it will take time and by the time you have more work. You will be ready for that.
Conclusion of the business guide: How to choose your role with no team
Well, here we the end of this post. And I hope you got something out of this business guide: How to choose your role with no team. I shared some tips to help you choose and change from one role to another. And how to choose the roles effectively which can help to get great results.
Do you use this method for your blog or business? And if you do, how do you usually like to do it? Let us know in the comment section below. I’m curious how others do this and organize their business, being the only one working on it.
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This was a great read. I think most of us don’t think of ourselves as a role when we have our own businesses, but it’s an important consideration.
thank you so much! Im glad you find it good read
We wholeheartedly agree with Number 3. What you are good at makes a huge difference in the business’s direction. If you suck at accounting an bookkeeping, but are really good at the more visionary leadership role, then let the visionary dictate. Thank you for sharing this.
Yeah, it’s very important to know things you good at.
This is a really helpful guide. It is important to determine what you are good at. That way you can then focus on getting the right people for the other posts available.
Thank you so much! I’m glad you find it helpful!
Yep, when you first start a business it’ll be just you, so you have to know which role is the most important and start there. This post is very helpful for beginners, thank you!
Thank you for reading! Yeah, it’s very important.
Having a hierarchy of your roles in your business is important. Always start with the most important one!
Yeah, it’s important to focus on the important one first. Thank you for reading!
A big hand clap for you! This is how it is done, sincerely! You will surely get so much more done, when you are this organised.
Thank you so much!
Great tips for new and seasoned business owners! I quickly realized what I hated doing and since I hated it so much I didn’t mind paying someone to do it!
Thank you so much for reading! Well, that’s one way to do it.
These are all great tips! Running a business is hard work, especially if you are doing all the work by yourself. But, the rewards are totally worth it.
Yeah, it’s not easy but this work will make it a bit easy for us.
I’m actually in the process of doing this right now with my new job. I’m finding that I love a lot of roles that I didn’t know I’d even be good at.
That’s awesome, you got this. Thank you for reading and commenting!
Making a plan is important. Determining how many roles you’ll need matters too. I’ve been blogging since 2012 but it’s just a hobby. If I were to turn it into something more substantial, I would definitely make a plan and determine those roles.
Yeah, it’s cool to have a plan. Thank you for commenting!
Most people do not realize how difficult being a entrepreneur particularly a ‘solopreneur’ really is, you have to excel at a wide variety of skill sets and have very strong time management skills to succeed.
Yeah, it’s not easy. Thank you for reading!
This was extremely helpful to me. I am still in the process of trying to figure out everything and trying to get some help for the things I definitely cannot manage all by my own. Prioritizing is of major importance. Thank you for sharing such a helpful post.
That’s awesome. I’m glad it will be helpful for you.
This is an informative post Fransic applying to small businesses. Thanks for sharing.
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Helpful information and tips! Point number 4 is crucial- it’s so important to stay organized when you don’t have a team!
Yeah, it’s very important. Thank you for reading!
Excellent advice. Planning ahead I’d say is the most important part of anything because you might find yourself filling more roles than just one. Being prepared helps lessen the burden!
Thank you for reading! Yeah it’s important to plan ahead!
This was a very useful guide, it raises a lot of good questions for bloggers & solopreneurs. There is a lot of hard work involved. Thanks for sharing these precious insights!
Thank you for reading!
This is a fantastic read and so true I am just beginning this process now so timely and thank you for sharing.
That’s awesome, thank you for reading!
I love how you broke this down systematically. Very insightful post!
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This is an interesting read but I am actually in this dilemna. Thank you for sharing these tips. Will find time to plan and determine how many roles my business needs.
That’s awesome. you got this!
This is useful when you are building a business or a team. Thanks!
Yeah, it’s helpful! Thank you for reading!
Great post! I love all the information! Very thorough!
I’m glad you loved them. Thank you so much!
Great post! I love your business posts as they are so easy to understand, but they also give enough info for people who need advice 🙂 thank you for sharing x
I’m glad to know that, thank you so much!
This is such a useful read for everyone who starts a business and does it alone. It’s so important to be organized and to know what your business needs to be effective.
Thank you for reading! glad to know that!
Brilliant tips, Fransic! We definitely need to apply these to our blog once we get to turn it into a proper business in the coming years – so might as well start doing the work now!
Thank you so much! Yeah, it’s important!
Such great tips! Going it alone can feel like an uphill battle with no end in sight.
Yeah, it’s tough. Thank you for sharing your feedback!
I haven’t thought of this before. Very nice info shared here. Thank you!
That’s awesome it’s something you find helpful and new!