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On this episode of the\xa0Online Marketing Made Easy Podcast,\xa0I interviewed my good friend, Chris Ducker. This interview came at a perfect time, because the evening after completing the interview, I got on a plane to the Philippines to speak at Chris' event, Tropical Think Tank.\nThis was an exciting trip for me because not only is this my first trip to the Philippines,\xa0I also had the opportunity to speak with some some really fantastic people, including Pat Flynn, John Dumas, Greg Hickman and Natalie Sisson, and of course Chris Ducker himself, so it was a lot of fun.\nOn today\u2019s show, we are talking about the power of virtual support and outsourcing.\xa0This is an important topic for me, because I recently learned a valuable lesson, something I did not believe for so long until I finally experienced it personally in my business.\nSo many successful people I look up to have told me that it is possible to work less and make a bigger impact, which includes bigger profits.\xa0That was hard for me to believe because it went against everything I knew about hard work paying off.\nHowever, on\xa0episode 23, I talked about how I experienced this very thing in 2013. I tell you this because\xa0with the right support, you truly can do less and make more. That\u2019s why I think the topic today is so valuable to anyone building a business online.\nI\u2019ve actually had Chris on the show before and so today we are going to dive a bit deeper into this topic. For those of you who do not know Chris,\xa0Chris is a serial entrepreneur, virtual staffing expert, blogger, podcaster and author of the new book\xa0Virtual Freedom\xa0(which is a FANTASTIC book and one I highly recommend.)\nIn this episode, right from the start,\xa0Chris gets personal about a recent experience he had with burnout\xa0- and how his burnout did not effect his business AT ALL.\nAlso, Chris dives into\xa0the mindset and mechanics around expanding your team with virtual support. The mindset requires a different way of looking at your business and your role in your business, seeing the value of letting go of some of it, and leveraging it by entrusting certain aspects of it to someone else. The mechanics include\xa0specific strategies and tools you can use to maximize your outsourcing experience.\nIn this episode, here\u2019s what we\u2019ll cover:\n\nMindset and the mechanics of expanding your team\n\nThe value of letting go\xa0and leveraging\n\nChris' burnout, and what he did about it\n\nThe importance of taking care of yourself\xa0and switching off regularly\n\nWhat entrepreneurs should do with the\xa0time they save by outsourcing\n\nHow a virtual team kept Chris' business going in the midst of his burnout\n\nThe importance of entrepreneurs going off the grid from time to time\n\nWhat\xa0super hero syndrome\xa0is, and how to overcome it\n\nThe impact of ego on your business\n\nWhat will defeat the benefits of your outsourcing efforts\n\nHow you can make more by working less\n\nHow to counter the feeling that you can do things faster yourself than telling someone else to do it\n\nThe biggest\xa0problem when training your virtual staff\n\nHow to throw little curve balls to your VA, and why you should\n\nWhy you need to\xa0take care of your team\xa0ahead of all else\n\nWhether you should outsource locally or overseas\n\nThe 3 basic ways Chris\xa0communicates with his staff\n\nThe point where a lot of\xa0businesses begin to fail\xa0and how to avoid it\n\nAnd so much more!\n\nWhen training your virtual staff, the biggest challenge you'll run into is yourself [Tweet This]