Getting Too Busy for a One Person Business?

Home business operators frequently run their businesses solo. When business picks up, it often happens that there's too much work for us to handle on our own. The options are to hire employees, find peer partners to whom overflow work can be offloaded, or subcontract some of the work to other independents. This is frequently the case for independent consultants like me, who end up working seven days a week and juggling projects furiously just to keep everyone happy and stay on schedule. Unfortunately, many of us refuse to relinquish control and end up working more hours than our bodies and our families can bear over the long haul.

This SF Chronicle Mind Your Business article has some very good tips on how to handle these types of situations while keeping your clients and your family happy. Then the question becomes, is there actually time to follow this advice?

I'm sure that some of my seasoned home business readers can contribute some practical, real-life ideas on how to solve this dilemma and I'd like to hear from them. Have you faced a time when you have too much work for one person to accomplish? How did you handle it? Was there a breaking point where you decided you absolutely had to do something to resolve the problem?

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