How much to pay social media assistant?

[Brad Woodall]

Greetings everyone.

As I'm ramping up my marketing in the coming months with what little time I have available trying to build a REI business, work a 9-5 (hoping to be out of this in 1-2 years), and chase a toddler around in the evenings, I have decided I need to outsource my social media & SEO work to someone else. Not to mention for building a successful business, this is my first step of outsourcing/delegating.

Not sure why this never dawned on me but over dinner this weekend with my wife, my cousin, and his wife I realized... DUH! His wife does social media, blogging, copywriting, marketing, etc for a living and went to school for it. She was recently laid off from her job but cannot go back to work because they have a 7 month old baby who needs more medical attention than most babies due to a birth defect. She is looking for freelance work to bring in some extra money.

I can utilize her for working on my social media presence, SEO, and some other administrative tasks around marketing.

I have already told her that it will probably be small tasks to start out with and I can't pay her anything steady until I start getting more deals and bring in more income as I scale.

Curious what everyone is paying for this type of work? I have no idea where to start.