How do you operate your business?

[Jose Reyes]

Curious. This is posed to all the wholesalers and rehabbers. Do most people run a one man/women shop? Are you the marketer, deal analyzer, prospector, designer and accountant for your business? Or do any of you actually have any full or part time employees that help you with day to day operation and marketing? Have you found that hiring or building a team around you has increased your business or was it a waste of money?

I've been solo for slightly over 10 years. I've had a few fly by night "marketing assistants", but they never panned out. I have came to the conclusion that you have to pay good money for good help that will see the big picture and will stick around and know what they are doing. I have now convinced myself that I do in fact need to run my business like a business and hire someone that can do the things that I lack will power or knowledge to do myself. For me it's a marketing assistant. 

Any thoughts or advice on how to get a successful business to the next level from someone that either developed a team or bit the bullet and hired someone to push them to the next level?