I wrote an article several weeks ago when I guest blogged for Angela Wills, all about how to outsource when you’re a new-ish online business owner.
You can go read that to see how to make outsourcing a bit more affordable, and I also want to expand on one of those tips. The one on child labor. 
My 9 year old son Caleb is one of my Virtual Assistants, only his work is a little less virtual because he actually lives here in the home office. LOL! He works cheap ($6 an hour), which is quite a bit less than I pay the other VAs that I work with.
Caleb mostly works on content management for me. The first time I set him to a task, his assignment was to add articles to a site I build in XSitePro. It took him about 20 minutes to add 30 articles. Not bad! After he was done, he said: “You know Mom, I actually enjoy this.”
As he gets older I’ll have more advanced tasks for him, like keyword research and maybe some proofreading. Who knows, maybe he’ll develop a knack for graphic design or audio editing. He’s already recorded an intro for my podcast, once when I had laryngitis.
Caleb has his own little online biz that he’s growing slowly but surely. Last month I paid him his earnings (since he’s under 18 I have to manage his affiliate earnings through my accounts), and he wasn’t too impressed.
But then I reminded him that he will earn that much likely every month, and more, even if he doesn’t work at it. THAT got him interested and motivated to continue growing his blog.
Do you have a young one that you could train to help you out in your business? If you are paying your kids to help you, what do they do? Do share.
