o » website maintenance (social websites like Facebook, Myspace, etc). ’'m planning on doing most of my marketing through these sites in 2009 and I’m on about 25+ sites as an artist. My VA (gettriday.com, as recommended in your book) does all the updates and checks the sites once a week to gather e-mail messages, comments, etc., filters them and sends me a report once a week including all the details for me to respond to. (Saves about one to two hours/day.) e » photo retouching for my press pics is done by elance (saved five hours of work time and about $500). e » management of my mailing list for gig dates, album updates, etc. (Saves about one hour for each mailing.) e > I started testing muses (learning languages with music to sell online). I’m still testing! e » I decided to open a publishing operation online for film companies to license music for film with just a mouse click, without having to negotiate deals for months. It will happen in 2009 (I start testing soon). People are generally surprised and amazed that a person who doesn’t seem to be very corporate (I look like a retired punk rocker, haha) outsources parts of his life and lives like a millionaire (I guess we do although we’re far from it!). I realized that I could do it after I got the first positive feedback from my outsource VA. I got the results of my project posted on elance and a day later I got the results. [ went, yeah baby, this is MINE! The biggest change is, that I now have my life under control. I take care of my little daughter (20 months) half the day (second half, my wife takes care of her), I take care of business, and I take time to do things I always wanted to do. Revenue-wise I’m pretty much the same I was before but I have a lot more spare time and a clear head (so I guess I’ve gotten a lot richer!). I work whenever I want (no boss) about 24-30 hours/week (including office hours and music-studio hours) and what I do now is only what I really love to do. I’m still step-by-ste