Before that, let's go back in time and take a look at major revolution or 'waves' that has occured when Internet became a business or marketplace.

First there was Search Engine revolution, with Alta Vista, Yahoo and now Google coming onto scene and with webmasters busy tweaking their pages for high ranking on these search engines which means more traffic.

Then there was email marketing revolution, when people discovered use of email as a means for follow up selling and is still being widely used today.

Finally, there was affiliate marketing wave, popularised perhaps by Amazon, and with most businesses following using this model to distribute and sell their products.

And today, we have blogs and rss feeds being used as a new form of marketing for businesses. Blogs appeared few years back, and in a way was similar to a forum, except that with blogs, you call shots and can write and talk about anything under Sun.

It's not that they don't understand value of those efforts, or they don't want to make time. It's that they're simply trying to do too much by themselves. They're so busy running their business that they're not working ON their business.

Are You Spending All Your Time on Little Stuff? Owning your own business requires wearing a lot of hats. But it seems that when many people leave their jobs to "go solo," they think they must work completely solo as well. They insist on doing everything themselves — even tasks they know darn well they're not good at.

They try in vain to design their own Web sites and brochures, write their own sales copy, process their own orders, manage their own mailing list, personally respond to every customer call and e-mail, ship their own products, and more. Pretty soon they're running around like that proverbial headless chicken.

What eventually happens is their love for their work— reason they started their own business in first place— drowns in a flood of administrative trivia. Suddenly one morning they wake up feeling burnt out and without that positive, creative energy they used to have.

When this happened to me a few years ago, I was lucky to learn about virtual assistants (VAs). VAs are freelancers who take care of all that "busy work" for entrepreneurs like us. Because VAs are independent themselves, they work on an as-needed basis from their own homes or offices, saving you cost and hassle of hiring a regular office assistant. I now have two VAs — Liz, who lives in Boston, and June, who lives in Georgia. And I can't live without them!

What Could YOU Delegate to a VA?

During next week, keep a log of all your activities. Then sit down and review it. Decide which activities are truly ones that only you can do and which you can delegate. For example, here are some of tasks I delegate to my VAs: