A huge THANK YOU goes out to Align client and Virginia-based photographer Tori Watson for writing an incredible blog post about her experience as a small business owner choosing which aspects of her business to outsource. 
 
Here's a snippet from her blog post. We found ourselves enthusiastically nodding along to this first paragraph: 
 
Sometimes as small business owners I think we can get stuck in the rut of how we've "always done" something, and as our business grows we don't even realize it's holding us back. But what we DO realize is that we feel like we don't have enough time in a day to get everything done. Things that once were easy to get to, somehow end up on the back burner. That's because business is growing - which is great! But it also means we can no longer keep doing everything like we did when we first started out, mainly, doing it all ourselves.... Read the full post here. 
 
Tori, thank you SO MUCH for sharing your experience and knowledge with fellow photographers. You rock! :)