Guest Post by Taylor Wardel, founder of TaylorMade Business Solutions.

Is DIY actually saving you money the way you think it is? Let’s find out…

You may be saving a PIF investment or monthly payment plan payment that you could be putting elsewhere instead. But what you’re actually doing in saving that $1,000, is wasting your time doing something that’s preventing you from making an additional $5,000.

Take not hiring an online business manager, for example. TaylorMade Business Solutions helps business owners with exactly this kind of behind-the-scenes support. You’re spending so much time on organization, setup, maintenance, team management, being the one everyone goes to for questions, trying to build every landing page, trying to do this and that. You’re saving a monthly expense because you can do all of those things. If you spent that time generating leads, creating content, selling your services, networking, engaging with your community, etc… you could have signed five new clients in that time and your revenue would have increased tenfold. 

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Is DIY Actually Saving You Money? The Opportunity Cost Breakdown

There are two kinds of things filling your time. The first kind are the things that actually require you: 

• Client deliverables (most of the time)
• Selling your services
• Networking and actually engaging with your community

That part has to be YOU, because it’s what allows people to connect with and experience you. A lot of the time, that’s what people are paying for.

Other things don’t need you at all.

• Building out landing pages
• Being the go-to for your team to ask questions
• Building out systems that create a central hub for your business so everyone has all the information they need in one easy to find place
• Maintaining your systems and automations
• Creating funnels

Those things don’t need you specifically figuring out the most streamlined way to do them, or how to connect this platform to that one. You’re the one with the vision and the ideation. That’s what needs you, not the execution or strategy behind every single piece.

This isn’t about being bougie and buying back your time so you can go sip a margarita by the pool. What you’re doing is investing in the success of your business. Period.

What should be happening is this: you save yourself so much time and mental and emotional energy by outsourcing your support, that you’re able to double, triple, quadruple what you’re paying that person. With the time you get back, the energy you get back, the creativity you get back, you can pour it back into your business to generate more money. You generate more money by spending money on things that will generate you more money. That’s it. That’s the whole game.

If you’re outsourcing something in a way that’s not opening up your capacity to make money, and it isn’t directly generating money for you, that’s a waste of an investment. But if you’re saving $1,000 a month to do all of this yourself just because you can, you are actually costing yourself so much more than that monthly investment you’re scared of making. You are holding yourself back by costing yourself tenfold what that investment would have been.

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The Compounding Effect

This isn’t a one time loss, it’s literally recurring and growing month after month.

Every month you save that $1,000, that’s another month you’re costing yourself that $5,000. Save $1,000 five months in a row, and you’ve actually cost yourself $25,000 in revenue you could have had.

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DIY Has a Hard Ceiling on Growth

DIY has a hard financial ceiling. There is a maximum number of clients you can take on. A maximum amount of revenue you can make. A maximum amount you can do on your own.

The only way to grow is by building a strong foundation that can actually support where you want to go. When you’re doing everything yourself, eventually you’re going to hit a cap. There are only so many clients you can serve, hours you can work, and things you can manage before something has to give. That point looks different for every business, but trying to do it all on your own will get you there a whole lot faster. Growing past it means taking a leap and investing in support, even when that feels a little scary at first.

If you’re committing to your goal, to the end game, to long term success, you have to take some steps that feel a little scary in the beginning.  Support is not an expense that eats into profit, it’s what pushes the ceiling up and actually creates more profit.

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Pay Now, or Pay More Later

You’re either going to pay for it now, or you’re going to pay for it later, when you’re forced to hire in a rush, during a crisis, after you’ve already lost momentum. The cost doesn’t go away. It just moves and compounds.

The longer you wait, the more money you’ve already lost trying to do it yourself for a long period of time. If that freed-up capacity could have generated $5,000 in additional revenue, did you really save $1,000?

So is DIY actually saving you money? No. It’s costing you tenfold what you think you’re saving.

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About Taylor

Taylor is an Online Business Manager and Virtual Assistant who partners with big dreamers and fearless doers in the online space. She helps business owners streamline their operations, build better systems, manage projects, and take the never-ending behind-the-scenes tasks off their plates so they have more time (and mental space!) to focus on growing their business.

But Taylor isn’t interested in being just another person checking tasks off a list. She becomes a true right-hand woman to her clients, creating solutions around what their business actually needs and helping turn all of those big ideas into something organized, efficient, and doable.

Think OBM + VA + ride-or-die biz bestie all rolled into one. 🤍

Learn more about working with Taylor here.

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A Note From Young Wealth Co.

And honestly, we see this same thing happen with bookkeeping all the time.

Hiring support does mean adding another expense to your business, and we’re never going to tell you to spend money just for the sake of outsourcing. It needs to make sense for your numbers.

But there’s also a cost to spending hours every month categorizing transactions, fixing mistakes, trying to understand reports, or avoiding your books altogether because you don’t know where to start.

That’s why bookkeeping should be something you actually plan for in your business budget.

If you know you eventually want to hand your books off, start building that expense into your numbers now. What would you need to bring in each month to comfortably afford bookkeeping? What could you do with the hours you’d get back? And, maybe most importantly, would having accurate numbers help you make better decisions with the money you’re already making?

Sometimes the question isn’t “Can I afford to outsource this?”

It’s “What is continuing to do this myself costing me?”

If bookkeeping is one of the things you’re ready to take off your plate, Young Wealth Co. can help. We’ll take care of the numbers so you can spend more of your time doing the work your business actually needs you for.

Learn more about monthly bookkeeping here. We only have a few more spots remaining before we close our new client onboarding for the year on Oct. 31st, 2026 – January 2027.

Stick around, friend. Your next money breakthrough might just be one blog post away.

Guest post written by Taylor Wardel, owner of TaylorMade Business Solutions.

~Hannah & The Young Wealth Co. Team