QA 39 – When should I hire an expert, and when should I do it myself?




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Summary:  <br> <br> In today's Q&amp;A, we are sharing when you should hire an expert to create pricing bundle options for your website.<br> <br> Do you have a question you want answered on our podcast? We would love to help you!<br> <br> Click here to ask your question!<br> Resources Mentioned in this Episode<br> <br> Easy Digital Downloads plugin<br> Pricing bundle options on Elementary Librarian and our Flip Your Life eCourse<br> Hire someone from Odesk, Fiverr or Elance<br> <br> Let’s dive into this week’s question!<br> <br> JOCELYN: Hey y’all, you’re listening to Q&amp;A with S&amp;J.<br> <br> SHANE: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast, where life always comes before work. We’re your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. Join us each week as we teach you how to flip your lifestyle upside down by selling stuff online. Are you ready for something different? All right, let's get started.<br> <br> What’s going on guys? Welcome back to another Q&amp;A with S&amp;J mini podcast where we answer your questions on our podcast twice a week. I wanted to plug something here real quick. We are also going to open a mail bag. We’re having trouble getting to all of these questions because it does take a little time to record, edit, and do all of these things to get them online like in the iTunes and things like that. We’re going to actually start answering some of the questions that you submit to us on a mail bag blog post where we can type out a quick answer or we can quickly do a screen capture to record a tutorial and hopefully, those will be coming out a couple of times a week.<br> <br> Make sure you are checking back to the blog every day. Don’t just check on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday when our podcast comes out. Make sure you’re checking on the other days because we’re going to start answering even more of your questions online because we have so many that we just want to make sure we get to as many people as possible and get those questions answered.<br> <br> Today’s question on the podcast comes from Adrianne  and she writes writes:<br> “My question is, how do I make a bundle image like you have on your lesson plan options page? You have three options side by side and each one has its own “buy it now” button. Should I hire someone to do this? I love the way it looks. It would fit perfectly with what I want to do and sell online. I’m moving over to Easy Digital Downloads plug in over the break and I just wanted to incorporate something similar to that. Thanks guys. You rock.”<br> JOCELYN: All right, thanks so much for your question and in case you’re wondering, we will put some links to what Adrianne is talking about on my Elementary Librarian page, the lesson plan options, and also a link to the Easy Digital Downloads plug-in.<br> <br> SHANE: You can also see exactly how we do that. We have the same bundle set up on FlippedLifestyle.com/FlipYourLife and when you click over to the pricing options, you can see how we list our bundled options side by side there.<br> <br> JOCELYN: All right. So I’d like to tell you that there’s a real simple answer to this question but there actually is not. The technical answer to this question is the way that you do this is that you create tables in HTML and you style them using CSS.<br> <br> SHANE: Which is all programmer speak so…<br> <br> JOCELYN: And so if that is as foreign of a language as it is to me, you probably will need to hire somebody to do this, and that’s actually what I did on both of these sites.<br> <br> SHANE: This kind of touches on a deeper question is when should you try to do something by yourself in your online business and when should you hire an expert. Now, Jocelyn and I both do understand HTML and CSS a little bit. We kind of know like how it works but by no means are we experts or coders by any stretch of the imagination.<br> <br> It would be laughable for us to try to figure o...