[dworin]

This advice is backwards. If you're so busy with the backlog, you should hire someone to work on the backlog and supervise them. If you're running the business, your job is finding work, then managing the work, then executing the work, in that order. Anyone worth their salt at selling technical work for a small firm would be doing it themselves, why would they even need the job? Better to hire freelancers who you know are great workers, but aren't as good at attracting them business, and having them help work through the backlog.