As an entrepreneur, success is the goal. That’s all you want for your business: success, and for your employees to be happy in their roles. The problem with success is that it’s not cheap – at all. Start-up business costs rack up really quickly, and when you don’t have a lot of money and plan to bootstrap your business as much as possible, this can be a little bit of a kick. The amount of time, money and people that it takes to get a business going properly is huge, and you have to be prepared for that. You can easily start your business and run it on the tiniest of budgets, but tiny budgets cannot account for big costs, which means that you can only go so far before you can’t move any further forward with your business.
Don’t panic. Before you give up on your venture before it’s even begun, you are able to outsource certain areas so that you are free to focus on the core parts of the business. Or rather, free to concentrate on the parts of the business that you enjoy! You get the chance to think about your product or service and the way that you network it. It’s actually very good business sense to outsource the parts of your business that you don’t like to do, because those pieces are the ones you won’t put too much effort into and you need to put good effort into every single area of your business. So, it makes sense for you to allow for others to take over pieces of your company – the experts who know exactly what to do to enhance your success and help it to run as smoothly as possible.
Let’s take a look at six areas of your business that you can outsource today.
Administration
Admin is a bore – let’s be honest. Paperwork and keeping up with calls and messages and having to be the gatekeeper to your own business? It’s a bore. You have too much work to do outside of the admin of the business and for you, the day to day activities in administration are going to slow you down. You need to think about how to handle your customer support, answering questions on the phone and dealing with the business calendar, and it makes sense to hire an expert to manage all of that for you. Virtual assistants can be perfect, here, because they can handle all of the administrative difficulties without too much issue.
Accounts
Unless you are a financial whizz, you’re going to need a hand with your payroll and accounts services. If you need tax preparation services for the year, you need to bring people on who know exactly what they are doing. Your employees need to be paid on time, and you need to step away from the distraction and focus on business continuity and growth. Your accounts being handled elsewhere can make a huge difference to the security of your business as you can guarantee that someone who is an expert is taking care of it for you.
Website Design & Development
As someone who is good at running a business, you may not be good at running a business website. And that’s okay! You don’t have to be the expert in everything that your business involves. Web design is a crucial part of your business success, and you need to consider outsourcing your website to an agency. You get less creative control, but you can tell them exactly what you want from your website and let the experts recreate it. It costs you less than hiring in-house, and because you’re sending your web design to an outside company, you are getting exceptional quality at the same time. Outsourcing the web development to an agency that specialises in it is just good business sense: if you’re not an expert, you call those who are!
Blog
Your company blog reflects the personality of your business and most business owners wouldn’t be sitting around scheduling social media Tweets or posts, or even writing the company blog. Outsourcing this to freelancers who have a knack for great content and even better social media control is just smart. You can do this for the entire blog, or you can choose to focus on your social media posts alone. Either way, having regular blog posts paid for can mean that you are getting the exact content that your business needs and without too much effort on your part.
Social Media Management
On the topic of social media posts, you can outsource your entire social media portfolio for someone else to manage. Most businesses are now required to have a social media presence if they want to be taken seriously, and if you can ensure that you are one of those businesses you are going to be able to stay ahead of the curve. Social media plays a huge role in today’s society, which means that if you’re not on the ball and taking advantage of this, you’re going to be behind. Being online and having an outside company managing your posts, pictures, updates and replies to messages is just smart!
Market Research
Having the right client base and one that is growing is just good business. You need to be able to have the right company working with you who can be tasked properly to be patient enough to generate leads for you! This is the best way that you are going to be able to grow your business and build a good relationship with new clients. Market research takes a lot of time, and choosing to outsource this could do wonders for your business and how well you are running.
Putting all of these pieces of your business together with the right outsourcing management can mean that you are hitting levels of success that you didn’t even know were possible. Take the time to break apart your tasks and focus only on what makes sense for your business.