TOP 10 THINGS TO OURSOURCE

 

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Outsourcing is a function that could save small businesses significant sums of money and allow them to focus their critical time on other key tasks to grow their businesses.

 

These are the top 10 things that small businesses should outsource.

 

 

1.  Employees:

 

To achieve additional savings you can also outsoruce your employees Labor cost is one of the largest cost any small business will have as they begin to grow and hire new workers.  You can reduce this cost by outsourcing your employees.  When you directly hire someone and place them as an employee in your company there is a host of costs associated with that employee.  Learn more about outsourcing employees.   

 

2.  Payroll Management:

 

If you decide to hire employees instead of outsourcing them you could still achieve saving by outsourcing the payroll management function.  Outsourcing this function will bring you significant savings and save you the headache and time you would have to devote to this task.  Use that time instead to focus on growing your business.  Learn more about outsourcing the payroll management function. 

 

3.  Legal Services:

 

Legal services can come at a high cost if you have to hire someone to be your in-house lawyer.  This task is best left to outsourcing.  Outsourcing this service will come at a cheaper cost to your small business.

 

4.  Network Management:

 

If your small business have a network someone has to manage it.  You can hire an in-house network manager or you can outsource this function.  Outsourcing this function will be more cost effective.  An outside entity can perform all of the network management tasks remotely and provide you the same level of service that an in-house network manager would provide. 

 

5.  Network Security:

 

Network security can be performed by an outside entity.  You don't have to hire someone in-house to do this task.  Your network can be actively monitored and managed remotely just as effectively as having someone on site to do it. 

 

6.  Website Management:

 

Getting your company's website developed and managed can also be outsourced.    For a small monthly fee this is another task you can hand over to someone else so that you can focus on the critical task of growing your small business. 

 

7.  Software Development:

 

If you need software specifically created to serve your small business you can outsource this function.  If you need apps developed to advance your small business, it can also be outsourced.  Outsourcing software development is a great way to get the work done by highly skilled individuals at very low cost.  Learn more about app development.

 

8.  Marketing:

 

Marketing your small business is another area that you can outsource.  If you plan to run an ongoing marketing campaign involving different marketing platforms (such as Twitter, Facebook, Newspapers, TV, Videos, brand ambassadors, street teams, etc.) it would make sense to outsource this function so that advertising across different platforms could be coordinated and done in the most cost effective way possible.  Learn more about marketing.

 

9.  Order Processing:

 

Order processing is an involved task that require high overhead for the processing, storage, packaging, and shipping  of customer orders.  You have to pay for the facility as well as for utilities.  Order processing can be outsourced to Fulfillment Centers at very reasonable cost.  Learn more about outsourcing order processing.

 

10. Manufacturing:

 

Manufacturing your products yourself can come at a high cost.  You have to manage the logistics of every component required to make the products and establish a production line to get the products developed.  This will require machinery, facility, utilities and labor.  These things come at a high cost.  It is a lot easier to outsource this task to someone who already have the resources in place and the experience to do.  Learn more about finding manufacturers.