Things to Outsource in Your Small Business

Things to Outsource in Your Small Business After you’ve been running your business for a while, you might find you have less and less time to complete all the jobs that you ideally want to get done. If you’re making enough money or have a service, you can swap for another service you might like to consider outsourcing some of the jobs that you find eat into the time that you can spend on the business. Let’s take a look at some places where you will get the biggest bang for your buck. Virtual assistants are amazing organization wizards. Anything that you think you dont have time for they are masters at. If you manage to hire a good one, you will find that it is more like having two of yourself working within the business to tackle the general running and even some extra things on top. Some of the things that they can manage are: 1. Social media management 2. Emails 3. Research 4. Data input 5. Travel booking and arranging When it comes to customer service, you might find that over time you don’t actually have time to handle everything yourself, and it won’t really fall into the hands of your virtual assistant either. You’re going to want to outsource to a specialist in online computers and communications, they are, after all, trained to do this. When it comes to customer service, you need to have the highest standard you can afford. Accounting, it is one of those things that many can manage in the first few years. The outgoings and income aren’t too hard to maintain and keep track of. As you grow, there will be more things that you can expense and other areas that a qualified accountant can help you with. They aren’t particularly expensive, and what they can save you each year in taxes they are more than worth their weight in gold. While your amazing virtual assistant can, of course, do a large portion of the sales and marketing using your social media channels, it is in your best interest to either get hands-on and learn to do it yourself or hire a freelancer who specialises in social media for a company of your size or in your sector. You can use sites like Upwork, People Per Hour or Fiverr to find someone capable and well within your budget. If you’d like to manage the platforms that they use and the access they would have to those platforms, then you’re going to be looking for a combination of LastPass and Buffer, Social Oomph or Hootsuite. This will allow them access to all of your accounts without having the passwords. Lighten your load when it comes to data and ‘outsource’ as much as you can into a cloud network. The cloud will mean that you never have to work in one place, and nor do any of the people that you choose to hire. When it comes to running your business, you want to give yourself as much time as you can to work on it and not in it. Getting bogged down with things that eat into your time should be viewed as money which you could have earned.