4 Ways To Determine If You Should Outsource Small Business Tasks

Wondering whether outsourcing sales or small business tasks makes business sense? Find the answers to your outsourcing questions in this outsourcing article.

Over the last few years, small businesses have been increasingly choosing to hire independent contractors and freelancers to help them complete non-strategic, but necessary, tasks for their companies.

This increase in outsourced work is primarily driven by how easy it is to find talented individuals with specialized skills. Along with the ease of sharing materials, outsourcing has become a viable option for many businesses.

If, as a small business owner, you have yet to dive into the world of outsourcing, here are four ways to determine if you should hire independent contractors or freelancers to help you complete business tasks so you can focus on the crucial aspects of your business.

1.   Cost

The most important factor that you need to consider before outsourcing a particular task is the cost involved. You need to figure out if outsourcing will be less expensive than if you were to keep the activity in-house. If the answer is no, then don’t outsource the tasks.

2.   Relative Advantage

When you outsource business tasks to another business, a freelancer or independent contractor, you can free up your valuable time and resources.

However, you need to ask yourself if the time and resources that will be freed up by outsourcing can be put to a more profitable use somewhere else. If the answer is no, then it may not be worth outsourcing.

3.   Quality and Convenience

Almost any task, from copywriting to programming, can be outsourced. The question that should be asked, however, is whether or not a job can be outsourced to a quality service provider for a reasonable price.

While you may find freelancers that will handle your tasks for an extremely low price, they may deliver low-quality services and you’ll have to manage them individually. If you end up spending just as much time dealing with problems, you're not gaining anything.

4.   Importance of Your Core Strategies

Outsourcing is a great way to allow you to grow your business while keeping employee costs low. However, it is possible to outsource too much. You should never outsource tasks that are core to your overall business strategy.

This reduces your ability to control the quality of the end product. To keep your customers satisfied and ensure future growth, strategic, or core, tasks that should be kept in-house.

Many tasks such as call centre operations, remote customer service and technical support can be handled remotely, so they can be easily outsourced to a company that provides managed remote solutions.

Outsourcing is a balancing act, but with enough thought and foresight, you can determine which elements of your business you can outsource and which should remain in-house.

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Outsourcing With MARS By SHEROES

If you want to hire remote workers but don’t have the capacity or inclination to learn how to manage a remote team, here’s how to outsource your remote processes without having to learn how to manage remote workers, monitor remote employees, or conduct team building for remote teams.

SHEROES’ remote work program, Managed Remote Solutions (MARS), is an end-to-end process on-cloud platform that enables significant improvement in quality and efficiency when it comes to building virtual teams and knowing how to effectively manage remote employees.

In this article in Business Today, SHEROES Founder & CEO, Sairee Chahal, notes that:

"Companies don't have the wherewithal to manage the distributed workforce so they outsource an entire process to us, such as sales, digital marketing, customer support, content. We manage the remote workers to ensure the deliverables are timely and meet the desired quality.”

MARS Partners are highly-qualified and experienced MARS Certified Remote Professionals (MCRP) that are best in class and already serve top companies with processes including inbound sales, outbound sales, customer support and operations.

The processes managed by project managers at MARS by SHEROES include inbound sales, outbound sales, customer support and operations. Find out how you can scale your operational and support processes with MARS by SHEROES.

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