Outsourcing for Small Business Success
Your business is growing, it’s ready to take off and be the success you have planned it to be. But you find yourself being and doing everything at once: answering emails, organising a sales campaign, refreshing your website, keeping relevant on social media, keeping the books, and looking for hired help so that you can spend more of your leadership time with your most valued clients and…growing the business some more.
As your revenue grows, you’ll find that handing over the tasks that you don’t need to do yourself will reap rewards. These may not need the expense or liabilities that come with hiring employees – outsourcing tasks can be a cost effective way to free up your valuable entrepreneurial time.
Some business tasks can be outsourced completely while others may be single components of larger business activities or projects. Outsourcing to someone who can take on those tasks helps you to reduce stress, manage your time and become more productive yourself as you focus on what you are best at.
These are the 3 main types of business tasks that are outsourced:
Administration
Outsourcing some or all of your business administration tasks can be liberating for the entrepreneur.
There are numerous adminstrative tasks that businesses have to undertake to keep running:
Organising and responding to emails and customer communication
Diary management
Organising meetings and drafting minutes
Hosting online meetings
Creating and communicating team rosters
Customer surveys and reports
Ensuring all regulatory tasks are completed on time
These are only a few examples – individual business will all have different administration needs.
Outsourcing these saves valuable time, reduces stress on the business and creates space to develop new business opportunities.
Accounts and book keeping
Keeping the books is absolutely essential for any business, large or small, but it can suck your time and energy dry. Outsourcing the tasks involved in keeping your books neat and accurate, and ensuring timely returns are made for regulatory authorities is one of the most useful decisions a small business owner can take. Much as you might enjoy numbers, your time is needed by your clients, so outsourcing tasks like these is enormously helpful:
book keeping
debt control
invoicing
reconciliation with bank statements
processing purchase invoices
general accounting
Writing
Running a business involves so much writing – even in the electronic information age! Preparing documented business plans, sales and marketing information, standard letters to clients, letters to chase debtors, quotations and reports: all these can take time. And as your business grows, you might want to set up policy documents, procedures for staff to follow, information brochures and many others.
And there’s more: website content, blog posts, social media posts, press releases, product manuals, editing and proofreading drafts written by team members before they go to print…the list is endless and depends very much on your business.
As a business owner, your time is needed by the business and outsourcing your writing tasks saves you time and helps you meet your organisation’s deadlines.
Media and Marketing
While you are busy developing your business and bringing your money-making ideas to reality, you need someone to help make sure these are being effectively communicated to the rest of the world.
These are just some of the many tasks that a business can effectively outsource to speed up communications:
Logo and document design
Website design
Branding
Posters, notices, infographics and newsletters
Photography
Video creating and editing
At Athena Services, we work at those tasks that you don’t have time for so that you can be free to use your business talents to succeed and make money. We aim to provide tailored support and help you to keep your business growing. Our goal is to help you to achieve yours.