Outsourcing for Small Business

The days when only big companies outsourced business operations are long gone. Today, small business outsourcing is an option for entrepreneurs and business owners to reap significant financial and other benefits as well.

Small Business Outsourcing

Here are key advantages to outsourcing worth considering for your small business.

Cost savings 

Budgetary concerns are always uppermost in a small business owner’s mind, whether he or she runs a startup or a more established company. For example, the costs of hiring and retaining full-time employees often strain a business already under pressure to spend funds elsewhere (on research and development, equipment upgrades, etc.).

Outsourcing functions like human resources, benefits administration, and so on converts fixed costs into variable costs, releasing much-needed capital for other important aspects of the business.  

Focus 

As any small business owner knows, peripheral or minor details can sap precious time better devoted to core business concerns. Rather than being obliged to attend to administrative chores—which are necessary, but consume vast quantities of time—a small business owner can outsource such functions and devote his or her energies towards:

• Developing a long-range strategic vision for the business
• Focusing more closely on improvements to customer service
• Spending more time on revenue-generating activities that enhance the company’s appeal to prospective investors

Efficiency

Whether it’s managing employees or benefits, meeting payroll, or filing taxes, it’s likely there’s an outside provider specializing in one or more of these functions who can likely handle them with greater efficiency, and thereby reduce the risk of costly errors.

Expertise

Even if you’re good at bookkeeping or payroll processing, you might not have the time that an outside provider has to stay current with the latest trends or technological improvements.

Competitive advantage

Small businesses are continually challenged to compete with larger companies, whose superior resources provide a dominant competitive advantage. Small business outsourcing enables the “little guy” to access similar economies of scale, thereby leveling the playing field and enhancing its credibility in the marketplace.

Compliance

How much does the typical small business owner understand about ever-changing regulations concerning benefits administration, hiring practices, employee discrimination laws, and more? Outsourcing firms that specialize in these and similar business areas must keep pace with compliance. Gaining access to their expertise can help a small business avoid costly fines for failure to comply with local, state, and government regulations.