Small businesses have two major challenges – it lacks the human resources and the funds to expand as fast as it wants. While this is true this should not be seen as an insurmountable blunder for growth. In fact, it is an opportunity to look into other means to expand with less costs and strain to the company’s HR. Outsourcing is an alternative start-ups need to explore. It is simple, cost-effective, and can give you the needed push to realise your business goals.
Get your costs down
By outsourcing jobs, you can free yourself from the hassle (and cost) of hiring and selection, even training. You can just send out a request for tasks you want done and the BPO provider can give you qualified people to start at a date of your choosing.
This arrangement is very ideal for businesses that just started its operations. It can easily scale up its HR needs and grow its talents as the need arise. Billing for the hours is also easy and hassle-free. You get a very productive system. Thanks to existing technologies and the reliability of online communication tools monitoring task completion is easy.
You are not hiring blindly. You are still in complete control minus the costs of having these people insourced. When the business needs more talents, outsource more talents. If the demand is low, taper off the contracted professionals. HR forecasting is just more responsive this way!
Get specialised knowledge fast and easy
Small businesses are still groping in the dark in some areas of its operations and this is not necessarily bad. This simply means the business is growing but the skills of your people are still not at par.
If you find yourself struggling with social media marketing for example, you might need to outsource a social specialist that can get your business performing in popular platforms. The reality is you do not have the right person with the needed skills to do the job. If you choose to source internally, you will only end up spending a lot of time and effort to train him. Contracting this job outside your walls does not only make sense, it also allows you to tap a talent that can give you impressive output, instantly!
Focus is key to success
Outsourcing jobs can help you operate your business without the distractions. By hiring seasoned professionals from an HR provider you are empowering your business minus your involvement. You can outsource talents to do your financial reports that way you can have all the time you need to think of better offerings. You can outsource VA’s to take your calls and get as many people as you can to your business’ sales funnel.
Outsourcing gives you space to create and nurture the business from the inside. If you are dedicated to thinking about growing your business, then growth becomes inevitable.
Having a small business should never be an excuse to outsource. Engaging in BPO is not about your size but your actual needs. If you are into focused growth, if you want scalability, if you want value for your money when it comes to paying wages then contracting key functions outside your organisation is not only practical, it would contribute big time to your bottomline.
