As your small business starts to grow, you’ll notice more and more work coming your way. This is a blessing and a curse. You’ll be making more money; but, you’ll also be spending more time. Using your new-found income, you can invest in professionals, to do some of the work for you.
In the past, you would have to hire an employee to cover most of a business’ operations. But, nowadays, you’ve got some less long term and more affordable options. This post goes through some of the common business jobs, and how you can get them done on the cheap.
Website Design/Management
For large jobs, like Web Design, you ideally want to hire someone. Using a service like Freelancer.com, you can hire web developers for a little as a few hours. You post a project on the site, and then professionals bid on the job. You then have a choice. You can choose to risk security and go for the cheapest option, or talk to each bidder and figure out who is best for you. A lot of bidders will be based overseas, making their time cheaper.
Customer/Store Management
It’s best to have professionals in control of your store and customer management. But, as a cheaper alternative, you can have software to do it for you. CRM services like Magento offer to look after your customers and handle your admin. You just have to monitor the software and set it up.
Social Media Management
Preparing posts, making a schedule and posting the content all take up a lot of your time. Social media is essential to an online business; so, you should really leave it in the hands of a professional! Companies like Giraffe Social Media will do all of it for you, and even guarantee to positively impact your income. They will also handle comments for you, so you don’t have to get into the social media jam that you dread.
Accounting
Using basic accounting and finance software is alright when you’re not making a huge amount of money. But, as your company gets bigger, it’s a good idea to look into professional accounting. You don’t have to hire your own accountant; you can have a team on call for much less. Scott Partners Small Business Accountants offer full accounting services. They operate on a pay as you go basis, so you only pay for what you use. This will give you confidence that your books are all balanced.
Customer Support
If you offer call-in or email support, then you’ll get more and more work as your company grows. Thankfully, you can pay another company to handle support for you. You can find services that have call centers within your country, and that will only charge for the calls they handle. This will make your customer service a little less personal but can add another level of professionalism.
There’s even more that you can try, but not enough space to cover it in this article! So, you’ll have to do some research! Be careful when hiring contractors; make sure you have a contract and that you trust the people you hire.