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5 Things Small Business Owners Should Outsource and Delegate

5 Things Small Business Owners Should Outsource & Delegate

Like we’ve mentioned in a previous blog post, there are so many benefits to delegating. You’re handing it over to the experts and it frees up your time to do the actual, important stuff. You know, the business stuff. 

For Small Business Owners, delegating and outsourcing becomes practically the same. But what is it that you can outsource and delegate? 

In this blog post, we’re here to help you decide what would best fit your business and give you an idea of what you can perhaps delegate in the future. 

Hence, here are 5 things small business owners should outsource and delegate:

1) Website Design and Development:

If you’ve never designed or developed a website before, it’ll be a waste of time for you to try and do it on your own. Even if you want to do it on your own, you’ll end up at the first basic step, spending hours just trying to understand what on earth hosting is. 
Your website is important because it’s one of the first links that appear on the search engine that represent you. And if it doesn’t run smoothly or look good, forget about ever converting a visitor to a customer
By outsourcing and delegating website design and development, you can be assured of having a smooth-running website. 

2) Marketing

In this day and age, every business needs to gain control over how they’re doing marketing and ensuring that they’re marketing the business to the right target audience. 
How many times have you handed out flyers with the best discount, only to have them thrown away almost immediately? Well, it’s because you were probably not going about marketing your business the right way. 
You need to understand your target customer, know-how and through what mediums you need to market your business. Not to mention, in this day and age, social media is a huge platform, and if you used correctly, you’ll have tons of phone calls. 
So, for the sake of your business, ensure you hand it over to the right freelancer or agency to take care of your marketing. Work hand in hand with them to get the best for business. Here are a few ways you can take advantage of instagram marketing. 

3) Design

They say “don’t judge a book by its cover?” but you do realise that we still will judge how a book could be based on your impression of its cover?
How did you create your last Instagram advertisement or blog post thumbnail? Did you just take a random photo, maybe used a free app to put some words on it? And for some reason, it didn’t turn out so great? Well, this is where an expert is best needed. Learning the art of design and illustration is a skill perfected by freelance designers and agencies over the years. They know what colours best suit your post, the kind of lettering and background work that would go into it and attract your customers. 
This isn’t to say that it isn’t a part of marketing and that you cannot use a free app for designing your posts. But if you’ve got the budget, you should definitely be looking into outsourcing and delegating your design work. 

4) Customer Support

Many businesses will find that their growth rate starts to stagnate after a certain point. 
That certain point is when they start gaining traction, their office is getting orders one after the other, and it should be the starting point of even more growth, but the problem? The boss is fielding calls left and right? 
Ask yourself this: are you (or your employees) spending too much time on customer support rather than the business?
Then, it isn’t a question at this point. You HAVE to outsource your customer support so that you can focus on what’s important - gaining more customers and delivering quality to those customers.

5) Accounting & Bookkeeping

Do you find yourself struggling to keep track of accounts by the end of every month? Did you pull out hair at the end of the last financial year trying to file taxes? Are you still unsure of how your accounts are really supposed to work? 

Finances are the lifeblood of every business and if you’re unable to get a hold of it, it’s time to consider outsourcing it? You, more than anyone else, know how important financials are for your business, so wouldn’t it be better to delegate it to someone specialised in it?

A beauty salon had this to say about us, "Highly recommend Talo Financial. Cindy is a total gem. Such a positive and helpful approach. It’s clear that Cindy had the best interest of your small business at heart."

At Talo, we’re only on the lookout for our clients, especially for those who’re struggling with their accounting and bookkeeping. 

So why not let us do it for you?

We’ve got you covered,


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