Outsourcing is well known as an extremely powerful tool that has the potential to create tangible results and positively impact businesses of all sizes and industries.

If you are in the process of investigating outsourcing for your business, use the below signs as a checklist to determine if you are ready or not.

When you have a clear picture of your finances

Simply put outsourcing, is another business expense. So before you decide to commit to outsourcing, make sure you have a firm grip on your business’ financial position. Once you have this, you can then determine whether it is a viable course of action.

It’s never too early

In our opinion, it is never too early to outsource. Outsourcing is a great tool for businesses of all sizes and at all stages of their development.

We currently help a number of businesses throughout Australia and New Zealand meet their goals through outsourcing. Regardless of your businesses position, we help you design and implement a bespoke outsourcing strategy that is right for you.

When you are time poor

One of the best ways to start utilising outsourcing is to take all those time-consuming, back-of-house admin tasks off your core staff’s plate.

Tasks such as admin, bookkeeping, payroll, data entry and social media, are all important parts of your business. However, they often require your local staff to spend more time on them then they should. Allow your core staff to focus on their main roles by outsourcing these tasks.

As your team develops

As your team grows, there will come a time when you need to make a decision, continue hiring locally at a fairly high rate or outsource certain tasks to experts in the Philippines for roughly 40% less than locally.

When your structures are tight

We believe outsourcing works best when businesses have strong internal structures and systems in place that operate efficiently. Thus, we recommend businesses ensure all their internal structures are water-tight before building a remote team.

On the flip side of this, the decision to start outsourcing is often the perfect time to look at your internal processes and either redesign or introduce new structures and systems that will positively impact all areas of your business.

When you have figured out your onboarding processes

New staff onboarding is important for any businesses. As it provides all new staff with the platform from which they will grow.

As your remote staff are not sitting in the same office as you, it can be hard to monitor them. Thus, it is highly recommended that you create clearly defined onboarding processes to ensure new remote staff have the platform they need to succeed.

If the goal is growth

Along your business’ journey, there are bound to be times when you are looking to grow and times when consolidation is the goal.  If you are in or entering the growth phases, outsourcing is the most effective and efficient tool to help you reach your growth goals.  

When it is time to specialise

One of the natural parts of growth is team expansion. With expansion comes specialisations. But, often times hiring experienced specialists can be quite expensive. But, outsourcing with Deployed will connect you with skilled, experienced and passionate experts in the areas you need.

When you have realised freelancers do not work

This is a fairly negative sign, as it often requires a bit of trial and error or seeing another business experiencing problems. But, we have seen a number of businesses turn to outsourcing due to negative experiences with underperforming freelancers.

Avoid this fate by turning to a trusted outsourcing provider, such as Deployed, before ever looking at freelancers.

When you have found the right partner

There are a number of outsourcing options on the market. When you are looking into outsourcing, make sure you take your time, do your research and investigate all options available. Then once you have found a provider that you believe is capable of helping your business, pull the trigger.

When you look internally and see a number of these signs in your business, it is time to get in touch with Deployed.

We are an outsourcing provider that takes a customer-centric approach to outsource. Unlike other providers, we focus on your business and ensuring that the candidates we find you are right for your business.

Discover the Deployed difference by getting in touch today.