CEO guide: Cutting down on business expenses by outsourcing routine tasks
Businesses can significantly reduce expenses by strategically outsourcing routine, day-to-day tasks that do not require specialized skills, rather than exclusively focusing on highly expert roles. This approach frees up internal staff, such as sales or marketing teams, to dedicate their time to core business functions like engaging prospects and developing products. For example, tasks like data entry, which can be trained in less than 2 hours, can be efficiently handled externally. iConsultera facilitates this by connecting businesses with qualified candidates in low-economy regions, such as India, to ensure cost efficiency while allowing internal teams to focus on high-value activities.
When entrepreneurs think of outsourcing, they are mostly concerned with the roles that require high levels of expertise which they do not possess and cannot afford to hire full time for such as website development, graphic designing, digital marketing etc.
They ignore the simple day to day tasks such as data entry of prospects into their CRM, social media enquiry management, following up on orders and deliverables, and generally tasks which do not need any high level of expertise and can be done by anyone with very little training. Entering the data of new prospects into your CRM does not need special qualifications but takes hours to do and you could train someone on how this is done in less than 2 hours but these tasks are hardly ever outsourced and the marketing or sales team use hours every day entering data and updating their CRM instead of spending that quality time engaging prospects, so why not outsource it ?.
Businesses do not want to spend more money in outsourcing routine tasks when they can simply have their already existing staff handle these responsibilities but they forget that every minute your sales executive spends updating contacts on HubSpot is a minute he/she is not engaging a prospect and closing a deal.
Routine tasks such as business purchase follow ups and handling customer enquiries need no specialized skill sets but take hours of back and forth with clients and suppliers. Hours which should be spent on important business tasks such as developing your products and planning your marketing strategies.
At iConsultera, we aim to promote the outsourcing of day to day tasks that distract your staff from focusing on the core aspects of your business and consumes their time while keeping your cost low by pairing you with a relevant candidate in a low economy region which demands less renumeration such as India. By so doing, your internal staff can focus on what is important and you do not have to break the bank. We ensure all candidates are carefully screened for relevant knowledge and offer additional training where required.
