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For another, it can save you a lot of struggle, time, and money. Yes, some outsourcing opportunities would make for a cheaper alternative to making certain products than to buy all the materials and pay for the labor of making them within your company.

There are a lot of ways you can outsource aspects of your business, allowing you to focus on the parts you’re good at and that are growing.

Marketing

Marketing plays a vital role in any business. Why have a business if no one knows about it? As you grow, your marketing needs will grow too, and in this new world of digital marketing, it takes a lot more research of new terms and understanding data that can go right over most people's heads.

Outsourcing your marketing will allow a team to focus on making professional-looking content and putting it out into the world, as well as the newly added aspect of recording and analyzing who is responding to what. A marketing team can use new ways of reaching out, like affiliate marketing and social media marketing and see in real-time who is responding to what aspect.

Doing all this yourself can get overwhelmingly fast. Sure, you can take a picture of your product and post it on Instagram , but maintaining an online brand presence takes constant posting, which is often the cause of burnout in creators and often the cause of people dropping their small businesses.

Packaging

An often-overlooked aspect of selling products, packaging is as vital as marketing. Your product is ready, finessed to perfection, and it’s seen, with orders coming in, now what? Your next move is actually getting it to the customer. Some smaller companies like Etsy creators like to give every package some TLC and personal touches, but it can take a weight off and save you money to outsource the most tedious aspect of selling products.

Take a look at Blueprint Automation to make packaging your products easy and affordable. The process takes designing your packaging from A-Z, including package shape and how it is arranged. This can be an especially appealing aspect if you are a mid-level or bigger business, with a lot of customers coming in. Packaging your own products can very quickly become overwhelming, to the point that even a viral stint on social media can feel like you’re swimming in unfilled orders.

Accounting

One of the first hires when you’re making money, an accountant can handle all the money aspects of the business for you. Handling the money can be a daunting task and crucially it takes an ability to keep up with trends the rest of us wouldn’t even notice.

Tax deadlines, limits, and amounts are constantly changing, and it can be hard to keep up. If you overlook a critical change you could end up greatly underestimating your next tax bill. An accountant will be able to navigate these changes with ease, saving you time that you and your team could be spending honing and perfecting your products and managing the business.

Meanwhile, a good accountant will look at your finances and find any areas where you could be saving money, like avoiding overpaying for a service or product your business needs to function or claiming expenses you’re entitled to, which could drastically cut your tax bill and even end up paying for your accountant.