Tips on reducing Business Costs
1. Use Technology to reduce business costs
As your business grows the more people you will need. Naturally in todays digital age you will nee more computers. Immediately you increase your business costs by having to pay your employee, tax contributions and national insurance contributions, pay for the infrastructure - desk, computer, additional electricity consumption, and office space. use technology wisely, in todays global age you don't need all your employees in your office. Hire a remote employee, outsource the job to an outsourcing company. Business travel can be reduced by using tele-conference, video conferencing, use skype.
2. Hire virtual employees for non core back office duties Tell me more
Businesses often make the mistake of 'over hiring'. Indeed the workload tends to increase as business develops but this is where you can be smart and consider hiring virtual employees such as those from Staff India and get the work done at a 70% less or more.
A typical Admin Assistant in your office would need a salary of at least �1200 per month, an equivalent virtual employee would need only �359 salary. We will show you how easy it is to work with virtual employees. Tell me more
3. Remove your landline telephone to reduce business costs
Traditional BT landlines are expensive in comparison to the VOIP solutions available today. Rental and call charges can be pretty high. If you can afford a VOIP installation, no problem, use Skype, you can get as many numbers as you need, and the call charges are low. Speak to one of our Consultants to learn more about deploying VOIP telephony system for your business.
4. Go paperless to reduce business costs
Learn to keep your important documents and files on computer. Keep soft copies as opposed to hard copies. Dont print unless absolutely necessary. This is also healthier for the environment.
5. Use refurbished equipment to reduce business costs
Who said you need to give your employee brand new equipment to work with. A new laptop will set you off around �400, a refurbished laptop will only cost you �120. These refurbished laptops are great in performance and reliability, as they are ex-used laptops/computers from the big players like Accenture, IBM etc who upgrade every other year.