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Everything You Need to Know About Outsourcing IT Services and Hiring a Dedicated Team for Your Business

Viktorija Nikoloska — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 19:28:12 +0000

by Viktorija Nikoloska

Websites and online forums thrive with numerous opinions on when is the perfect timing for a company to begin outsourcing IT services. If you are considering this option, you probably started an online search for the pros and cons of outsourcing. If that’s what brought you here, you are in the right place. Get ready to get inside information from a company offering outsourcing services for more than 10 years. Read our hands-on experience in addition to an ebook that will guide you on how to get started.

We are a Canadian IT company specializing in providing IT solutions and staff augmentation to other brands, and we discovered the numerous advantages of outsourcing IT services a long time ago. In this article, we’d like to share our practices to help you decide if outsourcing is the right choice for your organization.

First, let’s elaborate on the questions that probably started spinning around in your head from the moment when you began thinking about outsourcing. “Is it safe?”, “Why do companies use outsourcing?” or “Will outsourcing make you more good or harm?”. To help you clarify your ideas and thoughts on outsourcing, we decided to provide you with answers to the questions most often asked. Here we cover some of the fundamental questions that many ask before outsourcing IT services.

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1. Should I outsource core competencies?

Core competencies are the company’s capabilities that distinguish a firm from its competitors. They help define the strategic advantages of the business and build the foundation of the company’s competitiveness. Furthermore, core competencies guide the brand reputation alongside enabling business growth and developing its marketing strategy. Failing to define and nurture the business’ core competencies will lose the battle against your competition.

Therefore, you should start outsourcing with side competencies first. After the side competencies are covered well, you can gradually continue with outsourcing core competencies.

2. Do I have available in-house employees with the needed skills that can get this done?

Another question that you are probably asking yourself when considering outsourcing is whether you have in-house talented people who can get the tasks done. For instance, if the job assignment requires devoting a few hours to it, you can probably ask someone from inside your company to get it done. However, you cannot simply ask a coworker for a favor when it comes to more complex tasks or requirements.

In-house skills are enough when the working task is for internal use within the company. If you need someone who is highly professional in their field of expertise and can complete complex assignments, you will have to outsource the talent you want from another company.

3. Do I need to outsource now?

Recognizing the need for outsourcing services from another company is a crucial factor in building a successful business. When hiring in-house, you need to go through an entire recruitment process, proving to be a distraction from focusing on your core competencies. Outsourcing is a procedure that will take less time and effort than the process of hiring and training.

So, what you need to do here is make a list of your company’s priorities at the moment and decide whether you have the time for distractions or not. If the answer is no, you are one step from turning to outsourcing.

4. Will outsourcing save me money?

We will go straight forward here and answer directly: Yes, outsourcing can save you a lot of money and help you cut costs. However, the exact amount of money saved depends on how much work you need to be done and to whom you will choose to outsource. Moreover, the money-saving process may also vary based on the country where you wish to hire employees.

For instance, there is a vast difference between hiring someone from Northern America, Australia, or Western Europe than employing people from developing countries. To be more specific, outsourcing with IT companies with talent based in Serbia and Macedonia will help you save from 35 to 45 percent of your operating costs while boosting your productivity.

Asia and Latin America might be competitors when it comes to price, but there are more advantages for outsourcing from Eastern European countries. This could be a better choice because we compete with excellent work ethic, better education, great quality service, and incredible value. And when it comes to outsourcing technology and IT services, you need to discover our Top 5 Reasons for IT Outsourcing to Serbia and Macedonia.

5. Why Do Businesses Use Outsourcing?

The main reason for outsourcing is profitability. Hiring an in-house development team in the USA, Canada, Australia, or Western European countries may cost a fortune. Outsourcing to developing countries such as Macedonia and Serbia will not only save you money, but it will make you more proficient and competitive in your industry.

Our 10-year experience has shown that outsourcing IT services to Eastern European countries may get you the same or even better quality and value. Excellent work ethic, hard work, integrity, and responsibility are only some of the main attributes in our collaborations with Eastern European coworkers. A great example of this is the impeccable collaboration between Rumble’s employees from Canada, Macedonia, and Serbia. Read more about the dedicated team and their success story on the following link.

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Basic Benefits of Outsourcing IT services

There are numerous reasons why you should begin outsourcing IT services today. Companies use outsourcing to cut costs, save on resources, operations, and increase the company revenue without hiring more employees. We have already covered the basic benefits of outsourcing in this blog post. As there are numerous reasons why you should begin outsourcing tech today, here is a summary of what is discussed in our ebook:

Obtaining a high-quality product for a lower price
Saving time by avoiding to figure everything out by yourself
Finding employees that are valuable, trustworthy, and dedicated to growing your business

Outsourcing will not only help you save money and time, but it will also aid you with cutting down the exact amount of expenses on the needed resources. Alongside the overall cost-saving process, companies may also save on salaries, employee benefits, and training costs. Furthermore, outsourcing may prove helpful in terms of company rearrangements by adjusting the business model. Hiring different talents and experts from various industries on a global level might help you bring freshness to the current team and provide new perspectives for the company itself.

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Hire a Dedicated Team for Your Brand

When hiring a remote team, note that the process may vary from one software house to another. Therefore, we offer you our simplified approach in five easy-to-use steps:

State your preference in terms of needs, timespan, and budget
Search along with initial selection (pre-vetting)
Decide who will be invited for a final evaluation
Pick the right fit
Sign one simple agreement and get started

Discover the three stages for finding a reliable software house and our five simple steps for hiring a dedicated team for your brand by downloading our ebook.

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Free IT Consultation During Coronavirus

Viktorija Nikoloska — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 13:32:30 +0000

by Viktorija Nikoloska

Get a free IT consultation and cut up to 50 percent of your operating expenses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Business owners who are facing financial problems due to the outbreak of the Coronavirus can now contact us for free IT consultation and get the most suitable IT solution for their businesses.

Many people and companies are trying to find different ways to help others in difficult times like the ones we experience nowadays, as a result of the Coronavirus outbreak. IT companies are constantly offering many benefits to ease the time spent home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Some of the most excellent IT companies in the world, such as Microsoft for instance, offer free online courses that are accessible to every person on the planet. Furthermore, restaurants and fast food places provide food discounts and/or free delivery for their customers. There are also numerous food delivery applications that people use more during this period.

Following the countless examples of other companies throughout the world that have changed their ways of working during this new situation, Cosmic Development has also decided to ease people’s lives as much as possible. As you already know, we are an IT support services company that offers IT solutions and staff augmentation services to worldwide clients. During these hard times caused by the Coronavirus pandemic, we decided to provide free IT consultation and discounts in the vast range of services we offer on a daily basis. Continue reading below to learn more about the free IT consultation and discount of services we offer during COVID-19.

What Cosmic Did to Help People During the Coronavirus Outbreak

We provided our readers with different content in order to help them deal better with the Coronavirus pandemic. As a company that allows its employees to work from home when needed, we created an article with the most important aspects of how to work from home during the Coronavirus period. In it, you will find information about how to protect yourself from COVID-19, the top ten free-to-use tools of our choice and helpful tips on how to manage your time when working remotely.

After guiding regular employees on how to deal with the new “work from home” situation, we decided to help out our clients who are business owners to learn how to manage their business during the Coronavirus pandemic. To do so, we provided the five most important insights that will teach them how to deal with their business management issues.

Finally, we made an overview of the current financial situation in the world that happened as a result of the Coronavirus outbreak in every country. We have explained which industries are most affected by the current pandemic and how we can recognize that a recession is happening. Moreover, we have explained what business owners need to do in a time of global financial crisis and recession.

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What Cosmic Offers to Current and Potential Clients

Aside from providing our readers and clients with the essential information that will help them with their business issues in these difficult times, we also decided to provide our current and future clients with something even better. We offer a free IT consultation for business owners who are searching for new employees to hire but are unsure of what exactly they need. Therefore, they can contact us and get a free IT consultation where they can explain what their business needs are so that we can deliver the most appropriate solution to them. In addition, during the COVID-19 pandemic, we decided to offer short-term heavy discounts on our services.

All you need to do is to schedule a free IT consultation by following the link above and completing the form so that we can get back to you with the best IT solution created according to your personal needs. Let our team of professionals build your brand, especially now when we are facing an invisible enemy (the Coronavirus). For those of you who still are unaware of the types of services we offer, these are our three main categories of services:

Software Development
Digital Marketing and Sales
Administration and Virtual Assistance

Software Development

The primary type of services that we offer is the software development services. We have professional developers who have been working with us for many years and have shown to be experts in their fields. The IT solutions we provide to you are not only about web development software but also about building web and mobile applications for your company. Our experts will create the software you need for your business to work during these difficult times we face. They will use specific programming languages and a series of programming code required for the software you want for your companies.

Digital Marketing and Sales

Another type of service we offer to other companies is digital marketing and sales. Although marketing and sales services can be done separately, we believe that nowadays they are so intertwined that they cannot go one without the other. Therefore, we help business owners to get the best professionals on their team and create not only an outstanding digital marketing strategy but also a sales plan of action. That way, companies can build their brands with the help of our experts who know how to compete in the modern world and who follow every change in digital technology. Moreover, they will discover the vulnerabilities of your competitors and help you win battles that will raise you above other companies.

Administration and Virtual Assistance

If you are looking for remote workers and virtual assistants, you are in the right place. We offer administration and virtual assistance services for companies who want to lower their expenses on such teams but get professionals who will complete their work qualitatively and most efficiently. Our team of administrative specialists will deal with your daily administrative tasks and schedules remotely, without the need to be physically present at your office. Moreover, you can outsource your business processes to our team of experts in finance, accounting, human resources, etc.

Keep on reading our weekly blog articles in order to discover more useful tips and insights that will help you get over the Coronavirus pandemic period. You may even get a better overview of the working atmosphere in our company and implement some of our ideas in your company. Stay tuned.

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