As your business grows, however, things start to change. It becomes harder and harder to keep up with everything that needs to be done, and something has to give. By outsourcing strategic tasks, like finding an online bookkeeping and accounting team you can trust, you can open up time in your daily schedule without spending a fortune on full-time employees.
Small business outsourcing is a great strategy, but there are some parts of the business that are a better candidate for outside help than others. Let’s take a closer look.
This is the obvious place to start our list. There are two reasons accounting and bookkeeping are prime targets for outsourcing. First, they are time-consuming. It will take time for a new business owner to learn how to handle the books for the company, and it will take even more time to keep up with those books month after month. Turning this task over to a third party is a huge time saver.
In addition to time savings, the importance of maintaining accurate books is another compelling reason to outsource this task to a pro. Having accurate accounting records is essential for filing taxes, making business decisions, and much more. Rather than tossing and turning at night wondering if the books are right, outsource bookkeeping and rest easy.
It’s easy to fall into the trap of trying to design your own website. After all, there are plenty of affordable DIY tools available today that promise to make the job of website design an easy one. To be sure, anyone with basic computer skills could have a site up live on the web in just a matter of hours. Whether or not that site would be worthy of representing a business is another matter entirely, however.
For the average small business, outsourcing web design work is well worth the investment. Asking a freelance designer to create a clean, functional WordPress site is not particularly expensive and will lead to an improved finished product. Also, if the site is built on WordPress or another user-friendly platform, you may be able to do basic maintenance on the site yourself, after the initial design phase is completed.
Getting back to the financial side of things, tax preparation is another perfect task to outsource. Depending on how your business is taxed, you may need to do this just once per year – meaning you won’t have to spend much money on tax prep annually. And, as was the case with accounting and bookkeeping, the peace of mind alone that comes with using a professional to file taxes is easily worth the investment.
This might be a surprising entry on our list, but outsourcing marketing is a powerful way to supercharge the growth of your small business. As a small business owner, you likely have expertise related to the company you have created. For instance, if you are a service provider, it is the act of performing that service that actually delivers value to your customers.
Marketing is a skill all to itself, and it probably doesn’t have anything to do with your core competency. Instead of learning on the go and trying to put together your own marketing campaign, find a 3rd party to do the work for you. Working with a marketing agency can be surprisingly affordable and may allow you to reach heights that simply wouldn’t have been possible otherwise.
The last stop on our list is related to the idea of outsourcing your marketing. Just as marketing is an advanced skill that takes years to learn properly, so too is sales. Without plenty of sales experience, you may struggle to sell potential customers on your products or services – even if you are a recognized expert in your industry.
When outsourcing sales, you will likely be able to work out a deal that is based largely on commissions. This structure puts you in a can’t-lose situation – you’ll be paying for sales that are made, meaning your revenue will be growing and you will be happy to spend the money.
All of the five points on our list can be resolved with a single step – contacting Windroot to set up outsourcing for your bookkeeping and tax filing needs along with Web Design and Sales-Marketing requirements. Windroot brings clarity to the financial side of your business so you can focus on delivering memorable products and services to your customers. Contact us today to learn more!
Even in a normal year, there may be small changes in the ways that people file their taxes. But the COVID-19 pandemic has caused the tax code to change more than usual this year. For this reason, there are several tax law changes in 2021 that taxpayers should know about.
Investing in payroll services takes the stress out of keeping up with these changes. Having a tax and accounting professional take responsibility for ever-changing rules guarantees nothing goes overlooked.
Reasons To Outsource Payroll · Consider the Cost of Your Time · Payroll Taxes Are Complicated · Tax Laws Change All the Time. Read more.
If you are a small business owner looking for tips to being efficient, read to learn about the top 5 tasks that should be outsourced.
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To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
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Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers).
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs. There may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to
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