Want to reduce your admin burden by outsourcing some tasks in your business, but just not sure where to start?
Here is our comprehensive list of 101 things you can outsource to make your life just a little bit easier. Be warned: this list will have you writing a ‘wish list’ – to help you narrow down where to start, we have developed our handy ‘how to decide what tasks to delegate‘ guide.
There are some pretty amazing service providers out there for you to outsource and delegate your tasks to, so this list includes a wide-range of tasks, not just tasks provided by Admin Army.
Let’s begin!
Outsource your financial tasks
Those tasks that get stacked up throughout every week, but are a really quite important. Accounting and finance knowledge doesn’t come first hand for many, so if that’s the case for you, outsourcing it to professionals can be the best option.
- GST returns
- Accounts payable
- Accounts receivable – raising quotes and invoices, managing debtors
- Payroll
- PAYE and Monthly Employer Deduction Schedule returns
- Budget preparation
- Management reports
- Liaison with the IRD and/or your accountant
- Accounting software set up
- Bookkeeping – accounts processing using computerised accounts package
- Bank reconciliations
- Companies office returns
- Online payments
- Fringe Benefit Tax calculations
- Debt collection
- Annual Accounts to Trial Balance
- Accounting – tax preparation
Outsource your social media & marketing
- Managing your social media pages
- Creating branded images to be posted on Facebook
- Scheduling Facebook posts
- Follower engagement – answering comments and messages
- Advertising to raise brand awareness
- Creating Facebook pages
- Promoting Facebook pages
- Creating a LinkedIn account
- Setting up a Twitter account
- Scheduling tweets and #hashtag research
- Creating images for Pinterest
- Setting up a YouTube account
- Uploading videos to YouTube
- Planning and creating content ideas for all social media accounts
- Moderating YouTube comments
- Uploading videos to other social media platforms – did you know that it’s estimated by 2019 video will account for 80% of the world’s web traffic?
- Creating animated videos
- Google Adwords management
- Facebook advertising and retargeting management
Outsource your general admin
- Answering emails – managing spam, filtering what’s important
- Appointment scheduling and calendar management- you can even outsource this to artificial intelligence like Amy
- Answering phone calls
- Typing up notes
- Transcription
- Event planning – perfect for team or corporate events, as well as markets and expos
- Data entry
- Gatekeeping – having someone to deal with the people you don’t want to
- Mailouts
- Staff rostering
- Contacting your clients with appointment reminders – phone calls, emails or texts
- Customer service – responding to email or website enquiries
- Ordering supplies
- Form creation
- File management – take control of your Google Drive or Dropbox accounts!
- Database management
Virtual assistants are perfect when you are just wanting to outsource a few tasks without having the expense of hiring someone in-house.
Outsource your content research and writing
- Writing blog posts
- Publishing blog posts
- Blog topic research
- Keyword research
- Sourcing images for blogs
- Client research
- Minute taking
- Data mining and online research
- Data entry
- Writing, editing and publishing reports
- Creating presentations – we love PowerPoint!
- Creating document templates
- Developing and managing spreadsheets
- Creating editable PDFs
- Proofreading
- Press Release writing
- Newsletter writing
- MailChimp template creation
- eNewsletter sign up form development
- Monthly newsletter management – you provide the content, we pull it all together
- Market research
- Researching target market’s interests
- Reviewing social profiles and feeds of target customers
- Researching demographic information
- Creating surveys and polls
- On-page SEO management
Are you feeling inspired yet about what you can outsource? Do you already feel the stress lifting off your shoulders knowing that there are professionals out there that are ready to help you? It’s just about taking that first step and asking us! But first, some more…
More, more, and more outsourcing
- Developing training manuals
- Health and safety management
- Virtual training
- Creating audio guides
- Brand creation
- Logo design
- Graphic design
- Social event planning – always fun!
- Team building
- Recruitment
- Human Resource Management
- Project management
- Business coaching
- eBook design and formatting
- Website design
- Off-page SEO management
- Technical document writing
- Compliance management – ever so important when the auditors come knocking
Outsource some other tasks that are good for the soul
- Cleaning
- Grocery shopping – go Countdown online shopping
- Lawnmowing
- Dog walking
- Gardening
It doesn’t just have to be business related tasks you outsource. Not having to worry about these will free you up to focus on your business and spend time on things you actually enjoy.
So now you know, there are at least 101 things you can outsource and there’s no excuse to struggle with those feelings of overwhelm. There are solutions out there for everyone.
Keen to discuss how you can outsource your business admin to Admin Army? Get in touch with us today for a free, no-obligation consultation.