I noticed that a lot of business owners erroneously believe that only complex office tasks like IT can be outsourced. Both small and large businesses can outsource different types of office activities at an affordable cost without compromising on quality.

Whether you run a small one-person company, or a company with several employees; you can outsource secretarial work - this way, you will be able to focus on the profit generating area of your business. Instead of occupying your mind with thoughts of confirming appointments, scheduling appointments and making travel arrangements. You can simply outsource these responsibilities to your offshore virtual assistant. Depending on the hours you want your outsourced employee to work, the great part is that you can get a highly competent outsourced staff for less than 500 US dollars per month! Your outsourced worker can work for 10 hours a week to  40 hours a week – this will also depend on your office work load; there is no point hiring a 40 hour per week outsourced employee, when the workload is not much.

Even if you are an excellent typist and can type a thousand words in less than 2 minutes; the big question is "would you sacrifice your valuable time typing out proposals, responding to mails or sending out mails?" Why not outsource this task so that you can use the freed-up time to work on other money generating tasks or take the time to sit with your management team and come up with other business promoting strategies. It is important that you understand that time is money; with an outsourced employee, you will be able to manage your time very well.

You can also outsource the accurate financial record keeping of your business. It is no secret that the areas of financing and accounting are both delicate areas in business and not everyone will be able to recognize a balance sheet even if it walked up and introduced itself. Instead of leaving your company's financial statement preparing in charge of a clueless employee, it is better to outsource it. The expert will be able to handle your company's financial statement preparation flawlessly and can even help you handle your business' pay roll processing, general billing function or medical an legal billing special services.

Human Resources (HR) is also an aspect of business that can also be outsourced by both small and large businesses. HR will include essential paperwork that is required in order to hire and fire employees. 

Aside from the aforementioned; there are still many other businesses functions that can be outsourced so that business owners can focus on building their business. Outsourcing these tasks is very affordable.

Daven Michaels is an award-winning outsourcer and author of the book, ‘Outsource This!’ Daven has been honored more than any other individual or outsourcing organization. You can get more information on outsourcing by visiting http://www.123Employee.com