3 Powerful Ways Freelancers Bring Your Business to the Bleeding Edge

In this article you will discover 3 strategies freelancers squeeze out more productivity in your business. 

How do you squeeze the most juice from a lemon? Well, you could squeeze it harder and harder, until the bitterness from the rind becomes evident in the flavor of its juice. Or, you can warm it up and knead it on the counter.

Anyone who has owned or managed a successful business, large or small, understands that a powerful strategy to playing the game of corporate financial success includes utilizing core competencies to amplify corporate synergy.

How can you squeeze more work, more passion, and more immediacy from employees already hired? You can squeeze it out of them, resulting in corporate juice with a bitter taint, or you can provide for them more opportunity to offer to you their wheelhouse. Read on to discover 3 ways freelancing can reduce your “financial nut”, thus bolstering your profit and growth.

1. Freelancing adds more expertise to your base

Each person in your business has value expertise in their own area, and it is just what you need to stay where you are. The economic ups and downs of business creates a staffing needs swing. While you have specific skill needs, your employees’ skills are best used where you have them;  however, when crunching numbers you consistently conclude that if you want your business to grow, it is evident that you must get more for your money.

Freelancing offers thousands of platforms, from IT pros to web designers to article writers and proofreaders. You choose who to hire for each project and need. It’s like hiring thousands, but only paying for the one employee you zero in on whose style fits this one job perfectly.

Freelancers are passionate about what they do because they work in their powerhouse. They always strive to provide immediacy for you and to do their best, because their business is to make you happy so that you will hire them again.

2. Freelancing cuts traditional employee expenses

Freelancers have ample experience, so there’s no financial leak in training a new employee. Freelancers also own their own equipment and work from their own space, saving you these overhead expenses.

Freelancers are contractors, so for them time is money, and their job is to keep jobs coming, so they are motivated. Since they are paid by the job, rather than by the hour, freelancers are good at meeting deadlines. This means you aren’t paying for breaks or unmotivated employees.

Furthermore, did you know that contractors are in charge of paying their own taxes and insurance, saving you not only in these expenses but the time your accountant would spend on these figures if it were an employee.

3. Freelancing is flexible

There are platforms for article writers, designers, IT pros, academics, marketers, sales, business consultants, accountants, lawyers, and more. The same resources that hired a writer this week can be used next week to hire a program designer.

Once hired for a job, there is no obligation to use the same freelancer again. Since they aren’t an employee, they are easy to replace. This makes it easier to find the freelancer that suits your needs and style best, without the hassles and expenses of hires and fires.  

It also means that you can hire only for the individual needs, expertise, time frames, and terms your company needs, offering no need to feel obligated to find work for an employee you are paying, working or not.

Finally, freelancing can fit your flexible budget. You can hire from any first language choice, different countries offering second-language speakers, all time-zones from around the world (even when your business hours are closed), many experience levels, countless styles, multitudes of skills, and a variety of pay scales. You will wonder what took you so long to open your eyes to this whole new reality taking every business by storm.

In conclusion, hiring freelancers allows you to fully utilize your current employees, warm them up and let them pop in their own powerhouse, yielding your most flavorful juice. Freelancers allows you to add a little sweetness to the best juice you already have by adding more expertise to your base, cutting traditional employee expenses, and being flexible to fit your needs, style, and budget.

Be the smartest in your market, and hire a freelancer today! What expertise will you sample first?