Benefits of Outsourcing Your Web Development Projects

Can Outsourcing Work for Your Business?

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The Dilemma

You have a plan to develop an amazing web application that will change your business or your industry forever. But you need a web development professional to turn your concept into a deliverable product. How do you find a talented, dedicated, reputable development company to build your application? Do you add a web developer to your staff and bring the project in-house? Here are a few reasons why outsourcing your project to a small web development shop is by far the best value for money in your pursuit of developing your application. 

Lifetime Cost of a Project

Most projects are an immense amount of work and require a lot of time while being designed, changed, shaped, and built. A lot of people who commission applications forget that applications will require maintenance after being finished. Depending on the applications, maintenance and upgrades are usually minimal. This is one reason why outsourcing, rather than hiring a developer to your staff, is a very attractive option. You only pay the web development company when you need the upgrades and maintenance, rather than having a salary year round, no matter how much work is required on your application.  

Initial Project Cost

You can pick a large web development company for your project. They are sure to do excellent work for you, but you're going to pay for it. After all, these large shops have immense overhead - an army of developers, an office in a downtown metropolis, and all the obligatory foosball and ping pong tables that adorn any trendy breakroom. A smaller shop has all of the expertise of the larger shops, without the overhead induced by foosball tables. 

Additional Resources 

While some applications are built and remain essentially the same for twenty years, what we usually see with web development projects is that one project leads to another project, and then an upgrade, and then a redesign, which spawns another project. By working with a web development company, you have access to a back-end developer, a user designer, an SEO strategist, a content generation professional, etc. So, when you hire a web development company, you are getting access to a huge amount of resources for current and future web development initiatives. You get a lot more bang for your buck compared with hiring a single individual with a single set of skills. 

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