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Getting your online business presence started will mean inevitably facing the dilemma of whether to hire an in-house development team or take the chance on outsourcing. Like any choice in business, it can bring some big consequences and needs to be taken seriously and cautiously. However, outsourcing web development is no longer uncharted territory and you no longer have to take chances. Most of the big Fortune 500 companies choose to outsource their web development, so why not you?

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Cost Optimization

Among the top reasons to outsource your web development, this is one of the most obvious. How much does it cost to outsource web development? A lot less than hiring an in-house team. Outsourcing was invented to leverage cost management due to economic dissimilarities between countries. Depending on where you’re based, you can reduce your software development costs dramatically. For example, the hourly rate of a US web developer will be much higher than a developer with similar skills and expertise in Western Europe. The differences here do not always reflect the levels of proficiency in different high-tech industries, like software development. Lower development costs are not connected to a lower quality of code. In fact, developers from Eastern Europe are starting to be recognised as some of the best in the world. 

Diverse Remote Development Engagement Models

What’s great about outsourcing web development and web design is that it works for any business at any stage. If you have an idea for a startup that focuses on building a Minimal Viable Product (MVP), it makes sense that your development team is relevant in size and involvement. 

For mid-size businesses, you can find a versatile web outsourcing team of designers, developers, and QA engineers run by a PM. The key feature you need is the adjustability of a team depending on the scalability of your business. 

The premium engagement model is the ETM (Extended Team Model), where the outsourced development team becomes a department of your business with exclusive development services. 

Unlimited Development Talent Pool

It can happen that some large and complex web projects for some businesses might require high-level experts that can’t be found in your location. The situation when it takes months to find the right candidate for the job is not uncommon in the IT industry. Think about how many professionals are reachable within your city. Now multiple that number by a hundred, because that’s the number of talented, young, and experienced specialists you can reach when you hire an outsourced team.

A survey that was carried out by the Manpower Group claims that almost half of employers, especially in the US and in Western Europe, struggle to find skilled applicants in IT. Unlike your in-house team, where you need to solve any recruitment problems for yourself and spend resources on team management, your outsourced team will pack itself, with no effort from you, with the best talent that is available and run it to the advantage of your business. 

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