How Digital Design Companies Can Streamline Your Small Business

Using the services of a digital design company isn’t just for big organizations anymore. More than ever, smaller businesses are starting to rely on digital design companies to help them operate better and more efficiently. Here are just a few ways a digital design company can help your small business be more streamlined. 

1.) You get access to highly-technical services on demand

Building and maintaining an eCommerce site is easier than it’s ever been but it’s still a highly technical type of task that you probably only have to revisit in depth a few times a year. The same can be said for other critical but intermittent tasks such as animation and logo design. 

Without the help of a digital design company, you would have to maintain an in-house team or employee that you would have to invest time and money in training, equipping and developing. The associated expenses don’t go away if there’s any downtime, which may mean that you may have to pay more for each output.

Digital design companies, on the other hand, already have the expertise and resources to perform these important yet intermittently performed tasks. By taking their services, you get instant access to expert work without the hassle.

2.) You only pay for work that’s delivered

As we mentioned earlier, the costs of maintaining an in-house team don’t go away when there’s downtime. This makes in-house teams impractical for many smaller businesses, With a digital design company, though, you only need to pay for whatever work is delivered.

3.) Agencies can better scale different operations

Scaling different design operations can be quite costly in terms of investments. For instance, building a process to create professional images for an eCommerce site can be surprisingly complex and expensive. By using a digital design company to perform these types of operations, you can almost immediately hit the scale and production level you need.

4.) You won’t have to make basic mistakes before you get something that works

Design agencies aren’t perfect or necessarily averse to risks, but it’s highly unlikely they will make basic design and design process mistakes that are typical of an organization that is learning to do things from scratch. By going with an agency, you are at least assured of a certain service level — something you should definitely check out in the contract.

5.) Digital design agencies allow you to keep your team small and focused

If digital design isn’t the main objective of your business, then there is little reason to invest a lot of time and attention in developing capabilities in the area. In fact, doing that can serve to distract you from your main areas of competence and reduce your competitiveness. 

By using a digital design company to handle your design requirements, you can keep your team small and focused on doing what you do best. This also has the knock-on effect of keeping your organization’s cost down while keeping it nimble and better able to respond to different challenges as well.

Digital design is central to most marketing today and your organization needs a digital design partner it could rely on. Visit 500 Designs to learn more.

Adam Hansen
 

Adam is a part time journalist, entrepreneur, investor and father.