How to grow and expand your small online business with iTask?

While more and more businesses are shifting online, how can we ensure that our small business is able to grow with its online presence, amidst the strong competition in the saturated market? Here’s a tip to fuel the growth of your online business — try looking for collaborations with other online businesses to grow and expand together! For one, our platform at iTask provides you with just the opportunities to look for plausible business partnerships, that may just be the collaboration you need to grow your business further.

iTask as a platform for collaboration

iTask is a local start-up that functions as a service marketplace, which assists people who need help in completing daily tasks, to local freelance service providers who can get work done for them.

Started as a small business ourselves, we completely empathise with the struggles of small business owners in their valiant attempts to expand their businesses. As such, we seek to support small companies with the following tips on how they can grow their business. At iTask, where small business owners congregate, we present the perfect opportunity for small businesses to grow through their much required collaborations with other service providers.

If you wish to understand more about how you can grow and expand your business through collaborations, read on to find out!

Opportunities from COVID-19 to grow your business

Be the company that seizes the opportunity to grow during tough times.

The advent of the COVID-19 global pandemic saw the demise of many businesses, big and small, around the globe. Strangely enough, the same conditions that acted as the bane of existence for some, functioned as open-door opportunities for others. While we witnessed local giants like departmental store Robinsons and clothing store TOPSHOP succumbing to the pressures of closing down, the Circuit Breaker period in Singapore also saw the rise of new household names in the online business market. 

Perhaps most notably was the case of Eat My CB, a family-run business which exploded in popularity from the children’s ingenious idea of turning the mother’s talent for cooking into a money-making opportunity, when they saw the demand for her Curry Buns explode during her cooking classes hosted online. This underdog story highlights the very fundamental principle small businesses need to keep in mind when starting out — that fortune favours the bold.

When most business operations were put to a stop during the Circuit Breaker, this family challenged the tides by starting their own business online to recoup the loss in monthly income and sustain the family’s needs. Their courage behind their desire to find a new source of income was surely impeccable, but was it enough to lead to their rise as a household name now in the online bakery business?

Grow and expand to beat the competition amongst small businesses

In a post circuit breaker market that is now largely saturated with small businesses trying to make a mark of their own, how can one gain an edge over another? The crux to the problem is to be able to answer the question of: how to grow and expand a business online? 

In recent times, the shift towards a contactless lifestyle has resulted in a greater consumer preference for the immense convenience and safety brought about by online shopping. As brick and mortar businesses continue to fold, some have found that moving their business online has worked as the saving grace of their blood, sweat and tears. 

Yet, managing an online business is no easy feat. On top of the usual logistical nightmares that comes with the absence of a proper storage or feature booth to showcase one’s products, the real ordeal is having to deal with newfound areas of importance when moving a business online — such as the need to have a proper webpage, manage a social media account to upkeep the brand’s relevance in the market, and having to outsource for delivery partners to work with in order to sell your products to customers. 

iTask to your rescue — Grow and expand by collaborating with us!

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But fret not, this is where iTask comes into the picture! At iTask, we have more than what you need to let your business take flight. iTask is a service marketplace that allows freelancers to publicise the skills that they wish to offer, and wait for other individuals to request to engage them for their skills. As such, we’re the perfect match for small businesses as we function as a one-stop destination for you to search for all the help and partnerships that you need! 

Engage our freelance digital artists to help you work on a logo and webpage design to develop a strong branding for your business! Engage our professional photographers to get those aesthetically pleasing display photographs of your products to attract sales! Of course, the cherry on top is engaging our in-house delivery services to attend to your delivery needs!

Truth is, iTask was founded as a start-up as well, thus we completely understand the difficulties of running a small business. If the constant struggle of the need to look for ways to expand your online business, increase Instagram followers, and build brand awareness is something that fazes you, then a possible solution would be to find partnering brands that could help you build your business.

Our doors are open for collaboration.

The above infographic summarises the ways we’re looking to partner you!

Besides providing small businesses with the resources they need to expand and build up their businesses from scratch, iTask also seeks to collaborate with interested parties to grow together. For instance, we are currently actively sourcing out partners to work with together, so that we can leverage on our mutual user pools and expand our reach to a greater audience share, and hence boost our business sales and revenue. 

And that’s why we’re looking for you! Instead of painstakingly thinking of small business marketing strategies that might ultimately fail due to the extreme difficulties of outreaching to sufficient crowds, why not take a first step in the right direction by working with us and our credible user pool? Instead of inculcating an hyper-competitive business climate for small businesses struggling to make their breakthrough online, perhaps it is about time we come together and help make things work out for each other. 

For interested parties, feel free to drop us a Direct Message on our Instagram at @itask_sg or drop an email to admin@itask.com.sg!

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