Many small businesses decide to outsource their technical requirements by hiring third party professionals to manage and run certain aspects of their operations. Outsourcing allows you to concentrate on selling, marketing and supporting your products and services and leaves complex technical aspects to your service providers.
How to Choose an ISP
Choosing an Internet Service Provider (ISP) is one of the most important outsourcing decisions that you can make. Learn more about the questions you should ask yourself before you sign a contract with an ISP.
Lists of E-Business Suppliers
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) link your company to the Internet and can supply the basic infrastructure for your web site, email and other e-commerce technologies. Application Service Providers (ASP) are firms which will rent you certain software applications that you can access through the Internet or a private network.
Resources
Information on who and how to choose different types of service providers is provided in this section.
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Some firms outsource their Human Resources (HR) or Customer Relationship Management (CRM) functions to ASPs and other types of service providers. For more information, see the detailed discussions in the ebiz.enable sections on Outsourcing HR and Renting a Customer Relationship Management System, rather than purchasing one.
