Many entrepreneurs start out as ‘kitchen table start-ups’ – literally beginning their businesses on the kitchen table. This might work to begin with but you’ll find you’ll quickly outgrow the space as you become busier and more successful (not to mention the daily annoyance of having to clear away your business files in order to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner). So how can you find some room for your home office?

The following are five tasks that can be outsourced immediately in order to reduce your businesses costs while remaining committed to increasing the productivity of your existing team. Outsourcing is often an easy way to expand a business while still maintaining a conservative focus towards costs.

Ever heard of corporate intelligence, corporate security, and counterespionage? Well, there are people whose main business is to mind your business by scavenging through your garbage, undermining your privacy and stealing corporate information. Just when you think having your own paper shredder and performing in-house shredding is enough – think again. There are pitfalls to this practice, and you are as endangered as when you didn’t have a shredder.