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83%

83% -- share of small businesses maintaining or increasing outsourcing spend for small businesses (2026)

2026  · Clutch

83% of small businesses intend to maintain or increase their outsourcing spend.

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small businesses
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https://gteams.ai/blogs/10-outsourcing-sales-challenges/ ↗
Confidence: 48/100 Vintage: 2026 Channel: Deep Crawl
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10 Outsourcing Sales Challenges (How BPOs Overcome Them)
Everyone would like to scale faster than the current rate. However, setting up a sales team internally is a lengthy process requiring both resources and expertise. And it may not always be within reach of many organizations. Therefore, there is an increasing number of companies that choose outsource…
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small businesses: 83% share of small businesses maintaining or increasing outsourcing spend. Source: Clutch (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/clutch-smb-outsourcing-spend-intent
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