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scaling global operations, and unlocking performance growth. II Pause background video Topics [Featured](https://blog.potentiam.co.uk/tag/featured) [New blog](https://blog.potentiam.co.uk/tag/new-blog) [Blog](https://blog.potentiam.co.uk/tag/blog) [Case Study](https://blog.potentiam.co.uk/tag/case-study) [IT & Software](https://blog.potentiam.co.uk/tag/it-software) [Sales & Customer Service](https://blog.potentiam.co.uk/tag/sales-customer-service) [Data Analytics](https://blog.potentiam.co.uk/tag/data-analytics) [Energy Consulting](https://blog.potentiam.co.uk/tag/energy-consulting) [Finance & Accounting](https://blog.potentiam.co.uk/tag/finance-accounting) [Marketing & Creative](https://blog.potentiam.co.uk/tag/marketing-creative) [Research](https://blog.potentiam.co.uk/tag/research) ## More articles [![Software developers collaborating in modern Bangalore India tech office](https://blog.potentiam.co.uk/hs-fs/hubfs/blog/images/oem-developers-bangalore-office-20260510-164051.webp?length=750&name=oem-developers-bangalore-office-20260510-164051.webp)](https://blog.potentiam.co.uk/how-open-energy-market-accelerated-development-offshore-team-bangalore) [IT & Software](https://blog.potentiam.co.uk/tag/it-software) #### [How Open Energy Market Accelerated Its Software Roadmap With an Offshore Development Team in Bangalore](https://blog.potentiam.co.uk/how-open-energy-market-accelerated-development-offshore-team-bangalore) How Did Open Energy Market Accelerate Its Software Roadmap With an Offshore Development Team in India? Open Energy Market (OEM), a UK energy management and sustainability software business, needed to make significant upfront investments in technology and sales before earning revenue. With limited working capital and an ambitious software development roadmap, it worked with us to build the core of its technology team in Bengaluru (Bangalore), India. The result was a step change in [![ESG data analysts working in a modern office in Iași, Romania, on data management for Evora Global](https://blog.potentiam.co.uk/hs-fs/hubfs/blog/images/evora-esg-analysts-iasi-romania-20260510-162858.webp?length=750&name=evora-esg-analysts-iasi-romania-20260510-162858.webp)](https://blog.potentiam.co.uk/how-evora-global-saved-12-fte-with-multi-hub-offshore-teams-romania-india) [IT & Software](https://blog.potentiam.co.uk/tag/it-software) #### [How Evora Global Saved 12 FTE With Multi-Hub Offshore Teams in Romania and India](https://blog.potentiam.co.uk/how-evora-global-saved-12-fte-with-multi-hub-offshore-teams-romania-india) Evora Global's offshore model runs on two teams doing different jobs in different places. We built Evora a data and operations team in Iași, Romania, and a software development team in Bengaluru, India. The Iași team took on work equivalent to 12 full-time employees across several of Evora's essential programmes and cut weeks from the effort of getting data to clients. Evora provides sustainability consultancy and ESG software to the real estate sector, advising owners and fund managers on [![Sales team members on headset calls in a bright office while their team leader looks on and encourages them](https://blog.potentiam.co.uk/hs-fs/hubfs/blog/images/insync-sales-team-calls-hero-2026-09.webp?length=750&name=insync-sales-team-calls-hero-2026-09.webp)](https://blog.potentiam.co.uk/how-insync-group-built-offshore-sales-team-cape-town-outperformed-uk) [Sales & Customer Service](https://blog.potentiam.co.uk/tag/sales-customer-service) #### [How In-Sync Group Built an Offshore Sales Team in Cape Town](https://blog.potentiam.co.uk/how-insync-group-built-offshore-sales-team-cape-town-outperformed-uk) How In-Sync Group Built an Offshore Sales Team in Cape Town When a UK financial services company serving 55,000+ self-employed clients needed to solve persistent sales attrition, it turned to strategic offshoring in Cape Town. Within two years the offshore team had grown to ten people with minimal attrition, exceeded its sales targets and grown larger than the UK sales team. This is how we designed, built, and scaled that team for In-Sync Group. [![A senior accountant walking three finance colleagues through printed working papers around an office desk](https://blog.potentiam.co.uk/hs-fs/hubfs/blog/images/redfin-finance-team-review-hero-2026-09.webp?length=750&name=redfin-finance-team-review-hero-2026-09.webp)](https://blog.potentiam.co.uk/how-redfin-achieved-30-percent-revenue-growth-offshore-finance-team-romania) [Finance & Accounting](https://blog.potentiam.co.uk/tag/finance-accounting) #### [How RedFin Achieved 30% Revenue Growth by Building an Offshore Finance Team in Romania](https://blog.potentiam.co.uk/how-redfin-achieved-30-percent-revenue-growth-offshore-finance-team-romania) How Did a UK Accounting Firm Achieve 30% Revenue Growth Through Offshore Team Building? RedFin, a specialist advisor in accounting, finance, and HR outsourcing for creative, media and technology sectors, achieved 30% revenue growth and doubled staffing capacity without increasing costs by building an embedded offshore finance team with us in Iași, Romania. The firm overcame initial concerns about communication, qualification standards, and technical proficiency to create a team [![Professional sales team collaborating around a standing desk reviewing CRM dashboard in a modern office](https://blog.potentiam.co.uk/hs-fs/hubfs/blog/images/sales-marketing-10x-hero-hero-1.webp?length=750&name=sales-marketing-10x-hero-hero-1.webp)](https://blog.potentiam.co.uk/offshoring-sales-marketing-for-10x-performance-growth) [Marketing & Creative](https://blog.potentiam.co.uk/tag/marketing-creative) #### [Offshoring Sales and Marketing Teams: The Performance Growth Playbook](https://blog.potentiam.co.uk/offshoring-sales-marketing-for-10x-performance-growth) Why Are UK Businesses Offshoring Sales and Marketing Teams in 2026? UK payrolled employment fell slightly across 2025, according to the Low Pay Commission, which describes a loosening, "low hire, low fire" [![UK business leaders reviewing offshore sales team performance data on a strategy dashboard](https://blog.potentiam.co.uk/hs-fs/hubfs/blog/images/offshore-sales-teams-revenue-acceleratio-hero-1.webp?length=750&name=offshore-sales-teams-revenue-acceleratio-hero-1.webp)](https://blog.potentiam.co.uk/a-revenue-acceleration-engine-why-offshore-sales-teams-make-more-sense) [Sales & Customer Service](https://blog.potentiam.co.uk/tag/sales-customer-service) #### [How Offshore Sales Teams Accelerate Revenue for UK Companies](https://blog.potentiam.co.uk/a-revenue-acceleration-engine-why-offshore-sales-teams-make-more-sense) An offshore sales team is a group of sales development representatives, business development representatives and sales support staff who work full time for your company from a lower-cost hub, inside your CRM, to your playbook and your targets. For a UK company selling into the UK, South Africa is where we would start: it is a strong choice for UK cold calling, with a deep pool of English-speaking talent familiar with the UK market, and, at one hour ahead of the UK in British Summer Time and two in winter, a 9 to 6 day there runs from 8am to 5pm UK time in summer and 7am to 4pm in winter. The case for [3](https://blog.potentiam.co.uk/page/3) [4](https://blog.potentiam.co.uk/page/4) [5](https://blog.potentiam.co.uk/page/5) [6](https://blog.potentiam.co.uk/page/6) [7](https://blog.potentiam.co.uk/page/7) ## Get latest insights in your inbox Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest insights shaping the future of offshore collaboration and business growth. 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