Samir Sampat

Before you can start planning tactics and strategy for client sourcing, you need to know and understand your firm’s unique value proposition (UVP). Put simply, what makes you better than competitors? What do you have to offer that the other recruiting and staffing companies don’t? Figure this out and make sure everyone in the firm knows it so that they can maximize their opportunities, too.

Clients are the bread and butter of your business. It’s expected that you’re going to spend a significant part of your budget on finding and retaining them. Unfortunately, the market right now is fierce with competition, and it can seem nearly impossible for your firm to bring in enough clients to keep profits up and keep you busy.

All too often, professional services like architecture and design rely on passive business growth and development, hoping that will be enough to keep your business strong. Clients are the backbone of your business. Knowing how to attract them and keep the leads coming is critical to your success. There are a lot of different resources out there to assist you, including those that don’t cost a dime and those that require a bit of an investment—both are useful in their own right.

As the giving season approaches, organizational leaders find themselves looking for ways to show appreciation and give something meaningful to their employees and the other people their business depends on. Each year, it’s a struggle to go through the options, finding something that can be appreciated by someone, and probably at some point wondering if you’ll need to purchase a different gift for each employee.

Hiring an answering service can be a great way to streamline your communications and free up your own time from all those calls. These days, people tend to lean toward local services because they feel they’re more connected, more personable, and more trustworthy than large, multi-national chains or nationwide businesses. However, that isn’t the case at all. In fact, many larger companies are just as capable, if not more so, when it comes to delivering that personalized service.

Local Service Ads, or LSAs, are an important part of your marketing arsenal. The process of getting your account approved and set up can take a lot of time and effort, which means that when it comes to actually putting the ads out there, you could be a little out of breath, as it were. You have to be active, stay focused, and optimize your efforts at every turn.

Maybe you’re just starting out in the franchise. Perhaps you’ve been growing lately and realized your existing resources aren’t cutting it. And yet with a limited budget, it’s hard to find the best solutions unless you know where to look. Thanks to the modern answering service, you can get a full team of agents to field calls, chats, and more and it will cost a fraction of what you would spend on hiring people to do the work in-house.

In the business of consulting, you have a lot on your communications to-do list. There are clients to call, emails to send, video consults, and meetings—the list can seem endless at times. Fortunately, you no longer have to try to handle everything on your own. With the assistance of a professional answering service, your consulting firm can streamline communications and save time for everyone.

So, you’ve finally started outgrowing the small business market—congratulations! Of course, with that growth comes the occasional growing pains. If your mid-market business is one of the growing organizations in the business world today, you have a lot of resources available to help with whatever you need. That includes help answering the phone, along with support for other communications and admin needs.

When you’re running a solo business, getting help in the right places can make a big difference in your success. Just because you’re working in the business by yourself doesn’t mean that you have to do everything alone. There are several ways to get assistance in your various business efforts, including support for things like answering the phone.