A quality small business team can accelerate your business growth. But today many companies are struggling to recruit. However, this is not the only way to improve team efficiency and grow your small business network. Read the following tips from members of the online small business community.
Don’t overlook onboarding
Many businesses today are solely focused on growing their teams. But finding talent is only a small part of the process. If you want long-term success, you need to recruit new team members appropriately. David Banaghan provides tips and insights in this Occupop post.
Fewer Customer Complaints
Ideally, you want your customers to rave about your business. But there will always be someone are not satisfied with the product or service. Your quality team should try to reduce this number as much as possible. Diana Avram-Anghel details how to achieve this in this AlisQI post.
Creating Award Winning Training Videos
Videos may be ideal for introducing important concepts and processes to new team members. These can be used for remote team members as well as in-person training for office workers. Read this G2 Learn Hub post by Mara Calvello for tips on creating successful training videos.
Using the Excel Invoice Template
When you expand your business network to include multiple customers, invoicing can take a lot of time. But templates can simplify the process. Programs you may already be using have many options available, such as Excel. This InvoiceBerry post by Ana Mladenovc provides a guide to Excel invoice templates.
Measuring Brand Awareness
Your small business network is not just about your partners, customers and teams. Everyone who has heard of your business or considered buying from you should be included. To grow this area, you need to focus on increasing your brand awareness. Anthony Williams shares a guide in this PlatterOfGold post.
Improve accessibility in the workplace
If you want to bring the best talent to your workplace, you don’t People should be excluded because of inaccessible spaces. In fact, there are many other important reasons to prioritize accessibility. Ivan Widjaya shares tips in this SMB CEO post.
Golf as a business tool
Visit any golf course and you’re likely to find plenty of business professionals playing a round. It’s not just a popular way to fight back – golf can actually be a useful tool for developing and strengthening your network. Jordan Fuller discusses it in this BusinessLoad post. BizSugar members pitch their ideas here.
Use these onboarding tools for remote teams
Today, many businesses introduce remote team members by introducing them. However, the way you interact with these employees is different from the way you interact with face-to-face team members. This may affect onboarding. Ciara Byrne lists several onboarding tools that are great for remote teams in this article.
Be a big fish in a small pond
Environment Where you choose to grow your business can greatly affect your network and chances of success . If you want to be the biggest and best business in town, use the tips in this Small Biz Viewpoints post from Harry and Sally Vaishnav to grow.
Choose the Right Time to Buy a Franchise
A franchise business gives you the opportunity to quickly grow your team and network. However, there are a number of important considerations before buying. In fact, it makes a big difference when you choose to buy, as Joel Libava mentions in this Franchise Direct post.
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