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How to Improve Your Client Experience as an Event Planner Using Dubsado

At this point, we think we’ve established that Dubsado is the perfect CRM for service-based businesses. Really, it doesn’t even matter what kind of service-based business you are or what industry you’re in– Dubsado is almost guaranteed to be a surefire option for you.

However, many people use it in different ways depending on their industry and their own client processes, one of those industries being event planners. So, today, we want to cover how to use Dubsado specifically to improve your client experience as an event planner!

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The Best Way to Streamline Your Client Projects as a Service Provider

Managing your client experience is one thing, but managing and streamlining your client projects is a whole other beast to tackle as a service provider. You might be wondering what the difference is, so when we talk about managing your client experience, we mean all of the communication, appointment scheduling, sending forms, proposals, contracts, getting paid, and all that jazz. (Dubsado’s our trusted CRM for that– here’s why.)

On the other hand, you also have to deal with the actual tasks that come with fulfilling a client project for both you and your team. For this, we recommend using a project management system like Asana. It’s robust enough to handle even the most complex projects, yet simple enough that if you don’t need to use all of the fancy-shmancy extras, you don’t have to.

Today we’ll be diving into the best way to streamline your client projects using Asana!

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How to Improve Your Client Experience as a Coach Using Dubsado

As a coach, spending the most time perfecting your client experience is what’s going to take you such a long way. You could even say it’s the basis for what will allow you to scale to and past 6-figures and more. Creating a VIP experience allows you to raise your rates, charging prices that you didn’t even think were possible before.

Clients pay for the experience more than they do the actual results. Any other coach in your niche can provide the same results, but your quality of service and the experience is what will make you stand out from the rest.

Our roots are tied in services, and even though that’s ebbed and flowed over the years, we’ve always upheld the same value in experience, and Dubsado has been our go-to CRM to allow us to systematize that. We now teach it to our clients, and we’re so excited to share it with you, too!

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How to Develop a Luxury Client Experience

We’ve talked a lot about there being a shift in the market lately. Getting people in the pipeline feels more difficult than before, making sales is taking a little longer, and marketing feels harder to understand. So, what can we do about this market shift? How can we set ourselves up for success?

We have two words for you, “client experience.” The best part? Your client experience is something you have control over and when done correctly, it can have a huge impact on your business moving forward. In this blog, we talk about the importance of your client experience and how to ultimately develop that will set you up for success, especially in this market.

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The Art of the Customer Experience

When talking about the customer experience, there’s one word in particular that should come to mind: feelings. After all, that’s what it revolves around– how you make your customers or clients feel before, during, and after working with you.

But because the experience is based around feelings, that raises a ton of questions. How can you track feelings as a measurable KPI? What parts of your process should you focus on to invoke those positive feelings? Why the heck is all of this so important to begin with?

Keep reading for the answers to all of your questions as it relates to the art of the customer or client experience!

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When is the "Right" Time to Work on Your Business

You’re technically working “on your business” all the time, but what about the time you take out to learn from someone else? To get new insights and ideas, what to do differently, growth strategies and guidance? Your schedule is so full that you hardly even have time to do the things outside of work that you enjoy, much less focus on business education.

You know that you need outside help, but you continue to push it back because you’re waiting for the “right” time, for a moment where you feel like you have more time on your calendar to dedicate to it. The thing is, how many other things are you waiting until that calendar space opens up for you to get to it?

Keep reading to find out when is actually the right time to work on your business and the importance of actively prioritizing education, so you can start seeing drastic changes quickly.

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3 Strategies to Successfully Streamline Tasks and Projects in Asana

We’ve tried many project management systems throughout the different stages of our business, and the one that’s allowed us to completely revolutionize how we complete projects and daily tasks is Asana. It’s the perfect fit for our team and, honestly, Boss Project has never been more organized and streamlined!

We’re learning new things and ways to refine our systems in Asana every single day. Even though our project management is ever-developing, we’ve still picked up on 3 strategies that have really amped our overall experience with the platform. Keep reading to find out what they are!

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The Art of Creating a Client Concierge Experience

When you hear the word “concierge”, what comes to mind? Your first thought may be a hotel concierge, the person you can count on to suggest restaurants, answer all your questions, show you the way, and just be your wing person throughout your time there, so you can have a great experience.

Well, you as a service provider can create a concierge-esque experience for your clients. In fact, it’s what we’d suggest you do, especially if you’re wanting to uplevel your offer and market to high-ticket clients.

In this blog post, we’ll be breaking down the art of creating a client concierge experience, so you can be confident that you’re not only delivering a service but also providing a top-notch client experience.

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23 Ideas for Better Client Communication, Client Experience & Client Testimonials

When you think about it, client communication, the experience, and testimonials are the holy trifecta of an amazing service-based business. They also work as a kind of cycle– great client communication leads to a great experience, which leads to even greater testimonials when it’s all said and done!

We’ve had our fair share of not only working with clients but also helping other service providers work with their clients. In doing so, we’ve learned a myriad of ways to improve that client cycle. So today, we’ll be sharing our 23 ideas for better client communication, client experience, and client testimonials!

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