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3 Ways to Nurture Clients Even After They’re Finished Working with You
If there’s one thing that can make or break a service-based business, it’s the experience you provide for your clients. Not only is the client experience crucial to making sure your clients are happy, leave great testimonials, refer you to others, and possibly come back for repeat business, but also perfecting your client experience allows you to sell the heck out of it in your marketing message.
Your client experience doesn’t just span from the first interaction to when you start working with them. It also includes your off boarding process and how you treat them once they’ve finished working with you. But how can you still nurture these relationships even after the project is all said and done? There are three simple yet powerful ways you can do so, and that’s what we’re going to cover in this post!
So You’ve Booked Too Many Clients: Here’s What to Do
We think congratulations are in order! Since you’ve come to this blog post, that must mean you’re doing something right with your marketing, so we’re proud of you for getting to the point where you’re now officially overbooked. Although it’s stressful, this is a stage in your business that can open so many doors and opportunities that you’ve probably only been dreaming about until now!
First, though, we need to deal with the overwhelm and figure out how you can free up space on your calendar so that you can give your undivided attention to your clients, plus what to do with new leads. Keep reading as we cover all of these things and more in this blog post!
How We Use Canva as Creative Entrepreneurs
Canva is our holy grail for all things pertaining to creating graphics and marketing material, especially on the fly. Its user-friendly interface and perfect balance of tools makes it our absolute favorite app for graphic design. Anyone can use Canva, no matter if you’re a beginner or expert. Heck, we both have backgrounds in graphic design and still prefer to use it even though we can and have used Adobe software.
We preach about it so much to creative entrepreneurs, and they quickly find it a staple in their tool list. However, you may still be confused on what you can actually create, so in this blog post, we’re going to cover how we use Canva as creative entrepreneurs!
How to Create a Premium Client Experience
The client experience is one of the most– if not the most– important aspects of any business, whether service- or product-based. It’s one thing to perform your services or create your products well. Obviously we want to be exceptional in our craft and provide a great outcome for our audience.
But it’s a whole other piece of the puzzle to take into consideration how your clients feel working with you. What’s their experience like? What do they feel when they first learn about you through your social posts or website? How easy are you making things for them? How trusted do they feel that you’re taking care of them?
All of these points are crucial for repeat business, positive testimonials, referrals to more potential clients/customers, selling the experience, and eventually scaling your business. The cold hard facts are that people remember negative experiences with a business and use those to influence their next decision (a.k.a. running away) more than they do the positive ones.
We’ve learned a thing or two about client experience from our years of being service providers then transitioning to digital products, so we’re here to share our knowledge on how to create a premium client experience!
How to Confidently Relaunch Your Offer
We know how much goes into creating an offer, wrapping it up, and getting it ready to officially present to the world, so we’re proud of you for pulling through. Now that you’ve had it out there for a while and have been nurturing your audience, you’re probably coming up on the need to relaunch it.
If you’re like, “Hold the phone! ‘Relaunch?’” Yes! What, you thought you could just launch your product once and that’s it? Unfortunately, as heavenly as that sounds, that’s not a very effective way to keep making money. No need to worry, though, because we just so happen to have relaunched probably more times than we’ve ordered from Starbucks (and that’s saying a lot).
With that said, we want to show you how to confidently relaunch so you can keep improving your offer and converting prospects into buyers!
Our Ultimate Guide to Finding and Pitching Potential Clients
One of the most overwhelming parts of starting a service-based business is how to actually find clients. You’ve done all of the beginning steps— you’ve decided what to offer, packaged and priced it, created your social channels, set up your financial shiz, and all of that fun jazz. But now, where the heck do you find clients and how do you pitch them?
Before we offered digital products, we were service providers, so we’ve had our fair share of finding and pitching clients. Today, we want to unveil our best tips to you in this ultimate guide!
How to Talk About Your Offer (Without Wearing Out Your Audience)
You inevitably have to constantly talk about your offer in order to keep it top of mind with your audience. After all, according to the rule of 7, someone needs to see or hear your marketing message seven times before they finally purchase from you. That seems like a lot, right?
Well, talking about your offer doesn’t always have to mean you’re directly promoting it 24/7. There are other ways to indirectly promote your offer without driving your people away (because it’s almost guaranteed you’ll lose followers or list subscribers if all you’re doing is selling to them).
Keep reading as we dive into how to talk about your offer without wearing out your audience!
Top 3 Ways We Nurture Our Audience and Get High Conversions
It’s one thing to launch a product or service (Go you by the way!), but it’s a whole other beast to actually maintain that offer after it’s all said and done. You want to make sure no one forgets about your offer and that you’re still tending to the leads that are cold, warm, hot, and everything in between. Otherwise, how would you convert anyone?
A big piece of getting conversions is keeping your audience engaged and providing value, AKA nurturing them. You’re nurturing your audience about 80% of the time, or at least you should be, which means it’s important to find ways and avenues to talk to them that work best. Here at Boss Project, we have three top ways that we nurture our people to increase our conversions, and that’s what we want to share with you today!
The Frugal Business Owner’s Guide to Graphic Design
If you’re anything like us, you like to make sure your money is going to something with a positive ROI before you invest in it. And we mean doing lots of research to be at least 99% positive that it’s worth the time and cash. Especially when you’re a new business, you don’t have the extra money to just throw spaghetti at the wall, so it’s really important that it’s going to stick. The same applies to all things graphic design.
Graphic design is a huge part of every business. It’s your social media content, your marketing assets, your website, your brand collateral, it’s pretty much everything visible about your business. And even though it’s super important, that doesn’t directly correlate with needing to spend big dollar bills on it.
In this blog post, we want to show you how you can make all things graphic design happen without breaking the bank. Welcome to the frugal business owner’s guide to graphic design!
Roundup -The Best Business Resources for Creatives in 2021
This year has been a wild year of content for us! We’ve cranked out almost 200 total blog posts and podcast episodes, dropped almost 50 new collections of templates, updated some of our programs and added a new one, and overall have really been dedicated to helping creative business owners.
We thought the perfect post for the end of 2021 would be to gather all of the best resources for creatives and wrap them all up with a pretty bow. (Late Christmas gift, maybe?) We have a lot to dive into, so let’s get started!
How to Host Co-working Sessions to Boost Productivity in Your Business
When you have a team that works from home or any sort of virtual community space, it can be a little more difficult to make sure everyone is being productive. One way we’ve been able to set accountability and give that much needed support to each other is by holding co-working sessions.
Co-working sessions are when you, a team member, or even your whole team hop on a group video chat (we prefer Zoom) to literally work together. Back when Boss Project was just Abagail and Emylee, we’d often hop on Zoom or Google Hangouts to complete tasks together. We’d hang out for hours on end, sometimes a whole working day just to hold each other accountable.
Now, we want to share how we host efficient co-working sessions to boost productivity in our business!
How to Host a Virtual Team Mixer or Holiday Party
Not being in the physical presence of team members means that there’s a bit more extra work involved to make sure everyone feels connected. You can absolutely still have a closely knit virtual team, and we absolutely love the workspace tone we’ve set with our team!
One of the ways we get in some much-needed face time is by hosting virtual team mixers. Since the holidays are coming up hot, hosting a virtual holiday party is the perfect way to get your team members chatting and connecting with each other outside of the usual workplace communication!
Keep reading to find out exactly how we host our virtual team mixers, plus some team building questions to ask to keep everyone engaged!
5 Apps We Use to Keep our Team Happy and Productive
We’ve been outsourcing for a while now and have always had some sort of team regardless of the size. Over the years, we’ve had various highs and lows with our team, and team members have come and gone. However, now we’re at a place with our current team where we feel really good about the energy and cadence we’ve built in the workplace, no matter the fact that we’re virtual.
Our team members are happy to come to work, they know that this is a safe space, that we value life first in our business, and that they’ll be recognized for their achievements. We’re able to keep them happy and productive using 5 apps and tools, which we’re going to share in this blog post!
How to Create Your Vision Board in Canva
Get inspired and stay focused for the new year with a vision board showcasing beautiful imagery. We love to use canva for this for a clean and crisp look, and show you how to get it too in this super handy tutorial--including a free template!
The BEST Tool to Help Land High-Paying Clients Consistently
The biggest struggles we’ve seen service providers face includes difficulty landing high-paying clients consistently. They may land just one or two clients per month at their highest package, but the rest always fall on the smaller scale. This can lead to just breaking even each month, which leads to feelings of discouragement, worry, and self doubt.
But before we say “Just raise your prices!”, we understand that there are other steps that go into that as well. Part of being able to offer a premium package is providing more value through your client experience. That may sound to you like you need to start holding your clients’ hands more or putting more of your time into how you take care of them, but that simply isn’t the case.
You can completely transform your business with one single tool that we’re going to share with you in this blog post!
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Hey, I’m Abagail Pumphrey!
You know when you are so deeply passionate about something you can’t help but share it? That’s how this blog has felt for the last decade. I’ve written about my latest strategies, tech how-tos, experience with scaling and so much more. I hope you find just what you’re looking for. We’re here to help!
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