Staffing Agencies - First Action Towards Your Staffing Contract

Nothing is more exciting than finding your first client for your medical staffing agency. You may be starting a recruiting staffing agency or a nursing or OT temp agency, it does not matter what you are starting, what matters is how to find your first client.

Well, this action is what drives any new business crazy. You can have what I call the paper business set up, but if you cannot find clients, your business will not survive.

So, what must a new staffing agency do to get your first contract? Well, let me as the question differently, what action, if done today will produce the higher likelihood of your company securing its first contract?

If I had to pick one action and one action only to do to find my first staffing contract I would approach a manager and offer them your company as a backup to their existing staffing agency. I would not push my staffing agency as the primary source.

Why not? Well, I believe a soft approach will turn into a viable contract as appose to approaching a facility with a hard offer of you versus them.

What I mean is, the current staffing agency that may be firmly implanted in a facility may be there because they know somebody or the charge a very good price. I have always found that something is always wrong, something may not be good and that is what you will need to find out.

The sooner you get into finding out what is wrong the sooner you will get a contract. That is why I always tell my readers to enter marketing to a facility as a soft approach. The soft marketing approach to hospitals may be the difference between getting a staffing contract and not finding any business.

There are many other methods you can use and I recommend many more type of marketing methods, but the question was just using one method, what method would I use.

You will have to be persistent when meeting managers or supervisors. These are the decision makers and those decisions makers are who you are trying to impress. Make them believe your services are the best, make them want to talk to you. Offer them a free shift to get to know you company. Send your best employee or send yourself to cover the shift if you are able to. Do whatever it takes to make sure you fulfill the needs of the client once you get your first medical staffing contract.

An article by Dougles Chan - The Recruitment Guru. Also known as the Zhuge Liang for recruitment. A recruitment coach & mentor that specialized on coaching recruitment business owners and staffing agency recruiters.

Author of 8 books. 25 years in recruitment business coaching & mentoring. Focus countries will be in Singapore, USA, UK, Australia and others.

He created the recruitment agency market tumour law, C-Marketing, V-Marketing and blog marketing for recruitment agencies and staffing agencies.

He also specialized in business, sales, marketing, digital marketing, SEO, SEM, and social media recruiting. For 1 to 1 private consulting or recruitment coaching, please check here.
He also writes articles related to how to start a recruiting business & how to get clients for a staffing agency

Five Things to Keep In Mind While Choosing a Staffing Agency

Finding skilled and professionally qualified workforce is no more a cakewalk in a competitive market where candidates are offered with lucrative pay packages and flexible work conditions by numerous employees. Staffing firms give easy solutions to fill vacancies from executive level to managerial level. Small and Medium Enterprises often look for temporary or temporary-to-permanent employees who can be hired at an economical rate. But before partnering with employment agencies, make sure that the agencies' code of conduct should be based on fair policies and values so that you can avoid pitfalls of getting into legal traps. Here are some implications which an employer should keep in mind when you work with a staffing agency:

Work with a staffing firm who know the value of trust that employers, associates and clients have in them. Always look for a firm which has a good market reputation and rated as average to excellent in assessment charts. Check for performance parameter and certifications that the agency possesses.

If your staffing agency believes in keeping written records of the services which they are offering you, then it is an affirmative indication. If they support a fair discussion on medical policies, taxes, laws and Fair Labour Standards Act before getting into the written contract formalities, then it is a dependable staffing agency.

As per the latest trends of the staffing industry, reputed agencies not only give workforce solutions but, also take care of training and development of the employees. Besides this, they have strict policies on turn up time, pay scale and acts of indiscipline. Persuade that your staffing agencies include the above when they offer you their services. These trends are applicable specifically in case of contingent or contract base workforce.

Reputed staffing firms have their own database and employee management structure. When an employee is deployed on a contract or temporary basis, recruitment agencies provide them their employee ID, Badges and other credentials which are not associated with clients' permanent employees credentials.

Fair Labour Standards Acts preside over payments for overtime work. If your workforce solution provider keeps a record of these payments and it is being conferred and discussed with you before it is being charged, then indeed your agency is a bonafide consulting.

Choosing the best agency from a horde of staffing agencies which acknowledge your workforce requirements efficiently and works on fair policies is a tedious task. But there are firms which feel themselves privileged of walking an extra mile to set high standards of working in the staffing industry.

An article by Dougles Chan - The Recruitment Guru. Also known as the Zhuge Liang for recruitment. A recruitment coach & mentor that specialized on coaching recruitment business owners and staffing agency recruiters.

Author of 8 books. 25 years in recruitment business coaching & mentoring. Focus countries will be in Singapore, USA, UK, Australia and others.

He created the recruitment agency market tumour law, C-Marketing, V-Marketing and blog marketing for recruitment agencies and staffing agencies.

He also specialized in business, sales, marketing, digital marketing, SEO, SEM, and social media recruiting. For 1 to 1 private consulting or recruitment coaching, please check here.

He also writes articles related to how to start a recruiting business & how to get clients for a staffing agency

What is eCommerce

An article by Dougles Chan - The Recruitment Guru. A recruitment business coach that specialized in staffing agency business. Specialized on coaching recruitment agencies & Staffing Agencies. Author of 8 books. 25 years in business coaching in recruitment and staffing agencies. Training recruitment business owners in Singapore, USA, UK, and Australia. He specialized in business, sales, marketing, digital marketing, 360 recruitment process, SEO Services, SEM, and social media recruiting. For 121 staffing agency coaching, kindly check here.

Ecommerce is a big thing these days and anyone wanting to get into earning money online needs to know a bit about this popular topic. Ecommerce is basically online business, whether selling a product or service on the internet, if you are earning money online, you are involved in ecommerce. This article will explain a bit more about the basics of this emerging phenomenon.

Starting an online business is not that different from starting an offline one. The concept is much the same in that you still need to have a product to promote, customers to buy it and a way to reach those customers. The process is similar to starting an offline business, you will need a business plan and funding, although ecommerce can be cheaper than the traditional storefront.

Choosing a product is the first step in beginning an e-commerce venture. This can be absolutely anything under the sun, from consumer electronics to bathing suits, from e-books and e-reports. Whether you decide to sell information products that are available online for download or physical, real world products that can be shipped to the customer is up to you and your budget.

Information products are ideal for ecommerce because they require microscopic investment, if any. If you can write, you can create an information product and make it available for download without any cost whatsoever. Physical products are a little more difficult since you need to have them on hand to be able to ship to the customer when an order comes in, and this requires maintaining an inventory.

The most common way to reach your ecommerce customers is through the use of a website or e-store, so you will either need to have someone build your ecommerce site for you or learn how to do it yourself. The advantages of having a website over a real-world storefront are many, but the first is cost. You can find extremely cheap website hosting and a domain name can be had for less than ten dollars, making ecommerce extremely affordable.

There are many resources online if you are willing to take the time to learn how to build your website and you can save a lot of money this way. However, it is often more efficient to hire an expert to create the site that you want, or to use a template pre-designed for ecommerce use. Many web hosts offer pre-made templates.

Last, you need to be able to bring in customers. This can be done through advertising, article marketing and by providing quality products and information that encourage people to tell their friends about you. If your ecommerce idea and product is good enough, you will even have other webmasters linking to you which can really boost sales!

Ecommerce is a great way to get into sales, but you do need to do some research ahead of time. Decide what you want to sell and research the market for it, then build a website and start advertising. There is quite a bit of competition in ecommerce, but you can get into it for such a low price that it is well worth the effort.