First impressions count but you want to ensure those impressions continue to perform well when it comes to your business or institution. Whether you run an education facility, or you’re a mainly online business that still operates in a hybrid working environment, setting the right impression is always necessary.
As a business or institution, there are plenty of ways in which you can go above and beyond for those you serve to ensure they sing from the rooftops about your company. After all, word-of-mouth promotion is the best type of advertising – it’s free after all.
Here are a few tips on how to set a good impression for your organisation this year.
Consider improving your curb appeal
Firstly, how does your curb appeal look? It’s the first thing your customers or clients will see and it’s often something that’s overlooked even though it’s staring you right in the face as a business owner.
Curb appeal is something that you want to maximize, especially as it’s not just your customers or clients that see it. It’s available to be seen by anyone who passes by and who knows who’ll pass by your business on an average day? It could be the difference between securing extra customers and clients, or not.
Improve your curb appeal, whether it’s school canopies for your educational institute or adding branding to the windows and front entrances of your office building.
Train your staff both on skills and first-impressions
First impressions count but the skills that your employees have is also important to improve upon. As a business, it’s essential that you’re doing both when it comes to staff training as they’re equally influential to the company’s growth.
Skillsets that you can improve upon when it comes to your employees are only going to improve the company further. All employees are likely going to want training in some way to benefit them.
First impressions and how an employee approaches their work are important as every interaction counts. Training them in how to provide proper customer/client service, is essential.
Communicate well with clients and customers
Be sure to communicate with your clients and customers. This is probably where many businesses and institutions fail because they don’t do enough work to figure out what it is your clients are after.
Understand what clients and customers are looking for
Talking of your clients and customers, what is it that they’re looking for? As soon as you know the answer and how that applies to your business, you can work more proactively in encouraging them to go with you over some other business.
For existing customers, it’s information worth knowing to improve upon your current services.
Identify your weaknesses
Finally, be sure to identify your weaknesses as a business. In this day and age, it’s useful to know where you need to improve so that you can level up against your competitors.
Hopefully, with these tips in place, you’ll be able to set the best impressions for your business this year and beyond.