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4 Ways to Help Your Staffing Sales Team Close The Year Strong

As a staffing firm owner, you have a lot of incentive to close out the year with strong sales. This is your business we’re talking about, the one you spend countless hours on, your livelihood! The hope would be that your sales team is also motivated to meet monthly and yearly goals with time ticking…

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Notes from a Credit Analyst: Analyzing Credit in the Factoring World

NOTE: Originally posted as “Credit Professionals in the Factoring World” in Business Credit Magazine, January 2019 edition. In any industry or business type, credit is a crucial aspect to the success of the company. Acknowledging the risk accessed and likelihood of payment from your customers helps promote the growth of your business by maintaining positive cash…

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7 Common Issues & Challenges Facing Staffing Agencies

Staffing firms face change constantly: new technology, a limited supply of talent, economic uncertainty, diversity and inclusion incentives, the push to work from home, high turnover rate, etc. We hear all about these issues from our staffing firm clients, so here are some of the biggest challenges that staffing professionals firms and hiring managers face…

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5 Simple Ways to Increase Staffing Firm Profits (That Aren’t “Sell More”)

When it comes to making more of a profit in staffing, “sell more” is not always the answer. First off, easier said than done! And secondly, it can actually hurt you in the long run if you under price yourself to win a high volume contract. That strategy almost never works out because if you’re…

When Banks Stop Lending Money

When Banks Stop Lending Money

What Staffing Firms Can Do in Uncertain Times During this time of economic uncertainty, you may find that banks and perhaps other payroll funding companies are tightening their credit requirements. This is especially true with staffing firms, who lenders have always seen as high risk and are often the first to be told “no” during…