Andy Neary argues that having clear, streamlined processes is critical to making it easy for prospects to hire you. When agencies lack simple, predictable onboarding and expectation-setting, prospects become frustrated before work begins; conversely, smooth processes create a "wow" factor that retains clients and generates referrals.
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I think the thing it comes down to is processes. Do you have the processes to make it easy for me to hire you? I don't care if it's digital. I don't care if it's in person. Whatever it is. If you make it easy for me to do business with you, there's a good chance I'm going to do business with you. And I know that sounds obvious, but Guffey, you'd be surprised how many agencies make it hard for people to hire them because their process is so convoluted. Or there is no process. And by the time I become a client, I'm already frustrated because there were no expectations set. I have no idea what it's going to be like to work with you. The onboarding process was all over the place. It's the processes of how you make it easy to do business for you that is, to me, the secret sauce of building a relationship with you and creating that wow factor, which makes sure not only am I never going to leave you, but I'm going to start referring my friends to.