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The Art of the Easy Profit

All businesses want to grow and be profitable. Those in the staffing industry are no different.  But here’s what is. Next week at the Executive Forum in Orlando, Staffing Industry Analysts will reveal a practical but innovative approach to increasing your bottom line in a session titled “15 Creative Tips to Increase Your Bottom Line”. And we won’t be talking about investing gobs of cash to get a minor return.

Our specialists, Amy Bingham, Jeff Harris, Miles Hunt and Scott Wintrip, will share how they doubled profits at their company or clients.  The session is all about the approach, involving the tactics ranging from how you treat your employees and temps to assessing your vendors to the more complex themes like how you handle recruiting and creating a brand. This panel is going to have you thinking differently.  It involves a change in strategy, a different through process, more than any investment requiring hard cash.

This panel and much more throughout the Forum will help staffing firms of all sizes. Regardless your company size, you will come away with actionable ideas to boost you grow your business.

For example,   SIA President Barry Asin’s keynote will reveal the opportunities for the staffing industry as our ecosystem evolves.  You will be soaked in data that will help you boost your bottom line in myriad ways. Our other keynote speakers (Billy Beane, VP and general manager of the Oakland A's; Ron Kaufman, founder of UP! Your Service; and Jack Daly, CEO of Professional Sales Coach) will deliver unique insights that will help your firm’s operations, be it marketing, customer service or recruiting.

Our knowledgeable analysts and I are happy to weigh in with advice on ideas to consider and ways to make you and your company successful. I hope to see you in Orlando.


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