Posts by: Ryan Maher I’m very excited to return to SIA’s Healthcare Staffing Summit in Denver this year. First and foremost – last year was fantastic. Getting to meet with our existing clients and several new healthcare staffing firms topped the list. The knowledge gained from the sessions was tremendous. In particular, the panel of healthcare talent that shed… Continue reading
I’m often asked where the best place to spend money on social paid advertising is – LinkedIn or Facebook? And I’m grateful for the chance to address it, because it’s no surprise that many staffing and recruiting firms intuitively think that LinkedIn must be the winner. They often think this for a few common and… Continue reading
The most difficult part of making cold calls is actually picking up the phone and doing it. But staffing firms are doing a great job overall at getting their sales people to roll up their sleeves, smile and dial. So why are most not leveraging their salesperson’s willingness to make the call, by enabling them… Continue reading
I fell in love with studying Philosophy in school after I took an intro class, where we spent our time writing definitions for things. Seems simple enough, until the TA showed us exactly how many false assumptions we were under with every word we chose! There are a lot of definitions of marketing out there,… Continue reading
First, lets define what these three marketing strategies are. I’ll go with Wikipedia here: Referral marketing is a method of promoting services to new customers through referrals, usually by word of mouth. Such referrals often happen spontaneously. As with most businesses, the best leads a staffing firm can generate come from referrals. They convert 30% better… Continue reading
Last week I had the pleasure of attending the Bullhorn Engage conference in Boston, and two of the keynotes that bookmarked the event really drove home the importance of how staffing firms engage in 2015. The first was from Art Papas, founder of Bullhorn. Naming the event Bullhorn Engage represented a transition from mostly product innovation… Continue reading
Q: Ryan, how much does Content Marketing cost, and how would I get started? A: Thanks for asking. This is a question I’ve been hearing quite often since the webinar our CEO, David Searns, held on Content Marketing last month (if you missed the webinar, it’s archived in our Idea Lab). First, there is no… Continue reading
