Back in the days of cold calling, recruiters would have been responsible for the entire sales process: from generating new sales leads through to nurturing prospects into clients. But now, marketing has taken over a huge initial chunk of the sales process. 89% of recruitment prospects will already know if they want to work with your agency before they even take a call from a recruiter. Prospects are researching about us online well before we reach out to them – so what can marketing do to give the sales process that initial boost it needs? Here are a few things marketing can do to attract new business to a recruitment agency. Differentiate the business from competitors If your agency looks and sounds like all your competitors, how will you ever stand out to prospects? To differentiate yourself in this competitive market, you need engaging key messaging based on the agency’s USPs (unique selling points). This is where marketing is so essential to the very core of an agency’s sales strategy: you need a lot of creativity and strong copywriting skills to ensure your messaging really sells the business. Pushing this core message out across your website and social media pages to attract the right prospects is also an important marketing task that drives sales, so build a social media plan that reaches the prospects your agency wants to win. Build a credible brand The only way to show prospects your recruitment brand is really credible is to prove
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