As a new factoring broker, having a ready supply of professional business cards is a must. Whether you’re attending face-to-face networking events, business lead gatherings, or simply meeting potential clients, your business card is often the first impression you’ll leave behind. Here’s what you need to know to create an effective card:
What You Need on Your Business Card:
- Web Address: Ensure your website is live and prominently featured on your card.
- Business Email: Use a professional, domain-related email like Jim.Jones@yourdomain.com. If you’re hosting with DataMax, you already have five free email boxes included with your PAL factoring broker template.
- Phone Number: Make sure to include your business phone number. While many brokers utilize VOIP systems like Ooma for their home offices, a cell phone number is also critical for when you’re out marketing.
Business Card Design Tips:
- Highlight Your Services: Mention key services like factoring and asset-based loans. If you’ve gone through PAL’s Factoring 303 training, you may also want to list additional products, such as SBA loans, merchant cash advances, and trade finance options.
- Professional Appearance: Keep your card design clean and clear, ensuring it reflects your professionalism and the range of services you provide.
If you are entering the PAL program, you will be accessing your free addon of Factoring 303 and the training available in those classes referencing SBA Loans, Asset-Based Revolving Lines of Credit, Merchant Cash Advance, and Impost-Export trade finance solutions such as Forfaiting and International Factoring. Listing such areas as part of your capabiliites can go a long way to enhance your creditibity to local professionals such as CPA and Tax Attorneys that can be part of your referring network.
Business cards are essential. You cannot operate without them. They are also very inexpensive for your needs so do not “skimp” by not listing your product areas. Having your business cards ready ensures you’re always prepared to make connections, leaving a lasting impression wherever you go.
Phone Line Tips:
For consultants, very few serious about their business limit themselves to having a single phone line for contact. That is true for factoring consultants as well. Almost everyone as a cell phone today. Cell phones, however, will not completely meet all of your needs. For you home offive, you should have a land line or an internet line (VOIP). VOIP services such as Ooma and Vonage are solid choices vs. traditional land lines. Additionally, they are major money savers. For example,Ooma subscribers have line access for less than $10 per month after you purchase the Ooma equipment. And,the Ooma device is usually less $100. If you are currently paying $50 -$100 for a land line monthly with long distance, an Ooma or Vonage subscription will pay for itself in 60 days or less.
Domain-Related Email Addresses
Once you have purchased a domain for your website, you control your domain-related email. DataMax hosting is unique in that provides you with a minimum of five (5) email boxes for your brokering business. They are very easy to set up and manage using your cPanel which is provided to you as a DatMax hosting client. (more)