Legal Recruitment Blog

The Easiest and Quickest Way to Grow your Business There are 5 ways to grow your business – increase customers, get customers to buy more, increase the value of each transaction, increase prices or increase efficiency. By far the quickest and easiest way, according to expert pricing accountant Peter Hill, is simply to increase your prices. He issues a challenge to businesses – if you want to increase your profits in one, easy step, increase your prices by 5% immediately. A quick example would be a conveyancing quote I recently had. We contacted three law firms to get a price on selling a field (sale transaction is less than £20k) and got quotes of £475, £400 and £200. Thinking about it now – if the £200 quote had been £210 it still would have been the lowest price, and if I had been a bit distrustful of the low quote I would still have gone with the medium quote with a 5% increase at £420. Applying this to our own business does not really work, because in recruitment most of our busin...

Cut the Clutter on your Desk and save time I recently read an article about saving time – with tips including outsourcing everything you possibly can, delegating as much work as possible and avoiding meetings. One of the tips was to reduce the clutter on your desk because looking for documents and items can take up so much of your time. These are the three things to do with paperwork on your desk: 1. Delegate It 2. File it 3. Bin it Apparently most of the stuff we file away never gets seen again and in fact it would have been better to bin it from the outset. There is a professor in the USA who tips all his paperwork each month into a desk drawer and at the end of the month he throws the whole lot into the bin. I think this is extremely brave and would never dare to be so bold, but it is certainly one way to get rid of stuff off your desk! There should be no paperwork on your desk at the end of the day – instead it should be in a filing tray, an action tray or the bin. Stationery ...