Charlie Felker is the co-founder of Free-2-Grow, a company that provides back-office support to service-based companies, allowing the owners and operators to focus on their customers and growing their businesses. Free-2-Grow offers its customers the services of a full-time office manager at half of what it would cost to hire someone full-time and provides team support with its cross-trained staff.
In this episode, we talked about customer relationship management, efficiency, lead generation and follow-up, employee trust…
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Show notes
- Introducing Charlie Felker. [1:49]
- How Charlie’s knowledge in the military helped in his business success. [8:20]
- Ways that CRM saves businesses time and money. [9:52]
- Charlie’s thoughts on businesses going for the cheaper CRM that doesn’t necessarily serve what they need. [12:27]
- Charlie’s go-to CRM. [13:18]
- Important things to consider when choosing a CRM. [14:45]
- Businesses that Free-2-Grow is most suitable to work with. [19:29]
- A direction to start at when setting up a CRM and figuring out your business strategies. [23:17]
- Charlie’s opinion on Call Center as part of a business’s KPIs. [25:54]
- Some low-hanging fruits that a lot of entrepreneurs are not doing for their CRM. [29:43]
- Great reports and automations that business owners should look into. [31:39]
- The advantage of hiring Free-2-Grow compared to in-house. [34:45]
- What businesses need to have in place to have customer service presence. [37:46]
- Consequences of not having a consistent customer service presence. [39:20]
- Tips on finding people that are engaged in business. [45:56]
- How to get more information about Charlie. [51:04]
- Three books on Charlie’s reading list. [52:11]
- Charlie’s most important piece of advice to home service business owners. [53:30]
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