Entrepreneurship Tips - Your Business First Impression Matters

An art form that provides meticulously manicured gardens and lawns for the business' backdrop is known as professional landscaping. The subtle and delicate use of lawns, tree lines, flowerbeds and shrubbery are the first thing both employees and clients will notice. To ensure you provide a favorable image of your company to prospective clients and employees, proper maintenance and upkeep of the business premises is vital to your success.

Though sometimes clients and employees may overlook aesthetic arrangements made in your business premises, for those who notice them, it will speak a thousand words about your business. Make sure you hire landscape contractors to take care of the premises. Their duties are watering the flowerbed, making sure the grass is properly trimmed etc. You must also let them know of the magnitude of keeping well kept premises and that they have an enormous responsibility on their shoulders.

It is the business owner's responsibility to ensure adequate assistance is available on all floors and that the receptionists have good diction and are well trained to handle queries. If you neglect the overall upkeep of the premises, there are high chances your business will be spoken poorly of during meetings and small conferences. Like they say, "first impressions are last impressions" and the role of a landscaper and receptionist is as important as a top level management executive. Sometimes, the subtle things can have a drastic impact on bigger, more important things and these subtle things could be a weed free lawn, an aesthetically designed flower bed, adequate customer support mechanisms and knowledgeable receptionists.

Author : Jyotsna Ramani

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