Industry Examples · Professional Services & Agencies

Professional services firms and agencies, with admin off the billable clock.

Scheduling, client follow-ups, and general admin all compete directly with billable hours in a services firm or agency. GBH takes on that recurring work so time goes back to the work clients are actually paying for.

Common challenges

What services firms and agencies run into.

Admin competing with billable work

Scheduling, follow-ups, and general admin take real time, and every hour spent on them is an hour not billed to a client.

Client onboarding and proposals

New engagements bring their own intake forms, proposals, and paperwork, on top of the client work already underway.

A pipeline that's hard to see clearly

Prospects, active engagements, and past clients often live across inboxes and spreadsheets instead of one current view.

Inconsistent follow-up

Without a dedicated system, follow-ups with prospects and past clients happen when someone remembers, not on a set cadence.

Practical examples

What this can look like in practice.

1

Every prospect and active engagement sits in one CRM pipeline with a stage and a next step, instead of spread across several people's inboxes.

2

Client calls are scheduled and routine follow-ups sent on a set cadence, using wording you've approved.

3

New client intake forms are processed into your CRM or client tracker as they arrive, instead of sitting unread in an inbox.

4

Proposals and contracts are tracked from sent to signed, with a follow-up date set on anything still waiting on the client.

5

Past clients are tagged in the CRM with their last engagement date, so check-ins happen on a schedule rather than when someone remembers.

Recommended starting point

Start with Managed Business Support.

For most services firms and agencies, scheduling and day-to-day admin is the most immediate recurring drag on billable time. If your pipeline and client process need to be defined first, Business Blueprint is the earlier step — a free Business Discovery can confirm which applies.

Questions

Professional services questions.

Does GBH do client work or deliverables for our firm?

No. GBH handles the administrative and organizational work around your client work — scheduling, follow-up, intake, and CRM upkeep. The billable work itself stays with your team.

Do we need a CRM already in place?

No. If you have one, we typically work within it. If you don't, setting one up is often the first piece of a Business Blueprint or an early phase of Managed Business Support.

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