As a print or retail business, your understanding of Professional Services may be that of luxury, unnecessary or costly. We’re here to dispel the myth surrounding B2B Professional Services, and to help you understand how it could be a huge asset to your business.
What classes as a B2B Professional Service?
If you’re a retailer, looking to outsource some of your ‘behind the scenes’ work, you’re looking to commission Professional Services. Outsourced QA, marketing activities, illustrative design projects, security consulting, business development tasks and more can be classified as a Professional Service. Whatever allows your business to run, or creates more products, can be considered a Professional Service.
The B2B aspect comes from the work itself being destined for a specific business, rather than a direct-to-consumer service. Picture this: You run a small print enterprise, producing photobooks amongst other photo print media. You have a potential customer asking if you could design a new photobook for their own use – this is offering your customer a design service, rather than a professional service. Should you request that design from Taopix, your photo personalisation software provider, we would be carrying out Professional Services by creating that design for you. Although the end product is for your customer in this instance, we are still a business servicing your business.
What Professional Services does Taopix offer?
Taopix understands that Professional Services can be an asset in a huge range of applications. We offer services in consideration with our customer base; services for those within the print industry, and also for those who are printing on the side of an existing business.
- Marketing support packages
- Brand creation/management
- Product collection creation
- Product shots & imagery
- Server management
- Application customisation
All level of involvement within each service is tailored directly to your needs; we have experience in creating and maintaining entire ecommerce fronts for customers down to very minor technical task management. Consider where your strengths lie and where you may need a little support. All our Professional Services are scalable and unique to you, with a price point agreed to match the work undertaken.
How can Professional Services benefit your business?
Professional Services can bridge the gap between strengths and areas to improve. Many smaller scale businesses don’t have the option of an in-house designer or marketer, and so find their capacity very limited within these areas. Commissioning professional services not only achieves your end goal, it also alleviates your team from the stress of being over-worked or attempting a project which they aren’t totally comfortable with.
Outsourcing aspects of your business doesn’t need to be based around a talent-gap. You may find that your business could do with an extra pair of hands for a short-term project, or during peak period, without the need to make a permanent hire. Joining forces with Taopix for Professional Services reduces the extra strain on your team without the cost, HR and legal considerations of hiring. By working with Taopix, you are passing the workload to somebody who already knows and understands your business. We know what your goals are, and we will help you to reach them.
Streamlining your productivity with Professional Services creates an environment where your output exceeds your existing capacity. Not only are you benefitting from the product of the Professional Services itself, you’re also benefitting from your team being able to continue their work without distraction. Tying these two outcomes together, we’re confident that your ROI will render your Professional Services as more than worthwhile. Happier team, increased productivity and a greater output – there’s nothing to not love.
How you can be involved in Professional Services?
Enlisting the support of Professional Services doesn’t mean that you relinquish control of your business, or any part of it. Working with Taopix, you’ll be included in every decision. Your Taopix representative will stay in regular contact to ensure that the results will be what you had in mind.
We work with you to create a brief, ensuring that we not only meet your expectations but surpass them. For creative commissions, we’ll create moodboards and influence collateral so that we can show you how we’re working to create your goal image, even from ideation stage. Throughout the process with Taopix, you can be as hands-on or hands-off as you like. We have experience in full management of diverse and extensive products, alongside supplementary incidental work. Your Taopix representative will work with you to create a detailed understanding of what you need, and we’ll produce from there.
Think Professional Services can help you?
You’re probably correct. Our experience shows that Professional Services are a considerable asset to our customers. Reach out to your Taopix representative to discuss how your business can benefit from Professional Services.