Top tips for getting started as a Blumer

• Always use us! You’re not alone here. Our team provides admin support, answers questions, and helps resolve tricky client issues. Best of all, we make clients pay upfront, so there is no chasing payments
• And let us use you...Tell us if you have any ideas or feedback for Blume.  We are here to provide a service for you as well as the charities so we want to make it as good for you as we can
• Get familiar with the Blume platform Watch or read our guides and FAQs to understand the site’s key features. Being able to confidently guide clients will make a big difference. It is designed to be intuitive but if you're unsure about anything, please get in touch
• Boost your profile with testimonials  Few things reassure a charity more than having testimonials from named people and charities.  It can feel cringeworthy asking people to supply them but remember how nice it feels to give a helpful testimonial to somebody you admire
• Use us to promote yourself  If you have anything specific you would like to promote – e.g. a service or event or insight – then let us  know.  It could become a post, blog or webinar and help raise  your profiile

• Respond quickly to enquiries or posts...
• …but don’t spend too much time on your initial response in case it turns into a dead end.  Let your profile speak for you
• Try to talk to the potential client quickly to get a sense of how good a fit the project is for you and them
• Remember to include our fee (which is included in the hourly rate) whenever you discuss budgets with potential clients
• Tell us when something has gone well – it’s lovely for us to hear and then we can show off about it to the world at large

Finally, don’t forget to follow us and engage with us on our various social media accounts – we will follow and engage back. If you want us to share something, please tag Blume in your posts.