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Consulting Referral Fees: What’s A Typical Finders Fee For Consultants?

Consulting Success

What is the typical referral fee in consulting? And can you use a referral fee to generate more referral business? A consulting referral fee (also known as a “finder’s fee”, but I don’t use that term) is a fee you pay someone who refers a consulting client to you. For example, imagine that you share. Consulting Referral Fees: What’s A Typical Finders Fee For Consultants?

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Unlocking a Career as a Marketing Consultant

Tom Spencer

Marketing consultants advise companies on marketing strategies and campaigns. To do this, they should possess a keen understanding of the client’s target market and existing customer base, as well as the ability to recommend clear and actionable strategies to increase sales, expand the customer base, and develop new product offerings that will appeal to customers.

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Hoping to Fix Your At-Risk Project on Your Own? These Warning Signs Might Indicate It’s Too Late for an In-House Rescue

PM Alliance

A project that’s falling toward failure —woefully behind the target timeline, burning through funding too fast, or in danger of not delivering the expected results—is something project teams work strenuously to avoid. Project professionals are generally resourceful and creative, and teams have pulled many faltering projects back from the brink of failure before things had time to go completely out of control.

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Effective Governance: Overcoming Bias and Inertia

Tom Spencer

Effective governance serves as the bedrock for organizations, providing a framework for sound decision-making, personal accountability, and strategic direction. In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, where disruption and uncertainty are the norm, robust governance structures have never been more important. However, larger businesses often face challenges that hinder the efficacy and efficiency of their governance systems, impeding their ability to adapt, innovate, and thrive.

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PowerPoint Best Practices for Creating Stellar Presentations

Mastering data visualization in PowerPoint will help accelerate your career because it positions you as someone who can present data that drives business decisions forward. think-cell's PowerPoint Best Practices eBook was created specifically for professionals aiming to master the art and science of data-driven storytelling. What’s inside: Practical Insights: Uncover valuable tips for crafting engaging and persuasive presentations.

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Designing Generative AI to Work for People with Disabilities

Harvard Business

While trust is taking top billing in many discussions about generative AI’s design and uses, it’s also important to bring inclusivity and accessibility into the thick of things early on.

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Comedy and wisdom

Consultants' Consultant

Consultants Consultant: I’m an improviser and I’m always interested in the intersection of comedy and life. The post Comedy and wisdom appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.

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10 Questions to Ask Before Entering a Business Partnership

Harvard Business

For many, a successful business partnership is among their most positive and significant relationships. Good partners can have a lot of fun together, become intertwined in one another’s success, and be great friends through life’s ups and downs. Overall, it’s worth taking the risk. It’s also worth being prudent and intentional at the outset so that you can immunize the partnership against future problems or end a flawed partnership before it begins.

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The unsurprising confusion about ‘per capita’

Seth Godin Blog

A car cut me off on the highway the other day. The car was going nearly 100 mph. Was the car a new Porsche 911 GT3 or a used Toyota Camry? The thing is, there are more than 1,000 times as many Camrys on the road. But our instinct is to pick the vivid and distinctive answer. The per capita crime rate in rural areas is often dramatically (sometimes five or ten times) higher than it is in most cities.

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Jim Fielding, Ex-Head of Disney Stores, on the Struggles of Making It as a Queer Executive

Harvard Business

According to Yahoo Finance, there are only four openly gay CEOs atop Fortune 500 companies. That’s up from zero in 2014, when Apple’s Tim Cook came out. But it represents less than 1% of the cohort, well below the 7% rate of Americans in general who identity as gay, lesbian, or bisexual. Is there a glass ceiling for gay executives? And if so, are some queer bosses still opting to stay in the closet to avoid damaging their careers?

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr