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How To Go It Solo at a Networking Event

Women in Consulting

By: Sandy Jones-Kaminski Networking occurs at practically every event we attend, whether it’s on the schedule or not. These tips are most helpful if you’re attending an in-person networking event solo. Two proven tactics that I’ve seen help solo attendees again and again: 1. How are things going? (Let

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What / Who Is a Professional Independent Consultant?

Successful Independent Consulting

Being misunderstood by prospective clients and networking partners will hurt your profit. As we "go to market" or talk about ourselves, there are three main concepts to get across: Professional: We deliver services based on our expertise (often a license or credential), specialized skills or knowledge, or decades of experience.

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Setting Up a Foundation for Consulting Success

Successful Independent Consulting

They’re almost optional these days but still come in handy, especially at conferences and networking events. After making your tax payment, put whatever is left into your SEP-IRA or solo 401(k) to really cut your effective tax rate. Determine your marketing and positioning (how you “go to market”). Get business cards.

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4 Ways Women Can Build Relationships When They Feel Excluded at Work

Harvard Business

While both ways are important, we have seen in our work coaching women executives that they overwhelmingly struggle more than men to take advantage of informal networking situations. Part of the problem is systemic: When men go out together after work, women often are not invited. Networking. 5 Misconceptions About Networking.

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Positioning Yourself As The Expert — How To Develop A Consulting Voice That Clients Will Listen To with Ron Carucci: Podcast #21

Consulting Success

How did you go from that pivotal moment of working in the arts to actually starting a consulting business? We can go start our own firm.” I need to go someplace and get that experience. I need to go and invest myself among people who have done that before. It wasn’t quite that direct.

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This is WHY you need to reset your marketing plan and here’s HOW to do it

Rod Burkert

Because identifying with, educating, and helping a prospect who has never gone through the valuation/ forensic accounting/litigation support process before understand what’s going to happen and why every step of the way is how you pre-sell an unsigned client. Speaking and networking at the trade shows? Hosting your own events?

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Thirty years of projects

Seth Godin Blog

I''m going to be an accountant." "I''m I''m going to work for General Dynamics.". The second was to grow a network, technology and the confidence to be able to take on projects too big for the typical solo venture. Followed it up with a self-organized event in NYC and then  Chicago. go ahead, pick yourself.