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The 20-Minute Business Proposal

Alan Weiss

A proposal for consulting, advisory, and/or coaching services should be about 2.5 pages and take you 20 minutes to create. That’s because you should already have conceptual agreement with the buyer, and a proposal is a summation of prior agreement, not a negotiation or an exploration. It’s really that simple.

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Mental Models: Maps of Meaning

Tom Spencer

Reading Time: 4 minutes. Mathematicians model analytical pathways, doctors model physiological pathways, and consultants who function as ‘business doctors’, model organisational pathways. A mental model is simply a representation of reality. It is possible to live and not know.”. Yes, indeed. It is possible to live and not know.

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Consultant Marketing The Essence

Jerry Fletcher

As a consultant, running your own business, you can determine how many days a week you are gong to work and how long each day. That’s okay if you don’t have a life outside your business. Actual Working weeks per year 52 less Federal holidays (20 days or 3 weeks, 2 wk vacation(10 days) and 5 sick days (1 week) 48 Weeks.

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Using Online Platforms to Boost Your Billings

Successful Independent Consulting

My last article discussed working with consulting agencies to supplement your business development efforts. Online platforms, on the other hand, charge 20-25%, which may or may not come out of your pay, and they don’t involve people as middlemen. Catalant's agency fee is around 20%. Photo ID 40184079 © Ratz Attila.

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The 2016 WIC Speed Mentoring Event in Review

Women in Consulting

By: Robin Weintraub. :: When I proposed launching a WIC Mentorship Program in 2014, none of us knew where it would lead. We retained the original format since it received strong reviews: – 1:1 mentoring sessions with WIC’s most successful consultants, business owners and coaches. We’ve had bumps along the way.

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Economic Illiterate Proposal: "Inflation Creates Jobs"; Inflation Economics 101

MishTalk

Those looking economically illiterate proposals can have a field day reading Ezra Klein''s "Wonkblog" on the Washington Post. No doubt the economic illiterates will state " wait a minute, we don''t want massive inflation, just the right amount of inflation ". Dual Mandate Equals Mission Impossible Here''s the deal.

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Hiring an NSF Research Project Manager to Start Immediately

NeoAcademic

The position requires a Bachelor’s degree in a scientific field (psychology and computer science are targeted in the ad, but a degree from a business school ion which you completed a research methods course would qualify). Actual workload will vary week-to-week between 10 and 25 hours (less in the beginning and more later).