Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Are you tired of the endless chase for small-paying consulting gigs? Are you so over those labor intensive projects that keep you as busy as you were when you were an employee? It's a consequence of an intentional positioning strategy, which I will explain to you in this video. Transcript.

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Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Are you thinking about becoming a consultant but not sure what the consultant's role entails? Are you currently a consultant and tired of shadow boxing negative stereotypes about this role and want to be seen as an essential strategic partner to executives? This is a longer video than a typical Quick Win that you might see here.

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Alan Weiss

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

” The needs for “staff” are often just an expensive ego need fulfilled, indicating you’re doing well enough to have “people.” Personally, I know you can run upwards of a $5 million business without staff if you organize it correctly and minimize labor and deliverables.

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

MARCH 10, 2023

You set the agenda. The Big Idea: You have to do long/short. There are lots of headliners now, but you also have to work to cultivate the future. Investment in the database: managing these programs is expensive and hard. The real skill is having a strategy that you can stick to over time. Book in with me TODAY!

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 15, 2018

The greatest marketing tool you have is your network — here’s how to make it work for you. We explore how you can make your network work for you so that you don’t have to spend your time chasing after your next client. By using Stuart’s advice, your next client will come to you.

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Buzzsprout

JULY 2, 2023

Launching a podcast can feel overwhelming if you're doing it by yourself, but you don't have to do it alone. We broke this guide into 10 easy steps that give you everything you need to confidently create, launch, and grow a great podcast! Define your goals Why do you want to start a podcast?

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Tsavo Neal

JULY 27, 2017

This post is a guest post written and submitted by Jim McCraigh, founder of Business Growth Strategies. Since then, I’ve learned a lot about setting my fees, some of which I’d like to share with you here…. You can probably guess how that works out. Those coaches and consultants were wrong back then, and so was I.

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MishTalk

JUNE 7, 2014

Why go $40,000 to $100,000 or more in debt for a college education when studying in Europe will cost far less, possibly even be free, and you will pick up a foreign language or two in the process? Ivo writes. Hello Mish Your points are generally correct, but at the same time, more and more students choose to study abroad.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 20, 2016

It gives them access to state of the art resources, without the associated expenses. If you are currently on the hunt for a suitable serviced office, there are a few things that you need to keep in mind. If you are currently on the hunt for a suitable serviced office, there are a few things that you need to keep in mind.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 1, 2017

In early 2016 some numbers surfaced at a few of the Dorchester Collection’s luxury hotels that caught leadership’s attention: Complaints about our laundry service were on the rise, as was the cost of compensating guests for damage to their clothes. One hotel had to replace a fabulously expensive Givenchy evening gown.

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Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

I asked my partner Jen Hamilton - our community Chief Operating Officer to be my guest today and share all the deets on the what you'll need and how much it all costs so that you can plan in advance for both the startup and ongoing costs. As you watch this video, here's what I would love you to consider. Be strategic.

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The Fearless Marketer

MARCH 18, 2019

If you pick the right marketing strategy, you’ll be like that little guy in the middle of my diagram above. You put a lot work into creating a video and then post it on YouTube hoping people see it. It’s time-consuming and it can be expensive. If you want to do it well, it takes a chunk of change and a lot of time.

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Martinka Consulting

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Guest column from Gregory Kovsky, IBA Business Brokers. Think about it a minute, how many people do you know that own a business and create employment rather than working for someone else. My guess is that the number is significantly less than the number of people you know that are employed. Do you admire them?

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Seth Godin Blog

APRIL 24, 2014

Feed the tribe, maintain the value of the logo and you actually get paid a premium for making the thing cost more.  When anyone can make a nice shirt, which nice shirt should you pay extra for? There''s still plenty of money being spent on the expensive, but the concentation of brand impact is diluting, quickly.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Walt Disney once said, “Whatever you do, do it well. Do it so well that when people see you do it, they will want to come back and see you do it again, and they will want to bring others and show them how well you do what you do.” By Bruce Jones, Senior Programming Director, Disney Institute.

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This just in: doing what everyone expects of you is OUT, doing what what makes you happy is IN. If you ever felt that guilt of being highly successful at what you're doing and still not happy, this is a must-watch. Do you want to start your own business but are on the fence? Take Action.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

Via email, this is a guest post from Steen Jakobsen, chief economist of Saxo bank. Such behavior would cost you your job in the private sector, but in the economic model of 2014, which reminds us more of Soviet Union than a market based economy, its par for the course. Things are even worse in Europe. for all of 2014. Who’s next?

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MishTalk

APRIL 20, 2015

The fundamental problem is they have made more promises than they can possibly keep" Gaming the System The problem is "you have police and fire workers who can retire after 20 years and collect up to 70% of their earnings based on the 5 highest years salaries. "The Chicago floated General Obligation Bonds to fund current expenses.

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Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 20, 2022

It even instills confidence in you. Now, 80%+ of them will look at it before doing business with you. Best Consulting Website Examples If you are looking for some inspiration for your consulting website, the examples below will help. “What are examples of some of the best consultant websites?” That’s it.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Similarly, when Starbucks baristas make your latte the same way across cafés, or when a software engineer delivers the expected features each sprint, you are witnessing tactical performance. Essentially, tactical performance is how well you stick to your plan, and adaptive performance is how well you diverge from your plan.

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Harvard Business

JULY 21, 2017

In fact, riders can become drivers and guests can become hosts. PhDs and expensive consultants on the payrolls of InnoCentive and NineSigma even got involved. Back in 2011, crowdsourcing was fueling an explosion in open innovation. The providers of crowdsource solutions had their heyday. Kaggle had raised $11M from Koshla Ventures.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Yet, despite the fact that all of our guests across our 18 sessions (and counting) have embraced these truths, the average result of such commitments to innovation seems to have been tenuous. So naturally, as a manager, you left such innovations to new entrants. For the everyday student of business history, this might be unsurprising.

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Seth Godin Blog

JUNE 12, 2015

Make sure others don't take it, because what they take isn't something you can take. Bill, given how fast a Bruce Springsteen concert sells out, why don't you charge $100 a seat and keep all the upside?" (In The network, of course, doesn't always want to do what you want it to do, as fast as you want it to happen.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

Last June, Emmett Carson, CEO of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, had a guest editorial in the San Francisco Chronicle in which he wrote, Mergers are not for the faint-hearted and, contrary to popular thinking, merging two weak organizations does not result in a stronger organization but rather a weaker one.

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MishTalk

JULY 26, 2014

This is a guest post courtesy of Richard Berman at the Capital Research Center , under the title A Bad Day for Bad Teachers. Summary: In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court issued the landmark decision Brown v. Last month, a California court cited Brown v. The evidence is compelling,” Judge Treu wrote. Indeed, it shocks the conscience.”

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MishTalk

APRIL 1, 2015

You should be. Guest Post I mention the above to prove Culpepper is highly regarded in the industry. Chicago finances are even worse than I thought which is saying quite a bit because I have written about the sorry state of Chicago finances on numerous occasion. That is just the tip of the iceberg as to what Culpepper has discovered.

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Buzzsprout

JULY 13, 2023

Once you’ve started your podcast and grown your audience , you can consider whether you want to make money podcasting. I’ll share the exact income streams I’ve built to support my podcast and walk you step-by-step through the 11 best ways to monetize your podcast. How much do podcast ads pay? Buzzsprout Ads pay $14 CPM.

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Kai Davis

OCTOBER 19, 2017

You’re wondering if you should: Start with a specific positioning (target market) and problem that you’re solving (“Shopify” and “Search Engine Optimization,” for example). Start with a wide positioning (“Search Engine Optimization”) and see what markets end up working with you and then niche down. Okay, I’m cheating here.

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Rod Burkert

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

In case you missed last week: Your report meets spec … here’s why that’s a problem. On to this week: At one time in your professional life, I imagine you have participated on a webinar. On to this week: At one time in your professional life, I imagine you have participated on a webinar. But have you ever hosted one yourself?

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Brimstone Consulting

AUGUST 24, 2020

Leaders need to enact change to keep parents in the workplace and to create a culture that will accelerate, rather than reverse, gender equality in the workplace. Last week, a senior executive shared with me that her company has been “absolutely incredible and beyond supportive” since day one of the COVID-19 pandemic. They are not alone.

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Epicflow

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The Philosophy of Knowing and Not Knowing Never Say ‘I Know’ and Never Say ‘I Don’t Know’: You always know something but never everything. Goldratt came to me and asked, ‘Eli, how long will it take you to develop a new feature’, I hesitated. This article explores managing uncertainty in organizations.

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Rod Burkert

JUNE 3, 2020

In case you missed my last post: Do you have a longer-term virtual strategy to compete? Do you have a longer-term virtual strategy to compete in that world? On to this week: In honor of what my INSIDER guest will be talking about on Friday , I thought hourly pricing was a good subject for this newsletter.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 8, 2016

Starting a high-end disruption is expensive and challenging, requiring a lot of capital up front. How does disruptive innovation differ when it’s applied to a product versus a platform? ” These definitions recognize that product vs. platform isn’t black-and-white, but let’s use them for practical purposes. .”

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

You’re competing against platforms like Uber in transportation, Google in automotive, Airbnb in hospitality, LinkedIn in recruiting, Netflix in television, and the list goes on. You may be thinking: but my company isn’t a software company. And its importance as a source of value will only continue to grow.

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freshminds

MAY 24, 2016

At a TEDX talk in Sydney in 2010, Rachel Botsman, author of the book 'The Rise of Collaborative Consumption', asked the audience the question - 'How many of you use a power drill?' Some even named it a 'quiet revolution' of the people against big business.

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Kai Davis

DECEMBER 7, 2017

If you’re writing Proposals… If you send proposals, on your next proposal, raise the prices you’re quoting by 20%. If you’re billing hourly… If you have an hourly rate, raise it. If you’re billing hourly… If you have an hourly rate, raise it. You have permission.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

If you think so, please consider this guest post by Ed Ring. There are 166 tax increase proposals on the ballot in California. 118 of them are bond proposals. It matters little what the proposals are for. Forget about any claim, "it''s for the kids". But wait, doesn''t money have to be spent on what the bond proposal says it''s for?

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