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For Independent Consultants, Business Development = Relationship Development

Successful Independent Consulting

The biggest stressor for self-employed management consultants is business development: how to cultivate meaningful regular work. Second, when knee-deep in projects and facing deadlines, consultants are hard-pressed to find time to publish thought-leadership articles or create, launch, and manage marketing campaigns. Be thoughtful.

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5 One-Line Scripts that Will Win Your Consulting Firm More Projects

David A Fields

If you travel any major highway (a.k.a. Tractor-trailers provide a helpful metaphor that you can employ to improve your consulting firm’s business development process. motorway) you have passed numerous tractor-trailers hauling freight from one destination to another. Cookies in the cab … Continued.

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5 Benefits of Internal Strategy vs Consulting

Tom Spencer

Some of the benefits I highlight in this article could be viewed as drawbacks by other people. At a company, there is more security in the relationships you develop, and more likelihood that they will last throughout your tenure at the company. I keep in touch with my friends from middle school, after all.

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Business Ecosystems: Building Stronger Connections

Tom Spencer

For instance, Elon Musk is aiming to transform Twitter into the X superapp , which will presumably emulate the example of WeChat in China by offering everything from digital payments, financial services, shopping, ride hailing, and other travel services.

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How Smart Speakers Are Poised to Reinvent the Travel Industry

Harvard Business

Travelers with an Alexa device at home can book a car rental or hotel through Expedia and Kayak. On many fronts, artificial intelligence-powered smart speakers and apps seem poised to become the world’s virtual travel agents. People can even book flights through voice-enabled Google Search. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

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Achieving Startup Success via Product-Market Fit

Tom Spencer

Others have developed theories to explain why businesses fail and what criteria distinguishes successful founders from unsuccessful ones. While this idea is appealing and no doubt has some truth to it, it has led many entrepreneurs to develop, fund, and launch products that ultimately fail.

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Is Your Company Prepared for the Effects of Wildfires?

Harvard Business

Today’s wildfires and smoke can travel hundreds of miles, blurring the lines between what happens within and outside the workplace when it comes to workforce health. Now is the time for employers to develop a plan to get ahead of this and other climate change-driven health issues.

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