Successful Independent Consulting

OCTOBER 22, 2017

My last article discussed working with consulting agencies to supplement your business development efforts. This article offers tips for finding work through online platforms or marketplaces like Catalant, SpareHire, and TalMix. See my article “ Friends Don’t Let Friends W-2 ”®.) Photo ID 40184079 © Ratz Attila.

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Business Consulting Agency

AUGUST 12, 2023

In this article, we’ll outline the essential steps to increase profits with the help of consulting services and emphasize the pivotal role of business consulting agencies in achieving financial success. Consider cross-selling, upselling, and expanding into new markets.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 20, 2023

Having spoken to dozens of working consultants, I will briefly discuss some of the ups and downs of an entry level career in consulting in this article. For example, digital marketing executives would just focus on digital marketing; sales executives on sales for a particular set of products, and so on.

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Martinka Consulting

APRIL 26, 2019

Record number of small business sales in 2018! Second question: is there similar activity with larger companies, small, mid-sized, and lower middle market firms? PriceWaterhouseCoopers – Two-thirds of companies with sales of $5,000,000 to $50,000,000 will change hands in the next 10 years (2011). Pretty small. Easy money.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 31, 2016

For many executives battling through economic headwinds in emerging markets, the answer tends to be wherever they think someone will provide the strongest boost to top-line growth, which usually means hiring an additional sales or marketing manager to support the commercial front lines. Somewhere else?

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 1, 2017

By the end of this article, you’ll be well on your way to becoming an M&A case framework master. Check out our breakdowns on Profitability , Market Sizing , and Market Study to become a complete expert on any kind of framework you’ll need in your case interview. This comes down to 4 key areas: – The Market.

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The Fearless Marketer

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Your marketing message communicates to the world what your business is about. And your LinkedIn profile is the perfect place to both develop and spotlight your most focused marketing message. This is the fourth of five articles about the 5 Pillars of Marketing, my marketing model that helps get your marketing on track.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 20, 2023

However, it should be evaluated in conjunction with metrics such as total revenue, revenue per billable resource, backlog value, sales pipeline, and client satisfaction for comprehensive insights. Adapting to changing market conditions and addressing clients’ evolving needs become imperative when growth slows.

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Progressus

AUGUST 29, 2023

For companies where projects are the heartbeat, sales, marketing, and client servicing are the vital vessels supporting this heartbeat. To steer the business in the right direction, the finance department requires instantaneous data on project statuses, forthcoming deals, and future client engagements.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 6, 2020

It is a critical step towards identifying growth opportunities in business and should be carried out before undertaking any of the following actions: Developing customized marketing programs (e.g. Demographic segmentation divides a market through variables such as age, gender, education level, family size, occupation, income, and more.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

We serve two markets that are very different but united by the common need for reliable, safe access to energy: outdoor recreationalists and low-income households in emerging markets. It was a good idea in theory, but ultimately it was too passive as a sales approach: Simply placing our HomeStove on a shelf did not lead to uptake.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you want to achieve sustainable success as a consultant - ideally you want to create a marketing system to ensure you have a consistently full pipeline of right-fit clients. This article is designed to give you some immediate traction while still setting you up for long-term success. level, title, company size, industry, etc.)

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Tsavo Neal

MARCH 30, 2017

When is the last time you read a helpful blog article that gave you actionable advice to improve your consulting business? Chances are, this answer would be found in the form of a blog article. This article lists what I consider to be the best blogs on consulting. You’ll be sure to find some help.

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The Fearless Marketer

JULY 23, 2018

I like to think I’m a pretty good marketer of my professional services. After all, I’ve been at it for 34 years, read hundreds of marketing books, thousands of articles and studied with the very best marketing gurus. But marketing is still challenging for me and the majority of independent professionals.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you want to achieve sustainable success as a consultant - ideally you want to create a marketing system to ensure you have a consistently full pipeline of right-fit clients. This article is designed to give you some immediate traction while still setting you up for long-term success. level, title, company size, industry, etc.)

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CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The company had suffered a 40% drop in sales. If you know finance, especially the finance of retail businesses, that’s nearly impossible. Business A can be profitable if it grows revenues enough to cover the non-product-related operating costs (such as sales, marketing, customer service, finance, and human resources).

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Asamby Consulting

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Major cost and expense types The major types of cost are Cost of goods sold (COGS, including some of the below) Staff cost (salaries) Cost of financing (interest rates) Offices and buildings Energy Marketing cost Depending on your industry, different types might be dominant. Profit = sales - all cost (incl.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2016

For decades, Sales and Academia remained worlds apart and the business world did fine. But Sales is changing, Academia is out of touch, and this is bad for business and the academy. Compared to professions like engineering or business disciplines like Finance or Operations, the concept of a dedicated salesperson is relatively recent.

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MishTalk

APRIL 23, 2014

Please consider French Company Does Biggest Junk Bond Sale Ever. Numericable (NUM), which provides cable and internet service in France and other European markets, sold a record amount of high-yield bonds Wednesday with some priced in dollars and others in euros. billion debt sale in September. It''s sold $7.78 billion and €2.25

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Martinka Consulting

JUNE 7, 2017

A recent edition of my Marquette University alumni magazine had an article on a new mandatory Business School course, Business Day 1 (something I wish they had when I was in school). However, there’s one learning area missing, and that’s sales. I’ve maintained for years universities should require students to take a Sales 101 class.

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CaseInterview.com

JULY 18, 2019

The Financial Services Operating Group concerns itself with Banking, Capital Markets and Insurance. Accenture careers in this field are all about working with clients to rethink marketing in an age that is simultaneously global in scale yet focusing on the customers as individuals. Finance and Performance Management.

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 26, 2019

For the purposes of this article, I will describe the PARADE method from the perspective of the job-seeker. A source of irritation for many interviewers is when the candidate says, " We faced a $10 million drop in sales, and we fixed this by landing three new clients for $3.3 Did you find and close all $10 million in sales?

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MishTalk

AUGUST 16, 2013

Bloomberg, frequently a fount of anti-gold propaganda came out with a pair of articles on Wednesday, worth a read primarily from a contrarian point of view. Gold Bull Paulson Cuts SPDR Stake by Half in Bear Market. Bloomberg reports Gold Bull Paulson Cuts SPDR Stake by Half in Bear Market. Here are a few clips from the article.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 10, 2017

Sales executives with even moderately large, distributed sales forces rely on data to help them understand which activities and behaviors lead to the best outcomes. Refining Sales Team Structure and Roles. At the highest level, Workplace Analytics can provide a factual foundation for decisions on sales structure and roles.

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CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Once I understood how to do market entry strategy, they had me do sales force performance optimization. Got good at sales? Ran a finance organization? If you found this article useful and want to receive more articles like it, sign up to receive approximately two articles each week by email.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The Power of Unity Firms need real-time insights into the entire business – finance, project accounting, sales, everything – otherwise multiple versions of the truth will start showing up in budgets, estimates, and forecasts. Are project operations, sales, customer service, etc. Market trends? The bottom line?

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Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2016

Most sales models include a conversion funnel in which reps try to convert a marketing-generated lead into a prospect and then a customer through sequential steps. Along with improving sales results, research has shown that incremental commitments can boost charitable giving, increase show rates for blood drives, and reduce smoking.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 24, 2018

This volume of new articles sparked an interest in me to learn more about this curious country. However, this still does not make entry onto the market easy, one has to find a niche or adapt a known classic. The Chinese adore tea so introducing new dairy products into the tea market would be a wonderful way to get a foot in the door.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Currency controls that limit Venezuelans’ access to dollars have spawned a black market in which the greenback fetches 172 bolivars, compared with officially sanctioned exchange rates that range from 6.3 The government “needs to print money to finance the deficit and it is running a deficit because its revenues in bolivars are too low.”

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 14, 2014

skip the adds and scroll down to my list of articles). But the proceeds of those sales were often not enough to cover the amount of the loan, plus penalties, legal bills and fees. But the proceeds of those sales were often not enough to cover the amount of the loan, plus penalties, legal bills and fees.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 1, 2013

Oliver Wyman’s CEO, John Drzik, states that the long-term aspiration is to be recognized widely in the market as the gold standard in consulting. And, of course, their claim to fame, Financial Services , is broken down into even more practices including: Finance and Risk. Corporate and Finance and Advisory.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

After Italy rebuffed warnings about its budget, euro-area finance ministers late Friday agreed to give the country additional opportunities to show it can make savings and bolster revenue. member states, including Italy, aim at the stability of their public finances.” It is very important that all E.U.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Companies which are not externally project driven may use project accounting to track internal projects such as a marketing campaign, or some type of capital improvement. Achieving Your Project Management Goals with Progressus Project Accounting Progressus Project Accounting allows project-based businesses to take control of project finances.

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Emerson Consulting Group

JANUARY 31, 2019

Too often otherwise good sales reps fail because they just haven’t learned to stop talking and start listening. The objective of basic sales questions is to identify what your prospect actually wants. By asking more questions and listening even more, you can take any sales conversation to a higher level. By Ken Lizotte CMC.

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1 to 1

JUNE 16, 2022

This article first appeared in the Customer Strategist There’s a fundamental shift happening when it comes to customer experience, both in expectations and capabilities, but too many brands aren’t prepared to meet the moment. All departments, including marketing, operations, e-commerce, IT, and finance were involved in the process.

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 13, 2019

For example, McKinsey Houston I've heard has more Oil & Gas cases than say McKinsey New York City - which has more finance, media, and retail cases. I looked at a bottle of water on the lunch table and said, why not give a case on bottled water - you know a market entry case for a soft drink company.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

One of Velosio’s clients, a management consulting firm , replaced an aging Microsoft Dynamics SL back-end ERP and NetSuite for CRM with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central with Customer Engagement, Marketing, and Progressus Project Management.

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