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7 Key Decisions for Starting Your Consulting or Coaching Business Right

Consulting Matters

Your heart won't be in it, and your clients will know that you are trying to land them for the sale and not out of a heart of service. A coach helps individual leaders develop clarity on what they need to focus on and create action plans to achieve those goals. The Difference Between B2B and B2C Business Models. Get enough rest.

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7 Key Decisions for Starting Your Consulting or Coaching Business Right

Consulting Matters

Your heart won't be in it, and your clients will know that you are trying to land them for the sale and not out of a heart of service. A coach helps individual leaders develop clarity on what they need to focus on and create action plans to achieve those goals. The Difference Between B2B and B2C Business Models. Get enough rest.

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To Grow Your Business Abroad, Partner with Local Influencers

Harvard Business

They spend their days developing new content — videos, photos, blog posts, and podcasts — and engaging their followers. million RMB (nearly $500,000) in sales of a limited-edition handbag in just six minutes. The rise of social media has created a new type of local partner: local digital influencers.

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The Most Successful Brands Focus on Users — Not Buyers

Harvard Business

Furthermore, they engage customers more as users than as buyers, shifting their investments from pre-purchase promotion and sales to post-purchase renewal and advocacy. We suspect that the nature of their products, culture, and business model leads them to more of a usage mentality. Are people actually using the product?

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business

There are core competencies that every PM must have – many of which can start in the classroom – but most are developed with experience and good role models and mentoring. If the best PMs have well developed core competencies and a high EQ, does that mean that they are then destined for success no matter where they work?

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The Social Cost of Bad Online Marketing

Harvard Business

Dan Lyons’s book Disrupted is an often-delightful tour through startup culture, based on the author’s experience working at online marketing firm HubSpot. Despite taking the faux-curmudgeonly attitude of an anthropologist exploring the strange world of business dudes — is a sales funnel really that much of a novelty?