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Figuring Out Your Billing Rate as an Independent Consultant

Successful Independent Consulting

Even if your pricing strategy is to use a fixed price or to use a hybrid approach (part fixed, part variable), use your base rate as the building block and to sanity check your package pricing. Other tips: Benchmark your rate to increase your confidence. Reassess your pricing strategy as your experience and confidence increase.

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Beyond Bullet Points: A Guide to Structured Consulting Decks

Tom Spencer

As consultants strive to convey complex ideas, strategies, and recommendations, a well-crafted slide deck is an invaluable tool. This is where data collection and analysis come into play. Data is the evidence that will allow you to validate your hypotheses. Use data analysis to thoroughly test your hypothesis.

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Business Startup Investors And Business Consultants

Business Consulting Agency

By leveraging industry expertise, market insights, and data analytics, consultants help investors make informed investment decisions, identify high-potential opportunities, and mitigate investment risks. Exit Planning and Investment Exits Startup consultants assist investors in exit planning, investment exits, and liquidity events.

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Eliminating Margins for Business Errors

Business Consulting Agency

The Perils of Guessing in Business Inaccurate Data Interpretation: Guessing often stems from incomplete or inaccurate data, leading to flawed assumptions and misguided decisions. Without reliable data analysis, businesses risk making choices based on faulty premises, which can result in suboptimal outcomes.

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2020 Database Strategies and Contact Acquisition Survey Report

47% of marketers said they have a database management strategy in place, but there is room for significant improvement. As buyer expectations to receive this type of relevant engagement continues to heighten, database management strategies are of high importance. New tactics to acquire data to reach marketing goals.

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Latest NPS Benchmark Scores Reveal Customer Experience Shifts

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Last week, I had a chance to speak with Satmetrix data scientist Brendan Rocks about the results from the company''s 2014 Net Promoter Industry Benchmarks reports. One of the most popular metrics used by marketers is Net Promoter Score (NPS), a simple loyalty measurement to gauge customer satisfaction and likelihood to recommend.

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The Big Picture of Strategic Pricing™ for Government Contracts

Granite Leadership Strategies

Without that as a benchmark, you are just shooting from the hip. Winning companies put a rigorous focus on the customer, the management choices and assessments, the relevant data, developing the important value proposition you bring to your customer, and monetizing that value. Let us look at the anatomy of strategic pricing.