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Need Clients Now? 5 Strategies to Quickly Get More Consulting Clients

Consulting Matters

However, there will be times when you have to feel the cash flow pressure and need to find clients.right now! So be bold with current clients: Use data from assessment and past work to create business case for next phase of work. Before we get started. Document ideas in the document we use for Directional Agreement.

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Need Clients Now? 5 Strategies to Quickly Get More Consulting Clients

Consulting Matters

However, there will be times when you have to feel the cash flow pressure and need to find clients.right now! So be bold with current clients: Use data from assessment and past work to create business case for next phase of work. Before we get started. Document ideas in the document we use for Directional Agreement.

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Business Valuation Lessons From ESOPs

Martinka Consulting

Methodologies : The second red-flag topic is the improper use of valuation methodologies. In the Discounted Future Cash Flow method profits are projected (same as the first issue) and discounted back to a present value. An outsider may ask, how is this possible?

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Severe Weather Threatens Businesses. It’s Time to Measure and Disclose the Risks

Harvard Business

When weather conditions are on average adverse over days, weeks, or entire seasons, shortfalls in sales cause reduced cash flows and can lead to financial distress and business failure. Research shows that abnormal weather disrupts the operating and financial performance of 70% of businesses worldwide. These disruptions add up.

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Is Corporate Short-Termism Really a Problem? The Jury’s Still Out

Harvard Business

It is also the case that the companies generating the highest immediate cash flows, which should be overvalued on the myopia theory, historically have had the highest stock market returns , implying undervaluation rather than overvaluation. It has a reasonable methodology.

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Don’t Let the Numbers Get in the Way of a Good Story

Tom Spencer

Statistics – the interpretation of data according to scientific method – is a robust discipline of its own, but more importantly, contributes heavily to almost all quantitative enquiry in any field. The most simple type of statistics are descriptors about a set of data: means, medians, ranges. In theory, this includes consulting.

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Subscription Businesses Are Booming. Here’s How to Value Them

Harvard Business

A new methodology, which we call customer-based corporate valuation (CBCV), holds the answer to both of these – and other similarly critical – questions. Then we project those granular patterns forward as if we had such data in the first place. Case Study: Blue Apron.