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The cost of hiring a consultant for small business in 2023

Asamby Consulting

What can you afford: Cash Flow Cashflow is king for small business. So first, you must check what size of investment your cash flow can accommodate. Don't use more than 25% of your free cash flow for a consulting project to leave enough room for other growth related investments. If yes, great.

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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! Do you focus your energy on selling yourself, your mission or methodology OR do you position yourself as a strategic partner who is ready to help solve a clients most pressing business performance challenges.

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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! Do you focus your energy on selling yourself, your mission or methodology OR do you position yourself as a strategic partner who is ready to help solve a clients most pressing business performance challenges.

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

Harvard Business

The observation that many “unicorn” companies with no profits — and sometimes no revenues or even fully developed products — get valued so highly makes me skeptical of the idea that the capital market is systematically myopic. It has a reasonable methodology.

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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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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. We apply the methodology to two public companies, DISH Network and Sirius XM Satellite Radio, to show that the methodology has excellent performance in practice.