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Cash Flow Relief for Independent Consultants: the CARES Act & Other Ideas

Successful Independent Consulting

This article explains your options for cash-flow relief, whether you need it immediately or in the near future, and how to get it. There are several ways to get some cash-flow relief to help you pay your bills in the near term as a result of the $2 trillion CARES Act: 1. A stimulus payment from the U.S. government 2.

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Marketing Guidelines for Professional Services Firms During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Prudent Pedal

I offer 6 simple marketing guidelines for professional services firms during the COVID-19 pandemic that will build your reputation—or at least protect it until it’s over. Follow these guidelines and you will achieve those goals. Marketing agencies don’t need to be talking about cash-flow, CARE or FMLA.

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Leadership Tip #13: For Innovation, Remove at Least One Policy or Procedure a Week

Johanna Rothman

What about guidelines? Money Policies to Manage Cash Flow. Consider removing policies and procedures and create guidelines and constraints instead. ” Trina's questions prompted the senior managers to consider those guidelines and constraints. The managers created friction, which resulted in problems.

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How Well Do Your Policies Create Desired Outcomes and Trust?

Johanna Rothman

If you don't manage your cash flow, a lack of cash will kill your business. We do need guidelines and constraints for our work. I keep encountering policies that prevent people from delivering the outcomes the organization wants. Worse, the policies destroy trust. Why have policies anyway? The less trust we have.

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The Simple Question That Can Make or Break a Startup

Harvard Business

” This one flaw harmed significantly more companies than well-known startup challenges such as cash flow (29%), competition (19%), and poor timing (13%), to name a few. They used a harsh phrase to describe this cause of failure: “no market need.”

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Pros and Cons of Professional Employer Organizations (PEOs) Why a “Virtual PEO” May be the Better Option

Emerson Consulting Group

While it’s impossible to identify in advance where a given employer’s rates would be if placed directly, we can reaffirm our guideline: 80% of employers’ premiums generally fall within ± 1-3% of the PEO rate, and the other 20% differ wildly, either higher or lower.