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The cost of hiring a consultant for small business in 2023

Asamby Consulting

A glossy PowerPoint presentation with recommendations alone doesn't do the trick. 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. So first, you must check what size of investment your cash flow can accommodate.

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

Tom Spencer

(There are, of course, heavily analytical cases which use advanced statistics, or proprietary out-of-the-box methodologies which use statistical analysis in the background, such as A/B testing or optimisation problems. There are no statistical analyses to prove whether a ten-year cash flow projection will be correct.

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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! Include a ton of value in your presentation plus a lot of reflection questions to help them see their need for someone like you. Before we get started. Dress to CONNECT (not impress) – be approachable.

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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! Include a ton of value in your presentation plus a lot of reflection questions to help them see their need for someone like you. Before we get started. Dress to CONNECT (not impress) – be approachable.

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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

Even if a business knows how normal weather affects its earnings, unexpected abnormal weather events present their own risks. 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.

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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.