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From Consulting and Coaching to IP: How to Create, Protect, and Monetize Your Unique Body of Work with Erin Austin

Consulting Matters

Erin shares her journey from a big corporate law firm to working in the film business in LA and how her experiences led her to focus on helping business owners understand and capitalize on their intellectual property. Ensure you're booked solid with clients you love.

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How to Clarify Your Ideal Consulting Client

Consulting Matters

Do you know who your ideal consulting client is? Some people think of an ideal consulting client as someone who would simply be willing to buy their products and services. Setting the Stage for Understanding Your Ideal Consulting Client [02:49]. Here's the thing: You can do decent work with a lot of different leaders.

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The 7 People Every Consultant Must Have On Their Team

David A Fields

Successful, independent consultants know the same thing (about consulting, not films). At a minimum they need a director of photography to run the camera, a sound person, a lighting person/gaffer (I’ve always wanted to use the word gaffer in a blog), plus a production assistant.

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Lack of Perspective: When Determination Leads to Disaster

Tom Spencer

Consider Kodak, a company famous for its photographic film products. It persisted so much with its film-based business model that it failed to appreciate the opportunities and threats of digital photography, a technology that the company itself invented in 1975.

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Why sustainability isn’t the next digital transformation

The Source

Consultants, much like movie producers, are often guilty of trying to chase that “next big thing”. Consultants, much like movie producers, are often guilty of trying to chase that “next big thing”.

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Will strategy consultants (again) be the masters of the universe?

The Source

Thirty years ago, a documentary about consulting aired. Titled, in an even-handed sort of way, “Masters of the Universe”, it purported to lift the curtain on the consulting industry, with predictably unedifying results. Perhaps strategy consultants are now genuinely positioned to become the masters of the universe.

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Milk? Seriously? The Perfect Response When Things Go Sour

David A Fields

How you handle the situation as a consultant makes all the difference. Last week, an expertly trained professional gently removed the thin film of grime and buffed some new-age, uber protective coating onto my sedan. Consultants Creating Value Relationships attitude project management relationships'

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