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Consulting Tip #7: Beware of Other People Using Your Intellectual Property for Their Exposure

Johanna Rothman

No payment for my time or my IP (Intellectual Property). They wanted my intellectual property for their exposure. See Project Lifecycle Workshop: How to Manage Project Risks to Release Successful Products.) I said this in the Successful Indepentent Consulting book : People die of exposure—both hot and cold.

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Figuring Out Your Billing Rate as an Independent Consultant

Successful Independent Consulting

Most consultants tend to use an hourly rate anyway, because it’s the easiest to figure out, there’s less risk of undercharging, and it’s what most clients are used to. Do an internet search such as “typical hourly rate for change management consultant in [your location].”

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Manage Your Intellectual Property

Johanna Rothman

The company hires you, pays you a wage, and in return, your intellectual property belongs to them. Books and consulting are all different beasts. You can create consulting services and deliver them by yourself. Every time you create something, you create intellectual property.

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Consultants: Get Better Clients with Better Fees

Johanna Rothman

One of the questions in the chat was: “Don't consultants want 100% utilization? ” Here's how consultants create utilization-based billing: By the hour. Because then the client and I have mutually opposing goals: The consultant wants to keep the engagement going as long as possible. Time and materials.

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What Writers Can Do About Intended Plagiarism, Part 3

Johanna Rothman

That information is my intellectual property. When someone steals that property, that act is theft. Some people think that digital intellectual property is different from real property. Digital property is real property. The publisher didn't create your intellectual property.

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The Million Dollar Consulting® accelerant curve

Chad Barr

You create intellectual property, which generates credibility, which creates prospect interaction, which gains trust, which produces new business, from which you can generate new intellectual property. Additional Resources: Million Dollar Consulting® Accelerant Curve – From Alan’s Blog.

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Are You Transforming Your Input Into Output?

Chad Barr

I am here in New York at Alan Weiss’s Society for the Advancement of Consulting meeting. While attending meetings, workshops or events where new ideas and intellectual property are being shared, I see most (self included) take copious notes.