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The 7 Best CRMs For Consultants (& How To Use Them To Win Clients)

Consulting Success

What are the best CRMs for consultants? CRM” stands for customer relationship management, a type of software that helps you manage relationships with your current and prospective clients. Consulting is a relationship business. Without a CRM, you’ll have a tough time managing the relationships that you build.

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Time Tracking For Consultants: Increase Your Productivity, Profitability, & Fees

Consulting Success

As a consultant, should you be tracking your time? The latest data from our consulting industry study showed that 58% of consultants use an hourly rate or project rate (based on hours). Whether you are using an hourly rate or not, there are times that you should and should not be thinking. If so, how?

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Recharge Your Time Management

The Clever Consultant

Running a successful consulting business means your time is spread thin. Every six months or so, I take the time to re-read time management books, review my workload and consider ways to more effective. Simply completing your consulting work, pet projects and other tasks will put you above 80% of the competition.

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It’s Not “Time Management.” It’s Lean.

Markovitz Consulting

In the space of two weeks, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal both ran articles on the productivity benefits of reduced work hours. The WSJ introduced us to the workers at Rheingans Digital Enabler in Germany, who only put in five-hour days, for a workweek of 25 hours.

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How To Grow & Sell Your Consulting Business Using Systems (Without Working 24/7) with Shannon Susko: Podcast #231

Consulting Success

How To Grow & Sell Your Consulting Business Using Systems (Without Working 24/7) with Shannon Susko: Podcast #231 is a post from: Consulting Success. Join Michael Zipursky as he talks to Shannon Susko about growing and selling your business.

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I'm Teaching an Open-Enrollment Time Management Class on Apr 17-18

Markovitz Consulting

How often have you started your workday with a clear plan and objectives.but by the time you pull your head out of your inbox it's lunchtime (or later), and you haven’t actually accomplished anything important? Do you lose precious time hunting for files or emails? Do you wake up at 2am panicking about something you forgot to do?

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Consulting as a Contractor: The Rise of Self-Employment

Tom Spencer

Business organisations and management consultants have long had a contractual rather than an employer/employee relationship. Consultants are one example of these contractual workers in the sense that consulting firms are legally bound by a contractual agreement to their respective client. The bottom line.