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For Independent Consultants, Business Development = Relationship Development

Successful Independent Consulting

The biggest stressor for self-employed management consultants is business development: how to cultivate meaningful regular work. First, consultants are good at helping clients solve problems but usually aren’t trained in sales or marketing. It seems like a lifetime ago we worked together on the travel card rollout at NetApp.

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An Overview of Business Development Consulting

Tom Spencer

Business development consulting is about helping businesses grow sales and profits in order to achieve their strategic objectives. Business development consultants enable companies to reach their full potential and rescue companies that are struggling to survive. We heard bad things about your company.

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The Lockdown Unlocks Real Work

Markovitz Consulting

Low-value travel? At a $500M footwear company I once worked with, the founder and CEO—long removed from his role product development—decided that he didn’t like a particular style his product team had designed, developed, and purchased. Long commutes? Four-hour meetings? Gone, gone, gone, and gone.

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How Smart Speakers Are Poised to Reinvent the Travel Industry

Harvard Business

Travelers with an Alexa device at home can book a car rental or hotel through Expedia and Kayak. On many fronts, artificial intelligence-powered smart speakers and apps seem poised to become the world’s virtual travel agents. People can even book flights through voice-enabled Google Search. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

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Achieving Startup Success via Product-Market Fit

Tom Spencer

Others have developed theories to explain why businesses fail and what criteria distinguishes successful founders from unsuccessful ones. While this idea is appealing and no doubt has some truth to it, it has led many entrepreneurs to develop, fund, and launch products that ultimately fail.

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Why I Rejected My Consulting Offers and Went Into Tech

Tom Spencer

The inconvenience of travelling, without the excitement of a trip. I had looked at the tech industry before because many firms have reputations as good employers with exemplary HR practices, but was put off since almost all entry-level business roles were related to sales. Little personal responsibility in entry-level positions.

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Unlocking a Career as a Marketing Consultant

Tom Spencer

To do this, they should possess a keen understanding of the client’s target market and existing customer base, as well as the ability to recommend clear and actionable strategies to increase sales, expand the customer base, and develop new product offerings that will appeal to customers.