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Optimizing Project Accounting: A Game-Changer for Professional Services

Progressus

For companies where projects are the heartbeat, sales, marketing, and client servicing are the vital vessels supporting this heartbeat. Integrating project accounting ensures accurate documentation of billable hours, activities, and expenses, creating a coherent picture for everyone involved.

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The Corona Virus for Small Businesses

Consultant Journal

Think about what’s actually needed for your sales and marketing : Wave or nod instead of shaking hands. Do trial runs and document practices for using telemeetings, including teleconferences and web meetings. Take a look at your cash flow and what a change to sales or staffing could do.

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A Peek At The Difficulties of Incubating New Initiatives Within Large Companies

Steve Shu Consulting

Established products and sales & marketing channels. Finance cycle of start-up opportunities (opportunity timing) does not align well with the long, finance planning cycles of large companies (sometimes can be 14+ month delays!). Start to articulate what the business opportunity looks like and document it.

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7 Critical Success Factors for Project Based Firms to Consider in 2024

Progressus

The Power of Unity Firms need real-time insights into the entire business – finance, project accounting, sales, everything – otherwise multiple versions of the truth will start showing up in budgets, estimates, and forecasts. Are project operations, sales, customer service, etc. directly integrated with core financials?

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Need Clients Now? 5 Strategies to Quickly Get More Consulting Clients

Consulting Matters

Document ideas in the document we use for Directional Agreement. Offer your document as a “straw person” and starting point. EVEN if you feel the crunch on the finances, you do not want to under-value what you can bring to the table.

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More Universities Need to Teach Sales

Harvard Business

For decades, Sales and Academia remained worlds apart and the business world did fine. But Sales is changing, Academia is out of touch, and this is bad for business and the academy. Compared to professions like engineering or business disciplines like Finance or Operations, the concept of a dedicated salesperson is relatively recent.

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Need Clients Now? 5 Strategies to Quickly Get More Consulting Clients

Consulting Matters

Document ideas in the document we use for Directional Agreement. Offer your document as a “straw person” and starting point. EVEN if you feel the crunch on the finances, you do not want to under-value what you can bring to the table.