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The Corona Virus for Small Businesses

Consultant Journal

It’s a question on the minds of many entrepreneurs, as Fortune 500 companies announce new protocols for travel, meetings and even use of coffee cups. Do trial runs and document practices for using telemeetings, including teleconferences and web meetings. How should small business owners manage the corona virus, aka COVID-19 ?

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Government Contracts Pricing Strategy – Ten Dynamic and Synergistic Pricing Practices

Granite Leadership Strategies

Document, assess, and streamline your pricing processes and pricing artifacts as you go along. Agencies may use common cookie-cutter pricing templates and common documentation requirements, especially when issuing a large volume of task order requests from the same IDIQ vehicle. What do you do then? Why reinvent the wheel?

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Job Hub: Virgin Group Jobs and Culture

Management Consulted

This group has a startling 300 companies in its portfolio in sectors ranging from travel, telecommunications, health, financial services, leisure, music, space travel, and renewable energy. The group’s travel-related operations, led by 51%-owned Virgin Atlantic Airways, are among its largest cash generators.

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Why consulting?

Management Consulted

“I am competitive in nature and always give the best in whatever I do and my passions include photography, travelling and embracing new cultures and languages. Consultants get to travel quite a lot and meet different kinds of people and this makes them diverse and enables them to have insights, which others can only strive for.

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Is Your Business Ready to be Sold?

Martinka Consulting

Things like car, travel, non-market rent, etc. And don’t forget the landlord and the buyer’s lease, which needs to be at least as long as any note (bank or your financing) as nobody wants the buyer forced out while owing money. “Do It requires having the right processes, metrics, documentation, and culture. Letter of Intent.

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Customer intent is a treasure trove of actionable data hiding in plain sight

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And inquiries about loyalty rewards were common across nearly all industries — retail, public sector, automotive and manufacturing, travel and tourism, insurance, finance. What the company found was that refund and replacement inquiries were most common among industries such as retail, public sector, automotive, and manufacturing.

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More Universities Need to Teach Sales

Harvard Business

Compared to professions like engineering or business disciplines like Finance or Operations, the concept of a dedicated salesperson is relatively recent. ” As Walter Friedman documents in Birth of a Salesman , sales wasn’t seen as a function that required specialized training or education until well into the 20 th century.

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