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Consulting Website Design 007: Contact Now [VIDEO]

Tsavo Neal

In this video, you’ll learn how to improve your consulting website contact page with a “Now” section, as well as adding the principle of scarcity. The consulting website used in this demonstration is Kurt Elster’s contact page. [ Slides ] Transcript. Welcome to Consulting Website Design 007: Contact Now. In today’s episode, you’re going to learn how to improve your contact page by adding a “Now” section to it.

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Giving Back the Consulting Way

Women in Consulting

:: I’ve participated in many group volunteer efforts: cleaning beaches, painting classrooms, bagging pinto beans. The list goes on and on and includes time in a dunk tank. But the recent Non-Profit Challenge was the first time I’ve ever done a SWOT analysis for charity. The brain child of Martina Doleshal , the second year of this event brought together about 50 people to work on strategic plans for 8 non-profit organizations from the Bay Area.

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Organizations Are Not Families, Part 1

Johanna Rothman

I read Joe Berkowitz’s story in Fast Company, John Oliver Was Right: It’s Time To Confront The Dustin Hoffmans In Your Life. There’s a link to a video excerpt in which Hoffman discusses the idea that the people felt like a family. Mr. Berkowitz says this: There is no template for how to be a good man in the #MeToo era. I disagree. There is a template.

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Modern laziness

Seth Godin Blog

The original kind of lazy avoids hard physical work. Too lazy to dig a ditch, organize a warehouse or clean the garage. Modern lazy avoids emotional labor. This is the laziness of not raising your hand to ask the key question, not caring about those in need or not digging in to ship something that might not work. Lazy is having an argument instead of a thoughtful conversation.

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PowerPoint Best Practices for Creating Stellar Presentations

Mastering data visualization in PowerPoint will help accelerate your career because it positions you as someone who can present data that drives business decisions forward. think-cell's PowerPoint Best Practices eBook was created specifically for professionals aiming to master the art and science of data-driven storytelling. What’s inside: Practical Insights: Uncover valuable tips for crafting engaging and persuasive presentations.

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How to streamline processes?

Consulthon

Recently I have joined a new company, where I am a manager. My company is a global leader for creating authoritative maps, including topographic and administrative maps. My initial observation is.

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4 Elements to Ensure Strategy Aligns Behavior

LSA Global

When Strategy Aligns Behavior. A clear, well understood strategy aligns employee behavior within the priorities of the business. Just as a coxswain guides his crew to pull together in the same direction in a coordinated way, a great strategy guides everyone in the organization to make the right strategic choices and behave in a way that makes sense.

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Driving Performance and Profitability in the Service Sector - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HBS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Harvard Business

The service sector is a large and growing part of our economy. But a lot of service businesses are managed according to old ideas imported from more traditional industries, says Ryan Buell, UPS Foundation Associate Professor of Service Management at Harvard Business School (HBS). In today’s rapidly changing service sector, a new set of frameworks is required to build a robust and competitive service business, says Buell. “Service jobs have a reputation for not being great jobs—

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How to Create Long-Term Value for Your Clients

MBO Partners

Create long-term value for your clients by following these four steps.

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Why the Australian Defence Organization Is Recruiting Cyber Analysts on the Autism Spectrum

Harvard Business

Aaron Tilley/Getty Images. It seems like every week brings news of yet another major cybersecurity breach. Evidence suggests that the bad guys are getting smarter and more professional. Nowhere is the problem tougher than in national defense, where sophisticated actors, including nation states, engage in cyberwarfare. A big part of the problem: There simply aren’t enough great cyberdefense analysts to go around.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Charge More

Kai Davis

Let’s look at four different ways to charge more for your work. Raise your rates. Charge more. Take your prices. Now raise them. If you’re writing Proposals… If you send proposals, on your next proposal, raise the prices you’re quoting by 20%. Just raise ‘em. That’s it. See if the new prices stick. If they do, great, that’s your new minimum rate.

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Can Index Funds Be a Force for Sustainable Capitalism?

Harvard Business

Hiroshi Watanabe/Getty Images. The investment industry is changing. Among other things, there is growing demand from both retail and institutional investors to align their capital with better environmental and social outcomes, and more resources going into index fund or quasi-indexing products. These two trends may seem separate—or, some people believe, incompatible—but together I believe they have the power to improve finance’s role in the world.

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Too Many Experts Can Hurt Your Innovation Projects

Harvard Business

Matthew Dent/Getty Images. If you need an appendectomy, call a surgeon. But if you’re seeking a CEO for a surgical device company, an MD may not be your best choice. To be sure, entrepreneurs in highly specialized and technical industries need the knowledge that only users (doctors, lawyers, engineers, and the like) can provide. Doctors understand what other doctors will value in a new product; lawyers know what other lawyers need.

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How Digital Tools and Behavioral Economics Will Save Retirement

Harvard Business

ryccio/Getty Images. In my work as a behavioral economist, I’ve thought a lot about how nudges can drive lasting behavior change. In the domain of retirement savings, Nobel laureate Richard Thaler and I devised a program called Save More Tomorrow back in the mid-1990s that used nudges to help people make better decisions about their long-term financial future.

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Savings Consultants Are Needed in Today's Market More Than Ever

Savings Consultants are needed in today’s market more than ever. With an increase in expenses, businesses are looking for opportunities to save. Often unknown to businesses are savings in expense reduction, specialized tax savings, specialized savings including medical underpayments, health benefits cost reduction, zero cost processing, and more. Blue Coast Savings, with over 20 years in business, assists Savings Consultants in helping these companies move toward more profitable businesses.