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Attracting High-Value Clients In One Vital Step: Podcast #29

Consulting Success

From the The Elite Consulting Mind, a look into the reasons why you can’t wait for perfection to take action. Description: Today I’m sharing another chapter from my newest book The Elite Consulting Mind: 16 Proven Mindsets to Attract More Clients, Increase Your Income and Achieve Meaningful Success. This book is full of principles — all proven by elite consultants — that you can use to overcome challenges, remove obstacles, and grow your business significantly. […].

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How to Set Up a Website or Blog with Bluehost

Consultant Journal

So you’re looking to set up a personalized email address, website or blog. I’m a Bluehost affiliate partner and I want to be clear that I receive a commission if you sign up with them. You are certainly welcome to set up a website, blog or personalized email anywhere. I spent a fair bit of time researching where to send Consultant Journal readers, though, and I chose Bluehost because they’ve been around the block, they’re a recognized name and their approach seems good.

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A Guarantee: The Most Powerful Brand for your Business

The Fearless Marketer

I’m working with a client right now who does high-end sales training. And we’re currently working on the messaging for his website. In the course of our conversations, he mentioned that 82% of his clients got a 10:1 ROI on their training investment. That’s both impressive and significant. However, his website didn’t mention this fact. Instead, the home page of his site mentioned general ideas about the value of their sales training.

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CEO Succession Planning in a Family Business

Strategy+Business

Warburtons, a British family-owned bakery business, believes that the next generation of family members interested in joining the company first need to get experience in business, and not expect to inherit an automatic role in the company. External talent also needs to be shown that it will be given a fair chance in a family-owned company. In this interview, part of s+b's "Inside the Mind of the CEO" series, Jonathan Warburton describes how his family business prepares for the sixth generation t

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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 Black Women Describe Navigating Race and Gender in the Workplace

Harvard Business

CSA Images/ Color Printstock Collection/Getty Images. A few years ago I started attending classes for my part-time MBA. What I noticed almost immediately was that my experience in the classroom largely mirrored my experience of close to a decade in corporate America: I’m consistently one of very few black women and black people in the room. In September, Ellen McGirt published an article in Fortune exploring why there are zero African-American women running Fortune 500 companies.

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Taming the Epic To-Do List

Harvard Business

jennifer maravillas for hbr. The to-do list can be an indispensable tool when used to mindfully manage your time. But used indiscriminately, you become its servant. The first step in making your list work for you is to be clear on what job you’re “hiring” it to do. Most of us fail to do this, and so our lists are crammed with urgent priorities we must get done immediately ( send revised slides to client ), important tasks we’re afraid of forgetting because they have no sp

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Secure and respected and engaged and risky

Seth Godin Blog

Some people want their workplace to be like an artist's studio. A lab. A dance with the possible. Engaging. Thrilling. The chance to take flight, to be engaged, to risk defeat and to find a new solution to an important problem.  And some people want a job that's secure, where they are respected by those around them. The essential lesson: These are not necessarily different people, but they are very different attitudes.  It's a choice, a choice made once a lifetime, or every year, or

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Research: The Industrial Revolution Left Psychological Scars That Can Still Be Seen Today

Harvard Business

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art/The New York Public Library. The Industrial Revolution, which brought together large-scale coal-based industries like mining, steel, pottery, and textiles, helped create the foundation of modern society and wealth. At the same time, the early industrial economies that formed in this era were also associated with brutal working and living conditions.

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Five Questions for Jessica Glazer About the Importance of Networking

MBO Partners

Why networking is so important for independent professionals, how to overcome common mistakes, and advice for maintaining strong relationships.

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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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Take A Fresh Look At-Home

1 to 1

When most customer care leaders think of at-home workers, they think of temporary, seasonal staff brought in for a quick fix, who are then discarded until next season. However, this mindset is changing. Labor challenges, volatile weather, and the desire to return to onshore operations are top-of-mind issues, positioning at-home as a feasible option for daily permanent operations.

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Using AI to Invent New Medical Tests

Harvard Business

clem onojeghuo/unsplash. Artificial Intelligence, which has already had a major impact on industries such as transportation, retail, energy, and banking, is only just beginning to be applied in medicine. Its profound capabilities hold promise for enabling early detection of disease and metabolic abnormalities and hope for empowering doctors and patients.

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Is the Confidence Gap Between Men and Women a Myth?

Harvard Business

Paul Garbett for HBR. How working women are kept from positions of influence and power is by now well-documented by scientists and journalists alike. While the research has not been specifically remedy-directed, where gender-based bias has been discovered some have sought to counter it with HR policy changes, training, awareness campaigns, equal opportunity legislation, and more.

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