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How to Conduct A Market Scan And Find Your Niche

Consulting Matters

Does the crowded consulting and coaching marketplace intimidate you and hold you back from what you could be doing to launch or grow your business? I've got GREAT news! You can stop worrying about the competition because today, I will teach you how to conduct a market scan and find your niche. The best strategy for dealing with competition is to make the competition irrelevant.

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How to Approach the Layoff Conversation with Respect and Congruence, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

Do you know what to say when it's time to lay people off? The first time I had to lay someone off, I had no idea what to say. However, if you have a reasonable context, you (or HR and you) can create a script you can use to make a layoff a respectful and relatively kind experience. With a congruent conversation, you might even be able to maintain a healthy collegial relationship with the person you have to lay off.

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Tech Companies Innovate at the Edge. Legacy Companies Can Too.

Harvard Business

New tools make it easier to empower small-scale innovation among the employees who work most closely with suppliers, customers, and other stakeholders.

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Convert Clients Faster By Getting Out Of Their Inbox

Henry DeVries

Customer experience expert Jamie Shibley tells us why a strategic combination of physical and digital relationship-building efforts is the most effective approach to winning new business.

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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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Increase your Client’s Program Budget by Aligning to Strategic Priorities

Actionable

A couple years ago, a consultant we were working with – let’s call him Jayson – was asked to submit a proposal for a leadership development program. They also told him they had a program budget of ~$80k. Two months later, Jayson had a signed contract. Not for an $80k Leadership Program, but a $450k, […] The post Increase your Client’s Program Budget by Aligning to Strategic Priorities appeared first on Actionable.co.

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Consulting Software that will help you to acquire Clients and Improve Businesses

ConsultX

When we say ConsultX is a world leading online Business Consulting Software, we mean it. Business Consultants, Coaches and Advisors around the world have been using our Business Consulting Software to acquire clients and help grow their clients’ business for over 17 years. Our online Business Consulting Software provides everything you need to become a successful Business Consultant, Coach or Advisor.

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Increase your Client’s Program Budget by Aligning to Strategic Priorities

Actionable

A couple years ago, a consultant we were working with – let’s call him Jayson – was asked to submit a proposal for a leadership development program. They also told him they had a program budget of ~$80k. Two months later, Jayson had a signed contract. Not for an $80k Leadership Program, but a $450k, […]. The post Increase your Client’s Program Budget by Aligning to Strategic Priorities appeared first on Actionable.co.

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How to Gain a Competitive Advantage on Customer Insights

Harvard Business

The most valuable data is the data your competitors don’t have.

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The #1 Mindset for a Better Sales Call

LSA Global

Two Starkly Different Calls – Which Has the Mindset for a Better Sales Call? Here are two very different sales calls from our sales management workshop. Top sales leaders understand both perspectives. Can you tell why they illustrate how to close more deals with a better mindset? Call Number One: You are the seller. You are a seasoned solution seller.

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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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4 Business Ideas That Changed the World: Shareholder Value

Harvard Business

A roundtable conversation appraises the 50-year reign of shareholder primacy and the growing backlash against it today.

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The obligation of the honest skeptic

Seth Godin Blog

Objections are helpful. We object by holding back action or support because we question one or more pieces of data. But the other half of this is the obligation: if the data ends up meeting the standard of proof we set for it, we have to change our minds and spend as much energy supporting the idea as we did opposing it.

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How Confidence Is Weaponized Against Women

Harvard Business

It’s a problem when women are perceived as too confident. Or not confident enough.

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Employee Engagement is Falling – Why You Should Care

Effective Managers

It’s no secret that employee engagement is important. Organizations spend a lot of time figuring out how to increase employee engagement and may wonder why employee engagement is falling. Gallup has been tracking employee engagement for over a decade, and in that time, they’ve found that companies with highly engaged employees see a higher profit margin, less turnover, and are generally more successful.

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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.

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Don’t Abandon Your Just-In-Time Supply Chain, Revamp It

Harvard Business

Building in strategic buffers can make it more reliable.