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From Side Hustle to Consulting Business Owner with Heather Younger: Podcast #191

Consulting Success

When we say side hustle, the word “hustle” in it is real. This is a story of how a side hustle grew into a full-blown, sought-after consulting business. Michael Zipursky’s guest today is Heather Younger, a keynote speaker, two-time author, and the CEO and Founder of Employee Fanatix. Heather believes that you have to be realistic about how much you can take in and what.

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270: Kami Guildner—How To Learn To Speak Your Client's Love Language

On the Brink Podcast

Learn how to find your voice and unleash your power. In this podcast I had the pleasure of speaking with Kami Guildner. You will enjoy our conversation as much as I did. Kami believes that women have a strong voice and need to know how to use it. She is a storyteller, as we all are, but does it with passion and purpose. She is also a business coach for women.

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The next crisis in consulting: People

The Source

Skills shortages have long driven growth in consulting and the broader professional services market. The ability to leverage those opportunities post-pandemic will re-shape the industry. “A lack of goods, services and people means that red-hot demand is increasingly met slowly or not at all. There are already signs that supply bottlenecks may lead to nasty surprises which could upset the post-pandemic recovery,” wrote The Economist.

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Ready, Fire Aim (?)

The Fearless Marketer

The term, “Ready, Aim, Fire” comes from the military, going way, way back. And then it gained popular usage in business and marketing. Ready: Get your marketing campaign in order. Aim: Clearly choose your target audience. Fire: Launch your campaign. OK, this makes sense, right? But it was Tom Peters and Bob Waterman (“In Search of Excellence”) who first came up with the “ready-fire-aim” go-to-market strategy.

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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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Q&A with Chris Olex

Brimstone Consulting

Q&A with Chris Olex. Chris Olex talks about inspiration, coaching, relationship building, and her greatest accomplishment. What are your areas of expertise? Relationship building, coaching and questioning, endless wondering of why, and playfulness to boot! What makes Brimstone unique? Brimstone is the most welcoming community! I was greeted with open arms, minds, and spirits to my questions, my input, my experience.

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How do you get started marketing again after a break or pause?

Kai Davis

The hardest part about marketing is getting started again after a pause. The muscles are weak. The voice is scraggly. Put another way, if you’re on the wrong side of it, inertia is a pain in the butt. Getting started after a break is hard. The trick? As John Cage says, “begin anywhere”. With anything inertia- or habit-related — like marketing yourself or generating leads — the secret isn’t to aim for big, huge, ambitious marketing outcomes , but to aim to build small, slow, steady marketing habi

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Attracting Talent During a Worker Shortage

Harvard Business

For hourly workers, commute time is a big — and often underestimated — factor.

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Q&A with Jeremy Seligman

Brimstone Consulting

Q&A with Jeremy Seligman. Jeremy Seligman talks about meditation and mindfulness, leadership, and change. . What are your areas of expertise? Executive Coaching, Strategy Development, Organizational Design and Change, Mindfulness and Meditation. What led you to Brimstone? . After a corporate career including several C-Suite positions in IT, I made the transition to coaching and consulting.

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No Saturated Markets, Please

Martinka Consulting

A recent Wall Street Journal has an article on how cellphone carriers are back to giving away phones with a contract or financing phones with no down payment. This is a saturated market. Is there any way to grow besides taking customers from other carriers? Maybe more kids getting phones and at a younger age? Note to business owners (and buyers): Don’t get stuck in a market that’s pretty much at capacity.

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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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Don’t Underestimate the Power of Luck When It Comes to Success in Business

Harvard Business

People often misattribute success to capability.

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Five useful questions

Seth Godin Blog

They might be difficult to answer, but your project will benefit: What’s the hard part? Which part of your work, if it suddenly got much better, would have the biggest impact on the outcome you seek? How are you spending your time? If we took at look at your calendar, how much time is spent reacting or responding to incoming, how much is under your control, and how much is focused on the hard part?

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3 Steps to Better Lead Change

LSA Global

Change is a Constant With rapid and wide-sweeping change a constant in today’s workplace, it’s a wonder that leaders are not better at managing it. They need steps to better lead change. McKinsey reports that nearly three-quarters of organizational change efforts fail due to: Lack of management support Strong employee resistance. The need for leaders and organizations to adapt and manage organizational change to keep pace has never been more important.

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How Airlines Can Cut Costs — Without Annoying Customers

Harvard Business

Frequent flyer miles can incentivize passengers not to use some high-cost services.

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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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Secrets to a Better Prioritized Life

Peter Stark

The number one thing we hear from all of our clients is that they don’t have enough staff or enough time to get the job done. Many leaders have described to us the level of stress they feel because they know they could do so much more if only they had more time or more people. . With the pandemic and people still working from home, we hear from some that they have a hard time turning work off.

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The Case for a Pan-American Manufacturing Ecosystem

Harvard Business

A strong supply base will help U.S.-based manufacturers as well as the economies of Central and South America.

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10 inspirational videos on leadership

Brimstone Consulting

10 videos with insights and knowledge that will us learn, grow, and lead. The Brimstone team is made up of highly skilled, senior-level consultants from a wide range of backgrounds—educators at top universities, serial entrepreneurs, former C-suite executives, and seasoned process consulting experts. For more than 40 years, we have worked side by side with extraordinary leaders to help them spur changes and drive transformation in their organizations, businesses, and industries.

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How Kayak Co-Founder Paul English Manages and Thrives Through His Bipolar Disorder

Harvard Business

A conversation about what entrepreneur Paul English has learned from his mental health struggles.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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Your Company Pledged to Reduce Its Carbon Footprint. Now What?

Harvard Business

Five strategies to move your organization toward net-zero emissions.

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