Sat.Nov 07, 2020 - Fri.Nov 13, 2020

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What’s Your Consulting Firm’s Theme for Next Year?

David A Fields

Your consulting firm is hurtling toward the start a new year. Well, technically, every day commences a new year, but your calendar proclaims January 1st as the start of the Gregorian calendar year, so let’s go with that. More important than your choice of calendars is your choice of your consulting firm’s theme for the … Continued. The post What’s Your Consulting Firm’s Theme for Next Year?

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Five ways to attract more + better clients

Kai Davis

Over in a Slack I frequent, someone asked how to grow their business and attract better clients. They run an SEO agency and were debating if they should acquire some assets (e.g., flip some sites, start an affiliate site, launch a SaaS) or work on improving their sales and marketing to get more, better, higher-paying clients. I’m a fan of improving + fixing what’s working.

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Be Vulnerable: A Consultant’s Perspective On The Power of Vulnerability

Consulting Success

When should you be vulnerable in your business? On a chilly April afternoon in Chicago, Sam and I were speaking with Perry Marshall. We were in the boardroom, brainstorming ideas on how to create a stronger bond with our community and build the Consulting Success® brand. We wanted to tell our story in a more. Be Vulnerable: A Consultant’s Perspective On The Power of Vulnerability is a post from: Consulting Success.

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Don't Let This Happen to Your Work From Home Colleagues

Markovitz Consulting

A client of mine has started to bring some of their employees back into the office. They’re not ending their work from home policies, but increasingly higher ranking staff are coming back to the mothership, particularly for important meetings. This shift makes sense for many reasons, but it’s having three unfortunate side effects. First, the work from home employees are beginning to have middle school flashbacks, where they’re definitely not part of the cool crowd, and they have to eat lunch at

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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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Are you a Loser, Struggler, Con Artist, or Winner?

The Fearless Marketer

When it comes to persuading a prospective client to buy your services, it ultimately comes down to two big things. Honesty – That is, does your service actually deliver the results you say it does? And…. Persuasiveness – Are you able to convince your prospective clients that your service is worth investing in? It’s important to understand that these two things are very different and both make a big difference in your success as an independent professional.

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How This Mining Consultant Grew Consulting Revenues By 300%+ With Jason Fearnow: Podcast #162

Consulting Success

When Jason Fearnow first entered the consulting business, taxes ate much of what could have been good money from his hard work. How did this mining consultant turn that situation around and eventually quadruple the revenues of his consulting firm, Prime Contract Solutions? In this episode, Jason speaks to Michael Zipursky about the biggest financial mistake.

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Don't Let This Happen to Your Work From Home Colleagues (Copy)

Markovitz Consulting

A client of mine has started to bring some of their employees back into the office. They’re not ending their work from home policies, but increasingly higher ranking staff are coming back to the mothership, particularly for important meetings. This shift makes sense for many reasons, but it’s having three unfortunate side effects. First, the work from home employees are beginning to have middle school flashbacks, where they’re definitely not part of the cool crowd, and they have to eat lunch at

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Staying on top of your virtual internship

Tom Spencer

Reading Time: 4 minutes. With virtual internships emerging as the new normal for the foreseeable future, it may be best to examine how to successfully stay on top of your virtual internship and complete it as if you were doing it physically. To make the most out of your virtual internship, it matters what you put in. Aspects such as self-care, communication, morale, cultural fit, and openness to learning will impact the quality of your internship. 1.

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Friday Fusion: November 13, 2020

Tsavo Neal

How can I find the companies that need management consulting? “The last thing I need is a management consultant. What I could use, though, is some good advice. ” -Cal Harrison, The Consultant With The Pink Hair. Don’t look for companies that need management consulting. Instead, look for companies that would benefit from your advice. How can you find those companies?

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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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The impact of the crisis on emerging markets

The Source

Our real-time forecast for the global consulting industry currently predicts that by the end of 2020, the market will have contracted by around 13% compared to 2019. However, that high-level picture can only tell us so much. Different countries have, of course, been affected by the pandemic in different ways; and international media coverage tends to focus disproportionately on the COVID response of large, developed economies.

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241: Kelly Ruta—Unblock Your Upper Limits And Unlock Limitless Levels

On the Brink Podcast

Learn how to overcome your mental roadblocks to success. This was quite an amazing podcast conversation with Kelly Ruta. I can tell you that she is just plain fantastic. A clinical psychotherapist for over two decades, she has now turned her professional training into programs to help women, in particular women entrepreneurs, unblock their limitations and unlock their minds to become the best they can be.

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Why consulting is a good place to start

Tom Spencer

Reading Time: 2 minutes. Employers think ex-consultants are the bees-knees. There are lots of reasons for this. Here are four of the best. 1. The Experience. In principle, consulting provides an incredible grounding in business. A consultant who does two or three years is likely to be exposed to all sorts of industries and commercial situations. A consultant might gain experience in solving problems with distribution, marketing, leadership, product development, or even analyzing the profit 

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The Cost of Developing a Strategic Plan (3 Tiers)

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

Digging up the cost of services can be exhausting and in many cases impossible - especially when it comes to professional services. That's why we've decided to choose transparency over mystery. In hopes of providing you with some clarity and solace, we're laying out the average industry costs of strategic planning, organized by three tiers.

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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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Energy

Alan Weiss

It has become abundantly clear that, short of a vaccine, the virus is going to charge and retreat, charge and retreat. Thus, nothing is assured, long-term, except the fact that your clients and prospects will need help in adjusting. What are you doing to address this? I wouldn’t be crazy about accepting advice from a consultant or coach who, himself or herself, is struggling and treading water.

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Steaking out your process

Kai Davis

When it comes to fulfilling your services, do you have a process you follow? Or are you winging it each time you implement and deliver a project? Me? I’ve fallen in love with process. When you have a standard process to follow with a service, you can: Save yourself brain juice. Trust the process instead of figuring it out each time. Optimize your process by identifying what’s working (and what isn’t working) and changing it.

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A Veteran’s Day Message

Chad Barr

In the midst of the chaos and turbulence of the presidential election, today, we pause as a one nation, united, to honor all those who have served our country this Veteran’s Day. World War I – known at the time as “The Great War” – officially ended when the Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919, in the Palace of Versailles outside the town of Versailles, France.

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Be the Change; Change Begins With You

Brimstone Consulting

If you’re not leading change, you’re not leading. The leaders we’ve worked with know that change begins with them. No one else. They accept that they are part of the problem and the solution. They are the question and the answer, the learner and the teacher. As Noel Tichy said, “If the leader is not willing to change, no one in the organization really will.”.

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TOOLS and METHODOLOGIES for developing DECISION SUPPORT PACKAGES

This White Paper targets opportunities for Management to develop proficiency in the Decision Framing and Analyses element of input to Decision, & Risk Analyses for Major Project Funding Decisions.

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Performance Management During COVID-19

Makarios Consulting

COVID-19 has upended the way we do business. A remote workforce, virtual meetings, video conferencing, and the like are the new normal. If you are a leader used to managing your people in person, you might find yourself at loose ends asking, “How do I manage people I am not physically with? How do I know if they are working productively … or working at all?

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Playing The Long Game In Business

Kai Davis

The latest episode of The Business of Freelancing features Alex Hillman (co-founder of Stacking the Bricks and Indy Hall), who shares lessons for freelancers and indie consultants from his recently released book, The Tiny MBA. Alex drops a ton of wisdom in this episode about how to tackle and unpack some of the issues we face with money psychology, playing the long game of business, and more.

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Seismic Shifts

Alan Weiss

There was a 3.6 magnitude earthquake in this area of New England yesterday, only the ninth of its kind since the 1700s. We’ve never had a stronger one. In California, it wouldn’t even merit discussion. Some of your clients have become inured to shifts that are barely perceptible in their customers’ preferences, market conditions, and technology.

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Types of people

Consultants' Consultant

Consultants Consultant: I love the t-shirt that reads There are 10 types of people: Those who. The post Types of people appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.

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Why You Need to Use Case Studies in Sales and Marketing (and How to Start Now)

Case studies are proof of successful client relations and a verifiable product or service. They persuade buyers by highlighting your customers' experiences with your company and its solution. In sales, case studies are crucial pieces of content that can be tailored to prospects' pain points and used throughout the buyer's journey. In marketing, case studies are versatile assets for generating business, providing reusable elements for ad and social media content, website material, and marketing c

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Performance Management During COVID-19

Makarios Consulting

COVID-19 has upended the way we do business. A remote workforce, virtual meetings, video conferencing, and the like are the new normal. If you are a leader used to managing your people in person, you might find yourself at loose ends asking, “How do I manage people I am not physically with? How do I know if they are working productively … or working at all?

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Presenting, Design Your Productized Offer

Kai Davis

Want to launch a ‘rinse and repeat’ consulting package that leverages your time, streamlines your process, and increases your revenue? Marie Poulin and I are excited to announce Design Your Productized Offer , a hybrid course + mastermind, to help YOU launch a productized offer. If you want to: Reduce scope creep. Stop writing custom proposals. Increase your project profitability.

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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and the Stress of Creativity

Harvard Business

After hiding his Pure OCD for years, advertising executive Aaron Harvey is trying to make workplaces more open to severe mental health issues.

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Why You Need to Integrate Marketing with Your Overall Strategy - Interview w/ JP Clement

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

"At some point marketing stops being pure marketing and starts becoming part of the business model and overall business strategy".

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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.