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10 Tips to Write the Perfect, Client-Attracting White Paper for Your Consulting Firm

David A Fields

You’ve decided to write a white paper because you’re a serious, deep-thinking, knowledgeable consultant. How do you make that effort yield eager clients lining up to work with your consulting firm? You know you can attract clients to your consulting firm with well placed, pithy articles.

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Using Online Platforms to Boost Your Billings

Successful Independent Consulting

Photo ID 40184079 © Ratz Attila. Independent consultants face the constant challenge of finding their next project. My last article discussed working with consulting agencies to supplement your business development efforts. This article offers tips for finding work through online platforms or marketplaces like Catalant, SpareHire, and TalMix. Consulting agencies and online platforms are similar in that they exist to bring consultants and clients together, but they go about it in different ways a

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Mindset Mistake of Established Consultants

Consulting Success

Transcript. Today I want to talk with you about a mindset that is incredibly important for established consultants. The mindset is what I call Foot on the Pedal. It becomes very important when your consulting business is taking off, when things are going well, when you have plenty of clients and plenty of opportunities surrounding you. The foot on the pedal mindset is essential.

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Don’t do everything yourself

Jacq Hackett Consulting

Being a solo consultant doesn’t mean you have to do everything yourself. In fact, you shouldn’t. Of course, you need to take responsibility for all the core consulting tasks – those tasks that require your high-level expertise, your thinking, your credibility. But for a host of other things, get help. When I first started out as a consultant eighteen years ago, the options for outsourcing were so limited that I had no choice but to do almost everything myself.

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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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BCG Case Interview Tips

Management Consulted

Welcome to Part 4 of our ongoing video series – in today’s video, Jenny Rae highlights her Top 2 BCG case interview tips. If you missed the earlier videos, check out our McKinsey, Bain, and Top 3 overall case interview … Continued. The post BCG Case Interview Tips appeared first on Management Consulted.

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Are You Creating Something You Never Imagined Possible?

Chad Barr

Photo by: Chad Barr. Many years ago, I had the opportunity to see the incredible glass exhibition of the famed glass sculptor, Dale Chihuly, at the King David citadel in Jerusalem. An awesome display, the likes of which I had never witnessed before, left a lasting impression on me. The amazing intricacy of each piece, some comprised of hundreds or thousands of twisted, shard like pieces of glass, when seen from a distance portray a completely different uniform masterpiece that provides a sense o

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Don’t do everything yourself

Jacq Hackett Consulting

Being a solo consultant doesn't mean you have to do everything yourself. In fact, you shouldn't.

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Tips and Tricks: CVs, LinkedIn and cover letters

freshminds

What does a good cover letter look like? How long should my CV be? Do I need LinkedIn? These are a few of the questions posed to the Freshminds team, when we were joined by CBRE to provide UCL students with a CV panel discussion and Q&A session. As a recap, we’ve put together some of the most important tips for any graduate hoping to get employed.

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Leaders and Culture: The Polarity of Being and Doing

Actionable

Our ability to manage the polarity of being and doing can be the difference between managing complexity—and leading adaptive change—and failing to do so. The post Leaders and Culture: The Polarity of Being and Doing appeared first on Actionable.co.

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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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A Study Used Sensors to Show That Men and Women Are Treated Differently at Work

Harvard Business

Marion Barraud for HBR. Gender equality remains frustratingly elusive. Women are underrepresented in the C-suite , receive lower salaries , and are less likely to receive a critical first promotion to manager than men. Numerous causes have been suggested, but one argument that persists points to differences in men and women’s behavior. Which raises the question: Do women and men act all that differently?

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Don’t do everything yourself

Jacq Hackett Consulting

Being a solo consultant doesn’t mean you have to do everything yourself. In fact, you shouldn’t. Of course, you need to take responsibility for all the core consulting tasks – those tasks that require your high-level expertise, your thinking, your credibility. But for a host of other things, get help. When I first started out as a consultant eighteen years ago, the options for outsourcing were so limited that I had no choice but to do almost everything myself.

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Inspiration: make them feel good

Consultants' Consultant

Consultants Consultant: Right now I’m spending a lot of time working with leaders who want to know how to recognise their team members for a job well done. I’m loving the work. This video is about recognising the contribution that individuals make. It’s 3.5 minutes, so get inspired: The post Inspiration: make them feel good appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.

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Strive More Simplicity

Martinka Consulting

One of the things that’s always annoyed me is when I get a new dress shirt I have to find and remove about a dozen pins holding it in its perfect folded shape. I was pleasantly surprised when I got some new shirts from Charles Tyrwhitt and found they did figure out a way to fold them using only one plastic clip (like a paper clip) to hold them in place.

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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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How to Give Feedback People Can Actually Use

Harvard Business

Plume Creative/Getty Images. Over the last decade, I’ve conducted thousands of 360-degree feedback interviews with the colleagues of the leaders I coach. My goal with these sessions is to get a better sense of my clients’ strengths and weaknesses, but more often than not, the feedback isn’t particularly useful. How do you give feedback that helps someone learn and improve?

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The People Side of Consulting

Management and IT Consulting

Consultancies typically follow a fairly linear path in terms of growth and maturity. There are various thresholds that firms face – primarily in size – that can prove difficult to cross. As firms reach certain revenue levels, they face increased complexity in back-office operations, specifically with HR management issues and structure.

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Decision making, after the fact

Seth Godin Blog

Critics are eager to pick apart complex decisions made by others. Prime Ministers, CEOs, even football coaches are apparently serially incompetent. If they had only listened to folks who knew precisely what they should have done, they would have been far better off. Of course, these critics have a great deal of trouble making less-complex decisions in their own lives.

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Why Your Lease is Important

Martinka Consulting

When in New York, my wife loves going to a clothing store called New York Look, where she’s befriended one of the employees who helps her with what she buys. There used to be four of these stores and now there’s one. One of the more recent closures was a store near the intersection of Central Park West and Central Park South (where a new Nordstrom Tower building is going in).

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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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How Our Company Connected Our Strategy to Sustainability Goals

Harvard Business

Simone Golob/Getty Images. In a recent survey , Bain & Company found that just 2% of companies are successful in achieving their sustainability goals. While this can be disheartening, it doesn’t have to be this way. The company I lead, Ingersoll Rand, is a 146-year-old organization that over the past few years integrated sustainability and business strategy to anticipate and address major global trends, most prominently climate change.

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Do-It-Yourself Oceaneering

Strategy+Business

INSEAD professors W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne deliver the navigation chart needed to reach blue oceans.

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Degrees of freedom

Seth Godin Blog

All you have to do is look around to realize just how many choices we still have. What to eat, who to speak to, what to do for a living, what to learn, what to say, who to contribute to, how we interact, what we stand for. The safe and comfortable path is to pretend that we're blocked at every turn. But most of the turns, we don't even see.

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Business Valuation Lessons From ESOPs

Martinka Consulting

I’ve been working with a client company on the implementation of an ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan). In an ESOP, a qualified plan, the plan buys the stock of the firm from the owners with vested employees now the owners, en masse. One of my roles was being on the team interviewing the critical (and very expensive) ESOP advisors. There’s a Third-Party Administrator, Attorney for the Company, Trustee, Attorney for the plan, and business appraiser (and I found most appraisers don’t do ESOP val

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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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How to Apply for a Job You’re Overqualified For

Harvard Business

ia_64/iStock. A job opening catches your attention but the required experience is only eight years — and you’ve been in the industry for 15. Should you still apply? And if you’re called in for an interview, should you acknowledge you might be overqualified? What should you consider before taking the role? What the Experts Say. There are many reasons why you might go for a job that doesn’t match your level of experience.

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8 Tips to Dramatically Increase the Odds of Reaching Your Goals

LSA Global

How to Increase the Odds of Reaching Your Goals. While challenging for many teams, setting clear goals is the easy part when compared to the hard and ever-changing work of actually achieving them. How Often Do You and Your Team Reach Their Goals? How many times have you set an objective only to fail in reaching it? We all struggle with wanting to improve and yet not having the follow-through, the commitment, or the stamina to succeed with our plan.

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Stuntvertising

Seth Godin Blog

The math has changed. It used to be, you paid money to run an ad. A little piece of media, bought and paid for. The audience came with the slot. Today, of course, the ad is free to run. Post your post, upload your video. Free. What to measure, then? Well, one thing to measure is attention. How many likes or shares or views did it get? But if you're going to optimize for attention, not trust or results or contribution, then you're on a very dangerous road.

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Be a Disrupter

Martinka Consulting

We all know how Uber and Lyft have disrupted the taxicab industry. Observing town cars and their drivers outside of a hotel, there most of the day, it was evident they’ve also been disrupted. And it’s not efficient to have new Tahoe’s or Suburban’s inactive for many hours at a time. We all have to ask ourselves, do we want to be disrupted or the disrupter?

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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.