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What Your Consulting Effort is Worth to Clients. A Surprising Analysis

David A Fields

Should your consulting firm be rewarded for your hard work on behalf a client? The simple answer is: No. The more nuanced answer is, “Mostly not.” We’ll get to that in a minute. The confusion between effort and money-owed runs rampant on both sides of the consulting table.

Driving Social Change Through Your Consulting Business with Kindred Motes-Caso: Podcast #267

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Did you know that there are a lot of ways for marketers and consultants to create massive impact and help make the world a better place?

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Leadership Lessons for Successful Team Alignment (Facilitator Files)

SME Strategy

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting company that specializes in aligning teams around their vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans. Learn more about how we can help you and your team create a strategic plan with our strategic planning and implementation services.

The Roadmap to the Secret Sauce of Employee Engagement

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Few companies or leaders have or know the “secret sauce” to employee engagement. This is a business disaster. This employee engagement training video will highlight these facts. I will share the “secret sauce” of employee engagement. It all begins with leadership.

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7 Ways to Supercharge Your ABM Strategy with Real-Time Intent

Streaming real-time intent is a homerun for marketing and sales’ account-based marketing (ABM) strategies—the ultimate competitive advantage. With the help of the fastest, most frictionless way to target strategic accounts with in-the-moment behavioral data, marketers can reach prospects at the very beginning of their buyer’s journey. Even before they’ve engaged with any sales or marketing channels. With real-time buyer insights, you can be first-in-line to provide solutions and lead better, hyper-personalized conversations, helping you prioritize sales outreach with companies that are ready to buy.

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