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3 ways financial advisory consulting bests strategy consulting

Management Consulted

'In our last post, we discussed 5 major differences between 2 prominent types of consulting. From the variety of work and access to C-level executives to the wide array of exit opportunities, strategy operations consulting far surpassed financial advisory consulting as our recommended career to pursue. Missed part one? Find it here: 5 reasons to choose strategy operations over financial advisory consulting.

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Learning From Your Mistakes

Tom Spencer

'Are you? THE scientific method is a formal way of investigating the world by testing your guess about a certain situation, correcting your mistakes, and thereby improving your understanding of the world. If something doesn’t work out for you, do you get angry? Or do you ask yourself, “what went wrong in this experiment?” Learn, grow stronger, and move on.

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The Affordable Health Care Act: Are You Ready for 2015? |Women.

Women in Consulting

'Peer-to-peer Fundraising Email Marketing Website Management Website Design Payment Processing Sphere Know How Blog Sphere Knowledgebase Sphere Forum Case Central Sphere Connect Sphere Connect Partners Blackbaud Connect Partner Network Overview Partner Login. Get the Flash Player to see this player. -->. Backed by award-winning services and support teams, Blackbaud’s comprehensive set of Internet solutions, featuring Blackbaud NetCommunity and Blackbaud Sphere eMarketing along with our ind

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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Spain Levies Consumption.

MishTalk

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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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Business Buyers Must Be Passionate (and Edgy)

Martinka Consulting

'Business buyer tips: Ask insightful questions. Research the industry. Show an interest and passion if you’re considering making an offer. A client lost a deal recently and the above is a synopsis of what the seller told me caused him to not finalize a deal structure. Now, he tried to be charitable but I kept drilling down on the “why?” He finally opened up.

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Acting on Customer Feedback

1 to 1

'Customer feedback is an incredibly precious resource that organizations should be tapping into, understanding, and then leveraging insights to make changes within their systems. While many companies understand this, the challenge is turning a theoretic concept into an actionable strategy that leads to business benefits. There’s more… To read the rest of this blog posting click here or visit www.1to1Media.com/weblog.

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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Only Hope For Italy is.

MishTalk

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Making Great Videos

Chad Barr

© Chad Barr 2013. All Rights Reserved. The post Making Great Videos appeared first on The Chad Barr Group.

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Balancing the Scale

Tom Spencer

'Scale improves productivity but also increases bureaucracy. Scale can help a company to produce more output at lower average costs. However, production at scale also leads to unhelpful bureaucracy. As production rises, more employees are needed and executives implement more rules to keep things under control. Increasing production tends to lead to higher cash flows, and managers who were previously focused on production, innovation and bottom line results start to shift their focus towards turf

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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 Ask, Don't Learn

Strategy+Business

'Because of how we''ve been taught, our ability to engage in productive inquiry in the workplace has been deeply compromised. But it can be overcome.

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Scranton Needs 117% Property Tax Hike to Balance Budget

MishTalk

'MISHS. Global Economic. Trend Analysis. Home. Contact. Advertisers. Sitka Pacific. Recent Posts. Featured Links. GoldMoney: The Best Way to Buy Gold & Silver. Dollar Collapse News on the Dollar's Death Spiral. Minyanville Business and Market News. Patrick Housing Crash News Top Housing and Commercial Real Estate News. Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide.

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A Problem Project – Part II

Gina Abudi

'What is Going On? Read Part I – the introduction to this 4 part article. In Part II we’ll focus on researching what is going on and why so that we can develop a plan of corrective action. Who Should Be Involved It is essential to get the right people involved in the discussions. Certainly [.].

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Warding Off Ghosts

Tom Spencer

'Hint: this post has nothing to do with ghosts. HAVE you ever seen a ghost? Or been told a ghost story by someone who claims to have seen one? I recently had a conversation with a friend who explained to me that his apartment is inhabited by an unfriendly ghost. How do you ward off a ghost? A liberal dose of garlic is the usual prescription but, to suspend disbelief for a minute, what would you do if ghosts actually existed and one happened to be living in your apartment?

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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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Pitch Your Elevator Pitch

Chad Barr

This week’s reflection point: Not long ago I attended a workshop on how to communicate your message most effectively. The presenter made a point as to why it is rather important to develop your 30-second elevator pitch. Although I was not a fan of this technique, I continued to listen to her reasoning. To my surprise, she began desperately rummaging through her purse looking for her elevator pitch notes and then struggled to deliver it.

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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Obama's HAMP Program a.

MishTalk

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Sales 101 – Stay in Touch

Martinka Consulting

'I received a call from a salesperson at a company from whom I had requested information. We went over a few things, she answered some of my questions and then she asked me what my timeframe was. I replied that I wouldn’t be ready for the next steps for about 8 weeks and asked that she call me after Labor Day. Her reply was not typical. She said, “I’m required to make contact with all my prospects at least every six weeks so I’ll call or email you then.”.

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The Tortoise and the Hare

Tom Spencer

'Stable growth is often more important than fast money. SINGAPORE is on the rise as a wealth management hub with funds under management growing by 22% in 2012 compared with around 5% for Western Europe as a whole. The disparity in growth rates is large, and the FT has attempted to narrate a story that fast growing Singapore will replace Switzerland as the world’s leading wealth management hub.

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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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Creating Greater Value in an Age of Scarcity

Strategy+Business

'The lessons of frugal innovation allow companies in both emerging and developed economies to do more with fewer resources.

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Funniest and Most Absurd Real Estate Promotion in Years

MishTalk

'MISHS. Global Economic. Trend Analysis. Home. Contact. Advertisers. Sitka Pacific. Recent Posts. Featured Links. GoldMoney: The Best Way to Buy Gold & Silver. Dollar Collapse News on the Dollar's Death Spiral. Minyanville Business and Market News. Patrick Housing Crash News Top Housing and Commercial Real Estate News. Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide.

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Work/Life Integration: Where Relationships are King by Craig Williamson

Martinka Consulting

'A famous African proverb states, “if you want to go fast go alone, if you want to go far, go together.” This proverb captures how important relationships are to getting things done. Relationships are at the core of all the activities that bring value to our work and our lives. Many times, relationships overlap in both areas. A colleague becomes a friend or a friend becomes a professional mentor.

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List: Global Strategy Firms 2013

Tom Spencer

'List of Global Strategy Firms in 2013. BELOW is a hand-picked list of leading Global Strategy Firms. The litmus test we used to decide whether a firm is truly “global” was whether it has an office in Sydney. A fair litmus test? Maybe not, but seeing as Sydney is at the other end of the earth you would expect a truly global strategy firm to have an office there (if you want to see a list of purely Aussie strategy firms for 2013, click here ).

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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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A Problem Project – Part III

Gina Abudi

'Analyzing the Data and Writing Your Report Read Part I – the introduction to this 4 part article along with Part II – researching what is going on. In Part III we’ll focus on analyzing the data you have gathered during your research. Develop a report of the data you have gathered and validated (Part [.].

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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Unions and Fundamental.

MishTalk

'MISHS. Global Economic. Trend Analysis. Home. Contact. Advertisers. Sitka Pacific. Recent Posts. Featured Links. GoldMoney: The Best Way to Buy Gold & Silver. Dollar Collapse News on the Dollar's Death Spiral. Minyanville Business and Market News. Patrick Housing Crash News Top Housing and Commercial Real Estate News. Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide.

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Government Subsidies Pave the Way in China

Strategy+Business

'Professors Usha Haley and George Haley identify the origin of Chinese dominance in four major industries.

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The Data Behind the Sale

1 to 1

'Sales departments face many challenges today. Finding qualified leads, the need to win more proposals, getting a detailed view into the pipeline, and obtaining a cross-channel view of prospects and customers are just few of the obstacles that prevent sales teams from effectively closing leads. There’s more… To read the rest of this blog posting click here or visit www.1to1Media.com/weblog.

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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.