Consulting Matters

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Bosses, colleagues and friends all questioned the wisdom of quitting his high-paying job and steady paycheck for the unknowns of starting his own consulting business. After over 15 years of consistent and growing consulting success - they now understand exactly why he did it. Do you want to start or grow your own business?

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Successful Independent Consulting

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

As a self-employed consultant do you really need a website? I’m asked this a lot, particularly if a consultant gets most business from referrals or they contract through agencies or boutique firms. Besides, it’s highly unlikely that a prospective client is going to stumble upon your website and decide to hire you.

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Successful Independent Consulting

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Perhaps the hardest thing for an independent consultant is not knowing where your next project is coming from, or when. This article summarizes the pros and cons of these options, gives you questions for starting your research, and introduces you to some of the better-known consulting agencies.

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Harmonious Workplaces

JANUARY 11, 2024

Leaders striving for a better workplace may suffer consequences In a recent post on LinkedIn from the Business & Management Consultants open group, a contributor posted, “A manager who challenges the boss and stands up for their team, despite risking their own career, is a true leader.” Do I recommend risking your job or your safety?

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

According to PWC , talent, technology and data will set winning professional services firms apart from the competition. Technology combined with data is a matter of life and death for professional services firms where the “product” is a combination of insights and expertise. Read on to learn more.

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 3, 2018

A little patience and a lot of value are all it takes to prove your high-dollar consulting worth. The Secret to Landing Six-Figure Consulting Projects with Dauwn Parker. I’m really excited to have you come on here, Dauwn, and just share with us your journey and experience along the consulting path.

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The Consultants Peer Group

DECEMBER 12, 2023

You all have been here: The good news is that you’ve been asked to do a proposal for a prospect; the bad news is you’ve been asked to do a proposal. After talking to some of my consultant clients about the problems with proposals, I took a step to analyze ten websites that provide outline(s) for consulting proposals.

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Consulting Success

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Consulting success will be yours when you start taking greater risks and stop reinventing the wheel with every new client that comes along. Description: David Baker is a consultant who has been working with marketing firms and advertising agencies since the late 1980s.

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Consulting Matters

APRIL 24, 2020

Interview Transcript: Betsy Jordyn : Hey, it’s Betsy Jordyn of the Consultant’s Institute, and I’m so excited to interview Charles Browne. So, why don’t you introduce yourself, and share a little bit more about your business, and how you help your clients.

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Consulting Success

AUGUST 7, 2017

Preparing for crisis before it hits can protect your consulting business from everything from criticism to collapse. Description: On this episode of Consulting Success, I’m joined by Jonathan Bernstein of Bernstein Crisis Management. This wisdom doesn’t only apply to big businesses — crisis mode can hit anyone at anytime.

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Successful Independent Consulting

JANUARY 14, 2017

This is one of the questions I get asked most frequently by independent management consultants. While this article will help you think through the various factors, here is the short answer: 90% of the self-employed consultants I know are set up as either a sole proprietorship or a single-member LLC. What are your options?

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Rick Conlow

MAY 31, 2023

Conversely, mediocre or bad bosses enable poor attitudes and destroy teamwork. We collaborated with other consulting firms to work with a global client that had intense competition and needed significant performance improvement. Can you relate to that? This cost the company significant business. Here are the top ten.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Great leaders dream of a better future – from business sustainability to growing future leaders, increasing speed to market, or operating with greater purpose. It is hard to argue that being more inclusive is a bad i dea. But how inclusive should your strategic thinking and planning be?

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

MAY 1, 2023

That made me think about price framing and how people don’t use it nearly enough. So this morning, I wanted to lay out some of the things y’all need to know to effectively use price framing in your business. BTW, do y’all find the graphics helpful in explaining things?) The point of reference that exists in your market’s mind.

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Tsavo Neal

JULY 20, 2017

You can listen in on conversations between some of the world’s greatest minds and most successful entrepreneurs. Podcasts and podcasting has grown rapidly over the past 5 years, and you can find hundreds of thousands of podcasts on iTunes alone. These podcasts are listed in no particular order.].

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Women in Consulting

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

:: As a strategic marketing expert, I help my clients get heard above the noise. If you start to SHOUT, you just add to the cacophony and are likely to alienate your intended audience. And it’s important for consultants, too—in fact, maybe more so for us. Because when you are a consultant, you are the brand.

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

A law firm versus a sports venue. Do Your Research : This is the foundation of all good marketing, a bit of research. Qualitative takes the form of testing your price on one or two prospects, conversations with buyers in the market, and maybe some competitor analysis. How much time will be gained?

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

You can generally tell whether you did well in an interview based on the connection you built with the interviewer. However, you can take steps to minimize the impact of luck by intentionally building chemistry with the interviewer. Building rapport with the interviewer can make or break the interview. Reading Time: 4 minutes.

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Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Self-described “recovering consultant” Blair Enns is the CEO of Win Without Pitching, a sales training organization for creative professionals in the design, advertising, and public relations fields. Join us to hear solid advice for increasing your revenue from Blair Enns in this episode of The Consulting Success Podcast.

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Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Today’s guest is Mindy Millward, a veteran consultant with over 20 years of experience from Navalent. You may remember my guest Ron Carucci, from episode 21, who recommended Mindy as an outstanding and insightful consultant, and he was right. The Mindset That Wins Consulting Work With Fortune 500 Companies with Mindy Millward.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 19, 2017

Today we highlight business analyst and post-consulting leadership jobs at Intuit. No talkers allowed here; at Intuit, your actions truly speak louder than words! The firm celebrates diversity and values inclusion. Diversity + Inclusion = Innovation and Market Growth. ” Enjoy! History & Culture.

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

Also, I’m doing my first in the new series of monthly webinars on brand management for professional service firms. the UX design team: I’m in awe of how great this is. Most people have a hard time putting their finger on the real impact of monopoly power, but this is a strong visual tool to help see the influence.

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Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 25, 2018

In this episode, you’ll learn how to use your contact form to qualify your prospects. The consulting websites featured in this video are ethercycle.com and positivepathwaysconsulting.com. The first form that I want to look at is the form of an eCommerce consulting business named Ethercycle. Transcript.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to sit down with another blog contributor to the SpencerTom community, Jason Oh, to share our experiences about the consulting recruiting process. Why did you decide to pursue management consulting? Jeff : I had little idea about management consulting until my second year at university.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 23, 2013

We’re starting a series of guest posts offered by staff, readers and interns that are reviews of books we think are helpful for those interested in consulting (specifically) and business (in general). If you are pondering how management consulting got this far, this book is for you. Quick overview. in 1948.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 20, 2019

In my last blog post I wrote about how new grads can navigate interview season when they finally receive a consulting interview they’re excited about. You can find the full article here. Instead, I put a list of 6 questions together with suggestions on how to answer and how not to answer them.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 30, 2016

As consulting has become more popular (frantically so), we are getting increasing numbers of emails from undergrads – and even high schoolers – begging the question – if you want to break into consulting, what should you major in – and what majors are deal-breakers? The problem with Econ majors?

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 11, 2013

CAPGEMINI CONSULTING. Today we continue our firm profile series with an in-depth review of Capgemini Consulting. KEY STATS FOR CAPGEMINI CONSULTING. KEY STATS FOR CAPGEMINI CONSULTING. CAPGEMINI CONSULTING HISTORY. Then in 1970, Sogeti diversified into consulting and outsourcing services.

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Women in Consulting

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

By: Martha Olsen. :: Consultants are not immune to the forces of disruption. It’s ironic: even as we help our clients innovate and stay competitive, we can fail to notice how much is changing in our own business model. Maybe you’re just starting out as a consultant. I am a firm believer in the 5-hour rule ).

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Today’s emphasis is on ZS Associates (pronounced Zee S in the USA) – a premier boutique firm focused on sales force and marketing optimization. Founded in 1983 by Kellogg School of Management marketing professors Andris A. Where did ZS Associates begin, and what are they known for? It was the mother of all projects.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 11, 2019

Having a great mentor is critical for personal skill development, especially early in your career, and so I wanted to share the guidelines that my mentor provided me to follow in 2019 to become a better consultant / strategist. Defining how the corporate brand and sub-brands relate to and support each other. Brand Architecture.

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Tsavo Neal

APRIL 27, 2017

Do you judge people strictly by their actions — or by how they dress and present themselves? Do you judge a business based solely on their level of service — or by how their website looks? You may be the most capable consultant to solve help her business. Design isn’t magic.

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QEmploy

JULY 16, 2019

Why consulting? This guide contains everything you need to know about being a freelance consultant, answer the questions you might have, and tell you what to be aware of. How to start? And what can you get out of it? What is consulting? Why consulting? How to be successful? What is consulting?

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

What was missing from current consulting resources? An update to The Consulting Bible wasn’t enough. We had to up the ante…free ourselves from the confines of a book…so that we could blast open the most valuable vault in the history of consulting interview prep. What had they wanted more of?

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 13, 2019

What you will learn: Learn the basics of a case interview – what it is, how they are different from a regular job interview, who uses them, why they are used, and the types of case interview formats and the difference between them. You have to describe how you would potentially treat this particular patient. Let me back up.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 6, 2015

ALVAREZ & MARSAL CONSULTING. But can you guess which firm was hired as their bankruptcy consultants? Along with Lehman Brothers, they’ve also helped Interstate Bakeries, the home of the Twinkie, and Warnaco, makers of CK Jeans and Speedos. The firm also has a lot of notable public sector work under its belt.

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Prudent Pedal

JANUARY 21, 2020

Well, we’ve reached the point where Marketing has ruined a good thing once again. We did it to social media, buyer personas, podcasting, marketing automation, Christmas, Easter, and Memorial Day. Buyer’s journey mapping has grown in importance for professional services firms as more firm solutions have become productized.

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