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Supplement Your Consulting Pipeline by Subcontracting

Successful Independent Consulting

They do the contracting paperwork, carry the insurance, do the invoicing and collections, and even handle your income tax payments so you can focus on doing the work. You’ll likely be introduced to clients you may otherwise never meet. Of course, they charge for this. It’s an easy way to see if you even like consulting.

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Anyone Can Succeed - Celebrating 15 Years of Consulting Success with Dan Weedin

Consulting Matters

Dan Weedin is an author, speaker, consultant, coach, podcaster and founder of Toro Consulting , a firm that specializes in small business growth, particularly in the insurance/risk business. Dan Weedin: Well I'd been an insurance broker for pretty much all of my career. So I had been selling insurance but then I started thinking.

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Supplementing Your Pipeline with Consulting Agencies

Successful Independent Consulting

An agency is different than a consulting firm because agencies usually place one person at a time, and they assume consultants are bringing their own methodology and tools. Some agencies provide access to group health insurance plans, a plus in the U.S. Ex-Consultants Agency : “Where Consulting Meets Executive Search.

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Your Sales Training Is Probably Lackluster. Here’s How to Fix It

Harvard Business

Then, further training is usually limited to new production introductions or annual “kick-off” meetings to set quotas, where reps are flown in, given information and marching orders, and “fired-up” by a motivational speaker or exercise (more hot coals, anyone?).

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The Innovation Health Care Really Needs: Help People Manage Their Own Health

Harvard Business

Employers and insurance companies — not end consumers — call the shots on what kind of care they will pay for. One big incumbent that has become more receptive to disruptive innovation is the insurance giant Humana. These astronomical costs are largely due to the way competition works in American health care.

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A Tool for Balancing Your Company’s Digital Investments

Harvard Business

This situation exists because, believe it or not, a lot of organizations lack any mechanisms to help them actively manage the evaluation, selection, monitoring, and adjustment of digital investments to achieve clearly defined business results while meeting clear risk and return expectations. Implementation criteria.

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Why GE, Boeing, Lowe’s, and Walmart Are Directly Buying Health Care for Employees

Harvard Business

Fewer than 5% of healthcare systems initially identified for participation in ECEN meet all of the quality requirements for consideration. For centers remaining in consideration after these initial steps, PBGH and HDP perform an in-depth site visit utilizing a patient tracer methodology.