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Figuring Out Your Billing Rate as an Independent Consultant

Successful Independent Consulting

Even if your pricing strategy is to use a fixed price or to use a hybrid approach (part fixed, part variable), use your base rate as the building block and to sanity check your package pricing. Or did you learn on the job as an internal resource with a company, and if so, did you have access to formal training?

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Tips to Protect and Profit from Your Intellectual Property

Emerson Consulting Group

Today licensing of intellectual property is a multi-billion dollar industry. In order to capitalize on such growth, entrepreneurs are seeking ways to protect and maximize the value of their ideas, inventions, artistic creations and other forms of intellectual property. Author’s Rights. About the Author.

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Leveraging Local Business Expertise for Foreign Companies

Business Consulting Agency

This comprehensive insight empowers foreign companies to make informed decisions, refine market entry strategies, and seize lucrative opportunities while mitigating risks. Cultural Acumen and Effective Communication Successful market entry in the US hinges on cultural intelligence and effective communication strategies.

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Startup Consulting Services in New Ventures

Business Consulting Agency

This data-driven approach helps entrepreneurs make informed decisions, refine their business models, and develop strategies that resonate with their target audience. Financial Planning and Fundraising Effective financial planning is critical for new ventures to manage cash flow, budgeting, financial projections, and investment strategies.

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Use Work Samples to Seal the Deal

Successful Independent Consulting

For 10 years as an independent change strategy consultant, I used this tactic to win several projects. Many clients don’t understand the difference between change management work and the more complex change strategy work. Avoid leaving them with the client because it’s your intellectual property.

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Pen vs Sword

Tom Spencer

Writers share information and create intellectual property, and writing is the work of the educator, the scientist, and the author. In contrast, fighters defend or acquire existing resources like land, property and oil reserves, and fighting is the province of the military, common thugs, and investment bankers.

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5 Effective Content Marketing Tips for Consultants

Consulting Matters

If you're not implementing a content marketing strategy, you are leaving money (and credibility) on the table. it's one thing to have a repository of intellectual property (IP). Depending on how you create your funnel, you could include low-cost training events in this category.

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