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Strategy-First Innovation: Making Changes that Last

Tom Spencer

The root problem is the disconnect between strategy and innovation. Intellectual property – For example, Pfizer’s ability to patent its COVID-19 vaccine provided a temporary but crucial competitive advantage during the pandemic. Business unit and functional-level strategies (e.g.,

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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. Reassess your pricing strategy as your experience and confidence increase. To calculate your base rate, used the “2x 3x Estimate.”

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Content Success Framework

Chad Barr

There are several key components to achieve such success and here are the top three: First, is your strategy : Which is the definition of how you paint success and create your future. These are your articles, newsletters, books, workshops, webinars, courses, podcasts, videos, and membership sites to just name a few.

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Leveraging Your Newsletters

Chad Barr

Announce news and events worth mentioning such as upcoming workshops, new products and services, awards and credibility enhancing ideas. Doing so effectively will increase your reach, brand, intellectual property and revenues. Send them out consistently.

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10 Items to Evaluate Before Investing In Your New Site

Chad Barr

Here are the items to consider and assess: When asked to articulate what your strategy is? Your site is only one marketing component (out of many) to support your overall strategy. Answer the following questions: What is your strategy? Now that you have identified your strategy, start thinking about your tactics.

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The Big Disconnect in Your Talent Strategy and How to Fix It

Harvard Business

That leaves most organizations lacking a clear total workforce perspective and no integrated strategy to engage workers at the right time, cost, and contractual arrangement. This is increasingly risky, as contingent and other non-full-time workers possess more of your vital strategic skills and deal with sensitive intellectual property.

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30 Best Consultant Websites & Why They Have Them (2022)

Tsavo Neal

Daniel Siegel – Strategy Consultant My website is one of the cornerstones of my business and marketing strategy. Hopefully they’re interested enough to think about me at a future date for either a book, talk, consulting gig, workshop, whatever. That’s a 20-30 minute call (85%). What’s Dan up to now?”