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Consulting Tip #7: Beware of Other People Using Your Intellectual Property for Their Exposure

Johanna Rothman

No payment for my time or my IP (Intellectual Property). They wanted my intellectual property for their exposure. See Project Lifecycle Workshop: How to Manage Project Risks to Release Successful Products.) Even though their offer will cost the consultant time, money, and intellectual property.

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Manage Your Intellectual Property

Johanna Rothman

The company hires you, pays you a wage, and in return, your intellectual property belongs to them. Every time you create something, you create intellectual property. That property has value over your lifetime plus 70 years according to general copyright law. Often, they had no idea they were doing something wrong.

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Figuring Out Your Billing Rate as an Independent Consultant

Successful Independent Consulting

For example, shift from an hourly rate to a fixed fee so you’re compensated for your intellectual property. If the search doesn’t return hourly rates, convert the salary data using the method above. Reassess your pricing strategy as your experience and confidence increase.

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Consultants: Get Better Clients with Better Fees

Johanna Rothman

Rework my older intellectual property to take advantage of those new ideas. Join me in the March 2021 Consulting Workshop. My job as a consultant is not to work every hour of every day for a client—or for me. My job is to maximize my value for every client. That includes at least: Learn about new ideas.

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Time for Instantiation

Chad Barr

Yet, one of the key challenges they face and struggle with is how to take their ideas, experiences and wisdom, stored in their heads, and convert them into their intellectual property that manifests itself it in a variety of media formats. I work with some of the smartest individuals in the world.

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What Writers Can Do About Intended Plagiarism, Part 3

Johanna Rothman

That information is my intellectual property. When someone steals that property, that act is theft. Some people think that digital intellectual property is different from real property. Digital property is real property. The publisher didn't create your intellectual property.

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Growing Your Business and Your Revenues

Chad Barr

Consistently and frequently creating, sharing and publishing our insights help us transform them into books and other offerings, strengthen our marketing initiatives, and further create our intellectual property and our global digital empires® Promote our products and services and help make a difference and impact our target audience.