Consulting Success

MAY 3, 2025

Trust and value are integral consulting pillars. I can’t think of a single consulting client I’ve landed without first laying a foundation of trust. However, creating a trust-based relationship doesn’t necessarily mean having a longer sales cycle. In fact, if you get your messaging right, conveying value and building trust can happen even after a.

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Consulting Success

APRIL 19, 2025

What is a professional services contract, and how might you use one in your consulting business? When you provide your skills or expertise to a client, you must first establish the parameters of the relationship going forward. By setting expectations and clarifying the obligations of both parties, you lay the foundation for a healthy, collaborative.

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Consulting Success

APRIL 1, 2026

[podcast_headshot url=”/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/cathy-gillespie.jpg”] In this episode with Cathy, you’ll learn how to: - Grow your firm while maintaining your small, agile, and resourceful essence. - Utilize mentors to elevate and expand your consulting empire. - Cultivate a thriving referral system from your existing customer base. - Utilize an independent accreditation as your secret weapon for securing.

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Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 7, 2026

If you’re an expert marketer, you can take your experience, expertise, and skills to start a marketing consulting business. We know because we’ve helped many consultants do exactly that. Consider the story of Earline Lagueruela who was the first woman to ever run an ad agency in San Antonio back in 1976. Earline had more.

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Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 5, 2026

In our industry, you can’t just market to sell. When the value add is high, you need to actually build trusting relationships with your clients. This episode’s guest is proof of this. Natalie Kaminski, the Co-founder and CEO of JetRockets, has not only started her company but also grew it over time. Now, she has.

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 26, 2026

What consulting resources can help you grow your business and save you time and money — enabling you to run a seamless, stress-free business? Below we’ve curated our top consulting resources based on what we use ourselves and what the most successful consultants in our Clarity Coaching Program use. Consulting Resources: Quick Links Customer Relationship.

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 22, 2026

You may find consulting success just by employing general marketing strategies and casting a wide net on your target audience. But if you want to build a high-growth consulting firm, you must make your tactics more laser-focused and well-targeted. Michael Zipursky sits down with Elizabeth Harr, Managing Partner at Hinge Marketing. Together, they discuss the.

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 1, 2026

“What are examples of the best consulting websites?” 5 years ago, your clients didn’t care about your consulting website. In 2024, 80%+ of potential clients will look at your website before doing business with you. So, I reached out to 35 consultants who have amazing consulting websites: asking them why they have it and the.

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Consulting Success

DECEMBER 19, 2025

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the BEST marketing method for consultants. Over the last several years, we’ve published hundreds of articles on our consulting blog. Many of them have ranked 1st for competitive keywords. For example, here’s an article we wrote on “consulting fees” that is the first organic result — outranking a multi-billion-dollar company.

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Consulting Success

DECEMBER 18, 2025

Build not just a brand, but a magnetic force that attracts opportunities. Today, Joe Mechlinski, the founder of Gift of Work, shows us the way to speaking, recurring revenue, and personal brand converge to reshape the future of consulting. Hear about his early struggles and how he found a unique approach to consulting that changed.

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Consulting Success

NOVEMBER 20, 2025

Dean West’s journey teaches us that even at 50, making strategic changes and staying committed to restructuring can turn challenges into opportunities. In this episode, we hear Dean’s story and secrets behind leveraging associations and specialty groups to securing high-value clients. Associations, often underrated, can be compared to valuable goldmines for fostering relationships.

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Consulting Success

NOVEMBER 13, 2025

Dear Community, We are excited to share some big news today. Thanks to our incredible Consulting Success community (that’s you folks!), we recently raised nearly $10,000 for Lifewater Charity during a consulting training and bootcamp we put on. Lifewater Charity is dedicated to providing healthy drinking water to people around the world in need. They’re.

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Consulting Success

NOVEMBER 10, 2025

Consultants: who is your ideal client? If you’re not clear on… Why you’ve selected your niche Your area of specialization The characteristics of your ideal client Whether you’ve properly validated your market …chances are you don’t have enough clarity on who your ideal client is. Success as a consulting business owner depends on deeply understanding.

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Consulting Success

NOVEMBER 9, 2025

I recently published a short post on LinkedIn saying “I haven’t decided if I’m going to change the world yet…” That was a bit tongue-in-cheek. The truth is, my team and I are changing the world. I’m very proud of that. I believe many entrepreneurs feel the same way, yet don’t realize the impact they are.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2025

Putting the right people in the right seats is crucial to any business, but for a consulting practice, it is a matter of life or death. Michael Zipursky talks about strategic hiring in this episode with Adam Oliver, Founder and CEO of Crafted, a product development consultancy employing over 26 people. Michael and Adam discuss.

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Consulting Success

NOVEMBER 6, 2025

You can take your experience in software development and use it to create a software consulting business. We’ve helped a number of consultants do just that. Consider the case of Blake Waldon, founder of Black Owl Strategies. Blake combines his expertise as a programmer with his skills as a consultant to create customized software for.

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Consulting Success

OCTOBER 20, 2025

In the world of entrepreneurial consulting, standing out is not just a luxury—it’s a necessity. Boutique consultancy firms, with their nimbleness and specialized expertise, have a unique advantage. Yet, many struggle to attract the right clients. The key? Positioning. By differentiating yourself in the market, you can attract better-fit clients and unlock unparalleled opportunities.

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Consulting Success

OCTOBER 9, 2025

What makes you stand out from any other consulting businesses? How can you increase the value of your business? In this episode, Tony Velasquez, the CEO of Angelus Advisors, brings his wisdom on what makes a true consulting business and how consultants can build one instead of simply creating a job for themselves. He delves.

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Consulting Success

SEPTEMBER 18, 2025

How do you maximize your consulting firm’s profitability? In this episode of Consulting Success Podcast, Michael Zipursky is joined by Marcel Petitpas who is the Cofounder and CEO of Parakeeto, a company dedicated to enhancing the profitability of agencies and consultancies. His expertise has garnered attention from numerous platforms, including Ad World, DigitalMarketer, and Credo.

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Consulting Success

SEPTEMBER 8, 2025

In an increasingly interconnected global economy, international markets present massive opportunities for businesses seeking long-term growth. However, entering foreign territories requires meticulous planning and informed decision-making. Even well-established and seemingly infallible companies can get this wrong: Starbucks struggled in Australia, Walmart pulled out of Germany and Target failed in a simple expansion into Canada.

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Consulting Success

AUGUST 28, 2025

Growing your business may not be easy but you can look at the successful people around you and learn from them. One of those that you’ll find invaluable is this episode’s guest, Jason Shafton, the Founder of Winston Francois. Drawing not only from his experience and expertise but also insights learned from the amazing people.

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Consulting Success

AUGUST 24, 2025

How can you take the skills and experience you’ve gleaned working in HR (human resources) and start an HR consulting business? Take Kristen Ireland and Erin Mies, for example. They turned their HR expertise into People Spark Consulting, a successful HR consulting firm. They both had many years of combined HR experience helping companies hire.

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Consulting Success

AUGUST 18, 2025

What is the typical referral fee in consulting? And can you use a referral fee to generate more referral business? A consulting referral fee (also known as a “finder’s fee”, but I don’t use that term) is a fee you pay someone who refers a consulting client to you. For example, imagine that you share. Consulting Referral Fees: What’s A Typical Finders Fee For Consultants?

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Consulting Success

AUGUST 7, 2025

Many consultants struggle to grow their businesses because they’re busy working in their business rather than on their business. Because if you are looking to scale your firm, owners should understand the crucial role of margin. Today, Matt Hayter, the CEO and founder of Project Works, emphasizes how utilization and margin ensure sustainability and growth.

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Consulting Success

AUGUST 4, 2025

Email marketing for consultants is the most underrated marketing method for consultants. What other marketing method enables you to reach out to prospective clients who signed up to hear from you right in their email inbox — at scale? But here’s the truth: the size of your list isn’t what matters. As a consulting business.

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Consulting Success

JULY 28, 2025

As consultants and advisors, we get paid to tell the future. We’re paid to explain it, help clients to understand it, and to guide them to a better version of that future. AI is the declared future of all businesses. If we are going to be relevant to our clients, we must be one step.

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Consulting Success

JULY 21, 2025

When you deliver a successful project, do you publish a consulting case study about it? A consulting case study is a short story about a successful project that explains… The problem your client was dealing with before hiring you; your expertise and process for solving that problem; and the results your expertise and process created.

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Consulting Success

JUNE 26, 2025

Jamie Douraghy uncovers the secret to expanding your consulting practice by navigating the delicate balance between work and life. His insights on expanding a consulting practice while maintaining a healthy work-life balance revolve around two key aspects: aligning with like-minded individuals and building a supportive network. The alignment of like-minded individuals helps foster a sense.

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Consulting Success

JUNE 23, 2025

What is a consulting coach, and why should you consider hiring one if you’re a consulting business founder looking to grow your business? A consulting coach is a business coach for entrepreneurial consultants. Think of a personal trainer, who helps you get results inside of the gym. But instead of helping you get results in.

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JUNE 19, 2025

IIt requires a great strategy to provide a great customer experience to generate leads for your consulting firm. Dave Norton, the visionary founder of Stone Mantel, reveals his insights on customer experience strategy to gain a competitive edge in your consulting business. He also sheds light on developing IP to contribute growth to your practice.

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Consulting Success

JUNE 16, 2025

As a solo consultant or consulting business owner, do you often feel like there are never enough hours in the day? It’s common to feel overwhelmed by the amount of client work on your plate. As a result, it’s often business development gets neglected. And this leads to significant peaks and troughs in the pipeline.

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Consulting Success

JUNE 12, 2025

There is an art to facilitating workshops, especially if you wish it to be impactful. Today’s guest is Myriam Hadnes, who founded Workshops Work to support individuals and organizations to grow their facilitation skills. She shares her thoughts on helping clients create a smoother workshop, drawing from the best practices she has learned from navigating.

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Consulting Success

JUNE 9, 2025

How does a high 6 or 7-figure consulting business owner think? At Consulting Success, we teach consultants about more than how to get more clients, raise your fees, or build a team. At the foundation of your business is your consulting mindset: how you think and make decisions. Everything you do stems from what’s going.

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Consulting Success

JUNE 5, 2025

How can you get accredited for the psychometric tools? What challenges do you have to face in getting accreditation? In this episode, Skip Bowman, the founder of Safe2Great, provides insights on creating lucrative accreditation programs and explains the Safe to Great model. The concept of the model is useful for the business. It brings people.

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Consulting Success

MAY 22, 2025

Do you want to stay as a solo consultant, or do you want to bring others in? What are the risks in building your consulting firm? In this episode, Devon O’Rourke, the Founder and Managing Partner at Fluvio, provides some tips to build your consulting team by shifting from a solo to a firm model.

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Consulting Success

MAY 15, 2025

Many businesses do not optimally perform. It can be frustrating, but you don’t need to suffer today. In this episode, Philip (Phil) Krichilsky, the CEO of Innovative Directions, dives into shifting from hourly billing to lucrative performance-based fees. In the consulting business, you are only as good as your billing hours. Phil wants every consultant.

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MAY 8, 2025

We have so many brilliant minds working on producing great innovations, but we only hear from a few of them. Why? Because, often, these innovation experts struggle with their communication. Today’s guest, Susan Lindner, has observed this, leading her to create Innovation Storytellers—a consulting firm that helps companies to communicate more effectively with their ideas.

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