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The Best Consulting Offering Name of All Time

David A Fields

While your consulting firm’s name is, ideally, memorable, it’s even more important to ensure your consulting firm’s offerings are mentally sticky. Imagine if your consulting firm owned an offering as widely known as Net Promoter Score (Bain & Company, Fred Reichheld) or the Magic Quadrant (Gartner).

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Narrow Your Niche to Win More Work as a Solopreneur

Successful Independent Consulting

Many solopreneurs make the mistake of marketing themselves as a jack-of-all-trades. I’ve mentored and represented hundreds of independent consultants and repeatedly I see those with a well-defined niche win more work. This is not a service offering; this is a laundry list of skills. The exact opposite is true.

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Website Advice for Solopreneurs

Successful Independent Consulting

Is it worth the time and money if you get most of your business from referrals or by subcontracting? They have all the functionality you need and beautiful templates that look great on all devices (including mobile). As a self-employed professional do you need a website? The short answer is, yes. Here’s why: 1.

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How to Generate Referrals Without Asking

Successful Independent Consulting

And how do we do it all without spending money and effort on digital advertising and direct marketing? Generally speaking, referred clients close faster, haggle less, contract you more, stick with you longer, and, most of all, they compound. But not all referral strategies are created equal. Referrals beget referrals.

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The Price is Right: Decoding the Art of Product Pricing

Tom Spencer

Pricing strategy is not one-size-fits-all. Optimal pricing strategy The primary goal of pricing strategy is the same as the primary goal of any other management strategy – to maximize economic value over time. One of the most common problems business leaders face is how to price a product.

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How I Ditched the Fear of Being Seen and Launched my REAL Business

Consulting Matters

The team was poring over the guest research when the most senior operations and creative executives looked at each other across the table and said at the same time, “You know what – we need to be a DISNEY theme park. My business is all about helping smart people to BOLDLY turn their purpose into profits.

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Consulting Tip 5: How to Think About Business Models to Avoid Commodity Work & Commodity Fees

Johanna Rothman

All the other answers are Wrong. When consultants ask these questions, the consultants assume they are showing their unique value. They're showing how they only offer commodity, and too often, inadequate, consulting. That's because very few problems have simple or “best practice” answers.