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When Your Need For Perfection Takes You Down!

Peter Stark

Are you a perfectionist? Most people look at perfection as the height of performance. In sports, we talk about the perfect pass or the perfect shot. In sales, we talk about presenting the perfect proposal and delivering the perfect solution to the customer. What could be better than perfect?

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7 Key Decisions for Starting Your Consulting or Coaching Business Right

Consulting Matters

Let's be real - you don't want to grow your OWN consulting or coaching business for the money. If you were in it for the money, you'd stay in corporate. Your goal is to have a career and business that supports your total life priorities and allows you to use your gifts and passions to make a difference in the world.

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Now Is the Best Time to Raise Your Rates

Successful Independent Consulting

Seems like a good excuse to raise your rates, and now is the perfect time. The easiest time to raise your rate is on the cusp of something new — a new year, a new project, a new client. With the new year just around the corner, now is the time to inform your clients that your rates will be going up next year.

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The Tyranny of Perfectionism (And Why It's Jacking Your Business Results)

Consulting Matters

Ever hold off on launching your website because you are just not crazy about the font size or accent colors that your graphic designer has selected for you? Have you paused on hitting publish on a blog post because you just need one more person to reassure you it is good? What is Perfectionism?

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7 Reasons Why Your Clients Aren't "Getting It" When you Talk and Write About What You Do

Consulting Matters

They try to sit down and write copy for their website or marketing or a simple blog post and they face writer's block so intense that it's a miracle that more computers of consultants and coaches aren't flung against the wall. Related Article: "How to Find the Exact Words That Attract Your Ideal Clients". You are not alone.

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7 Key Decisions for Starting Your Consulting or Coaching Business Right

Consulting Matters

Let's be real - you don't want to grow your OWN consulting or coaching business for the money. If you were in it for the money, you'd stay in corporate. Your goal is to have a career and business that supports your total life priorities and allows you to use your gifts and passions to make a difference in the world.

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How To Write a Blog Your Ideal Client Wants to Read

Consulting Matters

Do you know what keeps your ideal client up at night? Most blog posts aren't helpful to your ideal customer. Not only do you have to know what's on your ideal client's mind, but you need to know what they need - hint - it is NOT the process you are trying to sell. He loves talking shop.

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