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Your Complete Guide to Subcontracting as an Independent Consultant

Successful Independent Consulting

Having consistent cash flow is one of the hardest parts about being self-employed, especially when youre just starting your business. To improve cash flow, I recommend subcontracting as a way to generate income while you continue to build your own business. It can be difficult for veterans, too!

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Taking Greater Risks to Enjoy Greater Rewards with David Baker: Podcast #14

Consulting Success

Description: David Baker is a consultant who has been working with marketing firms and advertising agencies since the late 1980s. David focuses on finances, benchmarking, performance, and positioning of firms, as well as PR, advertising, and more. Taking Risks Means Securing Success.

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What We Lose When Giant Investment Funds Run All Our Companies

Harvard Business

One giant mutual fund, which spends $135 million on advertising how thoroughly it works for clients, has just one employee overseeing the voting and stewardship of 10,000 companies. They mean that I can have the rights to the cash flows from a company’s shares without owning the share itself. And that is not the end of it.

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Subscription Business Models Are Great for Some Businesses and Terrible for Others

Harvard Business

For finance, short-term revenue gains do not justify poor treatment of members. But when those people send out their surveys, they are advertising for SurveyMonkey to everyone who receives the survey. Successful membership businesses focus on the long-term relationship. This has implications across the organization.

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A Blueprint for Digital Companies’ Financial Reporting

Harvard Business

However, the real revenue-providing customers are companies that pay for advertisements (they may be called “revenue units”). For example, ostensibly, Facebook’s customers are its daily users (call them “asset units” for argument’s sake).

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Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market; Will QE Cause Inflation?

MishTalk

Advertisers. Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. So refraining from any forecast of what will happen in the near term, it’s sufficient to observe that the economic data is not nearly as strong as widely perceived, and the impact of QE on stock prices does nothing to improve the underlying cash flows.

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Strong Economy – Strong Buy-Sell Market

Martinka Consulting

More businesses sold after being advertised on bizbuysell.com than any other year, and 2017 was 25% higher than 2016. It’s not reckless money like it was 15 years ago but financing options abound, including for lower middle market and below sized deals. Record number of small business sales in 2018! This as per bizbuysell.com.