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Figuring Out Your Billing Rate as an Independent Consultant

Successful Independent Consulting

Even if your pricing strategy is to use a fixed price or to use a hybrid approach (part fixed, part variable), use your base rate as the building block and to sanity check your package pricing. Professionalism: You can skew your rate upward based on your branding and marketing. To calculate your base rate, used the “2x 3x Estimate.”

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Now Is the Best Time to Raise Your Rates

Successful Independent Consulting

Do some market-rate benchmarking to learn what other consultants are charging, or what clients are paying. Quote Your Consulting Billing Rate with Confidence Book: Name Your Price by Kate Dixon PICA members: Request access to the previously recorded workshop, "Billing Rates and Pricing Strategies for Solopreneurs" here.

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How People Analytics Can Help You Change Process, Culture, and Strategy

Harvard Business

Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. The people analytics team was surprised — as was finance team in that country, which had no reason to benchmark themselves against other countries and had no idea that they were such a bright spot. Insight Center. Competing in the Future. How to make your company more nimble and responsive.

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4 Ways to Improve Your Content Marketing

Harvard Business

In the past decade, content marketing has become a widely established practice. Companies have hired writers and Chief Content Officers to run departments, create blogs and other materials, and, in the process, some have assured sales people that content marketing can mean the end of cold calling. HBR Staff/Chris Minerva/Getty Images.

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2020 Database Strategies and Contact Acquisition Survey Report

47% of marketers said they have a database management strategy in place, but there is room for significant improvement. Marketing and sales teams are feeling pressured to deliver authentic messaging to buyers at every point of their customer journey. New tactics to acquire data to reach marketing goals.

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List of strategy consulting firms in London

Tom Spencer

List of strategy consulting firms in London 2011. List of strategy consulting firms in London. Alpha Financial Markets Consulting. Alpha Financial Markets Consulting. Founded in 2003, Alpha Financial Markets Consulting is based in the UK and also has offices in Luxembourg, Paris and NY. Definitions. Helpful Links.

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Strategic Believability: A Research-Backed Guide

LSA Global

The Importance of Strategic Believability: Is Your Strategy Believable Enough? An effective business strategy should help to create a competitive advantage. We know from organizational alignment research that strategy accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performing organizations.

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The ABM Benchmark Survey

ABM gets better with age — but unfortunately, marketers don't have the luxury of pouring it into an oak barrel for a couple decades to let it mature. It’s clear there’s a maturity gap in ABM strategies, so how can marketers start closing it?