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Need Clients Now? 5 Strategies to Quickly Get More Consulting Clients

Consulting Matters

However, there will be times when you have to feel the cash flow pressure and need to find clients.right now! This helps discern where to focus your time, money and efforts and keeps you from being busy but not productive. Attend Networking Events. Choose events that your ideal client will be attending (vs.

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Need Clients Now? 5 Strategies to Quickly Get More Consulting Clients

Consulting Matters

However, there will be times when you have to feel the cash flow pressure and need to find clients.right now! This helps discern where to focus your time, money and efforts and keeps you from being busy but not productive. Attend Networking Events. Choose events that your ideal client will be attending (vs.

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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business

In November, United States’ crude oil production exceeded 10 million barrels per day for the first time since 1970, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). oil production, up from a mere 10% just seven years ago in 2011. hbr staff/bettmann/Getty Images. Analysts have predicted that U.S.

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Business Book Review: Boston Consulting Group On Strategy

Management Consulted

Welcome to yet another opportunity to gain valuable insights from a book review, written by Preeti Vemu, MC intern, MC events organizer extraordinary, and an ex-Deloitte consultant. The focus here is completely on cash flows and not projections. Natural Competition is evolutionary and Strategic Competition is revolutionary.

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Setting Up a Foundation for Consulting Success

Successful Independent Consulting

Avoid a full-time or long-term lease so you can keep your expenses as low as possible, especially in the beginning when cash flow will be tighter. They’re almost optional these days but still come in handy, especially at conferences and networking events. Get business cards. If apps aren’t your thing, use an Excel spreadsheet.

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How Well Do Your Policies Create Desired Outcomes and Trust?

Johanna Rothman

If you don't manage your cash flow, a lack of cash will kill your business. We create policies because some event(s) occurred in the past. Those events created problems for someone or many someones. I keep encountering policies that prevent people from delivering the outcomes the organization wants.

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Small and Young Businesses Are Especially Vulnerable to Extreme Weather

Harvard Business

Owning up to our own behavioral biases is a worthwhile starting point to discussing the problem of managing infrequent, severe events. First, small businesses tend to be more productive than larger ones and may be especially unlikely to invest in risk management that diverts resources from production.