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5 Ways Playing Small is Sabotaging Your Consulting Success

Consulting Matters

These feelings are particularly acute for both new and seasoned consulting and coaching business owners which in comparison to other business owners, growing to the next level is personal because your business is based on you. Your ideas. Your expertise. Let me share with you 5 other ways you might be playing small.

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Quote Your Consulting Billing Rate with Confidence

Successful Independent Consulting

It takes practice to quote your consulting billing rate with confidence. Talk with other consultants, do a web search on typical management consulting rates in your city or state, and/or try converting your employee salary to an hourly rate. Is there already a consulting firm involved that you’ll be working with?

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The Benchmark That Builds Consulting Businesses

David A Fields

I only know if I have some sort of standard for comparison. Consultants often look at benchmarks to gauge their recent performance. Many readers know that I’m 6’1″ tall… if my posture is perfect, I think tall thoughts and I stand on two tins of homemade, coconut dream bars. Is that tall? [ ]

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5 Effective Content Marketing Tips for Consultants

Consulting Matters

Content marketing is essential for consultants because we are in the knowledge business. Therefore, you need to set up your content in what I am calling your "Consultant Content Marketing Funnel.". Purchase : Your items for purchase are lower-price offerings, in comparison to a full-on consulting engagement.

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Why consulting?

Management Consulted

Last week we held an MC exclusive subscriber giveaway contest – entrants told us in 200 words or less how they became interested in consulting. The prize for best answer was a FREE Consulting Case Bank and The Consulting Bible 3rd edition – a HUGE giveaway – so we weren’t surprised when we heard from so many of you.

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4 Ways to Develop Practical Business Understanding for Consulting

Management Consulted

A prospective management consultant without basic business understanding is like a camera tripod with 2 legs — it just won’t work out for you. What will you learn from starting a business that will help you prepare for consulting? Complete our Consultant For a Day exercise. Size its market. Identify how it makes profit.

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4 Key Consulting Fit Interview Questions You Must Prepare For

Management Consulted

In thousands of hours of interview preparation every year, we find similar themes with EVERY client: you love breaking your brain for the case interview, and assume that for the the fit interviews – being more predictable by comparison – you can wing it. Why Consulting? Au contraire, peeps. Why the transition?”