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Use Work Samples to Seal the Deal

Successful Independent Consulting

Avoid leaving them with the client because it’s your intellectual property. If a sample isn’t generic, definitely don’t leave it behind. Bring color copies to in-person interviews and use them as visual aids. Potential clients aren’t likely to use the documents without you but don’t tempt them.

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Business Book Review: Lords of Strategy

Management Consulted

Finally, some of the interesting business structure, culture and profitability challenges birthed out of the introduction of the Internet include intellectual property ownership issues, introduction/acceptance of new marketing strategies, customer definition, and how to make a profit. Overall summary/conclusion.

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How to Design the Ideal (and Most Profitable) Consulting Business

Consulting Matters

Set definite goals for your business with dates and metrics. A content marketing funnel is how you leverage your knowledge and intellectual property in the form of speeches, blog posts, articles, videos, podcasts, social media posts, etc. A goal without a defined date is actually a dream. to connect with your future clients.

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An Insight into Special Services: Transfer Pricing

Tom Spencer

A showcase example are royalties paid for patents and other intellectual property. Most of Apple’s intellectual property and patents are owned by a subsidiary located in Ireland, where the corporate tax rate is only 12.5%. Multinational corporations like to take advantage of any ambiguity.

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The Use of the Word Transparency in the World of Social Media

Melissa Agnes

when a crisis happened it was common practice for an organization to withhold information, particularly if the information was incomplete or involved an organization’s Intellectual Property (e.g. The word transparency has no definitive meaning to the demands of an instantaneous prone world. In the good old days before web 2.0,

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The Impact of the Blockchain Goes Beyond Financial Services

Harvard Business

At its most basic, blockchain is a vast, global distributed ledger or database running on millions of devices and open to anyone, where not just information but anything of value – money, titles, deeds, music, art, scientific discoveries, intellectual property, and even votes – can be moved and stored securely and privately.

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Corporation Oxford

Tom Spencer

Britain’s finest educational name … ignores the explosion in online learning and fails dismally to exploit its intellectual property commercially … It lives off past glories, and is doomed to fade unless it reforms vigorously. It will consequently find life much harder in the 21st century.

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