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Win the Work with Samples

Successful Independent Consulting

Prepare several samples that show different aspects of your work, then only present those that best apply to the client’s project. If the client has asked you to send samples of your work, reply graciously that you’re happy to share some samples via screen sharing but because they are your intellectual property, you can’t send them via email.

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Use Work Samples to Seal the Deal

Successful Independent Consulting

By presenting a sample change readiness assessment, stakeholder analysis, change strategy document, or an engagement plan, I enabled the client to literally see what they were buying in hiring me. Presenting Samples Is Key Samples can be anything that will help a potential client get an idea of how you work and what you will produce.

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5 Rookie Consulting Mistakes (And How to Avoid Them)

Consulting Matters

I have given away my time and intellectual property for free to people who asked me for coffee but really wanted to pick my brain for free solutions. A lot of initial business development mistakes could be avoided simply through finding the right help AS SOON AS the need presents itself.

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5 Rookie Consulting Mistakes (And How to Avoid Them)

Consulting Matters

I have given away my time and intellectual property for free to people who asked me for coffee but really wanted to pick my brain for free solutions. A lot of initial business development mistakes could be avoided simply through finding the right help AS SOON AS the need presents itself.

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How Much IP to Give Away & How Much Is Too Much

David A Fields

You develop a comprehensive proposal for Ann, outlining the route to Nirvana. And besides, she showed your presentation to Copycat Consulting and they said they could do the same project for $40,000 less. But you do.

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6 Digital Trends Are Poised to Transform How We Work - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DXC TECHNOLOGY

Harvard Business

Information can be consolidated and tailored to the user’s setting and device, with the right information being presented in the right way based on the context at hand. Orchestration, APIs, and the citizen developer. Architects and developers have been talking about APIs and orchestration for decades.

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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.