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How to Fill Your Consulting Firm’s Funnel

David A Fields

What if you’re closing consulting deals, but not enough of them? If a healthy percentage of your consulting firm’s prospects flow down your funnel to a signed deal, then your fundamentals are working. (Right People, Right Problem, Right Solutions, Right Time.) But what if you’re closing every lead in your funnel and still falling short of your … Continued.

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Client Experience: what is it … do we have it

Rod Burkert

I received some great feedback from our last conversation about reciprocating referrals. It seems like most of us are in the same boat … we get more referrals than we could ever possibly hope to return. So we do our best by promising to do good work. It makes for an interesting segue into today’s discussion. Customer experience is all the rage now. Everywhere you look (if you’re looking), businesses are trying to redefine what it means to be their customer so they can keep the customer.

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Using Equity Deals As A Consultant To Build Wealth with Roland Frasier: Podcast #93

Consulting Success

Investing money, time, and strategy in a company are the fundamentals you can apply to any industry. Founder of War Room Mastermind, Roland Frasier, shares how combining these three to equity deals can help build wealth. Taking us back to his younger years, Roland shares the different approaches he saw on how people make money. Using Equity Deals As A Consultant To Build Wealth with Roland Frasier: Podcast #93 is a post from: Consulting Success.

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Consulting Cover Letter: Ultimate Guide

Management Consulted

The cover letter is often undervalued because it is misunderstood. A good management consulting cover letter can give you a small edge over other candidates, particularly because firms use it as a writing sample. And don’t forget: a bad cover … Continue Reading. The post Consulting Cover Letter: Ultimate Guide appeared first on Management Consulted.

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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Why Become a Learning Organization?

Clarity Consultants

In order to become a learning organization, a few changes are typically required. This can include a shift in the company’s mindset as well as the adoption of learning and development (L&D) tools that can support your transformation. The post Why Become a Learning Organization? appeared first on Clarity Consultants - Training Development.

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Clean Your Backlogs

Johanna Rothman

I've been working at the intersection of the project portfolio and the product roadmaps. (You can tell because of the various posts about information persistence.) Here's what I find when I work with my clients: They have years worth of projects in the project portfolio. They have years worth of ideas in various states of description in what they're calling product roadmaps.

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Case Interview: What To Wear

Management Consulted

What to wear to a case interview should not be overlooked! We actually get a fair number of questions about this. When you think about how many applicants consulting firms get, and how many they actually give offers to, you … Continue Reading. The post Case Interview: What To Wear appeared first on Management Consulted.

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A Client Attraction Thought Experiment

The Fearless Marketer

Imagine this: You are parachuted into a city where you’re a stranger. And you have one mission: Find some clients to work with. You have a few tools: A phone, a laptop, email, the Internet, your marketing message, and even a website. And you have some limitations: You can only find clients locally. You have enough money to survive for one month. So you need to find some clients right away.

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How Talent Optimization + Customer Satisfaction = Revenue + Profit

Management and IT Consulting

How talent optimization and customer satisfaction equate to healthier revenue and profit for Consulting companies.

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PowerPoint Best Practices for Creating Stellar Presentations

Mastering data visualization in PowerPoint will help accelerate your career because it positions you as someone who can present data that drives business decisions forward. think-cell's PowerPoint Best Practices eBook was created specifically for professionals aiming to master the art and science of data-driven storytelling. What’s inside: Practical Insights: Uncover valuable tips for crafting engaging and persuasive presentations.

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Google Analytics for Consultants, Part 2: Goal Tracking (Made Simple)

Tsavo Neal

If you’ve followed the action step in Part 1 , you now have Google Analytics on your website. And if you’ve taken a look at your analytics, you’ll see something like this: Ignore ALL this right now. We will make sense of it once we’ve created goals for your website. And we’ll so with Goal tracking. What is Goal Tracking? Goal tracking is a feature within Google Analytics.

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Statistics 101 – Inference and Hypothesis Testing (Part 1 of 3)

Tom Spencer

As a generalist consultant you are unlikely to need any statistics for day-to-day project work (there are specialists to call on for situations where it’s needed). The workaday numerical tool is Excel which, with the “Analysis Toolpak”, gives most consultants more than enough of what they need. However, you are likely to build a lot of financial models (again using Excel).

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You Learn Best When You Learn Less

Harvard Business

It’s not always about how many hours you put in.

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The Dumbest Person in the Room

CaseInterview.com

My oldest daughter and I have been taking a training class together for some volunteer work we want to do together later in the year. It was the first time my teenager and I have been classmates. The class consisted of 20 students, half of which were teenagers, with the other half being people in their 30s and 40s. As we went through the technical material, I found myself raising my hand every few minutes to ask a question.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Monetising your assets

The Source

Not many jokes made about consultants are actually funny, but I’ve always liked the one about the shepherd. There he is, minding his herd on a remote and rocky valley (Northern Greece, I like to imagine, somewhere near the Macedonian border, all olives and sunshine), when a sleek black car pulls up and a snappily dressed young man gets out, carrying a briefcase.

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Health Economics Part I – Introduction

Tom Spencer

This post is the first in a series of articles exploring concepts of one of the lesser known fields of economic study – health economics. When one thinks of economics their mind usually turns to concepts of trade, resource allocation, and other similarly business-related concepts. However, ideas of supply and demand have gone beyond traditional goods and services and onto the more human notion of health.

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How to Move from Self-Awareness to Self-Improvement

Harvard Business

Choose productive behaviors over familiar ones.

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Personal Experience Interview - McKinsey PEI

CaseInterview.com

At consulting firms like McKinsey, you will receive a personal experience interview (or McKinsey PEI). Sometimes an entire interview is devoted to these types of questions. Other times, you will receive 10 - 15 minutes of these kinds of questions before you get a case interview. The format will vary by firm, but make no mistake about it, they will ask you about your personal career experiences.

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Savings Consultants Are Needed in Today's Market More Than Ever

Savings Consultants are needed in today’s market more than ever. With an increase in expenses, businesses are looking for opportunities to save. Often unknown to businesses are savings in expense reduction, specialized tax savings, specialized savings including medical underpayments, health benefits cost reduction, zero cost processing, and more. Blue Coast Savings, with over 20 years in business, assists Savings Consultants in helping these companies move toward more profitable businesses.

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Make Our Days Count

Chad Barr

Last week, for the first time, I did not write and share my weekly newsletter. Wednesday, June 12, was mine and Laurel’s 40th wedding anniversary, and while no big celebration was planned due to her father’s illness and hospitalization, we also didn’t plan for his death that very afternoon. My father in-law was blessed with 95 years of good health, a clear mind and a love for his family.

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Why you (the target) need to own the post -plans, not the acquirer…

Ben de Haldevang

Latest opinion piece from The Agile Gorilla for your thoughts, ideas and critique. As with much of what we write, how your personal experiences correspond / or jar with this approach is where the real value sits. Look forward to hearing from you. All the best. Ben. [link].

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Research: Actually, Consumers Do Buy Sustainable Products

Harvard Business

Sustainability-marketed products are growing quickly in almost all CPG categories.

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Coach Employees to Strengthen their Emotional Intelligence

Gina Abudi

Not every employee who joins the organization has strong emotional intelligence. Some employees tend to be reactive and don’t handle stress or conflict well. They are easily “triggered” by others and may not collaborate or communicate in the best way. Writing up an employee under a Performance Improvement Plan is not the best way [.]. The post Coach Employees to Strengthen their Emotional Intelligence appeared first on Gina Abudi.

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Pricing for Profit: How to Set, Negotiate, and Succeed

Speaker: Igli Laci, Strategic Finance Leader

In today’s competitive market, pricing is more than just a number — it’s the cornerstone of profitability. The right pricing strategy ensures that you capture the true value of your offering, paving the way for sustainable growth and long-term success. Join Igli Laci, Strategic Finance Leader, in this exclusive session where he will explore how a well-crafted pricing approach balances customer perception with business objectives, creating a powerful tool for securing both competitive advantage a

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The next McKinsey won’t be defined by the quality of its people

The Source

The gaggle of a few dozen bright young things crowding the coffee and snack table starts to move, herd-like, for the haphazard rows of chairs that span the width of the conference room, eagerly anticipating the welcome presentation from the firm’s market lead. As they take their seats, she swans into the room, taking up position in front of the interactive digital display and surveying the new blood like a centurion inspecting the troops before sending them into the fray.

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Stagnant Industry, Stagnant Company, What To Do?

Martinka Consulting

Recently the Bellevue Breakfast Rotary Club had a recap meeting following our very successful fundraising event, the All in for Autism 10K-5K run and walk. One of our members wondered what we have to do to breakthrough our participant plateau, as we’ve been at about the same number for years. One of our event consultants from Orswell Events told us we should be happy and proud about what we’re doing because at most post-run meetings these days the organizations are asking, “We’re down 500 people

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When Your Job Is Your Identity, Professional Failure Hurts More

Harvard Business

It’s one risk of conflating your role with your self-worth.

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A Real Professional

Kai Davis

Swizec ( [link] ), a friend, writes in with a great insight after yesterday’s letter “I will send along an NDA to get the discussion started” ([link]. Swizec adds: It makes you look like A Real Professional who certainly knows what they’re doing. Swizec is 100% right. When you take the initiative like this, you look like a real professional to your leads, clients, and prospects: You’re identifying a pain on the lead’s side of the table (Their desire for security and peace of mind via NDA).

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TOOLS and METHODOLOGIES for developing DECISION SUPPORT PACKAGES

This White Paper targets opportunities for Management to develop proficiency in the Decision Framing and Analyses element of input to Decision, & Risk Analyses for Major Project Funding Decisions.