David A Fields

MARCH 26, 2019

Is your consulting firm like toothpaste? In case you’re scratching your head, trying to figure out where this is going, there’s an easy answer: No. Of course not. Your offering isn’t creamy and there’s no limit to how much consulting you can bring on a plane. But adopting a classic marketing strategy used to sell … Continued. The post A More Powerful Way to Communicate Your Consulting Firm’s Promise appeared first on David A.

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Management Consulted

JULY 14, 2019

The management consultant resume is the most important document in the recruiting process. Maybe that’s why it causes so many headaches for candidates! But have no fear – we are here to help you craft your perfect management consulting resume. … Continue Reading. The post Consulting Resume: Complete Guide appeared first on Management Consulted.

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Consulting Matters

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ll never forget the moment the Disney team turned around the performance of the Animal Kingdom theme park. This beautiful park opened in 1999, full of compelling backstories and adventure. However, it wasn’t resonating with the Disney guests as expected. The breakthrough solution to this challenge came in the middle of a 2-day strategy session.

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Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

You, the consultant, want to earn more money in your consulting practice. You might be familiar with the principles of value-based pricing — but for whatever reason, you’re not applying the principles in your business. Here’s the truth — you could be earning far more by implementing value-based pricing. If you’re not charging based on value and the ROI you are delivering, chances are that you’re severely undercharging.

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Successful Independent Consulting

APRIL 12, 2019

Negotiating is typically hard for everyone, but it’s especially tough for consultants. It’s our nature to make the client happy, so negotiating for a higher rate feels awkward. But when you’re self-employed, even the smallest increase in your rate can translate to big bucks , particularly if the rate is for a long project, or if you’re working with an ongoing client.

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Jacq Hackett Consulting

MAY 12, 2019

As consultants, we are brought into organisations to solve problems or assist with a particular challenge. Exactly what the client needs will vary of course. It might be a review of a program or service; diagnosis of glitches in the system to identify solutions; an organisational restructure; a strategic plan; development of a new policy. The situation you land in is invariably complex; there is generally history, personalities, competing ideas, deadlines, politics, tension; and everyone has hig

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Tom Spencer

MAY 4, 2019

Is a job in consulting really what you expect it will be when you are a student, knee-deep in case prep and coffee chats? In this series , we hear from new consultants who were recently in those shoes, and what their experience has actually been like during the transition from the dream to the day-to-day reality of consulting work. Bill Nielsen graduated from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business last June, and began working at Bain & Company in Chicago in September 2018.

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David A Fields

JANUARY 29, 2019

Since you’re a consultant, chances are you’ve produced a report or two. In fact your consulting firm may dazzle your clients with artfully designed presentations and printouts, chock-a-block with clever analyses, pithy insights, and/or progress updates. At the very least you’ve summarized your progress on three pages with your logo on the bottom and dessert … Continued.

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Consulting Success

MAY 1, 2019

How do you get new consulting clients? Do you have a system in place for winning consulting projects? If you’re a consultant, you’re in the business of marketing. To get consulting clients, you need to generate conversations with the right prospects. Marketing is how you generate these conversations. Without marketing, you don’t have a consulting business.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you want to achieve sustainable success as a consultant - ideally you want to create a marketing system to ensure you have a consistently full pipeline of right-fit clients. However, there will be times when you have to feel the cash flow pressure and need to find clients.right now! This article is designed to give you some immediate traction while still setting you up for long-term success.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 6, 2019

Despite their expertise, many consultants struggle to close deals. Writing a consulting proposal that closes a sale can be challenging, and as a result it may be difficult to figure out why your proposals are getting rejected. In this article, we will look at seven tips that will improve your success rate so that you can start converting more leads. 1.

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The Fearless Marketer

APRIL 15, 2019

If you haven’t yet noticed, I’ve been writing a lot about how to use humor in emails to get more attention and response. And a wonderful subset of humor is cartoon humor. Should you use cartoons in your emails? Most certainly. They are great attention-getters. And who doesn’t love a good cartoon? I think the best use of a cartoon is right after the opening sentence of an email.

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Tsavo Neal

MAY 27, 2019

Many consultants tell me that they’ve never had a website that’s worked for conversions. What is a conversion? A conversion occurs when a user (your prospective client) takes the desired action on your website. A lack of conversions could mean many things : It could be a positioning problem — you’re not targeting a niche or you aren’t demonstrating your point of view.

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The Source

JULY 17, 2019

Lots of consulting firms have skeletons in their closets, but I’ve only ever come across one that has actual cadavers in its basement: PA Consulting. No, this isn’t a particularly punitive version of the up-or-out (or in this case, down-and-in) meritocracy many firms still adhere to. It’s a reflection of how seriously the firm takes new product development.

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Successful Independent Consulting

JULY 16, 2019

Most self-employed consultants I know have deep expertise in a certain function or industry, and nearly everyone would like to earn some extra money. If this describes you, check out what I recently discovered. It’s the Gerson Lehrman Group ( GLG ), a 20-year-old international company that brings together subject matter experts (SMEs) with businesses and non-profits looking for insight on various topics.

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Markovitz Consulting

APRIL 16, 2019

(Note: this article first appeared in Industry Week.) A recent article by Sam Walker in the Wall Street Journal argues that better managers are the key to delivering better results. Walker cites research by Gallup showing that the quality of middle managers determines 70% of the variance between high-performing and low-performing companies. Because managers can instill (or at least heighten) a sense of purpose and meaning in employees’ work, they drive the critical measure of employee engagement

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 22, 2019

Attention frequent business travelers: the next time you board a Delta Airlines flight, your experience will be drastically different. On January 23, you’ll see a substantial Delta boarding zones change that is sure to rankle frequent business travelers, and quite … Continue Reading. The post Delta Boarding Zones Change: Business Travelers Get Shafted appeared first on Management Consulted.

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Jacq Hackett Consulting

MAY 12, 2019

Consultancy projects are essentially all about finding answers and solutions. But before you dive right in, make sure you have clarity about the questions.

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David A Fields

MARCH 5, 2019

From your clients’ perspective, engaging your consulting firm is an emotional decision. The notion that “people act on emotion then justify with logic” has become clichéd. We accept it as an immutable law of human nature, like “children scream shrilly to be heard in a crowd” and “teenagers take selfies.” But what emotions are your … Continued.

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Consulting Success

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

In this episode, Oren Klaff, the author of the books Pitch Anything and Flip the Script, talks about the art of deal-making. Oren is known as the go-to guy to get deals done when someone needs $10 million or $25 million for their startup business idea. Today, he narrates how he got into deal-making and the. Flip The Script For Consultants With Oren Klaff: Podcast #116 is a post from: Consulting Success.

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Consulting Matters

AUGUST 2, 2019

Are you at a point in your career where you're starting to ask life's big questions: Who am I? What do I want? What is my purpose? Then you're going to be relieved that I put together this video to help you start finding answers. Let me give you a few things to think about as you watch this video: Questioning your identity and wondering about your values isn't a sign that everything is falling apart (even though it feels that way.

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Steve Shu Consulting

MARCH 7, 2019

Thanks to Rick Unser for having me recently on his 401(k) Fridays podcast. This interview is geared toward defined contribution plan sponsors and those closely related with this segment of the market (e.g., advisors, consultants, recordkeepers, investment only). I do draw from some insights and activity that is occurring in other areas of the financial services market (e.g., retirement income, wealth management).

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Rick Conlow

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Over nine decades ago, Dr. Evan O’Neill Kane of New York’s Kane Summit Hospital changed his mindset. He felt doctors were losing too many patients in appendectomy surgery, many because of the effects of general anesthesia. He felt that local anesthesia would be better for the patients but, not surprisingly, no volunteers came forward to test his hypothesis.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

In recent years, players in the healthcare industry have strived to create more effective systems in order to improve overall patient outcomes. Traditional ‘fee-for-service’ business models have seen America spend more on healthcare than any other nation and are no longer producing the results that patients need. How to break out of the old model? Leaders in the field have considered a variety of solutions, but the most prominent model is vertical integration , which is where one company takes c

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Tsavo Neal

MARCH 20, 2019

“Why am I not getting any clients through my consulting website?”. If you’re reading this article, you’re asking yourself this question. It’s a question I get all the time. And it’s the primary problem I’m trying to solve in my business — helping consulants get more clients through their website. But it’s the wrong question. We need to break this question down into chunks.

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