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Three-Word Tricks to Boost Your Impact as a Consultant

Successful Independent Consulting

For example, Decrease product returns by moving the quality checks upstream in the process. It would have been even better if you had allowed deeper exploration when discussing the marketing strategy. Would you please help me understand the section about intellectual property?

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Consulting Tip #6: Use Your Intellectual Property to Build Political Capital

Johanna Rothman

When I saw the McKinsey report on “developer productivity,” I shuddered. Second, there's no way to measure such a thing as developer productivity, despite what McKinsey says. Then I read Lorin Hochstein's brilliant assessment in On productivity metrics and management consultants. That makes so much sense.

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5 Effective Content Marketing Tips for Consultants

Consulting Matters

Content marketing is not some marketing fad. Content marketing is essential for consultants because we are in the knowledge business. Content marketing is essential for consultants because we are in the knowledge business. We don't sell a tangible product or service. It all starts here.

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What / Who Is a Professional Independent Consultant?

Successful Independent Consulting

Still other people market themselves as consultants when they take on projects between (or in addition to) full-time jobs. During an engagement, our activities may include a wide variety of activities – from system analysis and design to coaching executives, technical assistance, and producing intellectual property.

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Tips to Protect and Profit from Your Intellectual Property

Emerson Consulting Group

Today licensing of intellectual property is a multi-billion dollar industry. In order to capitalize on such growth, entrepreneurs are seeking ways to protect and maximize the value of their ideas, inventions, artistic creations and other forms of intellectual property. Author’s Rights. Register Your Trademarks.

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Consultant Marketing Tech Trap

Jerry Fletcher

It can be the backbone of the sharing of your body of intellectual property or it can delay the release by days, weeks or months or, in some cases years. Yes, they were trying to make their product better than all the others out there. It’s great until it isn’t. But they didn’t consider the customer’s viewpoint. And so it goes.

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5 Rookie Consulting Mistakes (And How to Avoid Them)

Consulting Matters

This fear often shows up when faced with identifying ideal clients and relevant products and services to meet their needs. It takes more time and effort to market a lot of things to a lot of different audiences (and creates a smaller return) than it will take to market your best talents to help your best clients.