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Figuring Out Your Billing Rate as an Independent Consultant

Successful Independent Consulting

Even if your pricing strategy is to use a fixed price or to use a hybrid approach (part fixed, part variable), use your base rate as the building block and to sanity check your package pricing. Professionalism: You can skew your rate upward based on your branding and marketing. To calculate your base rate, used the “2x 3x Estimate.”

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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. If you're not implementing a content marketing strategy, you are leaving money (and credibility) on the table. it's one thing to have a repository of intellectual property (IP).

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From Consulting and Coaching to IP: How to Create, Protect, and Monetize Your Unique Body of Work with Erin Austin

Consulting Matters

Have you ever wondered about the untapped potential of your intellectual property? Get ready to explore this goldmine with our special guest, Erin Austin, an attorney, business strategist, and expert in helping entrepreneurs create, protect, and monetize their intellectual property.

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Business Book Review: Lords of Strategy

Management Consulted

This week’s post is on Lords of Strategy - written by Walter Kiechel III , a journalist for 30 years, serving as an editor of Fortune and editorial director of Harvard Business Publishing. It was interesting to know that private equity firms are among the largest clients of the strategy consulting giants.

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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. Consultants: We provide strategy and advice to people in corporations in order to solve a problem, improve a situation, or make something happen. However, LLC or Inc. See Know Your Niche.) Carry business cards.

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Breaking Down Case Interview Frameworks – M&A (Mergers and Acquisitions)

Management Consulted

Check out our breakdowns on Profitability , Market Sizing , and Market Study to become a complete expert on any kind of framework you’ll need in your case interview. This comes down to 4 key areas: – The Market. Most investors do not want to buy a company that is in an unattractive market. Have no fear!

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5 Rookie Consulting Mistakes (And How to Avoid Them)

Consulting Matters

Invest in a strategic partner who can help you create a website that has: A solid strategy based on the demographics AND psychographics of your ideal client and how you can help them. MISTAKE #2: LACK OF A SUSTAINABLE PRICING STRATEGY. Here’s the logic of my initial pricing strategy. Clear site visitor calls to action.