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10 Powerful Insights to Help You Succeed as a Small Business Consultant

10 Powerful Insights to Help You Succeed as a Small Business Consultant In the previous article "Freelance Consulting Online: a Step-By-Step Guide" we shared enough information for you to start your online freelance consulting business to help you replace your income if you lost your job or about to lose your job during current challenging economic times. If you have not read that article, please start there. In this article, we take it a step further and discuss 10 insights you need to succeed as a small business consultant. But first let's briefly speak about what is happening with the global economy and how it is impacting consulting work and recruitment prospects with major consulting firms. What is happening with the global economy? For those of you wondering why you should consider following this online-only freelance consulting path, we will explain what is happening in the world because for many of you you were not yet working during the 2008 recession. You do not know how bad it was. https://youtu.be/17vk9vEsjQA This recession will likely be much worse. The thing is people are not working. You know this. You walk out, restaurants are shut down. You go anywhere and there is…

10 Powerful Insights to Help You Succeed as a Small Business Consultant In the previous article "Freelance Consulting Online: a Step-By-Step Guide" we shared enough information for you to start your online freelance consulting business to help you replace your income if you lost your job or about to lose your job during current challenging economic times. If you have not read that article, please start there. In this article, we take it a step further and discuss 10 insights you need to succeed as a small business consultant. But first let's briefly speak about what is happening with the…

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Business Consulting Firm Growth Guide

Business Consulting Firm Growth Guide Our New Business Consulting iTunes Channel Our new Business Consulting channel is about the mechanics or the business of running and growing a consulting firm. Business Consulting channel does not cover items covered in our other podcast channels such as the Strategy Skills podcast, which deep dives into real engagements and teaches how to structure, breakdown, and prioritize studies. We also have the Case Interviews & Management Consulting podcast that prepares mostly students but also experienced hires for case interviews at major firms such as McKinsey, the Boston Consulting Group, Bain as well as Deloitte,…

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Consulting Business Positioning: The Cost and Value of a Sterling Reputation

Consulting Business Positioning: The Cost and Value of a Sterling Reputation Hi everyone. In today's episode, I would like to talk about the cost and value of a sterling reputation for a consulting business or any other type of organization. This would apply to any industry, but it is a little more subtle than that. It is not an absolute statement. I will talk you through what I mean as I progress with this episode. I am going to cover this in this episode, and I will dig in further in a follow-up episode. So, whenever I talk to the leaders, founders, or owners of a consulting business, they tell me the same thing. Their consulting business has a poor reputation, which is the ultimate arbiter of the margins and fees they are getting in the market. Now, I will say something that is very important but is also very counterintuitive. The reputation of your consulting business is probably not the problem. I am going to unpack this a little bit in this episode, and I will unpack it further in a follow-up episode. When an owner or a leader of a consulting business says their reputation is a problem,…

Consulting Business Positioning: The Cost and Value of a Sterling Reputation Hi everyone. In today's episode, I would like to talk about the cost and value of a sterling reputation for a consulting business or any other type of organization. This would apply to any industry, but it is a little more subtle than that. It is not an absolute statement. I will talk you through what I mean as I progress with this episode. I am going to cover this in this episode, and I will dig in further in a follow-up episode. So, whenever I talk to the…

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