Information about why public relations doesn’t just happen along with tips about selecting an agency.
5 Tips For Closing That Consulting Deal
There are several reasons why consultants ultimately lose deals they should have won. Unless your portfolio is poor, consultants lose contracts because they either didnt listen or they didnt speak effectively to convey what services they could offer, that would help the client reach their goals. Here are a few tips to help you sell your services.
What To Say: How to Find Material To Fill Your Seminar or Small Business Management Course
Seminar marketing is one of the most productive and cost-effective ways to build your financial practice! Sponsored seminars are expected to grow 10 to 15% annually for the next decade. Sponsored seminar marketing provides you with a repeatable, systematic marketing process where you can leverage your knowledge.
How To Market Your Seminar to Your Local Market
Learn how to get started marketing seminars to promote your local professional business. This article is thrid in a series available on this website or from the author.
Why Do You Need Business Management Consulting?
When business grows crossing the boundaries defined by limited internal resources, including your own and your executives, it pays to engage the services of external business management consultants. Large business management consulting houses such as McKinsey and Company or PricewaterhouseCoopers, pride in their vast exposures to handling wide ranging business complexities under differing international conditions.
Businesses become complex as time passes by and handling t…
10 Steps to Getting Paid for Your Marketing Materials
How many times have you heard the same sound bites come out of your mouth to your clients, prospects, and audiences, almost boring yourself to tears in the process? Imagine generating money directly from those sound bites, from those pearls of wisdom that effortlessly trip off your tongue. Yes, it is completely possible, and heres how to do it.
The Interim Management Lifestyle
Interim management isnt the career for you if you dont like challenge and change. But for those of us who love both, it brings a rich variety of enhancing and intensive experiences. Just what are the pros and cons of becoming an interim manager?
Six Sigma Not Just For Manufacturing
Although the Six Sigma methodology originally started out as a way to improve processes and products in a manufacturing environment, today it has grown to encompass a broad range of industries. As companies begin to realize the benefits a total quality improvement cycle can have upon the organization they are adopting Six Sigma and its practices into their own fold.
Organizations not only receive the quality benefit of Six Sigma in their products and processes, but also si…
EQ vs. IQ: Why Do Smart People Fail?
Why do smart people fail?
Why people who more social succeed while those with merely a moderate IQ considerably fail?
The Fun Of Starting A New Business
So you had that fantastic business idea, the one that’s going to be wildly successful and make you a fortune – even better, you actually did something about it and started your own business. Good for you! Not everyone gets that far. Most people sit and day dream about what they might do if only ….
“The world is full of dreamers, there aren’t enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision” – W. Clement Stone
But you got over the…
Make Your Fortune In A Paper Business
The problem with some business ideas is their cost. To manufacture and market a product you have invented could cost you millions of dollars. The investment in machinery, buildings, inventory and other expenditures could bankrupt you before your first sale ever occurred.
For this reason, many prefer to run a paper business. Paper businesses do not require large investments of capital for expensive equipment, inventory, and buildings. Many paper businesses can be run from y…
Increased Consulting Fees Through Self-Confidence
Sometimes consultants and other service providers are hesitant to charge a fair rate for their services.
Maybe they feel that the services they provide are so basic that you really can’t justify charging much or anything for them.
Perhaps they feel that they don’t have the knowledge or experience that other consultants have.
Thus, they hesitate to charge fair rates because of a lack of self-confidence. This is natural (especially for new consultants). However, what…