Episode 286 – How Experimenting With Lead Generation Led to $250K in Consulting Work with Crystal Hincks

Crystal Hincks had been working her lead generation for months. She tried a speaking tour. She built a white paper strategy. She niched down to a single methodology, launched a webinar, and started posting consistently on LinkedIn. She was getting more conversations with decision makers. And she still couldn’t turn those conversations into a consistent flow of paid engagements. In Episode 286 of the Grow Your Independent Consulting Business podcast, …

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Episode 285 – The Business Development Mistake That Makes You Feel Productive with Kymm Martinez

Kymm Martinez was doing everything she was supposed to do. She had scorecards. She had a tracker. She was having discovery meetings, working her network, logging her outreach activity. She had nearly 20 years of marketing experience at General Mills plus two CMO roles, and she understood business fundamentals. By every surface-level measure, she was doing the work. But her pipeline wasn’t becoming predictable. And she couldn’t figure out why. …

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Episode 284 – From Sporadic Lead Generation to a $1.1M Pipeline with Chelsea Lewis

Chelsea Lewis quit her corporate job in October 2025. She took three months off, then started her independent consulting business in January 2026. When she joined the Lead Gen Sprint in the spring, she rated her confidence in her ability to generate leads as a 4 out of 10. By the time she recorded this episode, she had built a six-figure business in seven months, a current six-figure client engagement, …

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Episode 283 – Why Your Consulting Pipeline Problem Isn’t a Consistency Problem

You’ve said it to yourself more than once. “If I were just more consistent. If I could do a little bit every week, I’d have a healthier pipeline. If I could just balance the business development with client delivery, this wouldn’t keep happening.” Most independent consultants have run that thought through their heads dozens of times. And then gone back to client delivery, because the work was there and the …

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Episode 282 – 5 Reasons Your Outbound Leads Aren’t Becoming Clients (And How to Fix Each One)

You’re creating the conversations. You’re getting in the room. You’re having meetings with people who seem genuinely interested in what you do. And then nothing happens. They ghost you. They say they’ll follow up and don’t. You invested in the event, the outreach, the relationship, and it goes nowhere. In Episode 282 of the Grow Your Independent Consulting Business podcast, Melisa Liberman names the five specific reasons this happens and …

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Episode 281 – Becoming the Rainmaker in Your Consulting Business Without Constantly Selling

Most independent consultants don’t think the word “rainmaker” applies to them. It sounds like someone who was born with natural sales talent, or who has an extroverted personality, or who is willing to be pushy in ways that feel off. None of those things describe most consultants who left corporate to do serious work with serious clients. In Episode 281 of the Grow Your Independent Consulting Business podcast, Melisa Liberman …

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Episode 280 – Are You Building the Consulting Business You Actually Want?

You left corporate with a clear picture of what you wanted. Autonomy. Control over your time. Work that felt meaningful and paid what you were worth. A business on your terms. Here’s what happens instead for a lot of independent consultants: the business gets built one micro-decision at a time. You take the client that isn’t quite right because it’s available. You agree to the schedule compromise because the work …

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Episode 279 – Consulting Revenue Down? The 90-Day Turnaround Plan for Independent Consultants

Your consulting revenue is down. Maybe it’s been trending the wrong way for a few months. Maybe a primary client ended abruptly and left a gap you’re not sure how to close. Maybe the thought of going back to corporate is starting to feel less like a backup plan and more like a real option. In Episode 279 of the Grow Your Independent Consulting Business podcast, Melisa Liberman walks through …

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Episode 278 – Ahead, Behind, or Not Sure? What to Do With the Second Half of Your Consulting Year

The second half of the year is here. Most independent consultants greet it without a plan. Either they’re not sure where they stand against their goals, or they think they know but haven’t done the math to confirm it. Both create the same problem: reactive decisions, underearning, and a year that finishes on whatever happens rather than what you built. In Episode 278 of the Grow Your Independent Consulting Business …

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Episode 277 – Why Comparing Yourself to Other Consultants Is Costing You More Than You Think

You hear that a competitor charges double what you charge. Or a consultant who left corporate six months ago is landing the kind of work you’ve been trying to land for years. Or someone walks away with a deal you were certain was yours. The gut punch is immediate. What happens next is what most independent consultants don’t track. In Episode 277 of the Grow Your Independent Consulting Business podcast, …

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