Consulting Business Optimization

Are you experiencing revenue plateaus in your independent consulting business? You might have been creating the same amount of revenue year over year, or experiencing some feast or famine cycle, like big dips in your revenue, and ultimately your income.  What ends up happening is that this type of revenue cycle compounds your underearning over time, and can take a huge emotional toll on you because of the worry, anxiety, …

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As business owners, we’ve pretty much established a consistent routine to review our business goals to enhance our business margins. Usually, this decision of what to prioritize is based on the time available after client work and business development are taken care of. This results in you having essentially the same experience that you had as an employee.  Here’s the thing, when you’re making decisions as Independent Consultants from the …

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Video marketing is using videos to promote and market your independent consulting services. Using video increases engagement on your digital and social channels educates your prospects and customers, and reaches your audience with a new medium.  Video is a powerful lead generation tool and as you will hear from our guest today, RJ Parrish, “video is this huge opportunity for all of us, but there’s still some friction and reluctance …

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For your Independent Consulting business to properly function, you need to have a back-office that supports the client-facing tasks that you are working on. The stronger your back office is, the more mindful and empowered you will be to make strategic decisions. And, the more structured and repeatable your back office is, the less worry you’ll have trying to keep up with business bookkeeping, business taxes, invoicing, collections and insurance. …

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Once you’ve decided that you need some support in your business and that a virtual assistant is the best option for you. What’s next? Well in this episode you will hear from Silas Kim. Silas provides a detailed overview of when to hire a Virtual Assistant as well as how to hire, manage, communicate with and retain a Virtual Assistant. Silas helps entrepreneurs, consultants, and coaches build lean virtual teams. …

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When you’re running a small business, you wear all the hats. You’re the CEO in charge of growth and organization, you’re running the marketing campaigns, and you’re delivering the services.  It’s a lot of work to juggle client delivery with the critical work of running your consulting business. The good news is that there are many solutions to this challenge. And one of them is getting additional help for you …

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As a business owner who is balancing running your business with delivering for clients, I know you’re walking a fine line when you choose what processes and systems to implement. You’ve got to decide which tools are worth the overhead (time-wise and financially) because they’ll make your life easier and help your business scale. And, at the same time, you want to avoid going overboard by over-engineering your processes when …

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So you left corporate thinking that one of the outcomes will be more work-life balance. After all, you’re the boss, you will definitely have more work-life balance because we’re the one in charge now, right? Wrong!  Most of the time, we don’t achieve the work-life balance we wanted to as independent consultants. Instead, we end up just recreating what we had been doing in corporate. The only difference is that …

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When you look at the top reasons why independent consultants choose to leave traditional corporate jobs, their desire to achieve a work-life balance ranks high among the list. You left corporate because you want to drive your own schedule, to have more time freedom, and independence, to set your own priorities, to take more vacation. Despite this vision, what ends up happening is you get bogged down by the day-to-day …

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When it comes to your consulting business, do you have a regular routine of evaluating your results? As entrepreneurs, to know where you’re going, it’s important to look at where you’ve been. That’s why year-end business reviews are so important. They enable you to jump-start the new year with solutions to prior issues and strategies for continued growth moving forward.  This type of success habit, the year-end review, is the …

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