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4 Growth Hacks that McKinsey and BCG Consultants Use

For those of you who are wondering, growth hacking is about strategies for growing your business. It is about acquiring customers quickly while spending as little as possible, and is an important consultant skill. Where traditional marketers may put in ...

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Behind the Scenes: Mindsets of Top Management Consultants

What is it that sets the best management consultants apart from the rest? In essence, all consultants do the same thing – they provide expertise to help organizations solve problems and improve their performance. Management consultants can be distinguished from ...

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How To Define “Consulting” in Under 100 Words?

If you ask 100 people to define the term “consulting”, you’ll likely get 100 different answers. However, none of them will be wrong, because each person brings their own lifetime experiences and perspectives into the picture. A freelance consultant may ...

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3 Powerful Insider Tips to a New Freelance Consultant

Hello to my favorite New Freelance Consultant. You’re about to embark on the exciting journey of independent consulting. You have completed your studies and have some work experience – enough, you think, to launch a new career. You’ve asked what ...

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Best-Practices – Why Management Consultants Fail

Failure is not something that is limited to freelance management consultants, or even to freelancers in general. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, only about one-half of all newly established businesses survive more than five years. Sometimes, a ...

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Let’s Be Honest – Should You Become an Independent Consultant?

Maybe I feel jaundiced, or perhaps I’d been in the consulting game for too long? But the somewhat breathless promises about the benefits of becoming an independent consultant made me smile somewhat ruefully! My own experience was that you should ...

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How to Become an Independent Consultant – The Answer Is Technology

Some people’s strategy for becoming independent consultants is to quit their jobs and look for their first clients! Unless this is thrust upon you by losing your current job, it’s not a strategy I’d recommend. Freelance management consulting can be ...

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5 Tools Every Top Independent Management Consultant Should Know

As a freelance management consultant, you’re not only responsible for client projects. You’re also responsible for your own “business side” of things. It includes networking to find clients, keeping track of all the proposals you have outstanding, and managing your ...

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