Our top tips for consultants from 2017

​The year is almost over. Did you get your fill of best-practice, business-building tips?
 
Don’t fret if you didn’t. Here—with quick and easy hyperlinked titles for your convenience—are our top tips for consultants from the year 2017. 
 
Enjoy!

• Tricks for managing deadlines. Some deadlines are carved in stone, others merely appear to be. Can you tell the difference, and leverage it to your advantage? Learn lots of cool tips in this informative article.

 

• Can small talk make you money? The short answer is, “if you know the right kind.” Pick up some good counterintuitive tricks in this lively how-to.

 

• Your website is too big. One of our most popular—if controversial—titles. Assuming you’re not Amazon, why should give away the store on your site? Learn how to tease, and sell, in this powerful business-builder.

 

• How to un-Gilligan yourself. We love little social tricks that are deceptively simple yet pay big business dividends. This article is chock full of them.

 

• How to measure business success. Don’t let the title fool you. This one is packed with biz-dev tips and tricks.

 

• How to look smarter in a meeting. This post applies to both our creative and consulting audiences. For the former, it’ll give you cool tips to help your ideas stand out and win the day. For the latter, it can make you the hero in the room.

 

• How to follow up when emails go in the black hole. This is our “triage checklist for wayward communications.” It will tell you what to do, when, how—and when to simply walk away.

 

• How to build business by going on vacation. It may sound too good to be true, but it’s actually the basis for some very powerful business development. Learn the counterintuitive tricks here.

 

• The creative power of the parallel universe. Despite its spacey-sounding title, this article received lots of praise from down-to-earth businesspeople. Use it to discover the “James Bond trick” for wowing that client or prospect.

 

• Linking in beyond LinkedIn. In this age of social media, other forms of networking often go overlooked. Learn the best tricks for online and offline in this insightful article. Do you know how to “make LinkedIn work in reverse”?

 

• How to counter proposed price cuts from clients. When is a deal-breaker not a deal-breaker? When can you tactfully make both parties happy in the face of what looks like bad news? Learn how, here.

 

• How to pick the best business gifts. It’s not just what you get, but how you craft that list. Let us help.

 
Have feedback from any of these articles you’d like to share? Or do you have a topic you’d like us to cover next year? Contact us and let us know. We’d love to hear from you.

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