If you or your company chooses to hire consultants to complete specific tasks, making the right selection can make or break the project or task in question. The process of finding and selecting qualified consultants for your projects involves many steps, and here are a few things you may want to consider: What...

This is a follow up to the a recent video post related to how consultants can use LinkedIn . Here’s another video coming from the CEO of Cheskin, a strategic consulting and market research firm with clients like Nike, Coc-Cola, Dell, Starbucks, and so on. Darrel Rhea explains how LinkedIn helped...

As a consultant, you probably spend a lot of time trying to find consultant jobs. The opportunities listed in RFP (Request for Proposal) databases which are used by large companies and government agencies can seem like a blessing when you are actively looking for a new consulting work. This can be a...

Jim Crocker CEO of Boardroom Metrics, a management consulting firm, talks about what you should do in order to find the right consultant. Here are the 6 main points from the video: Talk to people. Get references and recommendations from people you can trust. Set up interviews with all the prospective...

Many companies and executives choose to hire outside consultants to complete projects that they lack the in house skills, time, or objectivity to complete themselves. However, making the choice to work with outside consultants can be a tricky proposition, and does involve a large amount of input along...

Hi there folks. Hope you’re all healthy, busy, and working steadily on your consulting businesses and careers! Today I just wanted to let those of you who don’t already know about a new guide on search engine optimization we’ve recently finished writing called “SEO for Consultants: The Essential...

“In a truly democratic society, everything depends upon the consent of the public.” Thomas Jefferson With the emergence of the Industrial Revolution in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, public opinion was turning sour on the industrial world. The founders of American Industry such...

If you’re recruiting consultants, or hiring a consultant, chances are you’ve heard that getting a binding contract in place is a good idea. However, just the word contract conjures up scary thoughts of lawyers, notaries, and other such legal hassles. It doesn’t have to be that way though. Your...

Of course, when recruiting and hiring and working with a consultant, factors such as experience, expertise and capability should be top of your list of criteria. There are, however, several other factors that could influence your final decision to hire a consulting service. What are you going to have...

Here are 19 different marketing avenues you can use to promote your consulting business. By no means is this list complete as I just sat down and rattled them off. After you read them why don’t you add any other marketing methods that have worked well for your consulting business or that you have heard...

Here Jim Crocker, CEO of Boardroom Metrics outlines the four most common reasons companies decide to hire consultants. They all have to do with Pain! Here they are: Have a problem but don’t have the people power or specialization to find the solution. Require an outside point of view. Need the...

If you’ve clearly defined a business need and then decided to hire and work with a consultant, there’s still the biggest task of all ahead of you – finding and choosing the right consultant for the job! First Thing’s First – Where to Look? If you’re looking to hire a great consultant, you...

There are a host of reasons why companies and decision makers within organizations choose to work with consultants. Commonly, a lack of key skills, or a highly specialized skill set requirement would prompt a company to hire a consultant. Other reasons may include a requirement to streamline a specific...

PR Consulting is one of those careers everyone seems to have heard of, but very people know what they actually do. The role of a pr consultant can vary, and can include writing, for example press releases, public speaking, organizing events and more. Public relations consultants handle the public image...

So you’re embarking on a new consulting project. While securing a new client is great, the project itself can prove to be disastrous if you don’t take a few precautionary measures, particularly if you have just recently started a consulting business. Quite often, working relationships fall apart...