Big Game Hunting

I was talking yesterday with a woman I recently started mentoring.  Like many of us, she has numerous skills and areas of expertise, which appeal to a variety of different potential clients.  She told me that she has been trying to keep all of her doors...

Building your business pipeline

Just as someone living in the dark might want to locate a candle before scheduling an appointment with the electrician, understandably, a new consultant might be eager to have any cashflow before investing in building bigger, predictable cashflow. New consultants...

The Consulting Blues: Surviving A Slump

It happens to every independent consultant at least once or twice.  Everyone else is thriving while you're wilting.   Your peers complain about having more work than they can handle, and that they don't know how they're going to get it all done...

When a Consultant Has More Business Than She Can Handle

Dear Robbie, I am in a really good place of having more inquiries than I can handle.  When someone contacts me, should I talk to them to explore what they are looking for  and then let them know about my availability or do I tell them this before I even...

Teleseminar on Disciplined Marketing

My colleague, Linda Popky and I have noticed that many consultants get stuck trying to market their practices–not because they don't have enough ideas for marketing, but because they have too many. We see consultants with stacks of half-finished...