Marketing for B2B Professional Services & Consulting Firms
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Outloud Podcast
The Marketing Outloud Podcast
Are you attracting the wrong prospects?
Are you attracting the wrong prospects? Or is it just the wrong time? Here’s a secret probably 90% of people don’t know: Most of the time, prospects don’t make buying […]
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Need Kills Sales
I want you to be like Sir Richard Branson… Or Bill Gates. One of those big household names who have changed how the world works. They’ve got enormous reach, enormous […]
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LinkedIn won’t save your business
“You just need to figure out LinkedIn and your business will go through the roof.” “Oh you couldn’t make it work on Facebook? Don’t worry LinkedIn is a blue ocean!” […]
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Pricing Mistake
Harsh truth: No one cares how long it takes you to do the work. I recently hired my 16-year-old nephew to do some landscaping. We were negotiating the price and […]
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Bored of Your Work?
There’s a trap waiting for consultants. And you can’t escape it with more experience. In fact, the more experienced consultants earn, the more they risk. You can’t escape this trap […]
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Toxic Clients
? STOP WORKING WITH BAD CLIENTS ? You know that client you regret taking on? They’re a pain to work with. They don’t respect your expertise. They have an opinion […]
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I’ve been reading Ray Dalio’s book, Principles. There’s a section in the book where Ray talks about decision making. In this episode, I’ll talk about how you can apply Ray’s advice to make better decisions for your business (and avoid bad ones).
ListenThe consulting or professional service transaction begins with a conversation. If you make it easy for prospects to talk to you, you’ll open up more relationships that you can nurture into revenue. But if you put up too many obstacles to a conversation, you’ll throttle your own growth.
ListenMatt Inglot is the Founder of Tilted Pixel and host of the Freelance Transformation podcast. In this episode, Matt shares the story of how he scaled down his marketing agency into a “micro firm” so he could make more money, work fewer hours and avoid the headaches that come with running a large agency. Show […]
ListenHow are your new year’s resolutions coming along? If you’re like most people, you’ve probably forgotten what they were. The critical mistake that we all make, when it comes to goal setting, is failing to ignore the role that motivation plays in sustaining our efforts. If you don’t see the fruits of your work early […]
ListenI’ve been reading Tim Wu’s Attention Merchants. It’s made me reflect on how our attention is our most valuable resource, and yet we unwittingly pawn it off to Facebook, Google and Snapchat for pennies on the dollar. My question to you: why are you selling your attention to someone else, when you could be profiting […]
ListenI found this post by Sam Ovens on how he’s plotting his plans for 2018. Sam calls this his war map. At first, I found the terminology to be kind of objectionable. But now I totally get it. And I think it’s brilliant.
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