Consulting

Want to feel more organized? Try cleaning out your inbox. Sometimes, just opening a messy list of emails can make your stress levels rise. Over at Zen Habits, there’s a great post on how to clean out your inbox. I clean out my inbox a few times each year. I try to file and flag […]

Clients who want free work make up just one piece of the fee negotiation dance. FreelanceSwitch* notes that cost-obsessed clients can also make you do the Twist — and that it’s important to educate the client. Cost-obsessed clients are often new to hiring consultants — but not always. Sometimes, you run into a small business

Sometimes, you run into a client who follows up after every project with an endless stream of questions. They haven’t paid for your extra time, yet they keep coming to you with questions, like: But how do I choose stamps for the direct mail campaign? Uh, this website…I want to change the graphics. Can you

Sometimes, you run into a client who follows up after every project with an endless stream of questions. They haven’t paid for your extra time, yet they keep coming to you with questions, like: But how do I choose stamps for the direct mail campaign? Uh, this website…I want to change the graphics. Can you

Negotiating makes up one of the most essential skills in consulting. If you hone your negotiation skills, you may actually wind up with a more successful practice than someone who’s brilliant in their work. Consulting fee negotiation may be the most obvious (and financially rewarding) skill to pick up, but it’s far from the only

Make money with sewing — as I said in  my post, Money Making Hobby, many people make money doing what they love. My doctor tells me that her friend makes money with sewing. She’s a sewing consultant, if you will. A sewing consultant? You bet! She runs seminars at community centers, where she educates other

While surfing, I bumped into My Retirement Project (dead link), the website of a 30-year-old consultant named Corey. Although his retirement is still 35 years away, Corey has his eyes on the prize. He wants to accumulate $1 million, so that he can retire — and he’s doing it through consulting and various other service

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) describes a company’s obligation to all of its stakeholders. Corporate social responsibility entails sustainability of financial, economic, social and environmental elements. Companies use corporate social responsibility as part of their business management strategies. Stakeholders include any parties that are influenced by or who can influence a company’s decisions. Although we usually

When I wrote about becoming a house flipper a few months ago, I mentioned that, "[I]n bubbly markets, amateurs often get into flipping houses and may have no expertise at all. So I wouldn’t consider most house flippers to be consultants." Today, I stumbled across I am Facing Foreclosure, a blog by wannabe real estate

My "Review my site" group project invites readers to give Consultant Journal the thumbs-up or thumbs-down. Recently, Johnny from Fuery.com had these suggestions: Of the content itself, the elementary nature of it makes me shy away a little, but there’s plenty of tips that old pros would do well to pay attention to. From my