(This story is cross-posted to my marketing blog. However, I believe it’s a good lesson in customer service for consultants.) Almost two months ago, a neighbour showed me her Soapopular foaming hand sanitizer, which is alcohol-free. She told me she had bought the Soapopular soap at Shoppers Drug Mart. I trekked to three or four …
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Music legend Neil Diamond gained fame for songs like "Solitary Man", "Cherry Cherry", "Kentucky Man" and "Sweet Caroline". But did you know he originally attended New York University’s pre-med program on a fencing scholarship? Fencing made me feel for the first time like a winner. Fencing took Neil Diamond from Brooklyn to NYU. Although he …
Dan Akroyd works as a consultant…a UFO consultant. As a lifetime member of MUFON, the Mutual UFO Network, Akroyd combines his passion for UFOs with his movie industry experience. I’d like to do a ghost hunting thing. I’m the Hollywood consultant for mufon.com, which is the mutual UFO network. Wow, should I add “UFO consultant” …
Does it seem like consulting’s a new concept? The latest and greatest trend in the world of work? I beg to differ. Consider this quote from Charles Francis Richter, the seismologist who invented the Richter scale in 1935: A good deal of my consulting work consists of site analysis for proposed developments. The problem of …
I’ve been running this blog for nine months or so. (So does that mean this is the end of the gestation period?) I’ve written a couple hundred articles in that time, on everything from consulting fees to bad credit card management for small businesses. And I’ve got lots of articles waiting in the pipe. But …
A courier just dropped off my Litebook Elite, a light therapy box that the Litebook Company asked me to try out. Although light therapy is often promoted for people with SAD (seasonal affective disorder), I’m trying out the Litebook as a way of resetting my internal clock. As a consultant and the parent of a …
Happy 2007! I’m back from a much-needed vacation. I had a super New Year’s. My husband and I went to a party held by some friends. It was a great opportunity to get together with everyone and catch up as the holidays draw to a close. Afterwards, we zipped home to watch fireworks from the …
Do you think of yourself as shy? Too shy to be a consultant? Don’t be so hard on yourself! As I mentioned in networking for introverts, there are ways to deal with social anxiety. Although you might think you have to be a really outgoing person to be a consultant, I assure you that there …
Have you done it? Have you decided whether you should become a consultant? Are you still thinking about consulting but not sure where to go? Let me know whether you’ve taken the leap — or not. If you’re still thinking about consulting, let me know what would help you take the next step.
