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Making it Rich with a Consulting Business
Did you hear the one about the entrepreneur who started a business built around her passion, built it for six years, and then sold it for $40 million? Well it was not a joke and it really did happen. Meet Theresa Szczurek, PhD a presenter at Confab 2010. She will provide attendees with a practical [...]
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MBA Job Market for Consultants
The Wall Street Journal reports that the market for new MBA grads is hit and miss. (article) Of note is an increase in consulting job opportunities for recent grads. Confab 2010 is focusing on Building a Consulting Business which seems to dovetail with the anecdotal findings of this article. Consultants offer companies a unique selling [...]
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7 Steps for Growing that Consulting Practice
Jennifer Leake will guide attendees through an interactive discussion covering 7 steps she has adapted and perfected to grow a consulting business. Often times it is the simple things that trip up new consultants and the mundane items that slow down existing consultants. By evaluating the practices that work and the steps that do not [...]
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Networking with other Consultants
This year Confab attendees have the privilege of experiencing the BizTalk Blender® presented by Alice Heiman. The general session allows consultant attendees to meet, greet, and mingle with other consultants within a structured framework that helps to ensure more value for your time. For attendees just starting out in the consulting world this session will [...]
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What is a Consultant
During recent conversations it became apparent that what a consultant is, what a consultant does, and simply how to define a consultant varies greatly across industries and experts. In an effort to cut the chatter and clearly provide a definition of a consultant we logged into Google and searched the phrase “what is a consultant”? [...]
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Consultants Getting Paid
As the roster fills out for Confab 2010 we are aligning the consulting seminar to cover topics that will impact consultants starting a consulting business. On April 26 The Wall Street Journal ran an article titled “Freelance Fight to be Paid” (link) that examined the pitfalls consultants face when clients are unable or unwilling to [...]
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