Article | Sales and marketing
Most consulting business owners are striving to build a profitable, sustainable and valuable consulting business. One of the most effective strategies for achieving that goal is to systematically grow your existing accounts.
Article | Network News
The Consultancy BenchPress 2020, the first survey of independent consultancies turning over £500k – £20m, reveals that despite Covid negatively impacting 79% of consulting businesses, almost half expect revenue to increase in the next 12 months.
Article | Sales and marketing
A third of consulting business owners that we recently polled said they knew they were not generating any kind of positive return from their marketing investment, or they suspected that they weren’t.
Podcast | Network News
Listen to our founder, Marc Jantzen, speaking to Dan Priestley about the ups and downs of his entrepreneurial career.
Article | Sales and marketing
Wherever you are on your growth journey, building your consulting business on strong legal foundations means you’re better prepared for whatever lays ahead.
Article | Strategy and leadership
Bruce Ramsay’s webinar about recent trends in M&A transactions in the consulting sector offered a fascinating insight into the facts and figures of who’s been buying who since 2017, including what’s been going on since the outbreak of covid-19 in early 2020.
Article | Sales and marketing
Marketing is often the area in a growing consulting business that is significantly under-invested in. Trevor Lambert, a marketing specialist, focused on the Thought Leadership aspect of marketing and how to use it innovatively to drive inbound enquiries.
Article | Network News
Yesterday evening was our second event in lockdown. We designed the event to simulate, as much as possible, the face to face event we couldn’t have. Our members networked before the main presentations, as if they were at a physical event.
Article | Talent
Even in the current climate, recruitment is a popular topic, so we were delighted that Caroline Boston, Managing Director of New Minds, a resourcing company specialising in working with consulting businesses, could host for us.
Article | Network News
When we launched The Consultancy Growth Network, we never imagined we’d be delivering our first conference online.
Article | Sales and marketing
Say you are a consulting business turning over more than £1m and regularly discounting your fees. If you are making £200,000 profit and giving away, on average, a 10% discount, do you realise that you would increase your profit by 50% if you stopped discounting?
Article | Sales and marketing
SBR Consulting are the sales performance champions. They spend all day every day working with growing businesses to refine and improve the effectiveness of their sales activity.
Article | Talent
Unfortunately, this is a scar many owners of consulting businesses bear: realising you need to part ways with your latest and most expensive hire.
Article | Operations
The decision to recruit your first non-fee earning team member is a real tipping point for your consulting business. It proves the growth you’ve achieved so far and your aspirations for your firm’s future.
Article | Sales and marketing
It’s a bold claim, but it’s one I’ve been making for a while and here’s why. It works.
Article | Financial
Going green is absolutely the right way to go. And we all know why.
Article | Network News
Like most owners of smaller consulting businesses, Marc Jantzen had big ambitions for his firm. He worked very hard and he got lots of things right. But he also got things wrong. He sought out advisors to help him make the right decisions.
Article | Operations
Recently we our Expert Advisors on the spot by asking what two things they would pay more attention to if they had the chance to grow their consulting business all over again. Here’s what they said.
Article | Operations
Dom Moorhouse’s experience of growing Moorhouse Limited from nothing to its £20m sale in just five years is one of the reasons we chose Dom to be part of The Consultancy Growth Network.