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| Advice for Clients |
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| HR is an increasingly challenging area, keeping up with new regulations and developing your existing workforce are just part of the role. When your organisation needs specialist interim help or consultancy Skillfair can help you find resources without soaking up time and extra money. |
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| Choosing a Supplier |
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| Large companies often have whole teams of people dedicated to purchasing and setting up relationships with suppliers. But if you're unfamiliar with the process it can be daunting to try to work out which supllier to choose - and they get a lot more practice than you do. |
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| February Client Newsletter - Quality over quantity |
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| How to find and work with external consultants |
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| Businesses often put off bringing external expertise because they're too busy or are worried about being ripped off. Setting out with a clear idea of what you want achieve takes the worry out of outsourcing and will ensure you get good value for money. |
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| Starting out |
| Advertising Products and Services on Skillfair |
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| Skillfair's database of consultants covers the whole of the UK and has a high proportion of small and home office based businesses. If this is your target market then our offer alerts provide a simple, easily tracked and cost-effective way to advertise. |
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| Essential resources for consultants |
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| Presenting a consistent, professional approach is critical to succeeding as an independent consultant. These are some of the key documents you should have at your fingertips ready for when a client calls. |
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| Successful Presenting |
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| One of the best ways to promote yourself as an expert in your field is to present on your favourite topic to interested people. Being in front of an audience automatically gives you status in their eyes and if the subject is one the audience needs help with it can lead directly to consulting opportunities. |
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| Do you work for Tesco? |
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| Have you ever looked at a fellow professional's beautifully designed business card only to see an email address
that's a string of letters and numbers, or worse, makes it look as though they work at tesco.net? |
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| Networking for Business |
| Which networking group is right for me? |
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| Most consultants will tell you that they get their best leads from networking, the difficult part is working out who to network with. |
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| Networking Groups |
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| We've classified networking groups into 4 kinds, technical, local, peer and virutal - to give you some ideas of where to start.
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| Money, Tax and Admin |
| Work from home and want to sell? |
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| If you use your home for a self-employed business, you may claim some of the running expenses - heat, light, perhaps mortgage interest and council tax - as a business expense. This saves you income tax and NIC every year. |
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| FAQ |
| How can I find a specific consultant |
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| New features on Skillfair allow you to search for consultants by name, company and location as well as keywords in their profile or skills. Full members can also contact several consultants at once for networking purposes or add the list to their 'Watch List'. |
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| How do Quality Points Work? |
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| Skillfair's quality point system is designed to make clients feel more comfortable with contacting you via the internet. The process is quick and simple and gaining the full set of quality points will make sure you appear first when clients are searching for help. |
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| What should I put in my profile? |
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| The most important part of your profile is the first sentence. As with any piece of marketing material
it's vitally important to attract your potential client's attention - if the first sentence tells them
nothing interesting they probably won't read any further. At the same time, if you can offer a wide
range of services you want to make sure that your opening words don't turn off everyone except those looking for a specialist.
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| How to avoid too many responses to a project |
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| Clients sometimes tell us that they're worried that posting a project will generate too many responses. When you have limited time to sift through emails try using Skillfair's contact system instead. |
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| Marketing |
| Do you need a marketing specialist or a GP? |
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| If your business isn't quite performing as you want - it can be hard to know whether you just need some tactical marketing help or a broader rethink. This article gives some pointers to help you decide. |
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| Marketing your business - how can we help? |
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| The success of any business depends on making sure you product matches what the market needs and that people know about your offer. An marekting consultant can help you with all aspects of marketing your business. |
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| Public Relations |
| Getting publicity for your business |
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| Your product is great, your service excellent - but customers just don't seem to know about you. A PR specialist can help you generate news and interest that will bring customers to you. |
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| Training |
| Help for Trainers and Course Providers |
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| However good you are at delivering training finding the next client can be challenge. Skillfair can help with access to public tenders, private clients, associate opportunities and other resources. |
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| Training Managers - How can we help you? |
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| We have a wide range of trainers and consultants with experience in management, staff and vocational training - plus a range of specialist technical training providers. |
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| Websites for Training and Learning Professionals |
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| A selection of websites with information to support training an learning professionals |
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| Training Materials - Who Owns Them? |
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| How does copyright apply to training materials and what do you need to do so that you have the right to use materials again? |
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| News |
| Re-charging your business batteries |
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| The art of qualifying opportunities |
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| Networking through Skillfair |
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| Consultants Go Green |
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| Case Studies |
| Case Study: Meg Abdy |
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| Retail intelligence expert, Meg Adby, teamed up with an NHS specialist to win work for the NHS Institute for Innovation & Improvement |
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| Case study: Sonia Job, Marketing in Practice |
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| If it hadn’t been for Skillfair, I would probably have given up self-employment by now!, Sonia Job, Marketing in Practice |
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| Case Study: Jeremy Hurst |
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| Many people enter self-employment for work-life balance - but landing clients outside your local area requires effort and persistence,as Skillfair member Jeremy Hurst has found. |
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| Case Study - Selling Wisdom! |
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| With a strong commercial and public sector background, John Thurlbeck has found Skillfair an excellent way to generate new leads. |
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| Tenders |
| How to win public sector tenders |
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| Many small businesses, particularly those who are freelancers or consultants, assume that there's no point bidding for government work, so they don't even try. Other try but consistently fail to get anywhere and give up. It's certainly more difficult to win business in an open tendering situation, but if you're serious about working in the public sector, or for large corporate businesses, then you need to know how to bid effectively and make the most of your chances. |
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| Consultancy Tender Alert Service |
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| Skillfair's tender alert service is specially designed for copanies and individuals who provide complex, knowledge based services and solutions. We add value to the information by matching alerts to the skills required for each project. |
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| Skillfair members pull in £1M worth of business |
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| Tender Service - What does it cover? |
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| European Journal tenders, smaller value tenders from the UK public sector and voluntary sector brought to you desk every day. |
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| Partners |
| Skillfair and UKITA Partnership |
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| UKITA is the UK Association for IT suppliers. Skillfair members can obtain a discount off UKITA membership and UKITA members can access Skillfair services at a discount. |
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| AMED and Skillfair working together |
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| AMED is a charitable organisation that provides support, networking and education for its members to further their overall aim of promoting and encouraging management education and development. AMED and Skillfair members benefit from discounted membership for each other's organisations.
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| Skillfair Services for Partners |
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| Skillfair provides a simple, transparent and cost-effective way of managing requests for specialist expertise that allows memebrship organisations to develop a consistent revenue stream without the admin and overhead associated with commission schemes.
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| Skillfair Partners |
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| Skillfair works with many professional bodies, trade associations and networking groups to provide access to opportunities for their members. |
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