Are you Crowd-Sourcing?
Essentially, Crowd-Sourcing is the idea that the more people you can get involved in solving a problem or designing something the more likely you are to hit on a novel and effective result. I'm a little sceptical of how useful this is as I think the quality of results will always depend on the quality of your crowd, but I do think there's real value for independent consultants and small businesses generally in tapping in to the ideas and knowledge of other people.
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Newsletter - Your Online Presence
Why not boost your online presence by sharing it - scroll to the bottom of your profile on Skillfair and click on the share button to share on Twitter, Facebook, Technorati, delicious , Digg and others
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Quote from Jon Harvey
The Skillfair Fee Rate Survey provided me with useful data that helps me to judge how to appraise my bids and work for clients." Jon Harvey Independent Leadership and Organisational Development Consultant. www.jonharveyassociates.co.uk
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Newsletter - Things are looking up
The response to our fee survey this year has been fantastic, so thanks to all of you who participated or passed the survey on to your contacts. As well as our own database, the survey was sent out by a number of our partners, reaching well over 40,000 consultants and freelancers in total, making this the most comprehensive survey we've done.
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Finding reasons to call
Most consultants I talk to find calling new prospects a daunting proposition, and many find even contacting existing clients is something they continually put off. Chatting about this with a former colleague today we realised that we were perfectly happy to call out contacts to help someone else - our anxiety circuits only seem to kick in when we're trying to sell ourselves. The good news though, is that if you do call with the aim of helping someone else there's a good chance the conversation will move on to other areas and you never know, there might turn out to be some work in it for you as well!
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