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Best to market yourself based on technology, industry or system type?
In starting a small software consultancy and figuring out how to market and present ourselves to the world...
Does anyone have any experience as to whether it is best to market yourself based on:
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If the agreement states IP is owned by the Consultant, is there any room for disagreement?
I am in the process to send a service agreement to my clients. I am stating that Intellectual Property related to all promotional material created while in the service agreement by my company will be ...
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How can I build up a new McKinsey in a niche field?
I would like to build a new consulting company like McKinsey. I do have a significant competitive advantage, (based on software) in a niche field, and now I need advice on how to start creating a ...
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New Project Management startup business
What's the best way to market startup project management/facilities consulting company for homeowners, churches and businesses?
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Does it make sense for a SaaS company to also do consulting work?
As a SaaS company we have an entire team in place to do web and application development. Effectively, we have one client: ourselves. Would it make sense for us to take on consulting clients as an ...
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How do I increase my clients' ownership for ther own change orders?
We are working on a complex online sales and marketing tool (website with CRM integration) We have laid it out as several small "baby step" projects. Each step needs approval and "sign-off" before ...
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Should I pursue someone who stole my idea?
I consult to companies. I specialize in problem resolution, project management, research and occasionally, if there's a call for it, development.
Recently, I was contacted by a development manager at ...
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What is a fair amount to pay for consulting referrals?
I'm an independent software consultant who is looking for referrals.
I've come to the conclusion that perhaps I should pay for them and earlier today posted this question about a teired commision ...
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Is this teired commission schedule for referrals fair?
I'm an independent software consultant who is looking for referrals.
I've paid for referrals before and have noticed that sometimes I was happy with the price and sometimes I was not. For example, ...
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Sales pipelines. Should you only have 1 in a B2B software development company?
So you understand our scope: We are a custom software development company who have 2 primary markets
Mid sized companies who have ongoing internal needs for automation
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Ethicality of leaving a consulting company to work for a client [closed]
I am currently an intern at a small consulting firm, and we do primarily web design. It's time for me to graduate and I've spoken with my boss and they want to keep me on.
The problem comes in with ...
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What companies will need products based on Android tablets, in-app payments, NFC?
I am looking to understand how to find companies which might be interested in my consulting / programming services. Of course I don't want to compete with existing small companies or freelancers. ...
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Super QA team business idea
(Intro)
I think most of us know the show House MD, with the brilliant doctor who solves super-hard cases with his A-team.
Is this applicable to software development? Is a borrowable super QA team a ...
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Micro Company started, do they need to incorporate, or there is a better way?
If one individual has been delivering services to other corporations. So far they have been paying the individual to his name "John Doe". The individual now is hiring sub-contractors, to do other ...
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Is having a technical partner better than an in-house software development team?
I am starting my own IT consultancy and have a good product in mind, but I also want to be the one controlling my own project.
I have a few questions
Who has the rights over your software project?
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Consulting while bootstrapping. How to organise company?
I'm a developer who has just sorted out part time consultancy work which I would like to use to maintain myself while bootstrapping a SAAS startup as a solo (for now) founder.
Given that I'd like to ...
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How do I put my conditions for repairing a computer into writing?
I have been a fulltime student recently working on graduate work to complete a graduate degree. While continuing my studies I have maintained my computer hobby. However, recently my computer hobby has ...
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Forming a Consulting Company
Am forming a Pvt.Ltd. company in India, with my partner. This is going to be a consulting company, primarily depending on our skill sets. Since it is going to be a private limited company with equal ...
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Legality of using idea developed while a consultant
Before I go ahead on put much effort into a startup idea I have, I wanted to know if anyone could direct me to legal resources/opinions on using ideas developed while consulting for a company as the ...
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Is it legal using virtual currency in a swapping stuff website?
The site www.listia.com uses credits as a way to buy goods through auctions. These credits are not real money with the exception that you can buy more credits with real money if you desperately want ...
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Precautions to take while getting to know people?
A friend of mine has a startup. I introduce him to people at times, and he's got contacts who are useful to me too. When meeting up with such contacts, what precautions could we follow or how can we ...
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What steps to take to start a consulting company?
I am writing today to understand and read what your take is in starting a consulting company.
Currently I hold a day job, which I am happy with, but I want to become more flexible in terms of ...
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Seeking Wisdom from experienced business owners
Does anybody here understand the basics of online businesses (online billing- client relations management software, etc) and other aspects like hiring and working with outsourced help and Sales reps? ...
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US LLC wants to purchase services of Canadian DBA in a third country. How?
For the past two years I have a US based consulting LLC (in PA). The business is international and for the last year 90% out of the country.
Actually I have a project in Chile and need the services of ...
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ideas, advice, procedure for my new facebook group IT consultancy
I am planning to start a consultancy using facebook fan/group/profile page.
Could anyone shower some ideas about what all I can achieve. Some tips about this to make huge success? And the procedures ...
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Transitioning from Research to Consulting
A friend and I want to start a consulting business. We can do data analysis. We both have Masters degrees and several years' work experience in research environments.
Our basic skills are ...
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How do I convince a client to use a computerised accounting system?
This is marketing question but don't know where to ask it.
My possible client is relying in traditional manual accounting system. I want to convince him to use acomputerised accounting system.
As an ...
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How can I quit from my own company
I co-founded a consulting company in Vancouver 4 years ago with 2 partners. One of us is working full-time with the company and getting a modest salary. Me and my other partner are doing couple of ...
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Different ways to market my consulting firm in India
I am just into consulting (IT/ITES). Here the consulting means narrow downing the bridge between Job seekers and the Employers. The business is to get profile from the employer and find the equivalent ...
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Software development team troubleshooter/auditor. What do you think?
I have an idea for a business and would like some feedback.
The other day I was thinking about software development teams and how they function, the things they do right and the things they do wrong. ...
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Getting customers for a startup IT Services Company?
I just started an IT Services company here in Chennai, India. I would like to know the different ways in which I can get clients so that I can grow my company. I have not yet started the recruitment, ...
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Is there a business in consulting new entrepreneurs?
I own a software start up but I need to make some money in consulting on the side. I have seen many start ups and small businesses that could use help in defining their direction or positioning in ...
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As a consultant, what do you do if part of your new assignment requires expertise you don't have?
Tell the client openly and decline to take on the job or just accept parts of the job? Or say nothing and quietly outsource to another consultancy?
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How can I get QA projects and work in parallel with my day job?
I am working as a QA lead at a big IT firm. I have a dream to start a software company. I want to get some projects on QA and work in parallel with my job. I have people to work on QA projects. If I ...
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Using consulting to bootstrap your software startup
I've been through some pretty brutal experiences recently with venture capitalists and I'm looking into ways I can start a company without VC money.
Has anyone out there used consulting to bootstrap ...
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Contacting a Prospective Client - Round Two
All,
I've just started up a consulting firm. There's a potential client I met with a couple weeks ago that felt like a pretty good fit. We met with them, and they explained their current product and ...
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Any good guides on starting out as consultant?
Okay, so my reason for wanting to become a consultant is so it's easier for communication between my clients and future clients. Right now, I've sold myself as a 3 employee start up company, but ...
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What does it mean by productivity solutions? [closed]
I came across some company provide productivity solutions to customers , what does it actually means ??
example : www.redpriairie.com
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How do I create a pricing scheme for my creative consulting company?
My company consults companies on creating websites, branding, online video promotions, and mobile apps. One aspect of our service is the consulting side, the other is project management, finding the ...
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Should you put your little consulting company on your resume?
I'm updating my resume for consulting positions. The projects I've done are going on my resume ... par for the course.
The dilemma is if I should put my little consulting company on it.
My first ...
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Marketing Emails to Clients for Software Consulting Company
I am going start my own IT consulting company.
I am looking for professional marketing email which I can send to potential clients and try to get projects for my company.
And also how do you decide ...
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Books / Advice on running an outsource software development shop?
So there's tons of documentation and books on project management, agile development, how to manage outsourcing projects, how to send our project offshore, etc...
But I'm on the other side, I'm ...
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How to calculate the price to quote for a service?
Is there a logical way to come up with pricing for a service such as below that my friend came up with. Are these valid ?
Split down the service into as many
small steps as possible. Make sure
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tired of freelancing for other people. how to meet customer directly?
I've been out of college for about 4 years now. Have a full time job and recently have been dabling in the freelance field on the side. doing Rails/PHP work + I have friends who are security analysts ...
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Build in-house or outsource?
I'm working with a SaaS business with a non-technical founder/CEO and am looking for pros and cons for (1) building the software in-house vs (2) outsourcing version 1.0 to a consulting firm.
From ...
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When hiring a consultant, what criteria do you use to evaluate them?
Over the years, I have had mixed results with hiring consultants for various jobs. I used to think that if they were referred, then that was good enough but that's not as consistent as I would like. ...
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How do you get involved with RFPs from government?
I am thinking that I should somehow find end users of my software that I had developed. I don't have lot of money for advertising but the software can be modified enough to fit the needs of ...
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Is mobile iPhone/Android training creating competition for my app development business?
I am the founder of a startup mobile application development company. We do iPhone and Android development currently and are planning to expand to other major platforms. We also have a training ...
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Communicating a Rate Increase to my Clients
I currently run a two person web development team. My partner and I offer Ruby on Rails programming for our clients (small companies). We typically charge $75/hr for most of our clients but we have ...
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How should we approach selling to entrepreneurs?
We recently launched a new service business.
Our target is the potential entrepreneur. Our goal is to help the people go from curious to competent in making the go/no go decision in launching their ...
