Category: Consulting
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How Consulting Works
For most of this book, I speak from the perspective of working for a consulting firm, not a staffing agency. A consulting firm usually hires, trains and invests in employees like any other company, while staffing agencies gear towards independent contractors and temporary staffing. A lot of valuable lessons in this book will also apply…
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Why People Hire Consultants. The Math.
Consultants can usually run a rate of anywhere in the range of one hundred to two hundred dollars an hour. Some larger firms in the “Big Four” can charge up to six hundred dollars an hour for senior resources. Multiply that by the average of forty hours a week and fifty or so weeks a…
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Auto Spin up and Down Azure Virtual Machines (VM)
One of the best perks of moving your infrastructure to the cloud is the ability to only pay for the resources you use. When using Virtual Machines that usage can be even further limited to servers that stay on only when you need them (business hours or nightly data runs) and then shut down to…
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Introduction to Consulting – Free eBook Download
Get your Free eBook With all the interest I received for free copies of my book (Jack of All Trades Master of Some, An Introduction to Consulting) for anyone that was a student or unemployed, I’ve decided to make a new ebook available perma-free for download. “An Introduction to Consulting – A Primer” is a…
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Introduction to Consulting – Why People Hire Consultants. The Math.
Why People Hire Consultants. The Math. Consultants can usually run a rate of anywhere in the range of one hundred to two hundred dollars an hour. Some larger firms in the “Big Four” can charge up to six hundred dollars an hour for senior resources. Multiply that by the average of forty hours a week…
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How to Build a MailChimp sign up form to send a free eBook
I wanted to provide people with a way to access my eBook on an Introduction to Consulting. Here is a quick guide on How to Build a MailChimp sign up form to send a free eBook to your subscribers.
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Introduction to Consulting – Impostor Syndrome
As time passes and you get more experience under your belt, you will find yourself answering questions and leading meetings like you have been working in the client’s industry for decades. At this point, as you self-reflect on the flight back home, you may get hit with a feeling of anxiety known as impostor syndrome.…
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Configure basic SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services) and Set up Firewall Rules
Learn how to Configure basic SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services) and Set up Firewall Rules so you can access SSRS remotely. Side Note: Want to learn SQL or Python for free. In less then 10 minutes a day and less than an hour total? Signup for my free classes delivered daily right to your email…
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Consulting Key Phrases
Have you ever wondered what some of those Consulting Key Phrases like RFP, MSA, or SOW really mean? Well here is a quick break down. 50-thousand-foot view The 50-thousand-foot view of an item or process is when you take a step back and only look at the high-level aspects of it. Many people will get…
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Mindful Manager; Give me my crayons back! Why being creative outside work may help us at work.
When we enter kindergarten, we are given crayons and pencils and colorful paper and we are told to create. We are encouraged to imagine and experiment. By the time we enter high school, creative writing in English class is usually all that is left from mandatory art classes. By college, if you are not majoring…