Many consultants shy away from pricing their services at a certain amount, thinking they don't deserve it. A. Nicole Campbell, the CEO of Build Up Advisory Group, tells you otherwise. In this episode, she joins Michael Zipursky to share with us her journey into starting her own consulting firm and explains how you can price your consulting services according to the value you provide to your clients.

She then takes us through the learnings she has picked up along the way and the processes that helped her create a successful business professionally and personally.

How do you teach excellence?

What can help create a good outcome and growth in your business?

How do you structure your day so you can be productive?

What should you be looking for in new hires?

Nicole answers these questions and more in this conversation.

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Given what's happening globally, offering remote services has become the new approach for many industries. There's an opportunity here for every consultant, advisor, and any other professional offering their services. However, one noticeable trend is that many of these professionals are starting to discount their fees, including consultants. Michael Zipursky answers an important question on today's podcast: should you lower your consulting fee when you’re doing all your work through a video conference call? Find out his answer by tuning in.

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As a consulting firm, how can you differentiate yourself and stand out from the noise to attract your ideal clients? Charles Demontigny, the founder of Fluxion, has some great nuggets of wisdom for you in this episode. Sitting down with Michael Zipursky, he shares his career journey with us—from leaving a company that got acquired to starting his own—and what he did to position himself for success, especially at the beginning of building his business. Charles takes us through the importance of really dialing in and optimizing his offerings during client interactions, explaining why we need to ask the right questions and utilize video content. He then talks about scaling and growing his business and the changes he made to manage growth and build his team effectively.

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Many people leave their corporate jobs to go out on their own and start a consulting business. But what if it’s the other way around and you find yourself with a very lucrative job offer, should you take that offer and leave consulting? On today’s podcast Michael Zipursky tackles this question. Continue building your income without being pulled down. Learn when you should leave consulting or stay for good in this episode.

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Consulting contract comprises the consultant's and client's commitment to be fulfilled, such as the deliverables and fees. Michael Zipursky brings a leader in consulting services, Karen Jenkins, the President and CEO of KRJ Consulting, to talk about how she entered the consulting world and how to win and deliver high-value consulting contracts. Karen shares how she carries her marketing skill set to the consulting business and the mindset she acquired from the lessons in her journey, leading to her finance and consulting success. She tells about the strategy and planning to start building her corporate clients and handling the clients' expectations effectively. Follow along to this conversation and learn some ideas about closing contracts, business development, and building relationships.

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For many business owners, their business is the culmination of their life's work and a primary source of wealth. Therefore, you will want to maximize the value through a combination of planning and timing when thinking about how to sell it later on. On today's show, Domenic Rinaldi is with Michael Zipursky to discuss how to build a solid exit plan and start for a sale before the company wishes to transition out. Domenic, the managing partner of Sun Acquisitions, shares his journey on how he came to enter this business and how, 15 years later, Sun Acquisitions became the largest firm in Chicago. Additionally, he poses important questions business owners should think about. How involved are you in the business? Do you have a self-managing business, or are you so involved in the business that the decisions and processes are reliant on you? 

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You can’t create more time in a day, and yet some people accomplish a lot more than others. Why? One of the most common reasons is that they delegate tasks. They don’t do everything themselves. On today’s show, Michael Zipursky presents an exercise that you can go through to identify opportunities to use systems to take your consulting business to the next level. This is a process he’s gone through multiple times and one you’d keep doing over and over as you look to make more strategic shifts and decisions to grow your business without feeling overwhelmed. 

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Leaving a corporate job and taking the leap of faith to be on your own can be both scary and exciting. Anne Sugar definitely went through all those emotions when she made the decision to leave the corporate world to start her own coaching and consulting firm, advising top leaders at companies including TripAdvisor, GM, Delta, and many others. To create positive action in the coaching process, Anne employs a two-pronged approach for a successful engagement – combining a goal-based process with evidence-based coaching. She sits down with Michael Zipursky on today’s show to explain this further. She also shares her transition journey, highlighting the importance of having mentors and coaches and revealing what gave her confidence to go out and take that leap. Seeking to make a career transition? This is one show you don’t want to miss.

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One of the greatest things that hold consultants back is the fear of taking imperfect action. Too often, we get obsessed about how everything should perfect before we even think about starting something even as simple as a webinar. We want to be sure enough people will attend and that every last detail is in order. Guess what? It will never be perfect. Not every person you reach out to will be attending that webinar of yours. But there is still so much you can get from just moving forward with that initiative and putting your message out to the remaining three people in the audience. It’s all about leverage. Michael Zipursky explains.

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Why should branding matter to consultants? After all, it wouldn’t matter what specific messaging you’re putting out as long as you have that intent to help people, right? Dead wrong. In this episode, Michael Zipursky and his guest drum in the importance of honing down into a niche and becoming an expert in it to be able to expand your earning potential. Steve Morris is an advisor, author, and speaker who has worked with thousands of business leaders since 1994. Steve’s educational background had nothing to do with business, but he effectively leveraged his fascination for human behavior to build his own design marketing agency, which he later sold. Steve may have worked inside an agency, but his insights on growing a consulting brand resonate even with independent consultants and small agency owners. Make sure to listen in and gather some wonderful advice on how you can evolve the perfect brand for your consulting business.

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