How to Improve your Consulting Career

I have written a series of recent blogs on how to build a consulting career. I started out with How to Create Job by Creating  a Consulting Career followed by How to Build a Consulting Career and recently More on Building a Consulting Career. Here are some tips on...

More On How to Build a Consulting Career.

In my last blog I wrote that one of the first things I learned in developing a consulting career was that it is not your knowledge that is key to success but how your market yourself and your knowledge. On my journey somebody once told me that the speakers that make...

How to Build a Consulting Career.

It doesn’t appear that the hiring market isn’t going to catch fire any time soon. I hope history will prove me wrong. I see many people desperate for work spending hours on low probability job pursuits, just to stay busy. People cold call me saying they are looking...

Networking Isn’t Multi-Level Marketing

We have all heard of Multi-Level Marketing.  Unfortunately many people approach networking in the same fashion and they think that the networks other people have built belong to them for their marketing purposes.  Just because I am on Linkedin doesn’t mean I have been...

New Business Tips from an Agency Review Consultant

Last week I posted a blog called Things That I Have Learned as an Agency Review Consultant. Just some perspectives from the reviews that I have been involved with that I thought could help both agencies and clients. I have conducted the Jenny Craig, Villeroy &...

Does it Hurt Your Career if Your Company Doesn’t Practice Social Media?

I have met many people who are employed in the Pharma industry, financial services and many other fields who aren’t very actively participating in social media. Many people I encounter in these industries are very successful. Highly goal oriented, well compensated and...

The Questions Each CEO Should Ask About Social Media

Would your Board be pleased if they knew your company’s brand’s investment was being managed by 22 year olds on social media?  Are they good stewards of the brand?  What if your company’s audit was done by the newest employee at your accounting firm? Who sets...

Hank Blank's 10 Quick New Business Tips for Agencies That Want to Win New Business

1. New Business is about winning new clients. It has nothing to do with advertising. 2. PowerPoint presentations neuter you. 3. Leave the agency posse at home. Fewer is formidable. 4. Blow up your new business template. Solutions aren’t cookie cutter. 5. New business...

Why Agency Creative People Need to Rock on Linkedin to Stay Marketable

Let me ask you a simple question. Are you going to keep your current job for the rest of your life? Well, I don’t think so and neither do you. So how do you market yourself as a creative person? Your reel?  How many new TV commercials have you produced in the last...

The Power of Networking – A Video Clip by Hank Blank

I blog and speak on networking often.  I have also spent years networking as my primary way of building my business. I thought I would add something new to the mix and provide a recently shot short video on the Power of Networking. It is overview of what I have...

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