10 Golden Principles of Successful Professional Services

By alik levin

Follow Fred Wilson’s 10 Golden Principles of Successful Web Apps and become the next Google or Facebook.

Maybe.

Web apps aside. It seems to me the principles are perfectly designed to make any professional services practice a big success.

Wilson’s take revolves around Speed, Utility, Leanness, Fun, and few more.

I started to recall my most successful gigs and any time I reflected on each one of them it resonated perfectly with Wilson’s principles of success.

Here’s my take on 10 Golden Principles of Successful Professional Service adopted and adapted from Fred Wilson.

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Notes From The IT Consultant Book

By alik levin

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by Rick Freedman

I have been recently looking through the book The IT Consultant : A Commonsense Framework for Managing the Client Relationship. Below are the notes I have taken while flipping through the book.

Enjoy.

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Marketing For Consultants

By alik levin

Guerrilla Marketing for Consultants: Breakthrough Tactics for Winning Profitable Clients is a book by Jay Conrad Levinson and Michael W. McLaughlin I’d recommend anyone, not only consultants.

My biggest takeaways from the  book is a marketing mindset I should have as a consultant and also the prescriptive guidance on how to build my marketing strategy.

Here is my distillation. Read on…

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