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5 Skills Your Marketing Consultant Must Have

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Marketing is changing fast, and the changes require new skills on the part of marketing consultants and other providers. I’ve heard about and observed many marketing “fails” in my years as a marketing professional in the software industry and as a marketing consultant at New Incite. Understanding of technology.

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6 Reasons I Love Being a Marketing Consultant

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In the early nineties I was inspired by an ad agency with which I worked to start my own marketing business. I made the decision to begin a consulting company focused on providing marketing solutions and founded New Incite in April of 1997. We may be part of the problem, not working on a solution. I focus on solutions.

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Does Your Marketing Consultant Have Bench Strength?

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Does your marketing consultant have the connections and network to make your projects happen cost-effectively, the right way, with “the right people on the bus”? How can you assess your marketing consultant’s resourcefulness or “bench strength”? The answer is “Yes!”

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Your Baby’s Ugly and Other Difficult Things Marketing Consultants Have to Tell Clients

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A good marketing consultant delivers solutions, implementation and results. I try to acknowledge the work and effort that has gone into marketing design in the past. I worked with a client to launch two new product lines. Another consultant was not only investigating but developing a detailed business plan for a third product.

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Is Your B2B Marketing Consultant Ethical?

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I had lunch recently with CPA Lynne Leavitt of Brakensiek Leavitt Pleger LLP , The Eclectic Accountants & Business Consultants , and Maureen Bernstein of Kaercher Campbell & Associates Insurance Brokerage. But marketing and consulting don’t have a requirement. Your consultant? We actually talked about – gasp!

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7 Questions to Ask When You Hire a Marketing Consultant

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Remember the ad where the two big company consultants sat in front of a corporate business executive’s desk, and when the executive asked them, “What do you do?” ” the consultants said, “Err, we don’t do anything…”? What should you look for when hiring a marketing consultant?

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How Dynamic is Your Marketing Consultant?

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Marketing consultants have to come up with great ideas and sell them to their client. How do you know how your marketing consultant can perform through this marketing continuum? Some of the key variables to getting marketing projects done include how individuals naturally focus their energy and prefer to work.