Explore the skills you need to excel as a consultant and business owner as you build your business along The Path to $2M™ in this episode of Profitable Joyful Consulting. 👇 What are the skills you need to get results for your clients? What are the skills you need to grow your business to $2M+? Explore exactly what you need to be able to do to build the profitable, joyful business of your dreams in this episode. Key areas discussed: Dive into the key skills you need to grow your business and be ...
Aug 23, 2022•17 min•Season 11Ep. 121
What have my clients implemented in the area of performance, and what have they learned from me (and each other) about profitable, joyful consulting? Get the tips that have made a difference in their performance from our wonderful community here of consultants in this episode of Profitable Joyful Consulting. Key areas discussed: Get consultants’ top tips for improving business performance and evolving into the next better version of yourself in this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/fjWi4Fw8n...
Aug 16, 2022•11 min•Season 10Ep. 120
Does having sales goals for your business motivate you - or stress you out? On the Profitable Joyful Consulting podcast, I teach you how to increase your profits and enjoy your business more. In this episode, you’ll learn how to use sales metrics to build a more profitable and joyful business. One of my clients let me know that every year since she’s started her business, she’s increased revenues from the year before. But instead of celebrating, she feels a sense of dread — because it increases ...
Aug 09, 2022•16 min•Season 10Ep. 119
Learn how to visually communicate your unique value proposition with process models, maps and frameworks 💥 So you have a ton of information in your head that you use to help your clients…but when you try to pull it all out of your brain to create something like a signature program or course, do you feel overwhelmed, chaotic, or frantic? Pulling the information out of your brain is 90% of the work of a scaled offering, and my guest Renée Hasseldine, founder of multi award-winning visual teaching...
Aug 02, 2022•50 min•Season 10Ep. 118
On the Profitable Joyful Consulting podcast, I teach you how to increase your profits and enjoy your business more. In this episode, you’ll learn how to contribute to diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts as a consultant. You can do diversity, equity, and inclusion in ways that aren’t "just obligatory” but are actually life-giving and create joy within the workplace. And whether you’re a DEI Consultant or not, there are ways you can support this work and contribute to creating more equitable ...
Jul 26, 2022•39 min•Season 10Ep. 117
On the Profitable Joyful Consulting podcast, I teach you how to increase your profits and enjoy your business more. In this episode, you’ll discover five productivity tools that can add hours and hours back to your week. Because that’s really what tech and tools are about in your business — not about using whatever the shiny new thing is — but about freeing up your time so you can focus on what really brings you joy (within your business and outside of it). Key areas discussed: Learn how to use ...
Jul 19, 2022•16 min•Season 10Ep. 116
On the Profitable Joyful Consulting podcast, I teach you how to increase your profits and enjoy your business more. In this episode, you’ll learn what defines transformational engagements and what they could look like in your business. Most consultants do project-based work. They come in, work for three or six months, and solve a problem with a beginning, middle, and end. (And truthfully, we probably solve a smaller problem, which then leads to the discovery of new problems.) This can lead to on...
Jul 12, 2022•15 min•Season 10Ep. 115
On the Profitable Joyful Consulting podcast, I teach you how to increase your profits and enjoy your business more. In this episode, you’ll learn how to follow up with potential clients. Sometimes follow up can be scary. How can we do it without being a pest? What if the answer is no? How often should you follow up with potential clients, and when? Today on Profitable Joyful Consulting, I’m sharing a realistic perspective as well as the numbers and metrics you need for these questions and more s...
Jul 05, 2022•27 min•Season 10Ep. 114
On the Profitable Joyful Consulting podcast, I teach you how to increase your profits and enjoy your business more. In this episode, you’ll learn how to plan for any kind of impending absence in your business, whether it’s a health challenge, urgent family issue, or something else. Sometimes you need to have time away from your business urgently, and you need to be able to trust that everything won’t fall apart while you’re gone. As consultants we are the brand, but we also have to build somethi...
Jun 28, 2022•18 min•Season 10Ep. 111
On the Profitable Joyful Consulting podcast, I teach you how to increase your profits and enjoy your business more. In this episode, you’ll learn everything you need to know about data-driven content marketing for your consulting business. Joining me for this conversation is my client Pam Foley, an SEO copywriting expert, author, entrepreneur, and former attorney who helps B2B service businesses generate leads and sell more with persuasive storytelling and data-backed decision making. Content ma...
Jun 21, 2022•23 min•Season 10Ep. 112
On the Profitable Joyful Consulting podcast, I teach you how to increase your profits and enjoy your business more. In this episode, you’ll learn how to make the most of the time when you’re waiting for clients to make decisions. It’s frustrating when you have a lot of proposals out there and you don’t feel like there is anything you can do to speed up and get to “yes” faster. In this episode, you’ll learn what actions are actually helpful to take and how you can stay open to receiving during th...
Jun 14, 2022•12 min•Season 10Ep. 111
On the Profitable Joyful Consulting podcast, I teach you how to increase your profits and enjoy your business more. In this episode, you’ll learn how to assess the success of your consulting business. We assess success according to our own values. It matters what’s important to you. We’re not a huge company like McKinsey or a publicly traded company where we’re beholden to shareholders. We get to decide what success is for ourselves. In this episode, you’ll discover different elements to track a...
Jun 07, 2022•23 min•Season 10Ep. 110
On the Profitable Joyful Consulting podcast, I teach you how to increase your profits and enjoy your business more. In this episode, you’ll learn how to look at how the various aspects of your business, including you, perform. Everything in your business performs (and it should). When you’re clear on how the parts of your business (including you) are performing, you can build a more profitable and joyful consultancy. Key areas discussed: Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Cj85ntX205...
May 31, 2022•8 min•Season 10Ep. 109
On the Profitable Joyful Consulting podcast, I teach you how to increase your profits and enjoy your business more. In this episode, my guest Mich Bondesio and I teach you how to achieve better productivity and work-life balance through the power of ritual. With rituals, you create the work environment you want to have so you can be your best self. At the end of the day, rituals can help us stay grounded so we’re able to bring momentum to the work that we’re doing and build a profitable, joyful ...
May 24, 2022•25 min•Season 9Ep. 108
On the Profitable Joyful Consulting podcast, I teach you how to increase your profits and enjoy your business more. In this episode, you’ll learn what to do when you are unable to work or just don’t feel like working. If there’s no you, there’s no business. But there are so many things that can make us feel like not working, whether it’s burnout, mental health challenges, pushing yourself too hard, grief, the state of the world, or something else. Whatever brings this feeling on for you, learn h...
May 17, 2022•16 min•Season 9Ep. 107
On the Profitable Joyful Consulting podcast, I teach you how to increase your profits and enjoy your business more. In this episode, you’ll learn how to avoid toxic positivity in your business with Nancy Settle-Murphy. Nancy is the president of Guided Insights, a Boston-based consulting, training and coaching firm. She helps distributed teams work more effectively by helping leaders and team members alike find new ways to build trust, cultivate healthy relationships, and collaborate more success...
May 10, 2022•34 min•Season 9Ep. 106
On the Profitable Joyful Consulting podcast, I teach you how to increase your profits and enjoy your business more. In this episode, you’ll learn how to develop a personal brand to grow your business. As the owner of a consulting business, you need a personal brand in addition to the business brand. Your personal identity actually can help you grow your business. Social media is a requirement to grow your business, and the good news is - you can be your full self and bring that full self to your...
May 03, 2022•13 min•Season 9Ep. 105
On the Profitable Joyful Consulting podcast, I teach you how to increase your profits and enjoy your business more. In this episode, you’ll learn how to grow your confidence with Message Strategist Sani Nielsen. As a consultant, you’re a deep expert in your field. But that doesn’t necessarily mean you don’t experience doubt - in yourself, your work, and maybe even your expertise. Worse, many talented women struggle with imposter syndrome which affects them when they try to get more clients, go b...
Apr 26, 2022•40 min•Season 9Ep. 104
On the Profitable Joyful Consulting podcast, I teach you how to increase your profits and enjoy your business more. In this episode, you’ll learn why it’s important for you to be a perfect client. Potential clients and even current clients can do things that make you crazy. Maybe they no-show for calls, ask for guarantees, haggle, ghost you, pass you around from meeting to meeting, miss payments, show up for calls unprepared, or don’t implement. Do you ever do any of these when you’re the client...
Apr 19, 2022•10 min•Season 9Ep. 103
On the Profitable Joyful Consulting podcast, I teach you how to increase your profits and enjoy your business more. In this episode, you’ll learn how to choose the best lead generation strategies for your strengths. When you’re growing your business, your focus needs to be on lead generation. That’s business development, sales, and getting new clients. You might groan when you hear that (most people don’t love sales), but you CAN do lead generation in ways that are in alignment with your Joy &am...
Apr 12, 2022•27 min•Season 9Ep. 102
On the Profitable Joyful Consulting podcast, I teach you how to increase your profits and enjoy your business more. In this episode, you’ll learn about comparison in business. I used to work with someone in my business who would get super whacked out about other people in our same industry who were doing things really well. He would think it wasn’t fair and say, I don't think they're as smart as we are, how come they're more successful at those kinds of things? I let it roll off my back. I under...
Apr 05, 2022•15 min•Season 9Ep. 101
On the Profitable Joyful Consulting podcast, I teach you how to increase your profits and enjoy your business more. In this special 100th episode, you’ll learn how I started and grew my consulting business, as well as some of my favorite tips to make yours more profitable and joyful. Joining me for the conversation is consultant, copywriter, and message strategist Sani Nielsen to interview my journey out of me. Key areas discussed: Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Wf6coquimNw or y...
Mar 29, 2022•52 min•Season 9Ep. 100
On the Profitable Joyful Consulting podcast, I teach you how to increase your profits and enjoy your business more. In this episode, you’ll learn how to set boundaries in life and work with creativity instigator Melissa Dinwiddie and storytelling and creativity strategist Kathy Klotz-Guest. We’re so used to hearing “no” as a bad thing. But when we say no to something we don’t want, we’re saying yes to ourselves. Boundaries are about choosing yourself, and that can make your business infinitely m...
Mar 22, 2022•40 min•Season 9Ep. 99
On the Profitable Joyful Consulting podcast, I teach you how to increase your profits and enjoy your business more. In this episode, you’ll learn how to deal with burnout and boredom in your business. As an innovative, creative thought leader on the cutting edge of your work, you're always growing, developing and evolving. That means it is absolutely critical that your business (including your clients, offers, and messages) evolves with you — otherwise, boredom usually ensues. Learn exactly how ...
Mar 15, 2022•15 min•Season 9Ep. 98
On the Profitable Joyful Consulting podcast, I teach you how to increase your profits and enjoy your business more. In this episode, you’ll learn how to keep the talent in your business (a.k.a. you) happy. You are the brand in your business. It’s the brand called You, which means your identity is the business identity. People are buying you. They believe in you. They want to model you. They want the life you have. They want the values you represent. They want everything you offer for themselves....
Mar 08, 2022•17 min•Season 9Ep. 97
On the Profitable Joyful Consulting podcast, I teach you how to increase your profits and enjoy your business more. In this episode, you’ll learn how to develop and implement critical systems and workflow processes in your business. Nobody really wants to talk about or spend time on systems. It doesn’t feel like a good use of your time…until you realize how things are falling through the cracks and causing you to make mistakes. There are tons of growth opportunities available (and time you take ...
Mar 01, 2022•29 min•Season 8Ep. 96
On the Profitable Joyful Consulting podcast, I teach you how to increase your profits and enjoy your business more. In this episode, you’ll learn how to successfully execute your sales process all the way from when you first meet someone to when the checks are signed and work starts. There are a lot of steps in the sales process. Are you clear on them? How are you handling each one? Whether you’ve been a consultant for a month or a decade, there’s always room for improving your sales process. I ...
Feb 22, 2022•15 min•Season 8Ep. 95
On the Profitable Joyful Consulting podcast, I teach you how to increase your profits and enjoy your business more. In this episode, you’ll learn everything you need to know about occasion-based marketing. Occasion-based marketing is a methodology I learned in my time at The Coca-Cola Company. There are specific occasions when people purchase and consume beverages, and understanding them gives us opportunities to market to them more specifically. It’s not just the beverage market that occasion-b...
Feb 15, 2022•8 min•Season 8Ep. 94
On the Profitable Joyful Consulting podcast, I teach you how to increase your profits and enjoy your business more. In this episode, you’ll learn how to get out of the land of one-offs and into doing long-term transformational engagements with your clients. Are you stuck in the land of “one-offs?” You know, when you go in and do a short-term project here, a short-term training there, for client after client. Everyone who comes to you will order from your menu of things they can buy, and often it...
Feb 08, 2022•16 min•Season 8Ep. 93
On the Profitable Joyful Consulting podcast, I teach you how to increase your profits and enjoy your business more. In this episode, you’ll learn how to create, develop, and maintain a perfect client profile. If you want to have a profitable, joyful business you should strive to work exclusively with perfect clients. Those are clients who exactly what they need is exactly what you do. They are a perfect fit for you, and how you recognize them very often is by creating, developing, and maintainin...
Feb 01, 2022•20 min•Season 8Ep. 92