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An all purpose book that incorporates all kinds of toasts for any occasion. It's full of deliciously witty lines and toasts, and provides you with practical advice about how and when to use these ideas. This must-have reference book includes some history on the lore of toasting and various theories of where the word originated. It also includes anecdotes about some of the more famous toasts through the ages and includes traditional toasts from around the world.
You'll have the words and the ways to make the perfect toast for: weddings, business events, birthdays, retirement parties, anniversaries, fundraisers, award presentations, roasting events, housewarming parties, international events, Cinco de Mayo celebrations, election victories and many, many more. These sample toasts are designed to be adapted or modified to fit any circumstance, any occasion, any time of day or year.
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The acclaimed Million Dollar Consulting gives consultants the tools and advice they need to grow a firm that rakes in at least $1 million per year. Alan Weiss, "the consultant's consultant," shows step-by-step how to raise capital, reel in new clients, set fees, accelerate growth, and more. This updated and expanded edition will appeal to both Weiss's many current fans and a whole new generation of readers looking for the best advice available for anyone who wants to build a million-dollar consulting/speaking career.
Customer Reviews:
The most valuable business book I own!.......2007-08-14
I am very happy that I found and studied this book when I did. After a few years of consulting this book helped make my business more successful, confirmed ideas that took years to develop and gave a clear plan of action and procedures.
If i may borrow from Alan...
"I am constantly amazed at how stupid I was two weeks ago"
A must for powerful successful consultants.......2007-05-14
Alan is just the best when it comes to advice for success. If you are serious about building a powerful consulting firm, you need to read this. If you really want to be a million dollar consultant and are missing just that one little piece, you need to read this. If you want to learn from the best and are willing to work at it, then read this book, it will change you life.
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Helpful advice.......2007-05-07
In the author's own words, he goes to conferences and what-not, hoping to find just 1% of the material that helps him succeed - those hidden gems of knowledge. Is everything he talks about going to be 100% applicable and timely for you? No, but there's certainly enough "gems" in the book to steer you in the right direction. The discussions on delivering value as opposed to time are priceless.
Decent..........2007-04-06
Honestly, I was not terribly impressed with this book. After the first couple chapters, I nearly quit reading it. Part 1 of the book (the first 5 chapters) is written in such abstract terms that it was completely worthless to me. For instance, in a section on goal-setting he quotes the following as one of the best goals he has heard from a consultant, "We will undertake consulting assignments that result in direct contribution to the client's profitability as measured by quarterly results." Does this really tell anybody what the consultant actually offers to/does for a client? Quite frankly, if somebody ever approached me as a prospect and said something so bland and vague to me as an effort toward getting my business, I'd tune them out right from the get-go.
That said, he does give some decent advice for marketing (which is really the most important thing about any business, as we all learn at some point). He gives good information about how to successfully integrate speaking and writing into your business as both marketing tools and profit centers.
I'd say it's probably worth a read, but I'm really surprised by how many people rave about it so strongly.
A good read reguardless.......2007-02-12
There is a ton of information in this. If you want to be a consultant or think you may need one, read it, cover to cover. Might read tween the lines a bit :-). F&P Tech /consulting services
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The practical toolbox for readers of Million Dollar Consulting
This useful guide provides specific checklists, guidelines, templates, and actual examples for every step of the consulting process. It covers marketing, sales, meetings, implementation, follow-up, invoicing, practice management, insurance, equipment, subcontracting, and scores of other elements. Thousands of people have bought Weiss's Million Dollar Consulting and started their own consultancy. Now, this handy resource goes hand-in-hand to provide all the tools new consultants need to enact all the recommendations and ideas in Million Dollar Consulting.
Alan Weiss, PhD (East Greenwich, RI), has consulted for hundreds of organizations around the world, including Mercedes-Benz, Hewlett-Packard, Merck, Chase, American Press Institute, and the Times-Mirror Group. He is the author of 12 books, including Getting Started in Consulting (0-471-47969-1) and Organizational Consulting (0-471-26378-8).
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The practical toolbox for readers of Million Dollar Consulting This useful guide provides specific checklists, guidelines, templates, and actual examples for every step of the consulting process. It covers marketing, sales, meetings, implementation, follow-up, invoicing, practice management, insurance, equipment, subcontracting, and scores of other elements. Thousands of people have bought Weiss's Million Dollar Consulting and started their own consultancy. Now, this handy resource goes hand-in-hand to provide all the tools new consultants need to enact all the recommendations and ideas in Million Dollar Consulting. Alan Weiss, PhD (East Greenwich, RI), has consulted for hundreds of organizations around the world, including Mercedes-Benz, Hewlett-Packard, Merck, Chase, American Press Institute, and the Times-Mirror Group. He is the author of 12 books, including Getting Started in Consulting (0-471-47969-1) and Organizational Consulting (0-471-26378-8).
Customer Reviews:
Great resource for beginner consultants.......2007-06-22
This book is an excellent resource for consultants who are new to the field. Today, I have landed my first client using Alan Weiss' practical tips for success. I find the sample templates for proposals a great value as I learn what works best for me and what doesn't. I plan to use this book as a reference guide as I continue to grow my practice. I'd encourage you to purchase this book and use it to its full capability. Use this book along with others to build your library of useful resources. Great book!
Thanks Alan!
Perfect Companion to Million Dollar Consulting.......2006-10-22
This book provides templates, checklists, forms and examples for implementing the ideas, techniques and strategies from the highly successful "Million Dollar Consulting". Guranteed to save you loads of time and enable you hit the ground running every time.
Some good Guidance but not a Toolkit.......2006-07-01
This book gives some very good guidance , especially regarding insurance required for consultants, writing proposals and follow up.
If you plan to make a living by writing and giving speeches, then this book is also for you. If you are maybe in IT or Logistics and need help to e.g. write client proposals or follow up with clients, this book offers excellent advice.
However, if you are expecting this book to cover all the basics you need to know to start or grow your business, it falls short of its title. This book is definitely not a tool kit. Examples:
a) The equipment checklist is technically outdated. Apart from the fact that we are in the age of CD & DVD burners, the biggest oversight is the lack of mentioning the need for data backup facilities.
b) The section on finances is very 'thin' and only gives very top level information. You are much better off buying a separate book on this subject such as 'Self-Employed Tax Solutions' by June Walker.
c) The section on forms also covers a bare minimum. The expense form example on page 96 does e.g. not include a column for phone charges.
As examples for various forms, websites etc. Alan Weiss constantly refers to himself rather than making up some alternative examples. You can either see that as giving a successful example or pure self promotion.
Overall a useful book as long as you take some of this recommendations with a grain of salt. A title such as 'Writing Successful Client Proposals' would be more appropriate though.
Required Reading For Consultants.......2005-12-07
Alan again proves that he can put more info in 200 pages than any other business adviser. Buy it, read it, keep it nearby to refer to it.
BTW, Alan's most valuable book is "How to Write A Proposal That's Accepted Every Time." A close second is "Value Based Fees."
Excellent Book.......2005-11-28
The Million Dollar Consulting Toolkit will save any consultant a lot of time. Using the examples and templates in this book, anyone can produce flawless proposals and implement marketing plans with consummate ease. The section titled "101 Questions for Any Sales Situation" alone makes this book worth buying. This book provides all the details, which are missing in so many other books on consulting.
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The Wall Street Journal called Andrea Nierenberg a "networking success story." She is a master at helping others build their interpersonal skills to create strong connections. In her first book, she told you how to improve your life, luck, and career through personal networking. In "Million Dollar Networking," this top corporate consultant focuses on what she knows best building business through networking and shows you how to find and develop a solid network of business relationships and lifelong customers. For all types of businesses from manufacturing to financial services, from technology companies to retailers Andrea provides the universal rules of effective networking, highlights the types of people who can be helpful to you professionally, offers easy-to-follow steps for transforming your business connections, and explains the attributes of great networkers and how you can attain them. In her frank, relaxed style, Andreas new book is just as fun to read as "Nonstop Networking," but even more full of useful tips and actions points, plus exercises, to help you put her teaching into your business plan.
Customer Reviews:
An Absolute Must-Have, for college students like me and adults as well!.......2007-08-13
We are not taught how to network in college, or perhaps anywhere else in our natural path of life. Well, this book teaches you all you wanted to know and much more. Even as a student and an introvert by nature, I have made contacts and developed meaningful friendships and professional relationships by using the tools from this book. Get this book, you will thank yourself!
Giving and Getting Back.......2007-06-16
Not only is this book worth a million dollars to businesses, we use it to coach and interview candidates who come to us seeking jobs in the arts and culture industry. People need to be proactive about their careers, and Neirenberg's networking strategies will become second nature and add to career success. We featured it in our Art Career Newsletter to raving reviews. Geri Thomas, President, artstaffing.com
Essential for any who would profit........2007-01-07
Author Andrea Nierenberg is president of Nierenberg Group Inc. which trains in customer service, sales, and networking: as such she's been heralded as a whiz at setting up businesses using networking strategies, and now you don't have to visit her to benefit: MILLION DOLLAR NETWORKING does it for you, providing her first book packed with networking tips and insider savvy. A set of rules common to any type of business on how to develop effective networking strategies accompanies chapters of steps for establishing these connections. From the etiquette of giving and taking information to creating strategic business alliances, MILLION DOLLAR NETWORKING: THE SURE WAY TO FIND, GROW AND KEEP YOUR BUSINESS is essential for any who would profit.
Diane C. Donovan
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A networking book for everyone.......2006-10-02
You can't get bad advice from an Andrea Nierenberg book, and Million Dollar Networking is no exception. But be ready to take action. In each and every chapter there are easy examples and tips for getting started like a list of different reasons to send someone a thank you note. There's even a chapter for Introverts; a discussion of the differences between men and women; and lots of etiquette. Chock full of lots of good, and sometimes more importantly, bad networking stories, this book is a good overview of everything related to networking.
Another Great Job! .......2006-09-14
After reading Andea's first book "Nonstop Networking," I was truly inspired from her first hand knowledge and real life experience. I didn't think networking could get much better, and then I picked up her next book. In "Million Dollar Networking," Andrea takes networking to a new level. Through her words, examples and real life stories it is so easy to to feel her pashion. She has mastered networking, and continues to take it to new heights. No matter what your career is, if you are looking at improving your networking then you have come to the right place. This book is a quick read with simple but very clear examples of how to improve your networking as soon as you put down the book. I have recommended this book to MANY colleagues, and I know you will enjoy it!
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This timely how-to-do-it guide helps consultants master the diverse skills needed to market and grow a successful practice. It breaks down each aspect-from setting fees and acquiring personnel to identifying new clients and obtaining capital-into easily understood segments. Then it provides specific examples and procedures to master each step, backed by checklists, guidelines, and eye-opening from the real life. For solo practitiioners and would-be consultants alike, this is the book that will put them on the path to $l million in annual earnings!
Customer Reviews:
Every consultant should own this book!.......2004-01-10
I have used the advice put forth in this book with great success. I now sell my services according to value, no longer by the hour. Also based on the tips in this book I sell projects which get a minimum of 50% of the fee up front. Further, my projects don't get cancelled. Buy this book. It will help you grow your practice.
Steve McCombs
Success: It is Up to You.......2002-02-10
I had had a consulting business for quite a few years and had more work then I could handle, yet was not making as good of an income as I knew I could. Then I read this book. The strategies I learned not only helped me increase my income, but also freed up more time and allowed me to really enjoy what I do once again.
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2001 How to Build a Million Dollar Technology Consulting Practice
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The primary objective of How to Build a Million Dollar Technology Consulting Practice is to show CPA firms how to plan, develop, and mature an IT practice niche. The methods and strategies outlined in this book are designed to help any firm be tremendously successful in IT consulting--whether the firm is starting from scratch or simply needs a jump-start. The chapters are in the order to create a strategic business plan. This edition also contains expanded sections on the business planning process and how to develop the annual operating business plan as well as the long-range strategic business plan. The book includes real-world experiences with specific stories from the authors IT practice so you can learn from their failures and successes. Strategies and discussion points, at the end of each chapter, guide readers through their meetings with partners and shareholders. Finally, the practice aids located at the end of each chapter and on the free, companion CD-ROM, provide a means for building a business plan and fast-tracking your IT practice.
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Title and text mismatch.......2000-06-21
The title is about sucessful technology consulting. The text is a list of stuff that has been used in numerous other books. There is nothing new or inspiring. This book is written specifically for the CPA (not mentioned in the title) and is not for the IT professional or general consultant. I am returning mine today - not something even useful enough for the bookcase.
CPAs can learn technology consulting from The Master.......2000-04-18
If you plan to self-direct your startup as a technology consultant, or just want to pick up some new ideas, get some expert help. Start with a book by one of the pioneers and major innovators of CPA firm technology consulting, James C. Metzler, CPA. This partner at Gaines Metzler Kriner & Co. in Buffalo, NY, holds nothing back in How to Build a Million Dollar Technology Consulting Practice. If you don't earn back the price of this book immediately, check your pulse. The worst that can happen is that you'll buy the book and decide consulting is not for you-and that'll save you thousands of dollars too. Metzler has held back none of his consulting management and marketing tips from dozens of meetings he attends every year. It's a great bonus now to have them collected into one solid book. Franklynn Peterson, Editor, CPA Computer Report, FP@CPAComputerReport.com
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From the supplier: Nine business consultants were asked to offer solutions to problems most often encountered by business managers. The issues covered included employee motivation, empowerment, cost control, price competition, work teams and alcoholic problem employees. Other topics discussed were customer complaints, late payment by customers, difficult-but-creative employees and dealing with bad decisions.
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Title: A million dollars worth of advice: the experts answer some of managers' most difficult questions.
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Date: March 22, 1995
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Title: Open for business: consultants are not the exclusive property of corporate America. School districts are spending millions of dollars to tap into their expertise. Are the costs worth it?(School consulting)
Author: Julie Sturgeon
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