Insights

Insights

  • How Sellable Is Your Firm?

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Books

  • Selling Your Professional Service Firm

    A Primer

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  • Secret Tradecraft of Elite Advisors

    Secret Tradecraft of Elite Advisors

    Covert Techniques For A Remarkable Practice

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  • Financial Management of a Marketing Firm

    Financial Management of a Marketing Firm

    A Manual

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  • The Business of Expertise

    The Business of Expertise

    How Entrepreneurial Experts Convert Insight to Impact + Wealth

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Articles

  • AI’s Impact on the Two Rooms

    Many of us have seen moats disappear over the years, forcing us to rethink our value in the marketplace. We accept all these changes now, but there was genuine terror in the past when seismic change occurred. Of course nothing was as significant as the internet ripping out the geographic moat that protected local clients…

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  • Doing Your Own Events Well

    Even though peak-pandemic days are behind us, there’s still a deeply pent up desire for human connection, where you spend time with like-minded people, if only to see if God is singling you out or everyone might be in the same boat. I’m penning these thoughts from two vantage points: someone who does 15-20 keynotes…

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  • Making Staff Augmentation Work

    More and more creative firms are getting nudged into “staff augmentation” for their clients, and a dozen of my clients have embraced it–all of those are making buckets of money. Way more than what they were making in their traditional work-for-hire contractual relationships. Even if you aren’t interested, it will be useful to understand it,…

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Episodes

  • Which segments of our field will thrive in the near future and which ones will slowly lose relevance, and why? David wants creative entrepreneurs to continue being resilient and reinventing themselves every […]
  • Blair sees creative entrepreneurs opening themselves up to pricing resentment from their clients when the value of their contributions diminishes over time, especially when they've created significant economic value at the beginning […]
  • Prompted by a recent trip to Europe, David considers how the differences between worker protection laws in Europe compared to North America affect starting and running an agency in this fast-changing global […]
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