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7 Ways to Retain Your Best Clients

Because it is much more expensive and time consuming to seek out new business clients vs. generating new business with your existing clients, it is important to your consulting business to nurture your existing relationships and retain your best clients.

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The Business Side<br />of Consulting

The Business Side of Consulting

Jonathan Iungerich, president of Mechanical Engineering Professionals, explains that having some business sense makes all the difference in consulting. That sense includes sales and marketing as well as the time-management skills to do both while working a job.

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Consulting: Equal <br>Opportunity Employment?

Consulting: Equal Opportunity Employment?

Mechanical engineering has been a man’s world. How can woman join consulting firms? A successful senior director reveals what it took in the ‘80s to be taken seriously enough to be hired by a prominent firm. A 2009 graduate shares her own experiences. What challenges did they face? Are they comfortable with mostly male colleagues? What advice do they give to other women?

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Engineering & Technology Management Group (ETMG)

Promoting the art, science and practice of mechanical engineering in the field of engineering and technology management

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Consulting is the business of sharing one’s expertise to solve problems, avoid needless complications, or analyze/minimize risk. Consultants work everywhere in engineering worldwide, and throughout other professions such as law, medicine, and architecture. Many consultants are senior people with decades of experience and are certified as professional engineers (PE). Consultants may be generalists or specialists. Many work on their own while others work in small or large firms.

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