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How to Work With a Consultant: The Ultimate Guide

Neil Patel

Unfortunately, your in-house team doesn’t have the required expertise to push through change. Hire a consultant, hands down. A consultant can provide your company with specialized knowledge to help solve specific problems, allowing you to gain a competitive advantage. So what do you do? Experience and Expertise.

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Mental Models to Help You Grow

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

Companies which don’t use mental models risk unleashing mayhem with poor choices or becoming bloated and bureaucratic by reducing the volume and speed at which decisions are made - both scenarios are undesirable and will impact growth. OKRs are a useful mental model - they make it crystal clear what people and teams should be striving for.

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International Women’s Day 2021: Choose to Challenge

InsightSquared

I recently joined InsightSquared in Q4 2020 after 4 years of consulting independently for small and medium sized businesses; I focused mainly on operational efficiency and maximizing profit. . Focus on the things that you can control and work to win, understanding as you engage with your team, or anyone really.

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The Zero-Sum Fallacy: ARR vs. Services

Kellblog

Some SaaS startups develop a form of zero-sum delusion early in their evolution, characterized by following set of beliefs. If the StartFast doesn’t work, it’s not a big deal because the Customer Success team’s mission is to offer free clean-up after failed implementations.

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The Zero-Sum Fallacy: ARR vs. Services

OPEXEngine

Some SaaS startups develop a form of zero-sum delusion early in their evolution, characterized by the following set of beliefs. Since the only thing consultants do is implementations, their job title should be “Implementation Consultant“. Any solutions practices or offerings should be built by our partners.

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Customer Journey Analytics: Don’t Let All That User Data Make You See The Forest for The Trees

User Pilot

It helps product and product marketing teams piece together and analyze the cross-channel data to improve their touchpoints. For example: customer testimonials from the sales and customer success teams. Increasing operational efficiency- Make it easier for customers to switch between channels and save costs.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Bernadette Nixon, Jay Snyder, Nick Mehta, Loren Padelford, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

Nick Mehta: Power of the developer, or the API economy, both of you play very much in both those trends. How do you help your team make that link to value? So it’s about operational efficiencies, productivity gains, digital experiences and making sure we’ve captured those. This will be built into the product.