Profitable Joyful Consulting

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 overcome self-sabotage.   What would be possible for you if you didn’t get in your own way? What kind of results could you get for your business and for your clients? I had a client who was writing her speeches the night before big keynotes,...

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 write proposals that get you a yes almost every time.  Do you often waste hours and hours on proposals that end up getting rejected? Only to receive back terse emails like, “It’s out of our budget” or “We’ve decided to go in another direction...

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 business with signature systems.  If delivering work to your clients takes too much effort... If all the results your clients get depend on things you do personally... If you’re looking for more leverage in your business ... you nee...

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 start a daily marketing habit to create more consistent action - and revenue.  People think that you grow your business with sales and marketing, but there are many, many different ways to grow your business. Some of them are unexpected or un...

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 deliver client work with ease.   Ted is frustrated by clients who always want to see him in person. The travel there and back eats up valuable time he could be spending elsewhere. And many times the meetings could be done remotely or even by...

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 price your consulting services.  There are many ways to price your services. When I was a brand new baby consultant, the client asked me what my daily rate was. I didn’t have one and had no idea how to come up with one. I had just gotten the...

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 a more profitable and joyful life and business with consistent self-care. Do you remember several years back when millennials were first of the age that they could start to make their own decisions in their lives?  A lot of them decide...

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 craft high-ticket offers.   High-ticket can mean different things in different industries. In the Internet marketing world, for example, a high ticket offer is anything over $5,000. But in the consulting world, $100,000 isn't actually th...

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 sell with integrity and finally feel good about selling.  I was inspired to talk about this by a sales meeting I had with someone this week where I was in the position of being sold to. I'd brought my husband to hear about a program I was sup...

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 answer the frequently-asked question, “What do you do?”   Over the last several years, there's been a backlash against elevator pitches as being inauthentic, awkward, and reducing someone to their profession. Of course, there are many fa...

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 a sustainable, profitable business model for your consulting business.  In an address at the University of Arkansas, Sam Walton said, “If you have four, you’ll never be poor.” He was referring to revenue streams, and I agree with him....

On the Profitable Joyful Consulting podcast, I teach you how to increase your profits and enjoy your business more. In this week’s episode, you’ll learn how to use what I call “transformational engagements” to deliver more value, get better results and finally get off the revenue roller coaster in your consulting business.   When I first started as a consultant, I was frustrated because I wou...

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 timeless marketing strategies that work with me and my guest Robert Middleton. When the pandemic hit, many consultants were concerned about the future of their businesses. The truth is: you don't have to look for difficult, impossible to do marketing tec...

The core question in creating your brand for your business: what do you want to be known for? You definitely don't want to be known as someone who bites off more than you can chew. Keeping the promise of your brand is crucial. In this week's episode, Samantha Hartley shares her illuminating strategies for building a successful brand.   Part One of ‘Branding Your Consulting Business’   So...

Many entrepreneurs don't realize that business growth requires working with perfect clients. That’s the key to sustaining a profitable and joyful business. How perfect your clients are, how aligned they are, and how they bring out the best in you. That is 100% what makes or breaks your business. The million-dollar question is, how and where do you find them? Do you want to turn even your former em...

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 find perfect clients.  The key to having a profitable, joyful business is working exclusively and only with perfect clients. Now, this may seem obvious. But if it’s obvious - why are you still working with rotten clients? Rotten clients are b...

Everyone knows that a business needs to be profitable. But people feel the joyful part is optional. If you're someone who firmly believes that it's got to be both, good for you. If it's the other way around, Profitable Joyful Consulting is here to give you a fresh perspective. Here's an overview of Samantha Hartley's podcast that you shouldn't miss. Part One of ‘What the Podcast is About’ When you...