Profitable Joyful Consulting

The Drivers of a Successful Consulting Business ⤵️ Whether you’ve been in business for a while and are struggling to get traction, have some traction but are stuck on the revenue roller coaster, or are drowning in client work with no time and capacity to grow the business, these drivers of a successful consultancy will help you create and grow a more profitable, joyful business.  Discover 5 o...

It’s not just big businesses that struggle with creating a company culture where people want to work and having leaders who can drive the behaviors they want to see. Small businesses struggle, too. No matter how small your business, it’s not too small to have a culture.  My guest, Brittany Drozd, helps small businesses master leadership and company culture. She empowers agency owners and mark...

How to position your brand for a more profitable, joyful consultancy ⤵️ Are potential clients confused about what you do? Have you gotten tired of your current clients? Have your specialty or niche changed but you don’t know how to get the word out?  These issues are all examples of brand positioning, how you’re known in the marketplace. What you are known for or known as shapes everything in...

My client Sherry Quam Taylor went from being overloaded with 37 clients to making dramatically more than she’s ever made before (and experiencing a ton of joy) doing longer engagements with fewer, ideal clients and getting stunning results. She’s a consultant who shows nonprofit CEOs how to raise millions more in gen ops dollars so they can fund their strategic plan and increase budgets by 2 to 10...

Feeling overwhelmed? One of the things that consultants often come to me struggling with is being overwhelmed in their business. They’re doing client work, working on their own businesses and usually managing a household, on top of navigating the economy and the pandemic and all kinds of things.  Overwhelm happens to all business owners, but it doesn't have to knock you off your game.  T...

My client Erin Straza was once “just” a copywriter. When she first started working with me, she shared her vision of what more she could do for her clients. Not quite a year later, Erin is bringing transformational engagements to nonprofits and helping them no longer just with copywriting, but with strategic marketing communications.  In this episode of Profitable Joyful Consulting, hear how...

How to avoid ever getting another client from hell again 👇 The client from hell: we’ve all had them. What can you do to avoid them in the future? How do you prevent yourself from constantly ending up with clients who drive you crazy?  The number one determiner of profit or joy in your business is going to be the clients you work with. In this episode of Profitable Joyful Consulting, you’ll l...

How to create your own pipeline of leads for your business with David Struasser 👇 The only way your business is going to work is if you bring in new clients. For some people, generating leads is a challenge and other people rock at it. Either way, this episode of Profitable Joyful Consulting about creating your own pipeline of leads is for you - so you can bring in new business without just being...

How to package your consulting services as transformational offers (aka: what do you put in that thing you sell?). 👇  If you’re trading time for money in your consulting business, you're making things harder on yourself than they need to be. You have lots of opportunities to maximize your work with your clients (and get maximum value for it) with transformational offers.   Tune int...

How to create more financial success in your consulting business. 👇 So many consultants don’t know their numbers enough to know what they should be doing next. But if you want your business to be profitable as well as joyful, you need to be fluent with the numbers in your business.  Tune into this episode of Profitable Joyful Consulting with Hannah Smolinski, a CPA and founder of virtual age...

How to get more referrals for your consulting business. 👇 How do you get more referrals for your consulting business? “Ask!” says literally everyone. But what does that even mean? How exactly do you ask for more referrals? Who do you ask, and what does that look like? In this episode of Profitable Joyful Consulting, I’m breaking down 5 ways to get more referrals for your consulting business that...

How can you change your clients’ behavior when you don’t have any power over them? Influence! Learn how to be a better consultant by getting better at influencing people. 👇 One of the eight main consulting skills is influence. We obviously don’t have the power to force anyone to do anything, and as consultants our strength is our objectivity, perspective, and outsiderness as well as our expertise...

Get video marketing tips for your consulting business 👇 Video marketing is hot, but some consultants are still reticent to get on video. It’s an amazing way for consultants to demonstrate expertise and attract clients, but it’s daunting. What kinds of videos should you make? Don’t you have to do cheesy dances? What tech do you need to get started?  Finally start making the video content you...

Why you should bring your Inner Child to work 👇 If you want to get to the next level of your business, you have to ask yourself: what would I have to change or let go of? What’s in the way? Often people are engaged in self-sabotage or blocked in another way.  When you connect with your Inner Child, you can surface the gifts you’ve suppressed, lost, or buried. You can start to understand the...

A professional ghostwriter tells us how to write for your consulting business 👇 Writing is a critical consulting skill, one that you may not have expected to have to do SO MUCH of. We have to write for clients, for persuasion, for copywriting, for ourselves. But what about telling your story? Today's guest on the Profitable Joyful Consulting podcast, Laura Elliott, reveals her secrets about minin...

Let’s build a pipeline of new potential clients coming to your consulting business.  Find out how in this episode of Profitable Joyful Consulting 👇 The most fundamental consulting skill is the ability to get clients. Some leave corporate with a network of good contacts they can call on immediately - and ongoingly - for work. But others struggle to find clients.  Which best describes you...

If you love your clients, colleagues, and team members, you can learn to love networking. It’s simply the process of finding more people just like them! Learn how to network expansively in a way that feels good in this episode of Profitable Joyful Consulting. Networking is one of the core, most powerful marketing strategies for consultants. It is the ability to connect meaningfully with others and...

Big word “strategy,” but what exactly does it mean? Are you doing strategic or tactical work? What is strategy for consultants?  Strategy is a critical skill because it helps you to connect your work with clients to the bigger picture of what they're doing in their businesses. Strategic thinking can help you add more value for your clients. In your own business, strategy can help you focus an...

Need alone time to recharge, focus and figure out what you think and feel about something? You might have the Hermit archetype! In this episode of Profitable Joyful Consulting, you’ll learn how to connect with yourself and access your wisdom by identifying and working with the Hermit, an archetype of inner power.  Archetypes are energy patterns within ourselves, and one of the archetypes that...

What financial skills do consultants need to run their businesses properly? In the last episode of Profitable Joyful Consulting on “consulting skills,” I included “math” as a core skill consultants need to have. In this episode, I’m expanding on that conversation to share how to develop fluency around money in your business, know your numbers, and feel empowered with your money. Money often feels...

Explore the skills you need to excel as a consultant and business owner as you build your business along The Path to $2M™ in this episode of Profitable Joyful Consulting. 👇 What are the skills you need to get results for your clients? What are the skills you need to grow your business to $2M+? Explore exactly what you need to be able to do to build the profitable, joyful business of your dreams i...

What have my clients implemented in the area of performance, and what have they learned from me (and each other) about profitable, joyful consulting?  Get the tips that have made a difference in their performance from our wonderful community here of consultants in this episode of Profitable Joyful Consulting. Key areas discussed: Get consultants’ top tips for improving business performance an...

Does having sales goals for your business motivate you - or stress you out?  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 use sales metrics to build a more profitable and joyful business.  One of my clients let me know that every year since she’s started her business, she’s increas...

Learn how to visually communicate your unique value proposition with process models, maps and frameworks 💥 So you have a ton of information in your head that you use to help your clients…but when you try to pull it all out of your brain to create something like a signature program or course, do you feel overwhelmed, chaotic, or frantic?  Pulling the information out of your brain is 90% of 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 contribute to diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts as a consultant. You can do diversity, equity, and inclusion in ways that aren’t "just obligatory” but are actually life-giving and create joy within the workplace. And whether you’re a DEI Co...