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Why do we measure organisational performance? The first answers that pop into your head might be:* you can't manage what you don't measure* what you measure gets done* we have to be accountable* they have to be held accountable that be? Why doesn’t $75 an hour equate to $150,000 a year?" Wrong, $75 an hour in running your own IT consulting business doesn’t come out to $150,000 a year because you can’t bill 2,000 hours a year. New consultants often fail to consider all the overhead and expens Small Businesses Win with Cross Promotional Advertising ut to $150,000 a year because you can’t bill 2,000 hours a year.Cross-promotion is something that has been utilized in business to business (b2b) marketing for many years. However, many small business owners either fail to realize the value of this type of marketing or they simply are unwilling to make the connections n New consultants often fail to consider all the overhead and expenses that usually come up as an IT consulting business matures. The uninformed person just starting out usually believes that $75 an hour times 40 hours a week times 50 weeks a year is $150,000 a year in IT consulting revenue because they think they’re going to bill 40 hours a week every week. Know There Will Be Inconsistencies It’s not going to happen unless you’re working 100 hours a week, and it’s probably still not going to happen every week consistently, for many reasons. Starting an IT consulting business sounds great on the surf
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