{"id":369,"date":"2013-04-30T08:01:27","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T13:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/?p=369"},"modified":"2024-05-28T16:46:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T21:46:49","slug":"consultants-and-consultancies-are-going-online-for-new-sources-of-income","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/consultants-and-consultancies-are-going-online-for-new-sources-of-income\/","title":{"rendered":"Consultants and Consultancies Are Going Online for New Sources of Income"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Business professional and business firm alike, many are exploring new, sustainable sources of income. \u00a0And, for many, this exploration has led them online to <a href=\"https:\/\/flevy.com\">Flevy<\/a>, the marketplace for premium business documents.<\/p>\n<p>In recent months, we have noticed a number of consultants and consultancies have joined Flevy to sell their business documents. \u00a0These documents take the form of business frameworks and document templates, mostly in PowerPoint format. \u00a0Topics have ranged from <a href=\"https:\/\/flevy.com\/browse\/business-document\/Hoshin-Kanri-155\">Hoshin Kanri<\/a>\u00a0to <a href=\"https:\/\/flevy.com\/browse\/business-document\/Structured-Thinking-101-Clarity-Through-Storylines-196\">Storylining<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One such example has been Operational Excellence Consulting, a management consulting firm based in Singapore. \u00a0Since joining in February, \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/flevy.com\/author\/oeconsulting\">OEC<\/a>\u00a0has quickly grown to one of the most prolific contributors on the documents marketplace. \u00a0Here is what Allan Ung of OEC had to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For businesses who are exploring or starting out selling documents and have not yet figured the technicalities of distributing the products and receiving payments, Flevy is a great place to kick start your digital sales. Additionally, Flevy&#8217;s network of customers will add to your customer base, thus enhancing your digital reach. We are satisfied having Flevy as our partner and look forward to growing the relationship further in the future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"aside\">You can peruse <a href=\"https:\/\/flevy.com\/author\/oeconsulting\">Operational Excellence Consulting&#8217;s documents here<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>For someone looking to sell business documents, Flevy offers a number of key benefits:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\"><strong>Marketing and Sales.<\/strong> \u00a0Once live on the site, \u00a0your document is immediately presented to Flevy&#8217;s growing customer base. \u00a0This is not a passive process, as it is for most other marketplaces. \u00a0Flevy will push your document out to customers through emails, through social media, and through other tactical campaigns. \u00a0For high potential documents, Flevy will also tailor custom marketing campaigns to drive its sales.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Reach and Branding.<\/strong> \u00a0Offering documents is an effective method of developing one&#8217;s brand and increasing one&#8217;s presence. \u00a0This is done by branding your document with your personal information or firm&#8217;s branding. \u00a0Flevy allows you to expand beyond your local network and market to reach a global audience. \u00a0For a consulting firm, this represents a powerful new channel to land new clients.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ease of Use.<\/strong> \u00a0Setting up an e-commerce storefront and accepting payments online can be a tedious, hairy process. \u00a0Flevy takes care of all the technical issues.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition to <a href=\"https:\/\/flevy.com\/author\/oeconsulting\">OEC<\/a>, here are some other firms selling on Flevy:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/flevy.com\/author\/pptlab\">PPT Lab<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/flevy.com\/author\/teamneosi\">Neosi<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/flevy.com\/author\/paulsa\">Dartview Consulting<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/flevy.com\/author\/speffer\">Accretive<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/flevy.com\/author\/learnppt\">LearnPPT<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/flevy.com\/author\/demandmetric\">Demand Metric<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/flevy.com\/author\/mpalmgre\">.COMMUNICATE<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/flevy.com\/author\/enargeia\">PPT Library<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/flevy.com\/author\/officehelp\">Office Help<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business professional and business firm alike, many are exploring new, sustainable sources of income. \u00a0And, for many, this exploration has led them online to Flevy, the marketplace for premium business documents. In recent months, we have noticed a number of consultants and consultancies have joined Flevy to sell their business documents. \u00a0These documents take the&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/consultants-and-consultancies-are-going-online-for-new-sources-of-income\/\" rel=\"bookmark\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Consultants and Consultancies Are Going Online for New Sources of Income<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[134,78,244,117],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flevy-news","tag-consultants","tag-consulting","tag-it-consulting","tag-management-consulting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13867,"href":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/13867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}