May 18, 2013

The Inquiry Browser BETA is here! – April Zintro Newsletter

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The Inquiry Browser BETA is here! Click here to signup. Only the first 500 users will receive pre-release access to this exciting new tool. Browse All Projects, Jobs and Inquiries Signup for pre-release access. The Inquiry Browser will empower you to search Inquiries by keyword, browse the most recent Inquiries, and even see how many [...]

Browse all available Projects, Jobs and Inquiries – February Zintro Newsletter

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Are you ready? Browse Projects, Jobs, Inquiries We listen to you!  The most common request by our users is to have the ability to peruse all of the Inquiries coming through Zintro, not just the ones forwarded to your Zmail.  Our development team has been working on a new functionality called “Inquiry Browser”. The Inquiry Browser [...]

Increasing your chances of winning new Business – December Newsletter

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Zintro is the fastest way to connect with subject-matter experts and source new leads for your Consultancy or Business. Check out our new video explaining why Upgrading to Premium is a “no-brainer”, and significantly increases your chances of winning new Business. Just for December: Receive a free 3 month Premium extension with the purchase of [...]

Seeking Experts To Work On Financial Services Industry Projects

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Banking Software Open business in indonesia and marketing partner in indonesia to market software in Banking And Financial sector……more Key Account Management I’m looking for an expert in Key account management with clients of oil and gas, banking, FMCG and Consumers product to deliver 2 days training in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. Shall you have any [...]

Japan: The Sumo-Way Of Negotiating

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“Difference is a concept you must own, deepen and further put into practice.” (H. Lefèbvre) In export business, success depends, among others, on the ability of managers to understand and manage differences of culture and society. Understand means, above all, to be able to put oneself in someone else’s place and to be tolerant. In [...]

Can independent consultants successfully market their services outside of their personal network?

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The post builds on the discussion in one of my previous articles titled  “The Consultant’s Dilemma” . In my previous post, I talked about the embryonic days of my first startup, Lewtan Technologies, and how that company started as a consulting firm (with just me) and morphed into a 100+ person product/services hybrid company by [...]

Zintro CEO mentors Lean Startup Challenge teams

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Stuart Lewtan (Zintro’s founder & CEO) recently addressed several dozen entrepreneurs competing in the Lean Startup Challenge. Stuart’s talk covered methodologies for finding and winning early customers. Specifically, Stuart juxtaposed the differences between finding customers in businesses selling high average sale price (ASP) products like those sold at his first company (Lewtan Technologies) and low [...]

Entrepreneurs: Passionate Experts at Getting It Done

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Guest post by David Hauser Co-founder, Grasshopper It’s easy to identify the expertise of certain types of professionals —the best copywriters possess the gift of expression, the most sought after scientists are masters of investigation and observation, and successful lawyers know how to negotiate and write contracts. But pinpointing the expertise of an entrepreneur may not [...]

The Consultant’s Dilemma – Marketing or Consulting?

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It was April 1st, 1986.  After a brief stint at Bank of Boston (now part of Bank of America), I decided to leave to start a new company — Lewtan Technologies.  I had no money, very little experience, and only a general idea about what I wanted to do (something to do with “bridging the [...]

Forbes and National Geographic feature the “10,000 hour rule” Zintro-generated infographic

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Forbes and National Geographic featured a Zintro-generated infographic illustrating the “10,000 hour rule” from Malcolm Gladwell’s best-seller “Outliers”. The most important factor for success, which Gladwell recognizes as the “10,000 hour rule”, was demonstrated by many fascinating talents including Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and the rock legends The Beatles. The rule states that 10,000 hours [...]

10,000 Hour Rule: Malcolm Gladwell’s 10,000 Hours of Practice Theory from Outliers Visualized

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The value of expertise is something we spend a lot of time thinking about at Zintro. Having years (and thousands of hours) of dedicated focus and practice within a specific niche is obviously highly valuable and allows a person to have a unique, proprietary perspective on that niche (and usually highly valuable expertise). But how [...]

Zintro — relevant Experts in 4 easy steps

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Describe your need and find relevant Experts in under 90 seconds

MBO Partners and Zintro to Expand Business Development Opportunities for Independent Professionals

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MBO Partners, the leader in the $250 billion and growing independent consulting sector in America, announced today a strategic alliance with Zintro, a premier networking service for subject matter experts and the companies that seek them. As part of its commitment to support and serve the needs of independent professionals, MBO Partners is building strategic [...]

Economic Incentives for Affordable And Sustainable Development

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How do we create more jobs?  How do we ensure that housing is affordable?  What can we do to reduce traffic congestion and pollution?  These are important questions facing our communities.  And sometimes, the answer to one question seems to reduce our ability to answer the others.  One reason for this is that we sometimes [...]

Talkers, Thinkers or Doers??

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Guest post by Zintro Expert Ek-Heng-Ng  Beyond the qualifications and certifications,Do you make the cut as a talker, thinker or doer? It is accepted that success at work is predicated partly on a person acquiring qualifications and certifications. So, in today’s context, it is a case of the more, the merrier  – qualifications and certifications, that [...]

Saving Money on Marketing Research

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Guest post by Zintro Expert Bob-Kaden You decide to conduct a marketing research study.  With objectives clearly defined you contact three research suppliers to get competitive quotes.  All three come back with roughly the same approach to conducting the research.  And all three quotes make you choke. You might think your only choices are to [...]

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