Link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=qVlu2znyOaVyZ3l6Jlo_2bMg_3d_3d

How can you:
* Bring you more freedom and fulfilment in your consulting life?
* Create new revenue streams and increase your income?

LAST CHANCE to be part of the aCE talentNET Global Consultant Study...

There are two reasons why you should take this survey.
1) To have your voice heard and ensure you get what you want from aCE talentNET
2) To save yourself the time and energy of having to do much of what you currently do solo.

We greatly appreciate your feedback. It will directly impact the creation of valuable new products/services for you. It is after all ultimately about increasing your bottomline, and how we can assist you in doing that.

It will take 15 minutes max. to complete.
The study will be available for completion until 30 November 2008.

If you, and/or colleagues, are not yet part of the aCE talentNET community, we invite you to do so by registering as a consultant via the web site.

Regards

Denise Hall
aCE talent NET | Executive Director - Business BTD MIMC
www.acetalentnet.com

Link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=qVlu2znyOaVyZ3l6Jlo_2bMg_3d_3d

How can you:
* Bring you more freedom and fulfilment in your consulting life?
* Create new revenue streams and increase your income?

Initially, by being part of the aCE talentNET Global Consultant Study...

For this inaugural annual study, we are inviting all consultants to share how aCE talentNET can continually work on new products and services to help you and your consultancy, that will not only:
* Bring you more freedom and fulfilment in your consulting life
* Create new revenue streams and increase your income
and also:
* Make you a recognized expert (or even celebrity) in your field
* Make growth, marketing and lead generation easy (and even fun)
* Build a large community of loyal fans around your brand

aCE talentNET plan to launch a number of new products and services throughout 2009.
BUT FIRST, we need your input. This will help us continue to develop products and services that will best serve your needs.

There are two reasons why you should take this survey.
1) To have your voice heard and ensure you get what you want from aCE talentNET
2) To save yourself the time and energy of having to do much of what you currently do solo.

We greatly appreciate your feedback. It will directly impact the creation of valuable new products/services for you. It is after all ultimately about increasing your bottomline, and how we can assist you in doing that.

Click here to commence...

It will take 15 minutes max. to complete.
The study will be available for completion until 30 November 2008.

If you, and/or colleagues, are not yet part of the aCE talentNET community, we invite you to do so by registering as a consultant via the web site.

Regards

Denise Hall
aCE talent NET | Executive Director - Business BTD MIMC
www.acetalentnet.com

Link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=qVlu2znyOaVyZ3l6Jlo_2bMg_3d_3d

How can you:
* Bring you more freedom and fulfilment in your consulting life?
* Create new revenue streams and increase your income?

Initially, by being part of the aCE talentNET Global Consultant Study...

For this inaugural annual study, we are inviting all consultants to share how aCE talentNET can continually work on new products and services to help you and your consultancy, that will not only:
* Bring you more freedom and fulfilment in your consulting life
* Create new revenue streams and increase your income
and also:
* Make you a recognized expert (or even celebrity) in your field
* Make growth, marketing and lead generation easy (and even fun)
* Build a large community of loyal fans around your brand

aCE talentNET plan to launch a number of new products and services throughout 2009.
BUT FIRST, we need your input. This will help us continue to develop products and services that will best serve your needs.

There are two reasons why you should take this survey.
1) To have your voice heard and ensure you get what you want from aCE talentNET
2) To save yourself the time and energy of having to do much of what you currently do solo.

We greatly appreciate your feedback. It will directly impact the creation of valuable new products/services for you. It is after all ultimately about increasing your bottomline, and how we can assist you in doing that.

Click here to commence...

It will take 15 minutes max. to complete.
The study will be available for completion until 30 November 2008.

If you, and/or colleagues, are not yet part of the aCE talentNET community, we invite you to do so by registering as a consultant via the web site.

Regards

Denise Hall
aCE talent NET | Executive Director - Business BTD MIMC
www.acetalentnet.com

Link: http://acetalentnet.com.au/enews/newsletoct08.html

"If you are anything like me you've been paying close attention to the global financial crisis but still adopting a relaxed attitude that "it couldn't get that bad in Australia". Well no longer... as I continue to read articles and watch news stories I have woken up to the fact that we need to adopt an extremely conservative approach to business and managing our finances in what could be troubled times ahead. This is true for both large and small businesses alike.

Contract World has recently posted an extremely sobering review of the facts leading up to the global financial crisis and goes on to explain the impact for large and small businesses, including the potential failure of large US icons like Ford and General Motors. Whilst the Australian economy is supported by a strong export market to China, we rely more heavily on Japanese exports, one market predicted to be hit hard by the global credit crisis. When (if?) this occurs together with an inability of large infrastructure projects to secure finance, rising unemployment, falling property markets and the highest personal debt levels in history the prospect of Australia avoiding a slide in to recession seems unavoidable. Consequently we all need to be vigilant in how we manage our businesses (and household finances). For some very useful tips I strongly recommend that you read the article on Contract World. In short... prepare for the worst and be pleasantly surprised if it doesn't get as bad as predicted.

On a more positive note, aCE talentNET is pleased to report that at this stage we have seen no such contraction in projects and opportunities for our Talent Network. We will continue to work closely with our clients to ensure that they have the resources they need (at cost effective market rates!) to deliver the projects committed to in current and future budgets.

So what does this mean for the consulting market? Who knows what the future holds... I'm not really brave enough to make a prediction at this stage. I guess there are two immediate thoughts:
1. that the project/contracting market will downsize as larger organisations adopt conservative attitudes to project initiatives and, as mentioned above, large syndicated finance becomes harder to access thus putting on hold many planned initiatives; versus
2. larger organisations may turn to contract resources to deliver on project initiatives (whilst putting downward pressure on market rates) and avoid replacing and/or taking on new hires in a recession environment. Perhaps it will be a mix of both? Time will tell.

We would also like to say a big THANK YOU to all the Consultants that have taken the time to complete our Inaugural Consultant Survey... the response rate has been extremely pleasing. For those of you yet to complete the Survey we strongly encourage you to do so, as this is your opportunity to tell us how aCE talentNET can support you and your business. The Survey will take no longer than 15mins and completion before 30 November 2008 enters you into a draw to win a Nano iPod - how can you refuse??!! Complete Survey.

Until next month...
Deirdre Gruiters
Corporate Talent Agent
www.acetalentnet.com