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The Boutique: How To Start, Scale, And Sell A Professional Services Firm Kindle Edition
- A professional services firm past the start-up stage but pre-scale.
- Examples can be found in consulting, marketing and advertising, IT services, etc.
- It's basically anyone who sells their expertise.
- There are 1,465,900 boutiques.
This book is for owners of professional services firms
- It Is About What Firms At Scale Do
- It is about what boutiques need to do to scale.
- This knowledge gap between those at scale, and those not at scale, makes all the difference
There is about two trillion dollars spent per year on professional services. Those at scale capture most of it. If you want a bigger piece of the pie, you must scale.
We Are In The Golden Era Of Boutiques
- The business models of your clients are being disrupted. This makes it virtually impossible for them to have all the required expertise in-house.
- Clients are looking for external expertise.
- Clients have big budgets to spend.
- Clients are buying from boutiques in record numbers.
The sun is shining. Time to make hay.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateOctober 6, 2020
- File size941 KB
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Editorial Reviews
Review
The Boutique by Greg Alexander is a fascinating book that teaches how to start, scale and sell your expertise. A boutique is a business that sells its professional services and has less than 250 employees. Interestingly, it is harder to sell a service than it is a product. The author skillfully organized this book into sections that allow him to zero in on the point he is delivering. He asks meaningful questions that make you face the "why" into what you are doing. I found this book informative and interesting.
From the Author
Share the learnings from this book with your
team. It's a great way to inspire new thinking
and help create alignment around new ways of
thinking. You can also have your key leaders
join the Collective 54 mastermind community
with you. Participating in the Collective as a
team creates stronger team learning and saves
time when you do it together. The expertise
and member engagement in Collective 54 are
based on The BOUTIQUE.
From the Back Cover
"One of the most difficult phases in the growth of a nascent professional services firm is beginning to scale. This book provides a practical, focused how-to guide on scaling a professional services firm. It will change how our seventy thousand experts, and a thousand firms, think about scaling their businesses."
―ROB BIEDERMAN, Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Catalant
"I led a professional services firm that had scaled to $20 billion in revenue operating in seventy countries. Greg Alexander's important new book will help those who want to scale a services business. If you have the ambition, fortitude, and courage to go on a journey of a lifetime, this book is for you."
―MIKE LAWRIE, CEO, Lawrie Group; Former Chairman and CEO, DXT Technology
"I co-founded Mainspring, scaled it to 350 employees, took it public, and sold it to IBM. This engaging, hands-on book is the guide you need to scale and sell your firm. "
―JOE GAGNON, Founder and CEO, Performance Tea
"Greg is a world-class visionary in our industry, constantly innovating new ways to create wealth for owners of boutiques, helping them punch far above their weight class."
―ADAM PRAGER, Senior Client Partner, Co-Leader, Professional Services Sector, Korn Ferry
About the Author
Product details
- ASIN : B08J5DB4CM
- Publisher : Advantage
- Accessibility : Learn more
- Publication date : October 6, 2020
- Language : English
- File size : 941 KB
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 272 pages
- Page Flip : Enabled
- Best Sellers Rank: #248,243 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
About the author

Greg Alexander is the founder of Collective 54, the first mastermind community for thriving boutique professional service firms. I spend my time helping founders make more money, make scaling easier, and making an exit achievable.
Greg is passionate about creating financial independence for all. Prior to starting Collective 54, Greg had two careers spanning 25 years. He co-founded SBI, a professional service firm, and served as CEO for 11 years. After scaling the firm, he successfully exited in 2017 by selling his interest.
Prior to SBI, Greg was an executive at EMC Corporation, a leader in the data storage industry. He is a published author and his podcast and Company TV series on Sales and Marketing insights from B2B thought leaders and growth experts, set an industry benchmark. Greg is an active member of YPO and several private peer organizations including being the founder of Collective 54.

































