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If you're in this situation, you might try honing your focus - if you can zero in on the most lucrative/time segments of your consulting practice, you may be able to make this work.

This does depends greatly on your client mix and financial situation.

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We'd almost done that - had a brilliant marketing plan drawn up and everything; then burnout hit myself and my business partner (hard). The coup de grace was delivered by the GFC

(Even here in Australia, small businesses were hit - and all our clients were small businesses or primary industry and simply stopped paying invoices or returning calls.)

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