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The Boutique: How to Start, Scale, and Sell a Professional Services Firm

by Greg Alexander

A growth framework for professional-services firms

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A growth framework for professional-services firms

Greg Alexander focuses on firms that have moved beyond the start-up phase but have not yet scaled, including consultancies, marketing agencies and IT service providers. The book examines practices associated with larger professional-services firms and the gap between those practices and the needs of smaller boutiques. Its subject is the business of turning expertise into a firm capable of serving a larger market, set against the publisher description’s account of rising client demand for outside expertise. The scope is practical and organizational: scaling a services business, with the title also pointing to selling as part of the firm’s broader life cycle.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Owners or leaders of early-stage professional-services firms considering growth
  • Consultants, agency operators and IT-services providers interested in business scaling
  • Entrepreneurs evaluating how to build or eventually sell a services firm

Themes

Professional-services business modelsScaling a boutique firmExternal expertise and client demandSelling a services business

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Book overview

What is a boutique?
A boutique is a professional services firm past the start-up stage but prescale. 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 them.
It is about what firms at scale do. It is about what boutiques need to do to scale. And this knowledge gap between those at scale, and those not at scale, makes all the difference.

There is about $2 trillion 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. They are looking for external expertise. They have big budgets to spend. Clients are buying from boutiques in record numbers.
The sun is shining. Time to make hay.
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