Has anyone here ever been reached out to by firms that ask you to consult with their client who is looking for research in a particular industry, and they’d pay you a couple hundred bucks an hour? I’ve been cold messaged on LinkedIn a few times before for things like this and was wondering if anyone has had this experience as well, and if you’ve gone through with it?

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They have reached out to me but I never worked with them.

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Yes. I did consultations for GLG, Boston Consulting Group, Quadrant Strategies and a few others. Usually they want specific company or product knowledge: in my case, Oracle was always the subject. So far I’ve probably done 20, perhaps. They ask you to reply to questionnaires to ‘apply’ for each one, and those can be quite involved. The difference between these companies boils down to how good they are at mining their profile database to find the right experts to ask for applications for a given consultation. GLG was very good, and I was successful ~40% of the time. BCG and the rest were less good. Quadrant strategies is not good at this at all, for example, and regularly sends me requests to ‘apply’ to consult on subjects I know nothing about and it feels like a waste of time.

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Yes, I've been reached out to several times but haven't worked with them

I have had a few of those over the years and always politely decline. It always feels kind of sketchy like data harvesting and they are targeting my company (not specifically me) or it would be in conflict with my employment agreement. Hard pass!

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