Techniques for Consultants to Become More Valuable to Clients

Have you ever thought about why a toilet is called the loo?

The word "loo" comes from the French "garde a l'eau!"

You see, in medieval Europe people didn't bother much about minute issues like hygiene, and after doing their "toilet actions", they would empty their chamber pots through their window onto the streets.

But before doing the act itself, they were required to warn the people below that some crap was coming and they'd better run for shelter.

In French the warning was "garde a l'eau!", meaning "watch out for the water!".

In England, this phrase was Anglicised, and became "gardy-loo!". Later it got simplified to just "loo".

Today, although most people don't empty their chamber pots onto the streets, buyers expect exceptional value from consultants. And when they don't get the value they negotiated for, they make a big song and dance to warn their peers about which consultants and studs - in a professional sense, of course - and which ones are duds, deadbeats, commercial flotsam-jetsam.

But there are some neat ways was consultants can become more valuable to their clients, and this is what we discuss in this month's blood-boilingly splendiferous episode of Commando Consulting, entitled, Techniques to Become More Valuable to Clients.

Enjoy!