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Success Stories & Praise for AdvisoryCloud
“I applaud AdvisoryCloud’s effort to disrupt an industry that’s been dependent on "word-of-mouth" and "who-you-know".”
- Mary McDougall,
Fmr. Vice President, Astia
"You don’t have to invest too much time to throw your hat in the ring... joining new boards is simple and easy on AdvisoryCloud..."
- Charlie Peruski,
Fmr. Head of Business Transformation, JP Morgan
“AdvisoryCloud has brought me opportunities I would’ve never found otherwise. The team at AdvisoryCloud is very supportive and engaged in my success. They facilitated the entire process including helping with prep-work beforehand ensuring our meeting was productive and valuable.”
- Scott Lewis,
SVP, Impact Group
“AdvisoryCloud has exceeded my expectations! They are professional, passionate and deliver their promise. I now proudly serve on the board of SmartServe...with an amazing and diverse group of leaders.”
- Leslie Sarkesian,
Founder and CEO, Sarkesian Ventures
“I found my experience with AdvisoryCloud to be the most efficient way to connect executives, like myself, with great companies looking for advisors and board members. I couldn’t be happier with the companies and individuals that I have had the opportunity to work with.”
- Yasser Nafei,
SVP & Division Head
“After a short time using their platform, I have been placed in an advisory board role! Their platform is easy to navigate and their communication is exceptional.”
- Tammy Martin,
CEO, Lighthouse Computer Services
“I have been successfully matched by AdvisoryCloud with two companies that would never have been on my radar. AdvisoryCloud is a great place to showcase my unique skills among hundreds of organizations who need what I share.”
- Michael Harris,
CEO, Michael Harris Group
“AdvisoryCloud has been terrific. It is a highly tailored and incredibly easy way to connect with organizations and individuals looking for someone with my qualifications and experience. I have used many other professional networking services/sites with varying degrees of satisfaction and AdvisoryCloud handily beats all of them. Thanks for a great and effective tool.”
- Christian Sweetser,
Senior VP Financial, Planning and Analysis
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- How can you guarantee I’ll be able to join boards?
There are hundreds of companies that exclusively build and manage their advisory boards on AdvisoryCloud - a number that is growing every day due to partnerships with accelerators like Founder’s Live and many more in the works for businesses of all types and sizes.
Because these boards are built and managed exclusively on AdvisoryCloud, it enables you to immediately join the boards on our platform that you are a match with. After you join a board, you can then immediately share your ideas in the digital boardroom, make an introduction, get experience attending board meetings (via video conference), and engage in valuable networking with other board members.
Over the last 12-years almost every board has become digital-first, because of Covid and because they want larger boards. The days of a 5-person advisory board are long gone, companies want more more advisors, more ideas and more advocates - and our platform makes this easy for them and thus guarantees you can join boards.
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Am I qualified to be on boards?
Yes. Everyone is qualified to be on boards if you drill down far enough into your areas of expertise.
If you’re early in your career, if you take your interests or profession, your unique skills, and your age demographic and/or geographic location, you are certainly qualified to be on boards that have that specific type of customer.
If you already have years and years of experience, you’ll be able to share that over a broader range of companies and industries that would benefit from your knowledge.
Being a valuable board member is about developing your professional brand as an advisor and the unique knowledge and viewpoint you bring to the table. This is exactly what we help you develop when you join AdvisoryCloud as a part of creating your Advisor Profile.
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What is the time commitment?
AdvisoryCloud makes sharing your ideas on a portfolio of boards easy, exciting and rewarding. We have some professionals on 3 boards and others on 10+, but almost everyone is on several boards as it expands your reach and benefits.
Every month you’ll receive a Board Member Update from each of your advisory boards. It will appear in your Messages & Notifications section of your AdvisoryCloud account. From here, you can easily share an idea, answer a survey or simply read the update. It is recommended you answer at least one question a month for each of the boards you are on, which only takes a matter of minutes.
It's also important to note how valuable introductions, referrals and testimonials are to a board. Even making one introduction to someone you know who could be helpful to the company is so incredibly valuable - if you did even just this one thing over the course of a year it would be impactful.
Your time commitment can be as little or as much as you like - some advisors spend only 15-minutes a month sharing a quick idea for each of the boards they are on, others on our VIP Plan have a quarterly call with AdvisoryCloud and in 1-hour get up to date on all their boards.
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Do I receive compensation for being on advisory boards?
Each board offers unique rewards, perks and potential compensation.
When you join an advisory board you can immediately add your affilation to your professional resume and biography and network with other professionals on the board. Plus, every board offers a variety of other ways that make it worth your time to contribute:
-Complimentary Company Product or Service
-Equity Potential (Startups)
-Invitations to Exclusive Board & Company Events
-Introductions to Senior-Level Professionals on the Board
-Possibility of Full-Time Job Opportunities
-Participate in a Startup Funding Round
-Letter-of-Recommendation for Other Professional Opportunities
-Compensated 1:1 Advisor Calls
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Why do so many people want to be on boards?
Being an advisor and on boards is a springboard to the most elite of professional opportunities. But for decades it’s been dictated by a small group of executive search firms and public companies.
Over the last 12 years AdvisoryCloud has been on a mission to open this world to a larger audience - by making it incredibly simple for businesses of all sizes to create an advisory board, and by enabling a much wider group of professionals to develop their unique area of expertise as a board member, join boards, and grow their professional brand as an advisor.
Our platform enables both sides to connect in a far more efficient way, and serves as a springboard for a business to get new insights and connections to reach new heights, and for professionals to build their brand as an advisor and be exposed to a world of new opportunities.
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What type of boards can I join?
We have advisory boards in every major industry, as well as emerging areas such A.I., cryptocurrency and many others.
We have startups, small businesses, non-profits, family-run companies and private companies.
We do not have public company boards due to the massive time commitment and other regulations that surround those.
There are 84 million businesses in the United States alone, and 99.9% of them don’t have an advisory board.
Our platform makes it easy for them to set up and manage their advisory board. And our advisory board team is dedicated to getting more and more of them on our platform.
When you join an advisory board on AdvisoryCloud you can also leave it at any time and join another. We have new boards coming on every month and you’ll learn about them in your monthly email from AdvisoryCloud.
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Why are 100,000+ professionals and companies on AdvisoryCloud?
AdvisoryCloud is the leading platform for advisory boards and your gateway to exposing yourself to a world of new opportunities and connections.
Businesses of all sizes build and manage their advisory boards on our platform, with new boards being built every day by startups, small businesses and private companies. The days of a 5 person advisory board are long gone, boards want more ideas, advocates and perspectives (different ages, backgrounds, professions, types of experience).
When you join AdvisoryCloud you can immediately join any boards on our platform, develop your Advisor Profile to engage in senior-level networking, and grow your professional brand in a way that helps expedite achieving your long term professional goals.
Over the last 12 years, we’ve helped connect over 100,000 professionals with valuable opportunities such as advisory boards, project-based advisory work, full-time jobs, senior-level networking, startup investments and many more...all through our proprietary platform and exclusive resources.
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Why is developing a professional brand as an advisor so valuable?
Because being an advisor and being on an advisory board signals that you are at the top of your profession for your specific area of expertise.
What most people don’t realize is that your professional brand is most valuable the more specific it is. If you just are a CFO and have finance advice, there are a lot of people like you. If you are a CFO with experience at manufacturing companies in the machine tool industry, with experience helping them expand overseas, that is 4 levels of deep of experience that makes you highly valuable to a much bigger audience than you’d ever imagine.
The same thing is true even if early on in your career. If you have an interest in AI, are active on social media, have a passion for cosmetics, and are in your early 30s, you are perfectly qualified to help a wide array of existing and startup companies catering to this audience.
Plus, the people who make the most from advisory work are the ones who develop the most detailed areas of expertise. You can absolutely have more than one, and this should be reflected in the Advisor Rates you offer on your AdvisoryCloud profile.
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How does AdvisoryCloud help me achieve my longer term professional goals?
Every professional is busy trying to juggle work, home and their personal life. This often makes it difficult to plan longer term for your professional goals - whether that’s where you want to be in the next 5 years or even what your long term plan is to begin working less some day.
When you join AdvisoryCloud, we’ll help you establish your long term professional goals. The reason we do this is advisory work is a great way to position yourself for these longer term professional goals.
These goals could be making 50% more income, landing a C-Suite job, starting a business, or even building a portfolio of advisory work so you can work whatever hours you want from wherever you want in the world.
Advisory boards and work elevate you to situations where you’ll meet interesting new people and be exposed to interesting new companies. By understanding where you want to be professionally in 5-years and even longer term, it helps you capitalize on these interactions in many more ways than just did you make money from advisory work.
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What can an AdvisoryCloud Profile do for me versus my profile on LinkedIn?
When you sign up for AdvisoryCloud, the first thing you'll do is answer a few questions about your background, interests and expertise and it will automatically create your profile (which will have it’s own unique url, just like a profile on LinkedIn).
Your AdvisoryCloud Profile will feature your background, your Advisor Rate, and other types of professional opportunities you’re interested in. People can connect with you only for the types of opportunities you’re interested in and hire you directly for your Advisor Rate.
On your profile on LinkedIn, there are advertisements and LinkedIn is in control of what is shown. Plus, the level of spam and junior-level inquiries is making it less and less attractive as a resource for senior professionals.
AdvisoryCloud will also provide personalized guidance and recommendations for how to drive traffic to your profile and use it to achieve your professional goals. Plus, there’s always a person to talk to or ask questions if you need help - something LinkedIn can’t provide for their billion members.
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What can AdvisoryCloud do for me instead of a recruiter like Korn Ferry?
Korn Ferry and other elite recruiters are hired by companies to find one specific individual for a job or board seat.
We hear repeatedly from our clients that they don’t want to wait for their phone to ring on the off chance one of these opportunities “might” come their way.
Our clients want to take a proactive approach to new professional opportunities and their future earning’s potential.
When you sign on with AdvisoryCloud, we work for YOU. We are your advocate.
And we are constantly developing new ways or partnering to provide value directly to our clients in ways they couldn’t do on their own or that saves them a lot of time.
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At what stage of my career is best to start joining boards?
Whether you’re early in your career or have 30 years of experience and starting to think about working a bit less, AdvisoryCloud can help you achieve your goals.
If early in your career, starting to join boards and land advisory work can help you grow your professional brand and income opportunities in a more accelerated way, plus provide a secondary professional path that opens a world of different opportunities for you as you get older.
If already very experienced, thinking about working less, or just wanting to be stimulated by interesting new companies, AdvisoryCloud can provide you the platform and tools to make this happen. Advisory work can be done on your own schedule and from anywhere, making it the perfect compliment to staying engaged and exposed to interesting new people and companies. Plus, with our VIP Plan, we can handle almost all the work for you in our quarterly check-ins.
Get started by establishing your Advisor Profile and expose yourself to a world of exciting new opportunities and connections on AdvisoryCloud.
🚀 Board Affiliation on Your Resume/Bio
📣 Company Perk or Complimentary Product
📊 Equity Potential (Startups)
🎥 Invitations to Exclusive Board & Company Events
🤝 Senior-Level Networking & Introductions
📝 Compensated 1:1 Advisor Calls
🏆 1:1 Engagements at Your Advisor Rate
1. Create a Profile & Get Matched to Open Boards
Answer a few questions about your expertise and interests, and you’ll immediately be matched to 100s of startups, non-profits and companies of all sizes who have built their advisory boards exclusively on AdvisoryCloud and are looking for advisors just like you.
2. Guaranteed Board Placement
Because new boards are being built daily on AdvisoryCloud, and all boards are leveraging digital technologies to have bigger boards, it enables you to immediately join boards you are a match with. Plus, boards want fresh perspectives, different types of expertise, and professionals with unique perspectives.
3. Get Involved in a Variety of Ways
Join as many of the boards as you want, AdvisoryCloud makes it easy and time-efficient to share your ideas. You can answer questions in the digital boardroom, make an introduction, answer a survey, attend a board meeting, or whatever works for you and your schedule.
4. Increase Your Earnings Potential
Each board offers unique rewards, perks and potential compensation. Start joining boards and sharing your expertise and see how it can help increase your earnings potential and open new doors of professional opportunity.
