The Business Story Challenge

About Preconsultify: Preconsultify connects companies with experienced independent consultants and operators who can help solve specific business challenges. Instead of making a full-time senior hire for every problem, businesses can access relevant expertise for focused projects and engagements. The Business Story Challenge: One business problem. Your creative take. A story worth sharing. Can you take a business problem and turn it into content that is simple, interesting and useful? Preconsultify invites students, marketers, designers and creators to show how they would explain a real-world business situation through a social media creative. Choose one of the three business situations below and create one original entry. This is a business storytelling challenge, not an advertisement for Preconsultify. Selected entries may be published on Preconsultify’s official LinkedIn page, with the creators tagged and credited. You do not need to publish anything on your own LinkedIn account. Who Can Participate? Marketing, management and business students, independent creators, designers, copywriters, marketing professionals and anyone interested in business storytelling. Individual participation only. No prior consulting experience is required. Choose One Business Situation: Situation 1: Plenty of Sales Calls, Very Few Customers A B2B startup gets regular sales meetings but few paying customers. What should the founder examine first? Situation 2: Do You Really Need Another Full-Time Hire? A startup needs experienced help for a few weeks. How should the founder think about hiring versus an independent consultant? Situation 3: Revenue Is Growing, But Profitability Is Not Revenue is increasing, but costs are rising faster. What should the business investigate before making a major decision? What To Create: Choose ONE format: Single-Image Social Media Post: One clear visual with a short caption. Short Visual Story / Carousel: Maximum 5 slides. Your entry should explain the chosen business problem, identify what may be behind it and offer a practical takeaway. Keep the language simple and the design easy to understand. You may use illustrations, diagrams, examples or a creative storytelling approach. Format: PNG, JPG or PDF. Do not invent statistics or present the sample situations as real Preconsultify client cases. Competition Stages: Round 1: Create & Submit Register on Unstop, choose one business situation and submit your original creative. Upload your creative in PNG, JPG or PDF format, along with a short caption of maximum 100 words that can accompany the creative if selected for publication. No personal social media post or tag is required. Round 2: Review & Selection Preconsultify will review valid entries based on business understanding, originality, storytelling and visual communication. Evaluation Criteria: Understanding of the Business Problem: 30% Originality and Storytelling: 25% Visual Clarity and Creativity: 25% Practical Usefulness of the Takeaway: 20% Likes, comments and follower counts do not determine the winners. Reach and engagement of selected posts may be measured separately after publication. Three winners will be selected. Selected creatives may be published on Preconsultify’s official LinkedIn page using the submitted work and caption, with the creator’s profile tagged and credited, subject to the creator’s permission. Not every submission will be published.