Who knows the difference between an information consulting company and an intermediary?

If it is real estate information consultation, then real estate agents include information consultation. The scope of housing agency should be large, which can be consulting and providing real estate information.

If it is a study abroad consulting institution, it is not an intermediary. The service concept of study abroad consulting institutions is to provide all-round help in the important links and steps of the applicant's application process and make their own choices in the important links. Therefore, the study abroad consulting service is not an agent, but a help, which is a kind of help to create value. The vast majority of companies studying abroad still exist in the form of intermediaries. Because contacting the school is the nature of agent enrollment, it can generally give 100% admission commitment.

Information consultation is a business activity based on the collection, processing, transmission, effective utilization and feedback of all kinds of information. Information consulting industry is a knowledge-based industry that uses various information processing technologies to collect, process, sort out, analyze and transmit all kinds of information and provide customers with information products such as solutions, strategies, suggestions, plans or measures to solve problems. China's information consulting industry was gradually formed and developed after China's reform and opening up in the early 1980s. Its development has gone through the initial development stage in the early 1980s, the steady growth stage from the 1980s to the early 1990s, and the rapid development stage since the middle and late 1990s. It has gone through three stages. At present, consulting companies established in China are generally limited liability companies. One person needs100000, and more than two people need 300000. The functions of consulting firms are similar to those of law firms. The difference is that law firms specialize in law, while consulting companies include many aspects, such as enterprise consulting, real estate consulting, financial consulting, marriage consulting and psychological consulting.

Intermediary institutions refer to institutions that provide notarization, agency, information technology services and other intermediary services to clients through professional knowledge and technical services according to law. Financial intermediary refers to an economy that absorbs funds from units with excess funds and provides them to units with insufficient funds and various financial services. The functions of financial intermediary mainly include credit creation, settlement and payment, resource allocation, information provision and risk management. Marketing agent refers to all kinds of professional organizations that assist enterprises in promotion, distribution, storage and transportation in the process of selling products to end users. It mainly includes middlemen, physical distribution agencies [storage and transportation companies], marketing service agencies [survey companies, advertising companies, consulting companies, etc. ] and the amount of institutions [banks, trust companies, insurance companies, etc.