Download or read book How To Become A Consultant How To Find Clients As A Consultant How To Be Highly Successful As A Consultant And How To Generate Extreme Wealth Online On Social Media Platforms By Profusely Producing Ample Lucrative Income Generating Assets written by Dr Harrison Sachs and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-02-11 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essay sheds light on how to become a consultant, demystifies how to find clients as a consultant, and expounds upon how to be highly successful as a consultant. Furthermore, how to generate extreme wealth online on social media platforms by profusely producing ample lucrative income generating assets is elucidated in this essay. Additionally, the utmost best income generating assets to create for generating extreme wealth online in the digital era are identified, how to become a highly successful influencer online on social media platforms is elucidated, and the plethora of assorted benefits of becoming a successful influencer online are revealed in this essay. Moreover, how to attain extreme fame leverage is demystified and how to earn substantial money online so that you afford to eminently enrich every aspect of your life is meticulously expounded upon in this essay. While becoming a consultant may seem be an eminently cumbersome, expensive, time consuming, and daunting undertaking in the digital era, it is more viable than ever before. Much to the relief of prospective consultants, it is possible to become a consultant at a young age and the journey to becoming a consultant is not as lengthy as the duration of the journey to pursuing other occupations, such as a medical doctor or attorney. Even though someone who is talented at consulting has the latent potential to become a consultant at a young age, the pathway to becoming a consultant is not easy to undergo and is fraught with ample challenges. The journey to becoming a successful consultant is a pathway that is seldomly tread down by most people, especially since it is eminently cumbersome to become a successful consultant in a hyper competitive consulting market in which consultants are vying to win over business clients. Consultants do not need to earn university degrees nor professional certifications to be able to provide consulting services. Not everyone is capable of competently performing consulting services. Furthermore, not everyone is able to competently provide consulting services that allows their business clients to make maximize their efficiencies, increase manufacturing output, eliminate bottlenecks, streamline workflows, reduce their overhead costs, win over more customers, substantially increase their sales volume, and amplify their profit margins. Consultants need to possess stupendous business acumen, topnotch marketing shrewdness, unalloyed ingenuity, substantial knowledge about their niche field, effective communications skills, robust presentation skills, stellar research skills, strong communication skills, strong analytical skills, and the unalloyed tenacity to ensure that they exceed client expectations. Consultants are often regarded as leading industry experts and are consulted for their expertise about their niche field. Consultants are solution providers who help their business clients to be able to meet their short term objectives and long term overarching goals. While there is no guarantee that the solutions proposed by consultants will yield favorable results for their business clients, meticulously heeding the advice of highly competent consultant is apt to yield better results then if their business clients continued to hemorrhage money by continuously inefficiently operating their businesses. Business clients are inclined to defer to the expertise of consultants to help them remedy issues, such as financial issues and operational issues, that they are encountering while operating their business. Competent consultants can help their business clients to be able to revamp their business models, streamline workflows, reduce overhead costs, increase sales volumes, maximize efficiencies, reduce bottlenecks, increase profit margins, and ultimately salvage their clients' businesses so that they can remain afloat in the pending years and not succumb to abruptly becoming defunct.

Download or read book How To Become A Consultant How To Be Highly Successful As A Consultant And How To Earn Revenue As A Consultant written by Dr. Harrison Sachs and published by The Epic Books Of Dr. Harrison Sachs. This book was released on 2021-02-11 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essay sheds light on how to become a consultant, explicates how to be highly successful as a consultant, and elucidates how to earn revenue as a consultant. While becoming a consultant may seem be an eminently cumbersome, expensive, time-consuming, and daunting undertaking, it is viably possible to become a consultant. Much to the relief of prospective consultants, it is possible to become a consultant in a time span of less than half of a decade and the journey to become a consultant is not as lengthy as the journey to pursue certain other occupations, such as the occupations of a medical doctor or attorney. The pathway that a prospective consultant can follow to become a consultant is fraught with challenges that are not a cinch to surmount. It can be arduous to fulfill the duties of a consultant. Consultant skills are highly desirable skills to possess. As of February of 2021, only an infinitesimal fraction of one percent of the global population are employed as consultants. In the US, for instance, less than 2,175,500 are employed as consultants even though the U.S. population is comprised of over 328,000,000 people as of February of 2021. As of February of 2021, less than .663% of people in the US are employed as consultants. This means that out of 151 random people in the US, about only one person at most would be employed as a consultant as of February of 2021. As of February of 2021, it was estimated that there were more medical doctors and attorneys as an aggregate in the US than consultants in the US even though it takes far more years to fulfill the ample mandatory requirements to become a medical doctor or attorney than it takes to fulfill the mandatory requirements to become a consultant. As of February of 2021, there are no mandatory requirements that need to be fulfilled for a person to become a consultant. As of February of 2021, the economy is unequivocally in dire need of more consultants, especially since they are able to help companies to ameliorate their operational efficiencies. Having subpar operational efficiencies amplifies a company’s operating costs. Neglecting to optimize operational efficiencies can undermine a company’s profitability potential. Companies should aim to eliminate non-value-adding activities in their operational processes. Having needless waste in workflows can undermine a company’s profitability potential. “The job of a consultant is typically to look at what an organization does as a whole, then work to increase efficiency in most areas. Specifically, they strive to render a business more profitable, usually by helping the business owners to reduce costs and grow revenue streams. In order to achieve this objective, the consultant might recommend personnel changes, new systems, alternative practices or new procedures to be implemented”. Companies should not only aim to bolster their operational efficiencies, but should also strive to minimize their operational inefficiencies. Companies not only rely on consultants to help them to enhance their operational efficiencies, but to also help them to amplify their sales volume, revenue, and profits. Freelance consultants are not limited to furnishing their service offerings to a single client. “Most consultants are self-employed and work on a contractual basis”. Freelance consultants are able to work remotely, customize their own schedule, and furnish their service offerings to clients from around the world. There are a myriad of disparate types of consultants. Some of the ample disparate types of consultants encompass “business consultants, management consultants, marketing consultants, social media consultant, operations consultants, financial advisory consultants, information technology consultants, and human resource consultants”. Certain consultants specialize in one niche area, “such as retail sales. Consultants might then specialize further under that area of expertise, focusing on points such as inventory control, personnel, and reorganizing corporate structure. Consultants might also work with start-up companies to design the best entry into the marketplace, or alternatively may work with companies that are looking to downsize and sell their companies”. The competencies can vary from consultant to consultant. It would ultimately behoove a prospective consultant to explore the various consultant career paths.

Download or read book How To Become An Analyst How To Find Clients As An Analyst How To Be Highly Successful As An Analyst And How To Generate Extreme Wealth Online On Social Media Platforms By Profusely Producing Ample Lucrative Income Generating Assets written by Dr Harrison Sachs and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-12 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essay sheds light on how to become an analyst, demystifies how to find clients as an analyst, and expounds upon how to be highly successful as an analyst. Furthermore, how to generate extreme wealth online on social media platforms by profusely producing ample lucrative income generating assets is elucidated in this essay. Additionally, the utmost best income generating assets to create for generating extreme wealth online in the digital era are identified, how to become a highly successful influencer online on social media platforms is elucidated, and the plethora of assorted benefits of becoming a successful influencer online are revealed in this essay. Moreover, how to attain extreme fame leverage is demystified and how to earn substantial money online so that you afford to eminently enrich every aspect of your life is meticulously expounded upon in this essay. While becoming an analyst may seem to be an eminently cumbersome, expensive, time consuming, and daunting undertaking in the digital era, it is more viable than ever before. While becoming an analyst may seem be an eminently cumbersome, expensive, time consuming, and daunting undertaking in the digital era, it is more viable than ever before. Much to the relief of prospective analysts, it is possible to become an analyst at a young age and the journey to becoming an analyst is not as lengthy as the duration of the journey to pursuing other occupations, such as a medical doctor or attorney. Even though someone who is talented at consulting has the latent potential to become an analyst at a young age, the pathway to becoming an analyst is not easy to undergo and is fraught with ample challenges. The journey to becoming a successful analyst is a pathway that is seldomly tread down by most people, especially since it is eminently cumbersome to become a successful analyst in a hyper competitive analyst market in which analysts are vying to win over clients. Analysts do not need to earn university degrees nor professional certifications to be able to provide analyst services. Not everyone is capable of competently performing analyst services. Furthermore, not everyone is able to competently provide analyst services that allows their business clients to make maximize their efficiencies, eliminate bottlenecks, streamline workflows, reduce their overhead costs, and amplify their profit margins. Analysts need to possess strong analytical skills, solid technical skills, stellar research skills, stupendous business acumen, topnotch marketing shrewdness, unalloyed ingenuity, substantial knowledge about their niche field, effective communications skills, robust presentation skills, strong communication skills, and the unalloyed tenacity to ensure that they exceed client expectations. Analysts are often deferred for their meticulous analyses that are able to pinpoint patterns and trends in data which allows them to identify areas of improvement in their business clients' enterprises. By being able to ascertain identify areas of improvement, analysts can subsequently develop "actionable road maps for improving workflows and processes, and can also even establish and organize key performance indicators in line with global directives". The responsibilities of an analyst are multitudinous and fulfilling the ample responsibilities of an analyst is not for the faint of heart. Similarly to consultants, analysts are also often overwhelmed with ample responsibilities that they are expected to diligently, competently, meticulously, and prudently carry out. "The analyst works with the business to identify opportunities for improvement in business operations and processes. The analyst is involved in the design or modification of business systems or information technology systems. The analyst interacts with the business stakeholders and subject matter experts in order to understand their problems and needs. The analyst gathers, documents, and analyzes business needs and requirements".

Download or read book The Profitable Consultant written by Jay Niblick and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selling can be uncomfortable for professional business consultants and executive coaches. The two biggest problems are generating more qualified leads, and turning those leads into actual paying clients. Taking traditional beliefs about how best to "sell" and turning them completely upside down, author Jay Niblick rewrites the sales playbook for the consulting and coaching industry. His proven five-step sales process is specifically designed for independent business consultants and coaches, serving as a common set of rules to grow their practice, deliver more value and generate more revenue. The Profitable Consultant delivers a suite of ready-to-launch tools that will automate readers’ marketing efforts, so they can focus more time delivering revenue-generating services -- to even more clients.

Download or read book Successful Independent Consulting written by Douglas Florzak and published by Logical Directions, Inc.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a clear road map for starting and maintaining a successful consulting business. Whether you are already a consultant or thinking about becoming one, this guide has everything you need. This book shows you how to: - Create a business plan - Set your rate - Select the legal form of your business - Set up retirement funding - Choose appropriate insurance - Market on the Internet - Understand basic record keeping Also included is a recommended resource list and sample worksheets to help you start and maintain your consulting business. If you are an experienced professional at a crossroads in your career, this book can point you in the right direction.

Download or read book Getting Started in Consulting written by Alan Weiss and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive guide to getting out of the office and getting into consulting Getting Started in Consulting, Fourth Edition is the acclaimed real-world blueprint to professional and financial freedom. For nearly two decades, this invaluable resource has helped thousands of people quit the daily grind and become their own boss. This practical and motivational guide provides the tools and knowledge to control your future and secure your fortune. From establishing goals and sorting out the legal and financial paperwork, to advanced marketing strategies and relationship building techniques, this indispensable book offers step-by-step instructions for you to establish and grow your own consultancy business. This extensively revised and updated fourth edition includes new and expanded coverage on topics including utilizing informal media, changes in legal and financial guidelines, key distinctions of wholesale and retail businesses, and much more. Author Alan Weiss delivers expert advice on how to combine minimal overhead with optimal organization to produce maximum income. Every step in the process is clearly explained, including financing, marketing, bookkeeping, establishing your fees, and more. This guide is a comprehensive, one-stop source for everything you need to prosper in the rapidly expanding world of private consultancy. Adopt a pragmatic and profitable strategy to achieve incredible results from your consultancy business Learn to identify and address the most commons issues facing your prospects and clients Leverage technology to reduce labor, maximize profitability, and increase discretionary time Access sample budgets, case studies, references and appendices, downloadable tools and forms, and online resources The modern business landscape presents unique opportunities for those willing to take the leap from corporate offices to home offices. Getting Started in Consulting, Fourth Edition is the must-have guide for anyone seeking to cut their own path to their own consulting business.

Download or read book How to Start and Run a Successful Consulting Business written by Gregory F. Kishel and published by Wiley. This book was released on 1996-04-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The consulting industry is one of the fastest growing business sectors worldwide with new opportunities emerging continually in hundreds of different fields. Whatever your area of expertise--engineering or employee relations, computers or customer service--there's likely to be a demand for your consulting abilities." —Gregory Kishel and Patricia Kishel from the Preface Who needs consultants? The answer is simple: everyone does! Consultants are no longer viewed as a luxury. They've become a necessity in today's constantly evolving business environment. And, for millions of career changers, recent graduates, retirees, and former government employees, consulting is an excellent way to turn knowledge and experience into a profitable business. Now, two highly successful consultants provide you with a proven plan for entering and growing in this lucrative field. You'll get practical advice on what it takes to succeed as a consultant, where the real opportunities are, and the types of situations you are most likely to encounter. You'll learn all of the aspects of becoming an independent consultant, including how to choose a specific field and set up business, how to determine fees and market your services, how to get referrals and maintain good client relations, how to write winning proposals, what kinds of insurance you should have, how to win government contracts, how to enter foreign markets, and much, much more. Packed with step-by-step guidelines, forms, and checklists, this valuable guide is must reading for both working consultants and anyone interested in starting a consulting business. Written for anyone with ideas, information, or skills to sell, this valuable guide shows you how to make the most of your talents, putting them to work for yourself and your clients. Drawing on their own experiences as management consultants, Gregory Kishel and Patricia Kishel offer down-to-earth advice on what it takes to succeed as a consultant, where the opportunities are, and the types of situations you are likely to encounter. Step by step, you will learn all of the aspects of becoming an independent consultant, including: How to choose a specific field and set up a business How to determine fees and market your services How to get referrals and maintain good client relations What kinds of insurance you should have How to win government contracts, enter foreign markets, and much more Whatever your area of specialization, this indispensable book will give you the information you need to build and maintain a profitable consulting business.

Download or read book How to Succeed as an Independent Consultant written by Herman Holtz and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2004-03-22 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Download or read book How to Make It Big as a Consultant written by William A. COHEN Ph.D. and published by AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn. This book was released on 2009-06-03 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Getting started in consulting can be a tricky prospect. How much should you charge? What type of language should exist in the contract? How can you find clients? Written by a veteran consultant with hundreds of consulting engagements to his credit, How to Make it Big as a Consultant is filled with detailed advice on every aspect of starting up and maintaining a highly lucrative consulting career. The book helps readers: • get a handle on the legal, tax, and insurance issues involved in setting up and running the business • understand what clients really need • create the structure for an assignment (proposals, pricing, contracts, scheduling) • market the business • solve clients’ problems using the Harvard Case Study Method Completely updated and revised throughout, the fourth edition features new chapters on developing strategies for clients, leading consulting teams, and more. This trusted guidebook will help any aspiring reader become the kind of outstanding consultant that clients will turn to again and again.

Download or read book How to Start a Consulting Business From Scratch written by Jim Busby and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Start a Consulting Business From Scratch Step By Step Guide How I Became a Marketing Consultant in Just 3 Months In case you wonder if you have what it takes to be a consultant, without knowing you, I would say you may have it in you, but if you have doubt, then maybe it is time to do some self-evaluation and realization and see if you really have it in you. Read on and I will tell you what you need to find with-in yourself to know if you can do this job or not. I co-authored this book with Jim because I was motivated and inspired by him; he showed me that everyone has something in them that can help others. The very first day we met, he told me, "As long as you know little more than the next guy, you are an Expert on that topic." Later he told me it was Tim Ferris who said that originally. I never thought I had any skills to be a consultant, but he did convince me otherwise and took me under his wing taught me everything I know, and here I am. Before you reads the book, have an open mind, do not self-doubt yourself in advance, remember the very first thing you need in this field is CONFIDENCE then you need some expertise on the subject. But Confidence is what can make or break you. Looking back at my own life, I never thought I could be a marketing consultant; I don't have the education nor do I have the skills for it. But he taught me it is not the education that makes you a great consultant if that were the case then every Ph.D. in marketing would take our job. It is the mix of confidence, knowledge, willing to learn and adopt are what makes someone a great and successful consultant. Here is the one more example, my wife has been in the makeup business for many years. She works for a national brand makeup company part time. I knew she knows about women's makeup more than average women do, so I told her to become a beauty consultant. Her reply was, she was happy in what she is doing, and she didn't think she had the knowledge or the 'know how' to be a consultant. I did some legwork on her behalf and landed her the very first $3,500 consulting job for a local pageant show. She was scared but excited at the same time. After finishing her first gig, she quit her job, and now she has her successful beauty consulting business where is she made little over $87,000 last year, but she only worked 7 months out of the year. Now I have to share this last one before we start, my nephew didn't finish college, despite all the effort and money my brother spent trying to put him through college. He took a job at one of the office supply places making photocopies. One thing I knew about him is that he knew how to use Facebook and Twitter and all those social media, when I was getting started I called him to help me set up my own Facebook and other social media pages. I am sure most of you know someone who is good at that sort of things. In one of my consulting job, one day they asked me if I could recommend someone for social media consulting as they needed some help with their social media presence. Without thinking I recommended my nephew, and he got the job! Long story short, he is on his 3rd contract, and he too left his office supply job. Okay, hope I was able to make a point that you do not need a Ph.D. or a master's degree to be a successful consultant. But please read through this book's material then take a piece of paper and write down what you think you are good at, what are your strength, what are your weaknesses. Then pick the one you think you are most comfortable with and start working towards it. It will not happen overnight, but if you can follow the marketing tips and market yourself right, you should see some degree of success in about 6 months.

Download or read book The Business of Consulting written by Elaine Biech and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed as the go-to reference for managing a consulting business, The Business of Consulting is candid, practical, and eminently useful. Fine-tuned to address the changes in today’s business environment, this vital resource outlines the basics for managing a consulting practice and shows how to: Develop a business plan Market your business Charge for your services Build a client relationship Grow the business Ensure your continued professional growth Make money in the profession

Download or read book The Consultants Business Book written by Joe Teeples and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-06-10 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book starts with a self evaluation to help determine what skills needed to develop to ensure success. From that point on it explains how to build a successful consulting company. The Consultants Business Book guides the reader through the formation of a company, how to establish a business identity and how to create a business and marketing plan to help the business grow. Many consultants start their own small business and run it out of their home until it expands and needs office space. Finances, public relations and how to find and keep clients is covered in an easy to read format that provides a step by step guideline to creating a successful, growing business. How to establish prices for services and how to deal with competition is a section that even experienced entrepreneurs should review. The training section of the book provides insight into what makes training sessions come alive. It provides tips and techniques to help make presentations sizzle, and even reveals some magic tricks that trainers can incorporate into their routines. For those who want to start their business in their own home the book provides useful insights to make that office efficient and effective.

Download or read book How to Start a Consulting Business From Scratch written by Arx Reads and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-13 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to start your own business consulting firm and the most effective strategies for business consultants to start from scratch. In this guide, I'm going to show you how to start a consulting business and land your first high-ticket client and things to consider before becoming a consultant.

Download or read book How to Become a Top Consultant written by Ron Tepper and published by Wiley. This book was released on 1987-02-24 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten of today's top consultants explain why and how they left the 9-to-5 grind behind, built new careers, and became the best in their field! Become a Top Consultant How the Experts Do it What does it take to build a successful consulting practice? Ron Tepper asked ten consultants in a diverse range of fields and found the formula to be a winning blend of skills, specialized knowledge, strategy, and technique. Now, Tepper shows you how to build a consulting practice of your own simply by following the examples of these ten experts in engineering, data processing, government, accounting, management, sales, real estate, and law. Become A Top Consultant takes you step by step through writing and submitting superior proposals, marketing your consulting services, setting fees, billing, getting help, even moonlighting. You'll learn the basic concepts, practices, specialized skills and consulting requirements for each different field. Best of all, you'll identify easily with the consultants--you'll meet an accountant and a sales trainer, a civil engineer, a football player-turned-headhunter/personnel accountant, an investment advisor who never finished college, and a former real estate salesman who's now a phenomenally successful attorney. They're all top consultants, from all walks of life--the best in the business. And they all started out where you are today. Become A Top Consultant--it's like having a live panel of consulting experts at your service, eager to help you launch your consulting career.

Download or read book Leveraged Consulting in the Digital Age written by Jay Allyson and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-06 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leveraged Consulting in the Digital Age is a powerful guide to starting, surviving and thriving as an independent consultant, coach or other professional service provider in today''s growing yet competitive marketplace. Whether you''re starry-eyed, struggling, stuck or stressed with the ''peaks and dips'' of traditional consulting, or you''re doing well but looking for ways to grow, this book is for you. If you want to build, market, grow and scale a service business and you have ambition, drive, a sense of adventure, a willingness to learn and the spirit to achieve a bigger vision of success for yourself or your firm, the book provides a roadmap that is both strategic and practical. Packed with inspirational quotes, visuals and learning points, you will see how digital strategies are helping consultants create workable, dependable and scalable business models to engage, educate and enrol high-end clients. Through her expert handling of principles, practices and processes used across the intersections of business and education, and the impact of developing greater digital capability on business growth, Jay Allyson offers a tangible path towards "leveraged living" and achieving the work-life balance you desire. Drawing on insights and know-how from professional services, internet marketing and online learning sectors, she shows you how to position, package and provide your expertise in ways that suit today''s global and digital marketplace and harness the power of leverage to gain competitive advantage. There has never been a greater time or better opportunity for professional experts to start up and grow a wildly profitable and purposeful client business. Massive growth trends in online publishing and marketing, e-learning and e-commerce offer an abundance of opportunities to expand our reach whilst overcoming the growing client scepticism of the value for money offered by consultants and coaches. Those in our industry who have learned how to leverage their expertise to suit new and emerging customer expectations and build trust prior to sales are way more likely to prosper. Any business nowadays exists in a highly competitive and changing environment, one that requires effective, responsive and well-managed shifts in thinking and practice. As you journey through each chapter, you will learn key principles that enable you to examine your current business architecture and understand what needs to change to raise your leverage capacity. The book starts out laying the foundations for strategic planning from the inside out - from articulating your professional brand identity to creating compelling core offers, implementing systems and adding new revenue streams. If you''re struggling to bring in clients or feel you''re undercharging for the value you give them, then the chapters on leveraging ''you'', leveraged marketing and leveraged sales will provide you with solutions. If you''re a consultant, coach, designer, therapist, trainer, or any kind professional service provider or expert, and stuck in the rut of trading only your time or if you''ve reached in income ceiling, look to the chapter on leveraged delivery. The final chapter draws everything together helping you create a personalised leveraged action plan based around a self-evaluation across 7 dimensions of success. If you want to get off the revenue rollercoaster, build a business that will give you both financial and personal freedom, these provide critical levers for business growth. By the end, you''ll have a digital roadmap to attract more of your ideal clients, improve key business processes and increase your influence, impact and income. Whether you''re a solo practitioner, service agency or small consulting firm, Leveraged Consulting in the Digital Age will progressively transform the way you think about and share who you are, what you do, how you do it, and how you bring your unique value to the marketplace.

Download or read book Successful Consulting written by Fred Fisher and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Success as a consultant is not the result of spontaneous combustion. It takes hard work, dedication, and perseverance. Successful Consulting: Mastering the Five Challenges that can Make or Break you as an Independent Consultant is the fuel to get aspiring and struggling consultants fired up and on their way to success. Authors and consultants Fred and Peggy Fisher detail five critical challenges that need to be conquered in order to build a successful consulting business. They include the following: Personal and professional readiness factors The financial reality of selling your skills and knowledge one day at a time Putting together a successful marketing and business development plan Honing a wide range of interpersonal, group, and technical communication skills Building sustainable client relationships Using their unique experiences in the profession, Fred and Peggy guide you through the process step-by-step. Successful Consulting: Mastering the Five Challenges that can Make or Break you as an Independent Consultant will help you discover your potential and tap your inner consultant. Don't wait another moment-achieve your consulting dreams today!

Download or read book How to Open and Operate a Financially Successful Consulting Business written by Kristie Lorette and published by Atlantic Publishing Company. This book was released on 2011 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Companies, organizations, or individuals hire consultants to provide advice to themselves or to clients for a fee to help solve a particular problem or provide certification within the area of their expertise. A recent survey by the Association of Management Consulting Firms found entry-level consultants earn an average of $65,000 annually while senior partners earn an average of more than $300,000 (including bonuses and profit sharing). Self-employed business consultants may earn $35 to $400 per hour depending on their market. A majority of consultants have gained their expertise from previous employment. There are as many consultants as there are areas of expertise; one thing they all have in common is that they are well paid. The business of consulting is growing rapidly. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, consulting in particular business and IT consulting are becoming one of the fastest growing business segments in the U.S. economy. There has never been a better time to start your consulting business and get ahead of the competition. This new book is a comprehensive and detailed study of the business side of providing consulting services. If you enjoy meeting people, having a home-based business, traveling, problem solving, and using your expertise, this may be the perfect business for you. Keep in mind it looks easy, but as with any business, looks can be deceiving. To avoid the pitfalls, use this complete manual to arm yourself with everything you need including sample business forms, agreements and contracts; worksheets and checklists for planning, starting, and running day-to-day operations; and dozens of other valuable, timesaving tools of the trade that every entrepreneur should have. Here is the manual you need to cash in on this highly profitable segment of the service industry. While providing detailed instruction, examples, and case studies, the author leads you through establishing your office, learning how to draw up a winning business plan ( the Companion CD-ROM has the actual business plan you can use in MS Word â,,¢), and provides dozens of forms you will need in your business. You will learn basic cost control systems, the best sales and marketing techniques, and pricing formulas. This book will teach you how to hire and keep a qualified professional staff (if you even need one), to use subcontractors, to deploy word of mouth marketing to get new clients, to use the power of the Internet, to network, get referrals, evaluate consulting opportunities, do your own sales planning, have great customer service, get reimbursed for expenses, proposals, and sales presentations, track competitors, do your own accounting, be certified as a "professional" consultant, increase client satisfaction, develop valuable contacts and resources (including the top professional associations for consultants and magazines), compile monthly profit and loss statements, and prepare taxes. You will be provided IRS requirements, and even get help to set up your computer systems to save time and money. The companion CD-ROM is included with the print version of this book; however is not available for download with the electronic version. It may be obtained separately by contacting Atlantic Publishing Group at [email protected] Atlantic Publishing is a small, independent publishing company based in Ocala, Florida. Founded over twenty years ago in the company presidentâe(tm)s garage, Atlantic Publishing has grown to become a renowned resource for non-fiction books. Today, over 450 titles are in print covering subjects such as small business, healthy living, management, finance, careers, and real estate. Atlantic Publishing prides itself on producing award winning, high-quality manuals that give readers up-to-date, pertinent information, real-world examples, and case studies with expert advice. Every book has resources, contact information, and web sites of the products or companies discussed.