When you first hang your shingle out as a consultant you need business. And the only way to get business is to call everyone you know, advertise, or cold call people. Since you are just starting out and don’t have much money advertising is limited, and you may not feel up to cold calling people [...]
How to become a business consultant? That is a good question, but if you have been reading my blog, you realize that you have to be much more specific. What types of business do you want to focus on? What sectors of the industry do you want to focus on? New consultants have to focus [...]
Starting your own consulting business can be very rewarding, but it can be the most challenging time of your life. Depending on where you are in your consulting career, you may already have clients to take with you, therefore you have business right away. If you are starting a consulting firm from scratch, give yourself [...]
Welcome back for part 2 on how to become a consultant. As a brief recap in the last post we talked about two ways to get into consulting. One way was to work for a company that does consulting and the other way was part-time. Today I’ll give you a good tip on part-time work [...]
Over the next two posts I’m going to go over how to become a consultant. For those people who are consultants already this may seem a bit basic, but you might pick up a tip or two. There are several ways to become a consultant. In this post we’ll go over working for a consulting [...]
Hello, welcome to my Start Consulting blog. Through this blog I hope to share stories about I got started consulting and how I’m trying to grow my practice. Getting started in consulting can be a very exciting career move, but it can also be very scary.