Types Of Consulting Firms
The great thing about consulting is that you can offer your service to just about anyone. If you can think of an industry or company you can find a consulting company that has something to offer that company. There are so many types of consulting firms out their it can be hard to classify them. From accounting, management, to payroll, many companies offer many services, while others just offer one type of service.
You can classify types of consulting firms many ways. By what industry they service, what services they offer, their size, etc.
Plus if you look at all the consulting firms, even the tiny one man operations you will see that there is a lot of cross over when trying to classify them.
Employee
There a lot of firms that offer employee management services. From training management on how to deal with employee troubles to managing health care services, there are a large number of firms in this area.
Advertising
Many firms also offer consulting in the area of advertising or on how to obtain new business. It is often out of frustration over the lack of new business that businesses turn to consulting firms. The consulting firms could focus on how to advertise more effectively, to marketing to existing clientele, to looking at new areas of offerings.
Equipment
Many companies that sell equipment also offer consulting services to go along with the equipment. Many of these companies also offer their consulting services for free or at a reduced rate in order to encourage people to buy their equipment. This is most commonly seen in the computer industry selling larger mainframe computers and servers.
Accounting
The Big 5 consulting firms are essentially accounting firms that offer a valuable service to companies. In fact accounting is one of the areas most small businesses outsource because of lack of expertise in this area.
As you can see this is just a very brief overview of types of consulting firms. Depending on how you classify them, many can and do fit into several different categories.
