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When I started out consulting, I was proud to be an independent consultant and I had some great looking business cards. But when I was at an event where I had the opportunity of speaking to people who might be potential clients, I tended to clam up when they asked; “so what is it you do?”

Being a Consultant

A consultant is an independent contractor who sells professional expertise in a particular area of specialisation. The consultant performs work for a fee within an agreed time frame with his customer. Note that I’m not talking about consultants who are employed by a consulting firm.

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Train to Become a Successful Consultant

If you are an experienced professional or executive who would like to become a successful consultant, the one thing which you have already achieved is a sufficient amount of experience in your chosen area of consulting.

Where can I train to become a successful consultant?

If you want to train to become a successful consultant, you will find many offers of help on the internet. The difficulty is knowing which offers will genuinely help you to build a pipeline of high paying clients and which will simply show you how to “run” a business.

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Who Are the Best Consulting Firms to Work For?

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The Secret to Consulting Success

Quite frankly there is no ‘secret’ to consulting success, just as there’s no secret to building a plumbing empire or a large construction company. The word ‘secret’ has been used for decades to make people water at the mouth and let them think that there is one secret to fulfilling their dreams.

How Consultants Get Hired

Clients don’t look in the yellow pages for a consultant or turn to the full page advertisements in trade magazines to find one. Neither do they respond well to the hard-sell, and in fact, that’s a thing of the past for most successful independent consultants. The truth is that these days, clients buy as opposed to get sold to.

How to Start a Consultancy with Almost No Money

Being a consultant is being in business. I’m not talking about the consultants who are employed by companies such as Accenture, KPMG, etc. I’m talking about independent consultants who stand on their own two feet and who actually run their own business.