The Successful Consulting Practice

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Set Up Your Home Office So You Can Consult With Clients Remotely as an Independent Consultant


This is best for beginning consultants, not established consultants
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The notes from the seminar Andrea Reynolds developed.

Electronic version:
$8.95
Print Edition: $38.95

If you've been giving away your advice for free until now, or you're thinking of switching from employment to independent consulting start here. These are my handouts/class notes from my full day seminar. I'm available to present this seminar to your group.


Seminar Creator/Facilitator: Andrea Reynolds
I have been polishing, positioning, and promoting independent consultants, professionals, how-to authors, and other knowledge-sharers since 1977. I am a speaker, writer, publisher of newsletters and booklets, and author of numerous manuals on self-promotion, marketing professional services, and selling specialized advice.

These are the notes from the original, full day, Successful Consulting seminar I created for beginning consultants (basic level), now at a price substantially lower than the $79.00 one-day seminar registration fee.

Contents: Successful Consulting
• Why Consulting is a Good Choice

• The Downside of Consulting

• Functions of a Consultant

• Why Companies Hire Consultants

• Why Firms Are Reluctant to Hire Consultants

• Criteria for Accepting Work

• Setting Up Your Home-based Business

• Organize Your Office for Effectiveness

• Determining Client Markets

• Exercise: Your Business Plan

• Minimize Your Risks

• Feasibility for Success

• Knowledge Which Clients Want

• What Individual Clients Want to Know

• What Business Clients Want to Know

• Reasons to Offer Information Products

• Developing Information Products

• Suggestions for Information Products

• Determining Your Cost Per Hour

• Ways to Quote Fees; When to Increase Fees

• How to Increase Fees; How to Quote Fees

• Warning Signs of a Problem

• Protecting Yourself When Hiring Sub-Consultants

• How to Avoid Giving Away Free Advice: How to Say NO Gracefully

• How to Overcome Marketing Obstacles

• How to Keep Clients

• How to Be Perceived as a Professional

• Ways to Promote Your Practice

• The Decision-Making Process

• Other Ways to Make a Decision

• The Proposal Process; The Initial Client Contact; The Client Interview

• Deciding Whether to Submit a Proposal; Proposal Format

• What Makes a Proposal Successful; How to Write a Proposal

• How to Present a Proposal

• Letters of Agreement

• Your Services Brochure

• Ethics and Issues

• Characteristics of a Good Consultant

• Exercise: Define Your Services
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1. You can use www.PayPal.me/AndreaReynoldsIntl

2. You may pay also by cash – in person.

3. You may pay also with Venmo. www.Venmo.com/Andrea-Reynolds-79

4. You may pay also with Facebook Pay. https://www.Facebook.com/andrea.reynolds.90
It's possible Facebook may only allow you to send money by an app on your phone, not Facebook Messenger.

5. You may pay also with Zelle. Text: 656-227-1130

6. You may send a check by mail. Make checks payable to Andrea Reynolds, and mail to: 1902 Andover Street, Apt.194, Sun City Center, Florida 33573
(I love getting checks in the mail. It makes my Junk Mail envious.)



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