Business : Consulting

The Unbeatable, Updated, Comprehensive Guidebook For First-Time Consultants. Getting Started In Consulting. More people than ever are making the jump from corporate offices to home offices, taking control of their futures, being their own bosses, and starting their own consultancies. Consulting is a bigger business than ever and growing every day. For almost a decade, Alan Weiss's Getting Started in Consulting has been an indispensable resource for anyone who wants to strike out on his own and start a new consulting business. It provides a rich source of expert advice and practical guidance, and it shows you how you can combine low overhead and a high degree of organization to add up to a six- or even seven-figure income. You'll learn everything you need to know about financing your business, marketing your services, writing winning proposals, meeting legal requirements, setting fees, keeping the books, and much more. This new Third Edition of Getting Started in Consulting is more comprehensive, up to date, and practical than ever. In addition to the nuts-and-bolts basics, you'll also get a wealth of new information and resources:.:. ;. How to leverage new technologies to lower your business costs and increase your profits. ;. A budget sampler that shows you how best to maximize an initial start-up investment of $5,000, $10,000, or $20,000. ;. Free downloadable tools and forms to help you design and start your business quickly and easily. ;. New interviews with consultants who achieved rapid success, including their personal stories and most effective techniques. ;. Brand-new references, examples, and appendices. If your dream in life is to get out of the office and out on your own, consulting is a great way to make it happen. Make sure you do it right—and do it profitably—with Getting Started in Consulting, Third Edition. more...

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Trusted advice on successful consulting from the authors of the bestselling Guerrilla Marketing series Consulting is entering the era of the guerrilla client-buyers with a glut of information at their fingertips and doubts about the value consultants add. more...

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Praise for Professional Services Marketing. "This book is that rare thing: simultaneously wise, practical, readily accessible, and data-driven. A necessary addition to your reading.". — David Maister , author of Managing the Professional Service Firm. " Professional Services Marketing will certainly become the bible of the field in short order! Without a doubt, the most useful compendium of marketing insight for the practicing professional services firm executive...BRAVO!". — Leonard A. Schlesinger , President, Babson College, and coauthor of The Service Profit Chain. "It's no longer sufficient to be a good 'expert for hire'—you need a brand and a powerful marketing engine behind you. Professional Services Marketing is a gold mine of research based strategies, best practices, and specific techniques that will help you consistently win in the client marketplace and outshine your competition. It's thoughtful, funny, and filled with the how-to so often missing in business books.". — Andrew Sobel , coauthor of Clients for Life. "Schultz and Doerr offer tactics and information in an easy-to-read, concise, and enjoyable format. Professional Services Marketing should be a required resource in every professional marketer's tool box!". — R. Granville Loar , Executive Director, Association for Accounting Marketing. "This book is an excellent resource for anyone involved in professional services. It is especially timely in our current challenging economic conditions, and the ideas and guidance are relevant for the better times to come as well.". — Josh Lee , Partner, Monitor Group. "Smart. Practical. Comprehensive. This is the one book that won't collect dust on my shelf.". — Kevin McMurdo , Chief Marketing Officer, Perkins Coie. " Professional Services Marketing is the first book to directly address the challenges of the professional services mark more...

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A guide for those using or planning to use business consultants - and for consultants themselves. more...

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A comprehensive guide on how to apply academic methods to produce polished professional reports more...

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