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 Learning Annex seminar.

Seminar
Creator: Andrea Reynolds
Andrea Reynolds has been polishing, positioning, and
promoting independent consultants, professionals, how-to
authors, and other knowledge-sharers since 1977. She is 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
Andrea created for beginning consultants
(basic level), now at
a price substantially lower than the then $79.00 one-day
seminar registration fee.
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can:
1. Purchase this seminar manual for only $29.00
2. Take advantage of the introductory offer for $49.00
3. Have a private one-on-one tutorial for $600.00
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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