Alan Weiss – Getting Started In Consulting 3rd Ed (2009) ([eBook (PDF)]

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Alan Weiss – Getting Started In Consulting 3rd Ed (2009) ([eBook (PDF)]

The Complete, Unbeatable Guidebook for First-Timers-Time Consultants

Getting Started In Consulting

More people are leaving corporate offices and moving to home offices. They want to take control of their lives, be their bosses, and start their own businesses. Consulting This is a more important business than ever, and it’s growing every day.

For almost a decade, Alan Weiss’s Getting Started In Consulting It has been an invaluable resource for anyone looking to set up a consulting company or start their own business. This book is a wealth of practical advice and expert guidance. It shows how to combine low overhead with a high level of organization to create a six- to seven figure business.-Figure your 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 is the Third Edition of Getting Started In Consulting This guide is more up-to-date, comprehensive, and practical than ever. In In addition to the nuts–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, and $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, or appendices

Consulting is a great way for you to achieve your goals if you want to leave the office and go it alone. Make sure you do it right—and do it profitably—with Getting Started In Consulting, Third edition.

From the Back Cover
Consulting is clearly one of today‘s most rapidly growing and changing fields, with total worldwide revenues expected to reach over $100 billion in the year 2001. With increasing outsourcing of many functions by companies and an increase in the number of professionals working for themselves, this is helping to make it a more attractive field.-There is a lot of information needed about how to start a consultancy practice.

This book offers practical, focused guidance for starting a consulting company. It teaches how low overhead and high organization can lead to six.-figure income——in many cases, while working from a home office. This comprehensive guide includes helpful tables and charts as well as extensive coverage of important areas like:

* How to finance a consulting practice
* Marketing consulting services to corporate clients
* Writing proposals that sell
* Legal requirements for consulting practices
* Fee setting, billing, bookkeeping, and more

There are many options for those looking to make a change: from executives and downsized managers to retired professionals who are seeking a second job, managers in large companies who want to open their own practice, employees who need greater security of employment, entrepreneurs, MBAs and similar graduates who are seeking an independent future and those who are interested in starting a business.-Practice time management Getting Started In Consulting They will be a valuable resource in achieving their goals. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.