This is an engaging book filled with tips that will help you succeed as an independent consultant. If you want to use your skills, know-how, and expertise to free yourself from an employer's control, this book shows you exactly how to do it, and make good money doing it. If you offer, or can offer, a service of any kind to anyone for a fee, Independent Consulting will show you how to make a good living from it.
The book covers all the important aspects of independent consulting. In addition to pointing our areas of independent consulting that you can enter, Independent Consulting shows you how to:
- market your consulting services
- promote and advertise your business
- build up an active client base
- prepare an effective marketing plan
- price (charge for) your services
- write effective proposals
- write meaningful reports
- manage your consulting business
- plan and control consulting assignments
- deal with contracts
