You will find the summary details of the one hundred tips I’ve produced to help people who are starting a consulting business here. Of course, the tips are useful at other stages in the life of your business, too.
Use these tips whenever you start a new venture or when you want to revitalise your approach to the way you run your business.
The advice here applies to anyone running an expert business – from consultants to people in professional services organisations, from specialists in IT to interior designers. Whatever you’re an expert in, you’ll find some useful tips here.
Starting A Consulting Business – 100 Tips
The first tip is tip zero. You need to consider this before you start your new business.
Starting a consulting business – time to change career
This tip, tip zero, is turning out to be the most popular tip of all.
The first ten tips are all relevant to the earliest days of your consulting business.
Tips eleven to twenty are all about getting ready to start your business.
- How to quit your job gracefully and professionally
- Take advantage of available support.
- Don’t work alone!
- Your USP is …
- Keep control of your website.
- Decide what your legal status is going to be.
- Choose the right name for your business.
- Create a virtual business card.
- Decide where your business with be based.
- Don’t forget your insurance!
- A new business and a new direction.
- Starting a consulting business – learn on the job.
- Use your time wisely.
- Set limits to the hours you work.
- Decide if you should you work when you’re ill.
- Working efficiently damages business. Why not try a different approach?
- Starting a consulting business – only you can do it!
- The pros and cons of outsourcing
- Decide if you’re going to become an employer.
- You’re starting a consulting business – so tell the world.
