Consulting Business tips

1-When approaching someone for the first time looking for a potential client, do not ask for their help or for a job, ask them for advice.  Although there are some charitable folks out there who like to help people, everyone loves to give advice.  You can accomplish the same thing you would by asking for help, simply by posing your question in the form of “asking for advice”.

Make the advantages of your services easy to understand.  Be clear and concise whenever you are communicating the features and benefits of your services.  Be sure to explain what it is that you can do, and more importantly, why your client will benefit from securing your services.

3-Set yourself apart are through great service.  Always treat the customer as #1.  Be willing to go the extra mile for your customers.  This will garner you more hat you ill ever know in the realm of word-of-mouth referrals.

4- Work for referrals. Word of mouth is the least expensive, most effective way to get new business.

5-Don¹t try to be everything to everyone.  You know what you do well, and you should capitalize on that.  At first it may be necessary to take jobs that you would rater not be doing, but you will find that shortly after, if you do the footwork, word of mouth, as well as other forms of advertising will carry you to a point where you can pick and choose your clients.  Pick and choose well…

6-just as customers screen you, you should decide who you want to work for. If you have the opportunity to do so (i.e.: enough business), screen your clients.

7-Never sell, help people buy.  No one likes to be “sold to”, but it’s all in the delivery (see tip #1).  When you honestly put your client¹s interests above your own, you will become a better consultant, a better partner, and a better team member for your client.  When you put the customer first, you earn a long-term loyalty that is an order of magnitude more profitable than a one time quick sale, no matter how large that one sale would be.

8-Use online marketing as much as possible.  Dollar for dollar, the Internet is the most cost effective method of advertising.  Start with a web site, but don’t stop there.  Targeted e-mail marketing (not unsolicited, untargeted spam) can work wonders for all kinds of businesses.  Internet message boards are an awesome vehicle for homegrown grassroots guerilla marketing.  For the cost of a broadband Internet connection, you will have an entire planet of ‘net users to get the word out to, all it takes is a little experience, and a little skill.

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