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American Home Business Network: Who Uses Independent Consultants?

Monday, May 25, 2009

Who Uses Independent Consultants?

By Robert Holifield

Before answering the all important question "who uses independent consultants?", it is worth establishing the definition of a consultant. It is widely agreed that a consultant is a person who gives expert advice in a professional capacity.

In my view it is also someone who is determined to become a successful independent consultant and who approaches their search for clients with the knowledge that they will be able to establish solid business relationships with enough people who will want hire them for expert advice.

Two other important questions to be considered are: who hires the experienced independent consultants that have grown strong reputations over the years and who already have a large network of regular clients? And who is it that will likely hire the aspiring independent consultant who is just starting out?

Accepting that the established consultants will have been newcomers to their marketplace at some time in the past, the now-settled reality will be that they will have built up a reputation and will have proved themselves to be invaluable to the clients they have accumulated since they set-up business They will be hired because of these attributes: the services they offer will have become sound and well-suited to the individual clients. They will have developed an understanding of the businesses and have a serviceable relationship with the personalities they have to interface with; and they will be reliable.

The independent consultant is advised to provide these clients with quick and easy access to his or her consulting expertise when they need it. Such clients do not need to employ a member of staff with a certain specialism and find other work for them to fill up their day when that specialism is not required. Nor will clients have to pay for sick leave or holidays. Savings like these will matter a lot to the budget driven small business that is interested in lower operating costs whenever possible.

Equally importantly, a consultant is likely to be especially-valued if he is known to reinforce his existing expertise continuously by buying the journals and keeping-up his memberships of the professional bodies that will ensure he stays fully up-to-date on professional matters, and even to spend money on essential training courses, sparing clients the need to include any of these often substantial annual training costs in their own budgets.

However the most fundamental reason why a well established independent consultant will be regularly hired is because of reliability. He will be going out of his way to make sure that his clients can feel comfortable that he will always be there for them, ready to help them meet challenges. Very often they cannot feel confident that their own staff would be so diligent.

It is worth noting that an aspiring independent consultant looking to establish himself in any type of consultancy will have a tough job ahead. At the same time as there is more awareness among business managers of the valuable role that consultants play, and many more employees are being exposed to the work that the consultants are doing for their bosses and think to themselves, "perhaps I could do that and do a lot better for myself."

If they do take the risk of breaking away from employment, the majority of them survive for a time on work passed to them by former managers who thought well-enough of them when they were employees. But today - especially - it needs a very clear-minded and determined would-be entrepreneur to find and set himself up in a consultancy business niche where he will survive and, in due course, prosper.

Sound and exacting preliminary market-research has to be the essential part of the business-planning process. For it will be during that carefully-planned and well-conducted market-research that the would-be consultant ought to be asking for information meetings with business managers who do not already use consultancy services, planting an innocent seed that can be nurtured in the months ahead so that gradually a portfolio of tentative clients can be breathed into life.

Who will actually hire him? In largest part it will depend on how good a salesman he is and what expertise he has to offer. "Mr CEO, we have met before and you have explained why your company doesn't employ consultants. I have been thinking about our discussion and it occurred to me ...

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Feature Article: Make the Leap to Home Based Business Success

Feature Article: Make the Leap to Home Based Business Success
Copyright © Stone Evans, The Home Biz Guy
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Before you can have a successful home based business, you must first possess 3 "intangibles." These are things that must come from WITHIN you.

 ===> Intangible 1 <===

First, you must have a strong WHY.

Why MUST you have a successful home business? What is driving you? What is it that you CAN'T have in your life anymore and/or what is it that you absolutely MUST HAVE now?

For me, I couldn't stand working 12+ hours a day anymore and missing the experience of my children growing up. I also absolutely HAD TO HAVE the freedom of being able to control my life and finances through a little box (laptop computer) that I could carry with me anywhere in the world and not be tied to anyone's time pressures or demands but my own. That was my carrot and my stick. I felt a great pain deep in my gut of missing out on my children's lives and the incredible freedom that succeeding in a home based business would provide for me. I found my why. You MUST find yours.

===> Intangible 2 <===

You must BELIEVE that it is possible.

If you don't believe that it's POSSIBLE for you to have a successful home based business or make your living from home, you won't. It's that simple.

For me, figuring out that it was possible was just a matter of realizing that many other people were ALREADY making great money working from home. If they could do it, I could too. It would just be a matter of figuring out what those people were doing and then adapting it to my situation.

There is no shortage of undeniable PROOF that people (millions of them) are making money working from home. Just get online and do some research and you'll find countless testimonials and stories of REAL PEOPLE making real money on the Internet. Or head to your local bookstore and you'll find the same documented evidence of this fact. Truth is, it's getting easier and easier to make money with your own home based business.

I've always said that "affiliate marketing" (a simple way to make money from home) is the job of the future. In the "old" days, you had to go to a potential employer, apply for the position and hope for the best. Now you can simply go to any company you want, fill out their affiliate application and start work immediately. Affiliates are the new working class. In fact, making money with affiliate programs or making your living on the Internet is WAY MORE than possible. It is pretty much (or will be soon enough) unavoidable now. Affiliate marketing is the "job" of the future that's already here TODAY.

===> Intangible 3 <===

You must be willing to MAKE THE LEAP.

Ready, FIRE, then aim... This is the operating philosophy you MUST adopt to succeed with a home based business.

That's backwards for most people who like to aim before they fire. The fact is that home based business success is a moving target... The only thing constant about it is change. You need to stop analyzing the game and simply jump into it. You can't learn from the outside... You have to be IN THE RING to truly understand it.

The lesson here is that you will never really be READY to start a home based business. You simply have to start one. It's like having children... You're never really ready, but when it happens you adapt and grow. This is what I call "Making the Leap."

The good news is that the cost of failure with having your own home based business is very small. In the "brick and mortar" world you need to evaluate things very carefully before you decide to open up a business. It's almost always necessary to invest thousands of dollars to get an offline business off the ground. However, on the Internet you can often start a successful business for less than $100. The Plug-In Profit Site is a great example of this: http://www.PlugInProfitSite.com/main-21753

You simply need to get IN THE GAME... Each moment that you stay "out there," you're wasting valuable time that you could be learning and skills necessary to build a successful home based business. In fact, if you're not in the game yet, you're ALREADY behind the times. Make the leap to creating a successful home based business today!

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Stone Evans, The Home Biz Guy has helped thousands of people in over 200 countries around the world start and run a successful home business. Discover 3 easy steps to start your own home business and subscribe to The Home Biz Guy's FREE Home Business Secrets Mini-Course at: http://www.PlugInProfitSite.com/main-21753



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