The Consultant's Quick Start Guide: An Action Plan for Your First Year in Business

The Consultant's Quick Start Guide: An Action Plan for Your First Year in Business

by ElaineBiech (Author)

Synopsis

Consulting can be a most rewarding career-but being good at consulting is not always enough to keep your business profitable. It is essential that you also learn the skills you need to manage your business. The Consultant's Quick Start Guide offers you a practical approach to setting up a consulting business. The book provides you with a complete blueprint for your first year in business. Throughout the guide, Elaine Biech-author of the best-selling The Business of Consulting-shares both her own secrets as well as those of numerous other successful consultants. With a focus on the business side of consulting, she takes you through a painless, fill-in-the-blanks, step-by-step process for setting up your consulting firm. The book includes information on how to: - Develop a dynamic business plan - Market consulting services - Establish a professional office - Meet critical legal requirements - Charge for services - Build client relationships - Grow the business - Ensure continued professional growth - Make money in the business

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 25 May 2001

ISBN 10: 0787956678
ISBN 13: 9780787956677

Media Reviews
You've probably heard that a consultant is someone between jobs. Elaine's book ensures that will never describe you. The Consultant's Quick Start Guide is a sure bet for an effective consulting business. --Ken Blanchard, coauthor, Gung Ho! and The One Minute Manager tm

Elaine Biech is truly the consultant's consultant. Anyone considering a move to an independent consulting career should devour this book. --Diane Hessan, CEO, Communispace Corporation

The Consultant's Quick Start Guide is an invaluable resource for all new and seasoned consultants. Elaine Biech has packed into one book tools and references that would take most consultants years to learn and develop. --Richard Chang, CEO, Richard Chang Associates, Inc., and author of The Passion Plan and Performance Scorecards

What a treat for the new or wannabe consultant-you can think through the initial career decision, plan for the launch of the business, and hang the proverbial shingle with this book as your guide. The author has produced another practical, hands-on approach! --Ronald E. Gailbraith, CEO, Management 21, Inc

There's a reason Elaine Biech has the Midas Touch. She's the best at what she does, and she's generous with all her inside information. Even old pros are sure to pick up a few golden nuggets. --Elizabeth Engstrom, director, Maui Writers Retreat

Elaine Biech does it yet again! She provides what most say can only be learned in the school of hard knocks! Take her wonderful advice to heart! --Beverly Kaye, president, Career Systems International, Inc., and co-author of The Wall Street Journal best-seller, Love 'Em or Lose 'Em: Getting Good People to Stay
Author Bio
ELAINE BIECH Elaine Biech is president and managing partner of ebb associates, a strategic implementation, leadership development and experiential learning consulting firm. The consulting firm assists large organizations to work through large-scale change and serves clients in both the private and public sector. Her clients include the American Society for Training and Development, Hershey Chocolate, the IRS, Johnson Wax, the U.S. Navy, McDonald's Corporation, Land's End, Marathon Oil, PricewaterhouseCoopers. Elaine is the author of over two dozen books and articles.