Mostly I like being a consultant. I’ve been doing it full-time for 26.5 years!
There’s a new book available to help you start your own consulting business: The Nonprofit Consulting Playbook published by Charity Channel Press. Tips and secrets and helpful hints. Candid and informative. Sometimes amusing and entertaining – and full of good warnings.
I think this book can help you plan your consulting business. Or transform your business if you’re already in business. Or the book will help you decide you don’t want to become a consultant.
Editors Susan Schaefer and Linda Lysakowski brought together 25 consultants who have been in business at least 10 years – and I’m one of them. I had fun writing my various sections…reminiscing, complaining, warning, advising, promoting.
Here are just some of the questions you’ll find answers to:
- What can you to do prepare yourself before starting a consulting business…
- How to determine your scope of business…
- Setting fees and putting together the financing…
- Which marketing strategies work best…
- How you can grow or reinvent your business…
- How to deal with angry, slow-paying, and demanding clients…
- What do you do when business is slow…
- What to include in your contracts…
And so much more. So check out this book. Get some guidance.
Visit Charity Channel Press to learn more about The Nonprofit Consulting Playbook, and to view the entire table of contents.
Have fun. And be careful out there.
