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How to Start a Consulting Business Everyone has an untapped reservoir of knowledge. Put yours to work for you as an independent consultant by teaching your skills to others.
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How to Start a Consulting Business
Everyone has an untapped reservoir of knowledge. Put yours to work for you as an independent consultant by teaching your skills to others.
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Introduction
Target Market
Location and Employees
Income & Billing
Marketing
Resources
The dictionary defines a consultant as "an expert in a particular field who works as an advisor either to a company or to another individual." Sounds pretty vague, doesn't it? But unless you've been in a coma for the past decade, you probably have a good idea what a consultant is.
Businesses certainly understand what consultants are. In 1997 U.S. businesses spent just over $12 billion on consulting. According to Anna Flowers, spokesperson for the Association of Professional Consultants in Irvine, California, the association has recently noticed an increase in calls for information from people who want to get into the business. "The market is opening up for [the consulting-for-businesses] arena," Flowers says.
Melinda P., an independent consultant in Arlington, Virginia, thinks more people are getting into the consulting field because technology has made it easier to do so. "The same technology that has helped me to be successful as a consultant has made it easier for others to do the same," she says.

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