How to Start a Consulting Business

Duration: 1.6 hours

A natural progression for many freelancers and VAs is to offer coaching and consulting services in their respective niche. This opens up new opportunities to leverage your expertise and increase your rates. In this workshop, you will learn some practical strategies on how to add a new coaching and consulting service to your business including what specific services to offer, how to package your expertise and what to charge clients. You will also discover some helpful tips to being an effective coach and consultant. Join us for this workshop and launch an exciting new income stream in your business.
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Course curriculum

  • 1
    Building a Consulting Service
    • Download Workshop Handout
    • LESSON 1: Consulting Foundations
    • LESSON 2: Consulting Delivery Models
    • LESSON 3: Benefits of Consulting
    • LESSON 4: Selecting Consulting Niche
    • LESSON 5: Research Target Client Audience
    • LESSON 6: Create Consulting Offer
    • LESSON 7: Select Consulting Tools
    • LESSON 8: Pricing Your Consulting Services
    • LESSON 9: Promoting Your Consulting Services
    • Online Consulting Service Guide
    • Consulting Session Checklist

Instructor

  • Craig Cannings

    Craig Cannings

    Chief Learning Officer, Freelance University

    In 2008, my wife Kelly and I co-founded Freelance University with the purpose of becoming the #1 go-to training center for Freelancers and VAs from around the globe! As of this year, we have successfully trained over 25,000 Virtual Assistants and Freelancers in more than 75 countries. Kelly and I have had the great privilege of building our Online University while raising our 5 daughters who are the greatest blessings of our lives. I look forward to meeting you and seeing you either in this program or at our University very soon. I leave you with my favorite quote from marketing guru, Seth Godin: "The only worse thing than starting something and failing... is not starting something."

Course Reviews

  • Building Your Consulting Service

    Keith Dove

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  • Building Your Consulting Services

    Kathy Wakefield

    While I have been consulting it was helpful to learn new tools and means for furthering my business. Enjoyed the humor along with helpful tips on pricing one...

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    While I have been consulting it was helpful to learn new tools and means for furthering my business. Enjoyed the humor along with helpful tips on pricing one's service(s).

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  • Love the checklist!

    LISA MILLAR

    I have been considering doing consulting work and this course helped me organize a strategy for what I need to think about and what an action plan to set up ...

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    I have been considering doing consulting work and this course helped me organize a strategy for what I need to think about and what an action plan to set up going forward.

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  • Solid info - great advice!

    Cairenn Rhys

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  • Great training

    Shanta Smith

    I enjoyed this training. Learned some new things that will help me get me consulting business started on the right track.

    I enjoyed this training. Learned some new things that will help me get me consulting business started on the right track.

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  • Building a Consulting Service is accurate

    Hilary Bullock

    The course was very good. One note, I think that Brandy Henry may have closed her business.

    The course was very good. One note, I think that Brandy Henry may have closed her business.

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