Going Solo: Developing a Home-Based Consulting Business from the Ground Up

The author's popular Home-Base Business series has shown thousands how to successfully operate mail order, catalog and newsletter businesses from hom. With Going Solo, he adds a timely new area to this series--home-based consulting. This comprehensive, step-by-step guide show you how to take your specialized knowledge--gathered from a job, career, education, or life experience--and turn it into a profitable, thriving home business. It takes you step-by-step through the entire process--from what you need in your home office, to how to target and reach your market, how to create proposals that sell, and how to turn a completed work assignment into additional business, and more. It's essential reading for anyone considering or preparing for a home-based consulting business. from

``You'll never get rich working for someone else.'' No one knows this better than William J. Bond. His popular Home-Based Business series has shown thousands how to successfully operate mail order, catalog, and newsletter businesses from home. With Going Solo, he adds home-based consulting to this series. This comprehensive, step-by-step guide shows you how to take your specialized knowledge--gathered from a job, career, education, or life experience--and turn it into a profitable, thriving home business. It's packed with everything you need to succeed--how to assess your strengths and develop your marketing approach, how to locate your best prospects, how to write proposals that sell, how to translate your completed projects into new business, and more. Going Solo is filled with success stories, models, and forms to help you develop, manage, and organize a successful consulting business. It even includes comprehensive lists of more than 350 specialized consulting areas to help you shape your own consulting business. For anyone considering or preparing to launch a successful, profitable home-based consulting business, Going Solo is a "must-have" guide. knowledge--gather from a job, career, education, or life experiences--and turn it into a profitable, thriving home business. Written in an easy-to-read, motivational style, the book includes information on how to target client needs and deliver answers, develop and implement a business plan, initiate pricing strategies to insure future business, and more.