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| The Consultant's Quick Start Guide: An Action Plan for Your First Year in Business | 
 enlarge | Author: Elaine Biech
Publisher: Pfeiffer
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (46 reviews)
Sales Rank: 29005
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 8 x 0.8
ISBN: 0787956678
Dewey Decimal Number: 001.068
EAN: 9780787956677
ASIN: 0787956678
Publication Date: May 9, 2001
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Product Description
Your complete blueprint for starting out in the consulting world!
Consulting can be a most rewarding career--but being good at consulting is not always enough to keep your business profitable. The Consultant's Quick Start Guide offers a practical approach to setting up a consulting 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, Biech 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
* Change for services
* Build client relationships
* Grow the business
* Ensure continued professional growth
* Make money in the business
Learn the skills you need to be a successful consultant with this indispensable guide!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 41 more reviews...
 I can't believe I paid for this "book" October 22, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is my first review of any Amazon purchase.
This book is pre-basic. If you have no working knowledge of how even fundamental business is operated (such as opening up a checking account for business expenses), then you have no basis skill set to become a consultant...at least, not one that anyone will take seriously. This book could be wrapped up into one small magazine article in the back section of Glamour magazine.
 Simple - Bordering Simplistic November 7, 2005
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
Too simple, bordering simplistic. I would have hoped for some deeper advice addressed to people who are assumed to be more sophisticated and lettered than the average person.
Waste of Time and Money September 22, 2004
18 out of 24 found this review helpful
This book is awful...a complete waste of time for anyone with half a brain...if you only have half a brain, feel free to buy it. It's overly simplistic, obvious, insultingly simple and unlikely to help a budding consultant make a dime. If you want REAL advise, pick up any of Alan Weiss's books.
Relatively worthless June 25, 2004
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
Although Biech makes a number of good points in her text here, the vast majority of it can be chocked up to common sense. The workbook fill-in forms are nice if you're the sort of person that is so unorganized that you need your hand held at every step, but in all honesty if you fall into that category you probably shouldn't be thinking about a consulting career in the first place. Unfortunately I feel like their primary purpose is just to take up space, and make the book feel longer and more useful than it really is. If you boil this "quick start guide" down to the few pages that are actually worthwhile, you wouldn't even have enough pages to fill a pamphlet. Look elsewhere.
You could find better... July 2, 2003
56 out of 60 found this review helpful
Ok, so I wasn't impressed... This book is definately good at one thing: it makes you think about some important issues of starting your own practice, and it has lots of assignments that I think may be useful. That earns it two stars. However, what makes this book less useful than, say, "getting started in consulting" (A. Weiss), is the fact that there is no emphasis on creating value for your customer(and setting your fees based upon that value). What Biech is saying is actually that you should divide what you think you should earn in a year by the days you expect to work etc. So whether you help a client gain $50000 or $500000 added value should make no difference on your paycheck... Being value- oriented would help you wether we're talking about gaining clients, getting your fair pay or establishing business relationships. This book hardly touches the issue, even though it's important in so many areas of the business. What I'm saying boils down to this: There being so many better books on the subject, I see no reason to buy this one. I did, and I'd rather have spent my money on something else.
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