Want to become a consultant?

Ready to learn how to become a consultant? Making the leap to independent consulting can be a life changing experience. But figuring out all the steps to launching a consulting business can be a bit daunting. I can tell — I get emails from people all the time, asking me for help in getting their businesses off the ground. Well, I’ve taken everything I tell my coaching clients and wrapped it up in a course.

Become a Consultant: How to Make the Leap

Finally — an online course designed to help you through the process of starting and running an independent consulting business.

By taking this course, you’ll be prepared to:

• Describe the consulting business, including what consultants do, what people become consultants, who hires them and why, and what the main consulting markets are
• Assess your consulting and entrepreneurship potential and generate ideas for a consulting business
• Evaluate options for starting a consulting business, including ways to transition, options for business structures and factors to consider in choosing a business structure
• Analyze your market, including profiling and understanding target customers, mapping your services to those customers, identifying competitors, weighing your business against the competition’s, analyzing industry trends and choosing a niche
• Determine your financing needs, including considering whether you need credit and qualifying for credit
• Explore business management considerations, such as understanding rules and regulations in your region/profession, understanding insurance options and hiring professional services for your business (accounting, lawyer, etc)
• Promote your business and find clients by discovering what to include in a marketing plan, planning your own marketing and learning how to find work
• Strengthen your sales skills, in areas such as finding prospects, generating leads, qualifying leads, finding a fit, making a proposal and asking for the sale and closing the deal

You’ll work through problems and ideas using 25 exercises that reinforce the course content. And you’ll have the opportunity to discuss your ideas, progress and challenges in our private discussion forums and learning community. Your instructor, Andréa Coutu (that’s me), visits and contributes to the forums regularly.

New lower price — just $195 US!

As part of this course, you’ll also receive a copy of my Consulting Fees: A Guide for Independent Consultants — a $29.95 value.

You’ll also receive Discover Your Inner Consultant — a workbook designed to help you discover consulting business opportunities that would suit your personal background and interests. That’s a $19.95 value.

And, just for signing up, you’ll get 50 Tips for Jumpstarting Your Expert Status — free.

BONUS: After you’ve completed the course, email me your personal marketing plan within 90 days of your purchase date. I’ll email you a written review, so that you can fine tune your plan and get out there and start building your business. This is a special offer I’m making, since I normally have a minimum charge for any project. With this offer, I’ll review your plan, writing an assessment and sharing tips for moving forward.

Learn how you want

By taking the course, you’ll have an opportunity to learn how you want.

• Listen to 2.5 hours of audio on your computer or iPod.
• Read the guide in PDF or print it out.
• Work through exercises to reinforce concepts and create your own plans and analyses.
• Interact with other students and your instructor in our online community.
• Share your marketing plan with me and receive personalized feedback.
• Receive ongoing information through your one-year subscription to the private "insider’s edge" newsletter, made available only to people who take this course.

Feel confident with a course stuffed with valuable content

When you sign up for this $195 course, you’ll receive:

• A total of 2.5 hours of audio:
  • 11 audio lessons — listen from your computer or your iPod
• Become a Consultant: a guide to becoming a consultant, including setting up your business, planning your marketing and getting work
• Consulting Fees: A Guide for Independent Consultants (a $29.95 value)
• Discover Your Inner Consultant workbook (a $19.95 value)
• 50 tips for Jumpstarting your Expert Status
• Membership in our private discussion forums, where you can browse past questions, ask new ones and tap into the support of other consultants, including Andréa Coutu
• Personalized review of your marketing plan for your consulting business (feedback delivered via email and one reply, if necessary)
• A one-year subscription to my quarterly "Insider’s Newsletter"

Still not convinced?

Still not convinced about the Become a Consultant: How to Make the Leap? You’re a reasonable person and you’ve no doubt heard about Internet fraud artists.

Perhaps this is the first time you’ve ever made an online purchase —and you’re a little unsure.

Let me reassure you…

Your credit card details are secure! In fact, I’ll never even see them.

Your order will be processed via my secure server. (Always look for the https in the URL when you’re placing an order —it means you’re using a secure server.) My orders are handled with total integrity by one of the world’s most recognized payment processors. This company handles $11 billion in transactions from 155 million accounts every year! They’ll process your order in seconds…which is all that’s keeping you from starting the Become a Consultant: How to Make the Leap course.

Okay…let’s get started…

US$195 for the course now.

You get Become a Consultant: How to Make the Leap!

After your order, you’ll instantly receive access instructions via email.

Warm regards,

Andréa Coutu