Gary Vaynerchuk just posted a great little video about making things happen. The lesson he’s sharing can be applied just as easily to jumping in and becoming a consultant, growing your business or even to your personal life. That lesson (see Gary’s video here) is, if you really want something,...

Sitting here on this Sunday morning a few days before the new decade begins and making lists of my education, business, and consulting goals for 2010. One big thing for me is I’m moving back to Vancouver, Canada (My Hometown) after doing business and living in Japan for over 3 years. That alone...

This is one of the most overlooked areas for new consultants. They focus on creating a website and logo, they get business cards printed, they set up their office space and they give themselves a catchy name. Then they go out and find clients. But there’s one big gap in this plan. Don’t Follow...

There’s a lot of focus on writing effective consulting proposals. You’ve likely signed up for our Consultants Toolkit list and received this guide. But these proposals aren’t always as important as people often make them seem. In fact, they can often be a waste of time. And I’ll...

If I randomly lined up the first 10 consultants I could find and asked them what’s blocking their path to success here’s what they’d say: 4 of them would complain loudly about how other people have either got in their way or haven’t helped them enough. 2 would somberly say they...

Many independent consultants do much of their work in silos. They travel from their own office to their clients’ offices and then back again. Not getting out is not a good thing. The situation is compounded when we consider that most consultants work from home offices. There is definitely nothing...

What makes your consulting services unique? You’ve decided you’ve got what it takes to become a successful consultant, and you have the necessary skills to give yourself some credibility to get into the consulting game. Sounds like a good start, right? Well not exactly. In order to make...