The Ultimate Consultant Powerful Techniques for the Successful Practitioner [Paperback]

The Ultimate Consultant--the first book in a series written for experienced practitioners--is filled with helpful interviews and vignettes from an array of successful consultants from around the world, and offers the templates, examples, information, and tools you need to transform your business.

This essential, hands-on resource includes:
* Forty tips that can increase your fees--tomorrow
* Ten tested techniques for springboarding to potential clients
* Information on how you can make money while you sleep with newsletters, audio and video, commercial and self-publishing
* Ten-criteria to test peer-level collaborators
* The simplest, most effective time management tool ever
* 50 techniques to enhance life balance

With this indispensable resource as your guide you can learn how to become an ultimate consultant and take your business to new heights!Introduction.

Acknowledgments.

Chapter 1. Acquiring Fortune 1000 Clients: Why Size Doesn't Matter.

Establishing Relationships with Major Buyers: Rainmaking.

Ten Techniques to Build High-Level Buyer Relationships: Making Rain.

Why Size Doesn't Matter.

Using the Springboard to Other Potential Clients.

Ten Techniques for Springboard Marketing.

The Ultimate Rules.

Chapter 2. Value-Based Fees: If You're Charging by the Hour or Day, You're an Amateur.

The Concept of Value-Based Fees.

The Key to High Fees Is Not to Mention Fees.

Thirty-Eight Ways to Increase Your Fees, Beginning Tomorrow.

The Ultimate Rules.

Chapter 3. Marketing and Publicity: Creating Gravitationallsâ