96 pages (2005)

e-book ISBN 0-975141-1-2
$25 incl. GST

Aragon Gray Pty Ltd
Dimensions (in cm): 21 x 14.5 cm (A5)

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Summary - Take the next step!

You want more money and more time to enjoy the fruits of your independent consulting business.

You don't have much time to invest, and you'd like the time you do spend working ON your business (rather than in it) to be value for time!

Buy The Consultants' Companion, and work through step-by-step how to make changes in the way you do business, just 30 minutes a week.

Sometimes it's not that you don't know how to do it, it's that you don't know where to start! Cindy Tonkin’s Australian Consultant's Guide helped more than 5000 Australians set up their consulting businesses. The Consultant's Companion gives you even more practical advice on how to improve your:

• financial systems
• marketing systems
• asset maintenance systems.

You can audit your consultancy against the financial and asset maintenance checklists here. These are samples from the book. The Consultants' Companion provides not only the opportunity to "audit" your business and your ambitions for the business. It also takes you step by step, week by week, 30 minutes at a time, through the how-to of making the changes you want.

Learn from the mistakes and successes of consultants who've done it before. Learn what to do, and avoid the pitfalls through useful worksheets and advice. Improve your business, 30 minutes a week.

You can buy the companion in e-book form, (i.e. you buy a pdf file). This means you can print out the forms in the book as often as you need to for your own use. This makes The Consultants' Companion an ongoing investment in your business (and your life!). You can also buy in hard copy.

Audit Your Consultancy - Asset Maintenance Checklist

Audit your consultancy against this asset maintenance checklist. In any consultancy business, the most important asset is you, the consultant, and your staff. Which of these will you choose to make top priority when you begin working through your own copy of the Consultants' Companion?

People

• I spend enough time with myself
• I spend enough time with my friends
• I spend enough time with my family
• I meet enough new people
• I catch up with old friends
• I enjoy the company of my clients
• I enjoy the company of my colleagues

Activities

• I spend enough time browsing the web
• I spend enough time reading books
• I spend enough time doing new things
• I spend enough time staying at home
• I spend enough time just hanging out
• I spend enough time doing what I love
• I spend enough time pampering myself
  

Interests

• I have hobbies/interests outside work
• I'm up to date with my hobbies
• I am interesting
• I am interested
• I'm animated when talking about things other than work

Health

• I look healthy
• I feel healthy
• I eat properly
• I sleep enough
• My sleep is good quality
• My teeth are maintained
• I drink enough (min. 2 litres per day)
• My caffeine intake is at a good level
• I get enough exercise
  

Learning

• I'm learning new things
• I'm remembering what I already know
• I'm applying what I'm learning
• I'm up to date with my profession

Events

• I attend conferences enough
• I lunch with people I like
• I celebrate my achievements appropriately
• I celebrate major holidays appropriately

Take the opportunity to buy this book now, and start investing some time in getting more time and more money into your business!

Audit Your Consultancy - Financial Maintenance Checklist

Try auditing your consultancy against this financial health checklist. Which of these will you choose to make top priority when you begin working through your own copy of the Consultants' Companion?

Billing

• I bill promptly
• I receive payment promptly
• I bill clients a percentage up front
• I bill clients weekly where I can
• I have incentive systems for clients to pay early/ penalty systems for paying late
• I refund money if they pay early
• I actually charge them late fees if they are incurred
• My invoices comply with the Tax Office guidelines
• My invoices include any "free" or unbilled time the client won't be charged for (so they know they're getting it)

Clients

• I spend enough money on marketing
• I have the right number of clients
• I need more clients
• I need higher paying clients
• I need more lower $ short term clients
• I need to develop a passive income stream
• I need some bread and butter money between clients

Selling

• I can name my price without flinching
• I have documents which name my price

Tax and Legal

• I have my accounting systems set up
• I know where to get tax advice
• I know where to get legal advice
• I keep my books up to date
• The quarterly BAS is no drama for me
• My end of year taxes are completed on time
• I have electronic banking set up
• I pay myself first
• My business has sufficient credit
• All my recurring bills are paid electronically to minimise my admin time
• Clients pay me electronically to minimise my fees and cash flow issues
  

Take the opportunity to buy this book now, and start investing some time in getting more time and more money into your business!