Please note: this is an eBook. It's a pdf file you can read on your computer, blackberry, iphone etc, or print as often as you like. This eBook was updated in November 2008.

Cindy Tonkin’s Australian Consultant's Guide helped more than 5000 Australians set up their service and consulting business. Making your consultancy a business, not a job is the next stage.

With a job you sell your time. If you don't work, you don't get paid. With a business you have a lot more freedom to come and go. Income doesn't rely on your time.
Leverage your talents and turn your consulting job into a business!

Learn from the mistakes and successes of consultants who've done it before. Learn what to do, and avoid the pitfalls through the examples, stories and useful worksheets.

The tips in this book are in 3 chapters:

• know where you’re going
• get over yourself!
• set up the infrastructure.
  

First, Know where you’re going includes:

1. Knowing your outcome
2. Setting some baby steps too
3. Keeping in touch with customers
4. Creating products independent of time
5. Responding! Acting!

Next, Get over yourself! means:
6. Taking a holiday
7. Making the hard decisions
8. Watching your stress patterns
9. Knowing what you need to know
10. Letting go of Expert

Finally, Setting up the infrastructure is about:
11. Taking time to work on it, not in it
12. Doing it right the first time
13. Getting the right people on the bus
14. Delegating appropriately
15. Making the infrastructure support you

You will find examples and stories for each point, so you can understand and apply it to your own consultancy.

You buy the workbook 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 Making your Consultancy a Business, not a Job an ongoing investment in your business (and your life!).

Making your consultancy a business, not a job by Cindy Tonkin

64 x A4 pages (2004) e-book ISBN 9780975206171

published by Aragon Gray Pty Ltd
Please note: this is an eBook. It's a pdf file you can read on your computer, blackberry, iphone etc, or print as often as you like. This eBook was updated in November 2008.