Synopses & Reviews
If you're considering becoming a consultant, you've probably spent much of your life honing your business expertise. But no matter how experienced professional business consultants and executive coaches may be, many find selling extremely uncomfortable. The greatest struggles a consultant faces are generating more qualified leads and turning those leads into actual paying clients.
Taking traditional beliefs about how best to "sell" and turning them completely upside down, The Profitable Consultant rewrites the business development playbook for the consulting and coaching industry. Written for the independent business consultant looking to grow his or her practice, Jay Niblick teaches how to deliver more value and generate even more revenue. Distilling years of best practices from some of the most successful consultants in the world, this book delivers easy-to-apply advice that will help automate marketing efforts, increase profit margins, secure more business, and keep clients longer. This field-tested advice includes how to:
- Price your services to yield the greatest profits
- Determine whether you have what it takes to become a consultant
- Clarify your target market and build a Unique Value Proposition custom-fit for your audience
- Develop and deliver an education-based marketing strategy
- Write a killer press release that hooks a reporter to cover your story
- Focus on becoming the Business Diagnostician
- Customize your communication style to each individual client
- Muster the courage to change how you do business
You can't just sit back and wait for business to come to you. You may be an expert in your field, but The Profitable Consultant will make you an expert in how to grow a lucrative and long-lasting consulting practice.
Review
“…a refreshing, effective and surprisingly simple alternative that just works!”
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Anthony Robbins, entrepreneur, bestselling author and Peak Performance Strategist
“Jay rewrites the sales and marketing playbook for the consulting and coaching industry!”
—Marshall Goldsmith, New York Times and million copy best-selling author of MOJO and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There
“This is a new mindset, one which is totally compatible with my concept of becoming a profitable consultant. Get a copy of this book today.”
—Jim Cathcart bestselling author and member of the NSA Speaker’s Hall of Fame
“I wholeheartedly recommend this book to any professional consultant engaged in business development. In other words, all of us!”
—Dr. Tony Alessandra, bestselling author of Collaborative Selling and The Platinum Rule for Sales Mastery
“About time someone stepped up and took on the conventional way consultants have been taught to grow and sell and turned that on its head."
—Philip McKernan, international bestselling author, speaker and President at Philip McKernan Inc.
“If you’re looking for ways to grow your practice, stop searching – this book is the answer!”
—Greg Habstritt, Founder and President, SimpleWealth Inc.
“If you want more clients and more time to do what you love, study this book and put Jay's methods to use."
—Noah St. John, bestselling author of The Secret Code of Success
"The Profitable Consultant provides a system, a methodology to get more business and faster – if you are a consultant/coach.”
—Mike Koenigs, Founder/CEO Traffic Geyser
Synopsis
Selling can be uncomfortable for professional business consultants and executive coaches. The two biggest problems are generating more qualified leads, and turning those leads into actual paying clients. Taking traditional beliefs about how best to "sell" and turning them completely upside down, author Jay Niblick rewrites the sales playbook for the consulting and coaching industry. His proven five-step sales process is specifically designed for independent business consultants and coaches, serving as a common set of rules to grow their practice, deliver more value and generate more revenue. The Profitable Consultant delivers a suite of ready-to-launch tools that will automate readers’ marketing efforts, so they can focus more time delivering revenue-generating services -- to even more clients.
Synopsis
Praise for The Profitable Consultant"The Profitable Consultant takes a hard—sometimes brutal—look at the logic behind how consultants have historically tried to grow their business and offers a refreshing, effective, and surprisingly simple alternative that just works!"
—Anthony Robbins, entrepreneur, bestselling author, and Peak Performance Strategist
"I believe in helping, not selling; in problem-solving, not persuading; in collaborating, not pitching a stock solution. Jay Niblick's newest book,The Profitable Consultant, preaches all these same philosophies. Jay firmly believes in diagnosing before prescribing and good questioning/listening skills. I wholeheartedly recommend this book to any professional consultant engaged in business development. In other words, all of us!"
—Dr. Tony Alessandra, bestselling author of Collaborative Selling and The Platinum Rule for Sales Mastery
"This book shows how you, as a consultant or coach, do not need to learn scripts or develop a steel-will to go out and be a great salesperson just to be a profitable consultant. Instead, Jay shows you how to make profits an integral part of all that you do so that you never experience those sweat-producing moments of 'call reluctance' or feeling inadequate. This is a new mind-set, one that is totally compatible with my concept of becoming a profitable consultant. Get a copy of this book today."
—Jim Cathcart, bestselling author and member of the National Speakers Association Hall of Fame
About the Author
JAY NIBLICK is the founder/CEO of Innermetrix Inc., a boutique business consulting firm specializing in business consulting tools and solutions. Jay has worked with thousands of independent consultants from around the world and tens of thousands of corporations. Innermetrix has over 750 active consultants in the field working with organizations across twenty-three countries. Jay has coached each of them on how to start and grow a profitable consulting practice. He has consulted to organizations including Johnson & Johnson, British Petroleum, Intel, Google, Coca-Cola, BAE Systems, The Anthony Robbins Companies, and others. For more information, visit www.innermetrix.com
Table of Contents
Foreword Marshall Goldsmith ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
1 Is Consulting Even Right for Me? 5
2 Build a Foundation That Supports Heavy Profits 19
3 Poor Pricing Equals Poor Profits 57
4 How You Charge Is as Important as What You Charge 81
5 Not Just Any Ole Fishing Hole Will Do 97
6 Seek Only to Give—Marketing That Actually Works 111
7 Why Selling Sucks—The Profits from Your Practice 171
8 He Who Identifies the Cause of the Problem Gets to Fix It 1779 The Golden Rule Is Just Plain Wrong 209
10 Be Bold and Mighty Forces Will Come to Your Aid 221
Conclusion: Don’t Lose Sight of Your Success 231
Appendix A Putting It All to Work for You—A Review 235
Appendix B The EBM Guide: How to Get Started on an EBM Campaign 243
Appendix C Press Release Template 247
Appendix D Launch Cheat Sheet 249
About the Author 257
Index 259