SRW – Consulting for Fun and Profit

As a consultant, you should always be on the lookout for your next gig. Typically, you do not do mass-market advertising – no radio, TV, or print ads. You need to strike a balance between being busy enough to support your lifestyle and financial/professional goals, and having the time available to pursue your personal goals and to enjoy the fruits of your success.

So how do you keep busy? Networking. read more…

I think its important to ensure that you’re always energized – supercharged – to be your best. There’s lots of books, videos, articles, on how to do this. One thing I found that works for me, is to watch some great motivational videos or to listen to a great speaker. The difference between a good speaker, and a great speaker, is the ability to energize you. You could be the best expert in the world on a particular topic, but unless you can be passionate about it, and transfer that passion to your audience – make me care! – then you’re just a good speaker, not great.

I’ve been listening to a great book (yes, I said great!) from Audible.com lately,
The Unemployed Millionaire: Escape the Rat Race, Fire Your Boss, and Live Life on YOUR Terms! by Matt Morris. Matt has a great story (check out his website for the full treatment), and its great to hear first hand about his successes. After Matt launched his book, just a few weeks ago now, he’s started up a blog as well, and has set up a great tradition, Motivational Mondays. He posts up a short video clip about a topic or idea that’s really motivated him, and shares how its helped him with his audience. I’ve been following along with Matt, and he just posted a great clip that I found really motivating myself, a collection of clips from Will Smith – singer / rapper, actor, husband, father, and – who knew it! – but a great speaker. Check it out below. read more…

You’re in business for many reasons, but I’m sure one of those reasons is to make money!

A critical part of managing any business is cashflow management, and its no different in the consulting business. While you may not have the same fiscal pressures as product/inventory based businesses, with creditors constantly knocking on your door to be paid for goods ordered, you have to be especially careful that you’re not losing sight of billables either.

Here’s some information on how you can manage your consulting cashflow effectively.

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Its no secret that I’m an admirer of Adam Khoo. Not only is he a successful businessman and personally wealthy, but he’s dedicated his life to sharing his success secrets and helping others be their personal best.

I’ve personally purchased many of Adam’s products, and I’ve even promoted them to you, my readers. This time however, Adam has outdone himself!
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I recognize that not all of you are parents – but you may have children in your life regardless. Whether its a favourite niece or nephew, a grand-child, or even a god-child – the children in our lives are important, and as parents or caregivers, we want what’s best for them.

While there are lots of books on properly raising your children, most of them are written by child-care professionals. I’m not sure how many of them are actually successful parents themselves, and how many have written from success they’ve achieved in their own lives. Would you take financial advice from a high-school economics teacher? Not if he was broke, that’s for sure!

What if you could guarantee success for your kids – not just financial success, but real success in life – happy and healthy as well as financially grounded?

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Hello all:

Now that you’ve had a chance to read some of our articles (if not, please go ahead and see what we have, and come back…I’ll wait! ), I’d like to hear from you on what you’d like to see next!

As a bit of an incentive, I’ll be giving a free gift at random to one of our lucky respondants – but to be eligible, you need to respond! Its a really short survey, I promise, but it would help me to serve you better.

You’ll find the survey after the “more” button below. See you on the other side!
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Hello all:

Sorry its been a couple of weeks since I’ve last posted. Been very busy with some client work.

I’ll be posting again more regularly, so stay tuned!

MKS

Great talk by Tony Robbins at TED (Ideas Worth Spreading) that talks about the human motivators for success. 20 minutes, great info for consultants!

You’ve probably heard this one before – especially from some full-time employees. Understandably, they’re often upset that as a consultant, you seem to be getting a sweet deal – you’re working the same job as they are, with often similar skills, yet you’re usually working on cutting edge projects while they’re stuck with support or maintenance duties, and even worse, you’re making more money! How can you counter this perception? read more…

Project Runway

Great article on “Project Runway” that talks about the types of tools that Freelancers use to be productive. Take a look and talk about your own favourite tools below!

Here’s my personal list of favourite tools (I use a Mac): read more…