Practice Development Workshop

Get Smart
Get Known
Get Business

PRACTICE
DEVELOPMENT
WORKSHOP

Mar. 12th, 2008

Please note this month's date change!

DON'T MISS THIS INSIGHTFUL NEW WORKSHOP
  

 
SELLING CONSULTING SERVICES III

Workshop Focus
Learn from experts, stay current, exchange ideas, and share your expertise.

Rumor has it that it is particularly difficult for sole consulting practitioners to sell their services to larger corporations and senior buyers. This is little more than a myth. What may be true, though, is that large consultancies often better understand what it takes to engage successfully with such clients. No matter what the size of your own practice, you can learn this, too!

This month's workshop will teach you the process required to engage with large corporate clients. Specifically, we will discuss some tough challenges you may be facing along the way:

  • Making initial contact and identifying the economic buyer
  • Identifying open and hidden client needs
  • Closing the engagement
  • Other "little known secrets"

Workshop Facilitator
Kathy Mast
collaborates with CEOs of global Fortune 1000 companies to achieve a sustainable advantage by solving their most complex business problems. Her clients are, or want to be, innovators in the Retail, Manufacturing, Professional Services, and Media Industries. Kathy has successfully repositioned her own consulting brand over the past two years.
 

LOCATION     13701 Dallas Pkwy, Telos club, Parthenon conference room
west side of Dallas Tollway, between Spring Valley and Alpha (click for Google map)
TIME /  
RESERVATIONS  
Networking:
Program:
Cost per session:

Reservations:
7:15 am - 7:30 am
7:30 am - 9:00 am
$10 for members, $20 for non-members
(includes continental breakfast; please bring cash or check)

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PRACTICE  
DEVELOPMENT  
WORKSHOP  
CURRICULUM  
 
Session 15 of 24  

 

Calendar   

(revolving  
program;  
continues with  
Session 1  
in January 2009)
  

Successful Consulting   
Laying The Foundation   
Legal Issues of Consulting
   
Effective Business Financing   
The Consulting Process   
Pricing Strategies   
Marketing Your Consultancy I   

Marketing Your Consultancy II   
Marketing Your Consultancy III
   
Marketing Your Consultancy IV   
Attention Grabbing Communications
   
Understanding The Code of Ethics
   
Consulting Contracts & Proposals   
Selling Consulting Services I   
Selling Consulting Services II   
Selling Consulting Services III   
Managing Clients' Expectations   
Managing Your Resources   
Expanding Your Consultancy   
Improving Your Strategic Agility   
Publishing For Success 
  
Re-Using Past Work   
Effective Client Analysis   
How to Become A CMC    
Why clients engage; aligning to market needs
Defining your services
Sole Proprietorship, Partnership, LLC, Corp.
Financing; business plan; managing profitability
Exploration; contracting; project mgmt; closure
How to price & quote; billing; discounts; collecting
Client & market segmentation; identifying prospects

Brand building and consistent marketing strategy
Collateral, newsletter, web presence; budgets

Networking and referrals; professional memberships
Speaking; press releases; media coverage
Integrity; confidentiality; conflicts of interest; etc.

Roles; winning proposals; legal aspects
Economic buyers; selling process; cold calls
Closing the deal; dealing with problem clients
How to sell to large corporations & senior buyers
Initial rapport; expectations; resolving scope conflicts

Effectively using you time, finances and energy
Partners; subcontractors; virtual company; JVs

How to seize an opportunity to interest a buyer
Reviewing; client ownership; managing withdrawal
Writing case studies & articles; publishing books
Profiling; client base management; referral requests
Process; certification requirements

LAST   
MONTH   
  Joe Walker, Executive Vice President for Strategic Business Services at Murphy Business and Financial Corporation, kicked off our mini-series on Selling Consulting Services by presenting a well-received overview of the selling process and approaches to identify the economic buyer.

LEARN,  
STAY CURRENT,  
EXCHANGE IDEAS,  
SHARE YOUR  
EXPERTISE  

We invite you to join us if you are new to the consulting business, wanting to learn how to effectively ramp up your practice, an established consultant, looking to stay current with state-of-the-art methods and to exchange ideas about new practices, or an experienced practitioner, willing to share your expertise on how to maximize your consulting success.

The Practice Development Workshop series is designed to cover all aspects of managing a successful consulting practice. You can attend only some of the workshops
or join us for the whole series.

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