A Guide to Professional Consulting - Part One
What you'll learn
- Understand what skills and experience are required to become a professional consultant
- Have insights as to what consulting disciplines best meet the student's skillsets
- Have a better understanding as to what they can charge for their consulting services and how to ensure that their engagement expenses are covered
Requirements
- Students should be knowledgeable in a marketable business skill with strength in their resumes that can demonstrate this knowledge to others or be planning to gain that skill in the near future
Description
This course provides the student with several lectures that collectively when finished, provides them with a thorough introduction to the world of professional consulting. This course is designed to help the person who is considering undertaking a consulting career. It covers the following topics:
- What the consulting lifestyle looks like – and the pros and cons to being a consultant
- What combination of skills and experience are required to be successful at consulting
- What are the most common areas of service (disciplines) that consultants can profitably market
- How much on average a consultant can charge for his or her services by consulting discipline
- When should a consultant operate as a sole proprietorship and when should incorporation be considered
- What is required to be able to consult internationally
- What is required to consult in the USA if you are resident in Canada
- How do you obtain international “Trade NAFTA” status to consult throughout North America
At the end of this course, the student will have gained greater insights into the world of professional consulting. This knowledge gained should help the student to both better decide if a consulting future is appropriate for them and also help them get started as a consultant if they choose to move ahead in this career direction.
Who this course is for:
- This course targets people thinking about becoming a consultant who have demonstrated skills and experience in a business discipline that they believe is marketable
Course content
- Preview04:19
- 09:46Introduction to Professional Consulting
- 10:06Consulting Disciplines
- 09:26Corporation or Proprietorship?
- 04:28Consulting Pros and Cons
- Preview06:03
- 05:05What It Takes to Be a Consultant
- 07:40Consulting Cross Border From Canada
- 03:39A W2 Versus a 1099 Contract
- 05:17Building an MP4 Lecture Video Using Microsoft PowerPoint
- 06:53General Computer Protection Strategies to Employ
- 3 questionsSection One Quiz
Instructor
![Dan Grijzenhout](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
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About Dan Grijzenhout: For close to thirty years, Dan has been a professional business and information systems consulting professional working as an Enterprise Architect, Database Architect and Project Manager to executive levels for both private and public sector organizations globally, a number of which were "Fortune" level enterprises. Dan has founded, operated and sold an online global payment services company that moves millions of dollars on behalf of its 100,000 plus account holders annually; he has been interviewed on the show "World Business Review" by former head of NATO and Secretary of State, General Alexander Haig, for his work in advanced digital and online telecommunications services and nation-wide online and card based "Loyalty" programs; and now works at writing and building training programs to share his years of experience with others interested in becoming professional consultants, enterprise architects, and taking advantage of online business growth opportunities.
Social Media Marketing, Content Creation and Authorship: During the past few years, Dan has focused nearly all his time and energy on designing and building online marketing systems and social media marketing platforms. In fact, Dan recently completed a two year project as the project manager and chief enterprise architect to build a marketing system used by several major airlines, travel agencies and Fortune Level manufacturing corporations. Dan has written, self-published and self-marketed nine books now being sold through Amazon Kindle and Create Space; he has written and published over 60 published social media related training/learning articles, and has created over 300 training videos and knowledge enhancing video podcasts.
He has gained expertise in many online content creation tool-sets including the full suite of Adobe Creative tools and Adobe Dreamweaver for website development; video and audio editing software; 3rd party social media related website services and content creation partners; and most main-stream social communication platforms including Facebook and Facebook business pages, Pinterest, Twitter, Instagram, Google Plus, Reddit, GoodReads, Amazon Author Central, LinkedIn, Ezine Articles Publishing, Amazon-Kindle Book Publishing, Amazon Create Space and more. On these social media platforms, Dan has now amassed over 20,000 followers and subscribers and more are following him daily.