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Consulting Business Growth with Dekker: Get More Clients!
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Consulting Business Growth with Dekker: Get More Clients!

Business Consulting Advice for High Profits & Fast Growth: Based on the Research & Experience of a Top MBA Consultant
Last updated 9/2025
English

What you'll learn

  • How to run a consulting business
  • How to grow a consulting business
  • How to acquire consulting clients
  • How to make your consulting firm profitable
  • Business Development for Consultants
  • Marketing for Consultants
  • Sales for Consultants

Course content

1 section20 lectures3h 12m total length
  • The #1 Strategy for Consultants4:35
  • Quiz
  • Getting New Clients9:54
  • 4 Ways to Specialize7:37

    Explore four specialization paths for consulting growth: target client, problem solved, services offered, and business model. Layer them to expand your market with pricing schemes.

  • Quiz
  • Psychology of Persuasion10:50

    Explore the psychology of persuasion for consultants, learning to build client buy-in along the way using reciprocity, scarcity, authority, consistency, liking, social proof, and unity.

  • Specialization Workbook14:35
  • Specialization & Pricing Power6:12

    Develop pricing power through specialization in professional services, use McKinsey as a north star, become a visible expert, and become a trusted advisor for clients.

  • Trusted Advisors3:58
  • Getting New Clients 25:55
  • Cold Email5:06
  • Lemlist Tutorial9:25

    Learn to set up Lemlist campaigns for influencer outreach in consulting business growth, including free sign up, personalization, LinkedIn follow-ups, and lead import; monitor opens, clicks, and replies.

  • Getting Emails3:18
  • Social Media Automation23:50
  • Anti Detect Browser12:34
  • Scaling Your Consulting Practice 17:02
  • Scaling Your Consulting Practice 23:33
  • Quiz
  • Pricing Approaches7:02
  • Changing Client's Minds7:47

    Learn practical mind-changing strategies for consulting growth, using reactants, endowment, distance, and corroborating evidence to persuade clients with options, pilot projects, and risk reduction.

  • Tips to Get New Clients5:48
  • No BS Direct Marketing Summary43:18
  • Bonus0:01

Requirements

  • None

Description

Learn how to grow a highly successful and profitable consulting business -- whether you're a freelance consultant or run a consulting firm. This course is based on academic research, advice I learned from top consultants at companies such as McKinsey, as well as my own personal in the consulting business.

Key consulting lessons in this course:

  • The #1 most successful growth strategy for consulting firms and freelance consultants

  • Consulting specialization workbook with the 4 ways to specialize

  • PhD research on what drives growth in the most successful professional service firms

  • Achieving pricing power and competitive advantage in the competitive consulting business

  • How to acquire consulting clients cheaply through automated emails and other techniques

  • How to become a trusted advisor to your clients

  • How to scale your consulting business quickly, cheaply, and profitably

  • How to price your consulting business services to maximize profits

  • How to persuade prospective clients to buy your consulting services--and to keep buying your services

  • Various approaches to client acquisition that don't break the bank

  • Best practices from top management consulting firms such as McKinsey and AT Kearney

My consulting credentials:

  • Master of Business Administration from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management

  • Former VP of Marketing, Division Director, and Board Director

  • Learned from some of the highest paid consultants in the USA from companies such as McKinsey and AT Kearney

  • Experience as an independent consultant and as a Fortune 100 employee

Build a Highly Profitable, Fast Growing Consulting Business | Based on Academic Research & Direct Experience of an MBA

Who this course is for:

  • Freelance Consultants
  • Aspiring Consultants
  • Employed Consultants