Lesson 1: The Truth about Being a Consultant

• What it truly takes to be a successful consultant and how to unlock and realize your full potential…it’s NOT expertise!
• How to enjoy what you REALLY want from a consulting career: freedom and flexibility. And why most consultants never get it and end up settling for just another JOB.
• How to “fire” bad clients…before you ever hire them…and the secret to attracting your ideal clients.
• How to structure your business to insure it supports your lifestyle…not just your client’s needs. This will determine your income earning potential!

• How to defeat the crushing loneliness of consulting…don’t underestimate its power!
• How to stay motivated…when it’s only YOU doing the motivating.
• The “passion” factor…how to focus it to drive your success.
• Questions every consultant must ask themselves to know if they’re “cut out” for this business

• Why the “perfect” schedule does not exist…how to schedule to get the most out of YOUR day.
• Hard lessons learned about scheduling…avoid my mistakes
• How much time will it take you to achieve your goals? If you don’t learn my tough scheduling lessons, a lot longer than you thought!

Lesson 2: Setting The Foundations For Your Consulting Business

• The “boring” stuff that can make or break your business
• Should you incorporate? The benefits of incorporating.
• Why you need to hire an accountant NOW
• Why you should invest in hiring a lawyer
• How to know what kind of office will boost your productivity
• Bank account rules and no-nos.
• Pros and cons of working “on site”

Lesson 3: Specialization Secrets

• Why you need to get clear on your ideal client…this might be the most important thing you’ll learn in Momentum
• Why being a “generalist” is a death sentence for your business.
• How “niche-ing down” and getting smaller will snag you MORE engagements
• How should YOU specialize? Get the question to help you find out

• The real purpose of your messaging…most consultants do NOT get this
• The most important question you can ask “Who is my ideal client?” and how to answer it
• How do you REALLY help your clients? You’d be surprised how many clients don’t really know this
• Why should a client choose you? It’s not about your processes or expertise…it’s about THIS

• How to market yourself so your ideal clients can find you
• How to stand out with “impact marketing”
• How to make it brain-dead easy for clients to reach you
• Why you need to be an expert in marketing…and how to do it without feeling sales-y

Lesson 4: Branding and Your Business

• How to know if you have the right messaging in your marketing materials.
• My favorite resources to help build your brand
• The power of simplicity and why most consultants overcomplicate their marketing message
• How I grew my consulting business with simple tools…and how you can do the same
• The biggest marketing wastes of money…and how to avoid them
• How to get powerful, compelling testimonials…and how to use them in your marketing materials to close more clients

• Why you should make your LinkedIn profile a priority…and how most consultants do it wrong
• How to make sure your LinkedIn profile is “parallel” with your other marketing resources
• Example of a good LinkedIn profile…and what not to do

• How to design your website to grow your business…not just an online brochure
• 3 real live websites…what they do well and what they don’t
• What to put on your home page…and what to cut
• How to position your services to make visitors ask “how do they do that?”
• The most powerful form of proof…this MUST be on your website
• How to display your contact info…so visitors will actually contact you
• Dos and donts for brochures, case studies, and business cards.
• What to outsource and what to do yourself.

Lesson 5: Strategies for Consulting Fees and Pricing

• Why you must set THIS number first…no, it’s not your hourly rate!
• Why you should NOT charge by the hour…why it’s a tragic, income-limiting mistake
• Better ways to estimate your time…and make more money per hour, per week and per year

• How to use project fees to double your income
• The project fee formula I recommend to all my clients
• How to “pad” your fee so you AND YOUR CLIENT are happier in the end

• How to use retainers to make more money faster
• How to get your clients to pay more for “access”…and how to position yourself to get them to pay more
• How a retainer alters your relationship with your client…in your favor
• The dangers of “retainer complacency” and how to avoid them

• How a higher fee is good for you…and the client
• Why value-based fees are a powerful way to drive up your revenue
• The ROI formula for determining your fee…and making more from each client
• How to figure “tangible” and “intangible” value …and use them to raise your prices
• Dangers of “ROI pricing” and how to avoid them

• How equity performance deals work…and how to know whether they will work for you
• The risks of equity performance deals and how to minimize them
• Checklist for insuring a successful performance deal

• How discovery offers can raise your revenue fast
• How discovery offers speed up the sales process
• How discovery offers lead to (higher paying) full engagements.
• How to price your discovery offer for maximum revenue

• How to raise your fee with new clients and avoid “pushback”
• How to know…”Is raising my fee is worth it?”
• How to “sell” higher fees to your client without being sales-y.

• How charging less can erode your reputation…and how to know “is it worth it?”
• How lower fees can damage your marketing efforts
• How and when to use discounts effectively
• How to test your fees…and why most consultants never do!

Lesson 6: Effective Contracts and Proposals

• How to write a proposal that gets them to call you back…and why most proposals fail miserably
• Why the project overview is the most important…and most ignored part of a proposal
• How to write a result-oriented proposal and why it’s so important
• How to use ROI so your client thinks “investment” not “expense”
• How to layout expectations to avoid scope creep and other nightmares
• How to guarantee your work so that the client says “yes”…And you don’t get screwed

Lesson 7: Client Development for Consultants

• Why traditional networking is a waste of time…and how to do it right
• How to find building-business networking events and what to do when you get there

• The wrong and right way to connect with your ideal client on LinkedIn.
• How to “add value” in every message to your ideal client.
• How to “nurture” your prospects until they become check-writing clients.
• How to leverage your first degree connections to find new clients and gain business.

• How to leverage your results to attract new clients
• What measurements you MUST track to build your magnet messaging
• How adding “continuous value” helps you gain more clients.
• How to get “new business” out of existing clients…and why you should start there
• Questions to ask to get more business from existing clients so they write bigger checks

Lesson 8: Marketing Your Consulting Services

• How to develop the marketing mindset of the most successful consultants.
• Become great at marketing even if you don’t consider yourself a marketer – whether you’re an introvert or extrovert.
• The most important thing to have in place BEFORE you start marketing – this makes all the difference.
• Discover the BEST marketing tactic and approach for YOUR specific business.
• The power of consistency and how it will increase your sales 50%, 100%, even 400% and more.

• How to create a identify and find your ideal clients with precision so you can target them.
• Step by step approach to start conversations with your ideal clients – without feeling salesy or promotional.
• The specific touch points and follow up schedule to use to maximize your response and have more conversations with ideal clients.

• Most people use LinkedIn all wrong. You’ll learn how to use this platform to start connecting with and having conversations with your ideal clients – not in months or years, but within days!
• Proven high response generating scripts to have your dream clients accept your connection request right away and want to speak with you.
• Tools to make your prospecting on LinkedIn more efficient and effective to turbocharge your results.

• Discover how top consultants use speaking to grow their business.
• Receive template sand scripts to land speaking engagements.
• Use the presentation best practices template to deliver valuable and compelling presentations.
• How to deliver a talk and generate 10, 20 even 50 leads at one time.
• Specific steps to leverage speaking so that your clients and the industry see you as a top authority.
• How to find the best speaking events, regardless of your industry or your location.

• How to find the contact information of your ideal clients.
• Step by step how to develop a sequence of messages that get your clients to respond.
• How to structure your emails so that buyers are happy to read them and look forward to hearing from you.
• A strategic hook to your emails that will position you as the trusted source and instantly create a strong relationship with your ideal clients.
• The secrets to building a valuable email list that helps you to grow your business for many years to come.

• How to write and promote thought leadership content to attract high-value high-paying clients.
• The truth about advertising for consultants – most of the information online is false – and how to actually make it work as a consultant.
• When to use social media and when to ignore it completely – specific lessons for consultants.
• The most important investment in your marketing and business and how to get the best ROI.
• Plus over 50 proven scripts, templates and more!

Lesson 9: Getting Found Online, The Power of SEO

• The right way to do SEO and why most consultant do it wrong
• How to know what to write about to attract ideal clients
• Why many consultants give up on marketing…and how to avoid their ugly fate
• How to write lead-generating pieces for OTHER websites…and how to find the right ones
• The “interview” strategy for boosting SEO…and landing new clients

Lesson 10: Managing Clients & Relationships

• How to pluck the “low hanging fruit” and harvest prosperous client relationships
• Respect, response and delivery…how to impress your client
• The best way to stop scope creep (without making things awkward)
• How to fire clients (the right way)…this is KEY to reduce stress
• How to craft an unforgettable client experience so that most of your clients become long-term loyal clients

Lesson 11: Consulting Systems for Growth

• The next level: How to scale your consulting business fast.
• The most important activities to focus on when you’re ready to scale and what you MUST avoid.
• How to delegate and build a team (whether you want one or two support staff, of if you want to have a firm with 10-20 people or more.
• The real benefits of outsourcing and contracting and how to do it properly – it will save you a lot of time and money done this way.
• Discover the high-performance approach successful consultants use to create systems and processes to grow their business.
• The best tools, apps and technologies you can use to grow your consulting business.
• And much, much more!

Every lesson comes with Action Steps, a Quiz to test your comprehension, and resources like checklists, spreadsheets, guides, templates and links to powerful resources.