Independent Consulting

About the Book

This timely book is a 'must have' for anyone who is in the consulting business, or who is contemplating becoming an independent consultant. You may have specialized training in some field. You may have developed valuable skills over the years. This invaluable book shows you how you can use your acquired skills profitably as an independent consultant.

This is an engaging book filled with tips that will help you succeed as an independent consultant. If you want to use your skills, know-how, and expertise to free yourself from an employer's control, this book shows you exactly how to do it, and make good money doing it. If you offer, or can offer, a service of any kind to anyone for a fee, Independent Consulting will show you how to make a good living from it.

The book covers all the important aspects of independent consulting. In addition to pointing our areas of independent consulting that you can enter, Independent Consulting shows you how to:

• market your consulting services
• promote and advertise your business
• build up an active client base
• prepare an effective marketing plan
• price (charge for) your services
• write effective proposals
• write meaningful reports
• manage your consulting business
• plan and control consulting assignments
• deal with contracts

About the Author

Elijah M. James is a prominent management, business, and economic consultant, and is the President of James Consulting Services (JCS) in Montreal, Canada. Dr. James has obtained the highest accreditation obtainable in the independent consulting field. A prolific writer, he has to his credit the publication of several books and articles in economics and related fields.

Dr. James is a senior faculty member in the economics department at Dawson College, and a professor in the Master in Business Administration (MBA) program at Concordia University in Montreal. He has also taught at McGill University, and still lectures occasionally at John Abbott College.