A one-person business is different from any other! As a “one
person business,” you have to do the business PLUS get the
business.
This book is
devoted to helping you develop your skills in getting the
business plus, spectacular tips that will assist you in doing
your business more effectively.
Contains
Complete Information About: Business Setup and Operation;
Independent Contractor Criteria and Forms; Fee Setting,
Consulting; Public Speaking and Seminars; Talk Radio and Public
Television Promotion; Contracts and Agreements
When you’re the business, you do things differently. This
book focuses on getting and doing the business without the need
for employees and big budgets.
A comprehensive manual dedicated to the selling of consulting
services with special sections devoted to public speaking, one
of the most lucrative methods of promoting consulting services.
When you, and your services are the business, you need to do
things differently from other people. This manual has been
specifically developed with you in mind. It focuses on your need
to both get and do the business without the need for employees
and big budgets.
Whether you’re a doctor, lawyer, accountant, graphic designer,
quality control specialist, trainer, or public speaker, you’re
in business for yourself and pretty much by yourself.
With a limited amount of time and resources available to you,
you need to maximize your profit potential, increase your
presence in the public marketplace, and conduct your business –
by yourself.
The secret for accomplishing all of this successfully is no
secret – it’s a series of mechanical steps that you can
implement immediately to get your business into the realm of
manageability and profitability.
Nothing is
theory – everything is practical!
The material in this book is real, sensible, ready to use
information that has been gained from practical knowledge and
application over the last 15 years.
The authors have been operating independently (and successfully)
since 1982. They conduct over 400 assignments each year and have
growing practices independently and jointly.
They both understand, first hand, what it means to operate on a
“shoestring” budget, and how important it is to get the maximum
return for both the time and capital that is applied to the
business.
They’ve shared their years of expertise in this practical, easy
to follow manual so that you can join the ranks of millions of
successful one person businesses.
INCLUDED IN
THIS MANUAL are special sections about Public Speaking, one of
the single most lucrative ways to promote your career, establish
yourself as an industry expert, and generate revenues at the
same time.
Mike Rounds is a dynamic, highly successful business consultant,
author and entrepreneur. Mike will share his years of first-hand
consulting. His forte is taking complicated subject and
presenting them in a simple, easy to follow fashion, Mike has
been a consultant since the early 1980s and continues as a
consultant and professional speaker.
Nancy Miller is a seasoned veteran of the professional speaking
industry. She is an active member of the National Speakers
Association and holder of the local chapter’s prestigious Golden
Microphone Aware for Speaking Excellence.