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	<title>Start Consulting</title>
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	<description>How To Start Consulting (How I'm Doing It!)</description>
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		<title>Consulting Retainers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Consulting retainers are like gravy for a project well done for consultants.  You know you are truly doing a great job for clients when they just want to have access to your knowledge whenever they need it.  While retainers can be great, there are downfalls…
Retainers are simply a contract where you are available to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Start Consulting:  Call Everyone You Know</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you first hang your shingle out as a consultant you need business.  And the only way to get business is to call everyone you know, advertise, or cold call people.  Since you are just starting out and don’t have much money advertising is limited, and you may not feel up to cold calling people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creating Passive Income For Consultants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Passive income for consultants or for anyone is a great thing to have.  As a consultant you have many options available to you for creating this.  Passive income is basically income you don&#8217;t have to continually work for.  There is some initial work setting it up but once you do, you can derive income from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.startconsulting.54tips.com/creating-passive-income-for-consultants.html</link>
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		<title>5 Ways To Increas Your Consulting Fees</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are 11 ways to increase your consulting fees.   I hope you try to implement some of them this month so you can see an immediate increase in your consulting income:
1.  Focus your fees on value and not on tasks. Focus on increasing sales, not on providing 5 training classes.  By focusing on the results [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3 Pointers For Writing Great Proposals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Writing great proposals can appear intimidating, even for those of use who have written more than their fair share through the years.  Writing proposals that lead to offers does not have to be difficult, in fact if you apply some of the pointers I will share with you now, you&#8217;ll have them agreeing with you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Networking Your Way To Consulting Success</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The cheapest but most effective way to market your consulting business has always been, and will always be, through networking.  Networking is more than just shaking hands and handing out business cards.  There are two different types of networking we&#8217;ll talk about and ways to build in networking into your weekly schedule.
Before we go further, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why You Need To Incorporate Your Consulting Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You should always incorporate your consulting business, no matter how small you are.  In this post I&#8217;ll go over 4 reasons why you need to do so, and also discuss the different forms you can take; C corp, S corp, LLC, etc.  When starting out as a consultant many people don&#8217;t want to focus on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ways To Establish Yourself As A Business Consultant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How to become a business consultant?  That is a good question, but if you have been reading my blog, you realize that you have to be much more specific.  What types of business do you want to focus on?  What sectors of the industry do you want to focus on?  New consultants have to focus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tips For Determining Consultant Fees</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When first starting out, almost all of us underestimate how much we need to charge for our services.  Also, many of us deliberately low ball our services in order to just get clients when competing against large consulting firms.  Here are some ways you can go about determining consultant fees.
Consultants can normally charge for fees [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Starting Your Own Consulting Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Starting your own consulting business can be very rewarding, but it can be the most challenging time of your life.  Depending on where you are in your consulting career, you may already have clients to take with you, therefore you have business right away.  If you are starting a consulting firm from scratch, give yourself [...]]]></description>
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