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114 1. Executive Summary 2. Assess the Situation Marketing Your Consulting Services Exhibit 6.1. Your Marketing Plan Assess Your Consulting Company • Define your business • Define your management plan • Define your company’s customer base • Define your financial situation • Declare your strengths and weaknesses Assess Your Competition • Define who they are • Define how they differ from you Assess Your Clients • Identify their needs • Identify their level of satisfaction 3. Build a Potential Client Base Clarify Your Strategy • Identify your competitive position • Identify your niche • Describe your targeted client base • Describe what you will offer these clients • Identify what you will tell your clients about these services 4. Set Measurable Six- to Twelve-Month Goals Set Measurable Goals to Build Your Business • Goals should focus on the niche you have described • Goals should be measurable • Goals should be time bound
Exhibit 6.1. Your Marketing Plan, Cont’d 5. Select Marketing Tools to Accomplish Your Goals Identify Tools You Will Use to Reach • New clients • Current clients • Past clients Identify Tools You Will Use to Ensure a Fit for Your • Clients • Budget • Personality 6. Identify Resources Identify Resources Required • Person responsible • Time required • Cost 7. Develop an Annual Marketing Planning Calendar • Lay out your plan for the year 8. Implement and Monitor Your Plan • Identify how you will track results • Identify how you will know if you need to adjust your plans • Identify how you will reward yourself for completion Your Marketing Plan: Can You Market on a Shoestring Budget? 115
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About Pfeiffer Pfeiffer serves the
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“In her new book, Elaine continue
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“Elaine has done it again—a boo
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Copyright © 2003 by John Wiley & S
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CONTENTS Dedication ix List of Figu
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SEVEN Prospecting in All the Right
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LIST OF FIGURES AND EXHIBITS ONE Fi
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Figure 9.5 Expanding the ABCs: Addi
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PREFACE It is rare that I am writin
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• I promise to teach you creativi
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One Last Thing I have lots of last-
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xxx Celia Rocks, publicist, thanks
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2 Market Research and Market Plans
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4 receive something to put in a box
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6 it that. Whether you like it or n
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8 add value for your clients? Do yo
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10 6. If your attitude about sellin
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12 A: Assess the Situation Assessin
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14 tools available to you. Try to s
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16 • Start a file of marketing id
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Assess the Situation L part ONE
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22 As mentioned earlier, a marketin
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24 Luick tip . . . Subscribe to the
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26 My customer base suggests that:
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28 Marketing Your Consulting Servic
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30 Luick tip . . . One of the easie
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32 Marketing Your Consulting Servic
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34 • If you are currently using a
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External Assessment How Do Your Com
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5. How do your competitors’ prici
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Where to Get the Scoop Where can yo
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If you decide that the survey will
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keting, authors Ries and Trout clai
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It doesn’t have to be that diffic
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you are known for and of what you a
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2. Most consultants offer similar s
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54 may start out with a white busin
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56 You may also serve on advisory b
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58 Luick tip . . . If you might use
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60 through your logo. I have had pe
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62 • Produce just enough brochure
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Page 130 and 131: 98 Obtaining Information • Reques
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Page 173 and 174: Exhibit 7.1. Five-Step Prospecting
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164 RAINMAKER? The term rainmaker c
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166 YOU HAVE AN APPOINTMENT—NOW W
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168 Exhibit 8.1. What to Ask Potent
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170 First, it seems too sales-like
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172 for what is working well or for
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174 Ask About Money During first me
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176 • Wrap-up close: Summarize th
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178 After Your Sales Call Follow Up
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180 much will it cost? How long wil
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182 4. The last paragraph of this c
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184 Gerald Weinberg, author of The
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186 do so. The ebb associates visio
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188 service, hot food, and a friend
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190 In Closing As you end your work
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192 One of the most important thing
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194 Individuals at the “take-char
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196 Individuals at the “task-orie
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198 of the styles on both sides of
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200 for someone they met coming in.
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202 tude gives them an upbeat focus
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Figure 9.4. Adapt to Your Client’
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206 How Much Time Can Referrals Sav
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208 Build Relationships Figure 9.5.
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210 Exhibit 9.4. Continuously Impro
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212 4. Determine how many of your c
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214 ESTABLISH A WEBSITE What can yo
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216 Your website is the only market
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218 Luick tip . . . If you have wri
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220 MARKETING: TAKE ACTION 1. Visit
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Marketing Can It Be Fun? As a consu
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Compare and Combine Risk Taking Exp
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The year Babe Ruth hit the most hom
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Asking “What if?” can be just a
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A friend of mine who had never serv
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8. Incubate Remember all those time
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Personally I like to sit down with
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most were probably unaware that the
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Ask What’s Good? and What If? The
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The company remembers the first tim
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MARKETING AND CREATIVITY: A PERFECT
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Where to Look for New Ideas Sometim
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248 Do Things Differently Marketing
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250 Marketing Your Consulting Servi
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252 3. Share the load. Find someone
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254 ebb’s THIRTEEN TRUTHS I intro
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256 for your clients, you will see
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258 red to connote power, or making
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260 • Research by September 10
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262 September 30-November 5 • Wor
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264 Goal: Bring in Six New Clients
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266 Now read the letters a second t
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READING LIST Beckwith, H. (1997). S
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INDEX A ABCs of marketing: descript
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your client’s, 153; marketing pla
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Learning International, 239 Learnin
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Out-of-town clients, 179-180 The Ov
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179-180; rainmaker concept of, 163-
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282 Newport News Shipbuilding, Kohl
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• Participant’s workbook Contai
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MODEL A graphic depiction of a syst
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