Consulting Guru Style

Would You like to Be a Consultant?
By Stu Leventhal - Guru Marketing Tips Editor

​When you are good at something, anything, you want to help others understand how you do it. Consulting is teaching, advising, coaching…

You are getting paid to assist others in an activity that you have become very capable at. You want to pass your knowledge on.

You do not want to end up doing the work for the individual, which would be quite easy for you to do because you want them to learn.

Yes, consultants do want to help our clients get out of a bad jam but consulting is more about pointing the client in the correct direction. Consultants help others get better… improve!

We wish our clients to go on, eventually, without us and continue to make smart decisions. Yes, we will stay in touch and offer more advice to take a client to that next level again when our assistance is needed or when some extra inspiration is required but we are not trying to make our clients dependent on us. In fact, good consultants are delighted when their clients show smart initiative making advancements on their own. It reinforces that our mentoring, tips and advice are being learned, not just followed. 

So, to be a consultant, you first have to become an expert at something. Folks…pros…consult on all kinds of things. Just because there are not any consultants yet giving advice and tips about something you have become very good at, does not mean there is not a market for you to consult on your specialty.

If you enjoy doing something and have gotten very good at doing it, chances are there are plenty of people interested in learning how, from you.

Just like there are millions of how to books in any library and more and more being written every day; there are literally infinite subjects one can consult on. Some of the more popular consulting fields are:

• IT Consulting – There are lots of technology Industry niches to specialize in as a tech consultant; software, hardware, cloud, ecommerce, social media, website design…
• Business Management Consulting – Small Business Advisor,
• Marketing, Promotion, Sales and Advertising Consulting
• Health and Fitness Consultant – Personal Trainers are in high demand such as workout, body building and body sculpting specialists, cardio training and marathon coaches. Other examples are weight loss consultant, diet expert, quit smoking mentors, herbal and vitamin nutritionists, vegetarian lifestyle coach and yoga masters.
• Financial Advisors – stocks, bonds, saving for retirement, estate planning, living on a budget, improving one’s credit score counselling, debt consolidation, small business/startup funding…
• Career Counsellors – Changing careers, negotiating a promotion, job interview coaching, resume writing help…
• Fashion Consulting – Dress for Success Coach, Makeup Consultant
• Security Consulting – Many ex-police officers and military people go into the many security advising fields

There are many Professional Consulting Fields for which you usually need to have a license to practice or to pass a government test of some kind to before you qualify to give advice, such as:

• Lawyer
• Accountant
• Realtor
• Medical Consultant fields: Pain Management, Depression, Addiction, Menopause, Plastic Surgery Consultants  

There are also people consulting on:

• The Arts: Creative Writing Coach, painting or sculpting mentor, Photography Coach, Acting Coach, Singing Coach, musical instrument playing (guitar, piano, violin etc.)…
• Dating Advice
• Cooking, Cake Making, Barbecuing, Winemaking…
• Party and Event Throwing Advisor
• Vacation Consultants
• How to Raise Gifted Children
• Building self-esteem, overcoming shyness and gaining confidence coach
• School habits and studying coaching
• Sports: Every sport (football, soccer, tennis, bowling…) and most games (video games, poker, board games, chess…) all have experts willing to help others learn the basics and advance skills of winning.
• Raising Bees
• Action Hobbies: Skateboarding, surfing, skiing, mountain climbing, snorkeling, hunting, fishing, cycling…
• Interior Design Consulting
• Art collecting, stamp collecting, antiques…
• Public Speaking Coach
• Meditation

Are you beginning to see that there is a need for a qualified consultant on just about any activity, occupation and hobby that man can think of doing? Somewhere there is someone wanting to learn from the master.

Is there something you do better than most of us?

Is there knowledge you know that we don’t that you’d like to share?

Perhaps you could be earning a nice living and lots of money, by becoming a paid consultant in a niche specialty.
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Nothing gives one more satisfaction than teaching and using one’s expertise and know-how to help others learn something they will treasure for the rest of their life…a new skill!