Chapter 2
Your Role as a Consultant

Chapter 1
Getting Started as an Internet Professional

Chapter 2
Your Role as a Consultant

Chapter 3
Planning Your Business

Chapter 4
Assembling Your Team

Chapter 5
Setting Your Rates

Chapter 6
What the Client Expects from the Internet and You

Chapter 7
Finding Customers

Chapter 8
Planning Your Presentation

Chapter 9
Making the Presentation

Chapter 10
Writing the Proposal and Contract

Chapter 11
Organizing and Managing the Website Development Process

Chapter 12
Billing and Budgeting

Chapter 13
Growing the Business

About these pages

Chapter Overview

Almost all Internet web designers, developers, programmers and marketers will take on the role of consultant when working with clients. This chapter explains what that role is and why it is so important. Updated 04/24/2008

Links to resources relevant to this chapter.

Vision X Software
http://www.visionx.com/mfcpro/cons/breakin.htm

A resource for programmers who would like to become consultants.

Smart Business Supersite
http://www.smartbiz.com/sbs/cats/consult.htm

A grab bag of articles on various aspects of the consulting business.

Recent Marketing Trends 2007 & 2008

Expectant Moms Spread the Word Online  (eMarketer.com)

Rich Boomers Are Buying Online (eMarketer.com)

Teens Spending More Time Online (Nielsen//NetRatings)

The Future of the Internet II (Pew Internet Project)

Search Behavior Equals Big Marketing Dollars (iMedia Connection)

Video Ads Get the Clicks (eMarketer.com)

2007 Digital Marketing & Media Fact Pack (Advertising Age)

Online and In Stores - Integration Becoming a Reality (Retailing Today)

Viewers Flock to the Internet for TV  (eMarketer.com)

Website Globalization Report 2007 (MarketingSherpa)

The Geek's Guide to Internet Business Success
The Definitive Business Blueprint for Internet Developers, Programmers, Consultants, Marketers and Service Providers

Author: Bob Schmidt
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 0471288381