[(Million Dollar Consulting Toolkit : Step-by-step Guidance, Checklists, Templates and Samples from "The Million Dollar Consultant")] [By (author) Alan Weiss] published on
The practical toolbox for readers of Million Dollar Consulting This useful guide provides specific checklists, guidelines, templates, and actual examples for every step of the consulting process. It covers marketing, sales, meetings, implementation, follow-up, invoicing, practice management, insurance, equipment, subcontracting, and scores of other elements. Thousands of people have bought Weiss's Million Dollar Consulting and started their own consultancy. Now, this handy resource goes hand-in-hand to provide all the tools new consultants need to enact all the recommendations and ideas in Million Dollar Consulting. Alan Weiss, PhD (East Greenwich, RI), has consulted for hundreds of organizations around the world, including Mercedes-Benz, Hewlett-Packard, Merck, Chase, American Press Institute, and the Times-Mirror Group. He is the author of 12 books, including Getting Started in Consulting (0-471-47969-1) and Organizational Consulting (0-471-26378-8).
If you have NO IDEA of what needs to be included when building a website, the equipment you'll need for your office (yes, a phone line and computer), the two lines of advertisement you might place on a newspaper, and other simplicities, then this book is for you.
The book consists of obsolete checklists that you can get off Google. I didn't find not even ONE thing that I could use. Thank God I borrowed this from the library.
Pretty good "bonus" type material, but shouldn't be a book on it's own. Satisfies the need of "process-oriented" individuals. Consider this if you are automating your business, or outsourcing work... but there may be better information out there.