Do you want to get better at environmental consulting? Here’s what you need to do:
1. Attend relevant seminars and trainings. From time to time, several groups of individuals are organizing seminars and trainings about topics that are closely relevant to the environment. As an environmental consultant, it’s a must that you take advantage of these so you can obtain fresh information about your chosen industry. The more knowledgeable you are about relevant issues, the better you’ll become in giving your clients with the most appropriate recommendations in regards to their company’s environmental issues.
2. Specialize. You can’t really be jack-of-all trades when in comes to environmental consulting. It’s important that you focus your time and energy on one specific field so you can easily become the master of it. Depending on your skills and preferences, you can focus on ecological surveying, legal environmental consulting, environment conservation, and waste water management.
3. Work with experts. You can’t really be too knowledgeable when it comes to environmental consulting. You can increase your knowledge and discover new issues by simply working closely with your fellow consultants. Join relevant community sites where these consultants share their experiences and their discoveries to improve your knowledge.
4. Check on your competitors. Environmental consulting is fast becoming one of the most competitive fields these days. If you want to boost your sign up rate or if you want more companies to hire you, you will need to know how to outplay your competitors. Check what they are doing and create an action plan on how you can outdo them.
What if you discovered how strategy consultation can help you to boost your Internet success quickly and easily? Here are 3 simple steps to get you started.
Step 1 – What is strategic consultant and why you need one?
Step 2 – Seek help from experts in your niche?
Step 3 – It is intelligent to provide a personalized solution rather than a generic one.
The purpose of this article is to show you why you need strategy consultation to become successful online much more quicker. Here are step by step details that you can apply quickly and easily.
Step 1 – What is strategic consultant and why you need one?
Strategic consultation simply means that you are seeking help from an expert in setting up a step-by-step strategy that will grow your Internet business to new heights. Strategy consultation is important because it will easily help you to achieve success at massive pace even though you are getting started. It is important that you seek help from fellow marketers to achieve success.
Step 2 – Seek help from experts in your niche?
Providing such type of consultation is extremely profitable and valuable because experts charge thousands of dollars for such consultation. You can easily get started providing such type of consultation in your niche once you master your topic, this is where big money is made. Personalized solution is extremely important if you want to achieve massive success.
Step 3 – It is intelligent to provide a personalized solution rather than a generic one.
There are many consultants who have a preplanned strategy and they show the strategy to every customer they get. It is extremely important that you provide a personalized solution to every business because all businesses are not unique. Setting up a personalized strategy session will help you to achieve massive success and help your clients in the long run.
If you’ve never invested in property before, using a consultant makes sense. However if you’ve successfully invested by yourself over the last 10 years or more it might be difficult to understand why you need anyone else’s help.
However, the next ten years are not going to be as easy to make money in as the last ten. Valuing properties is a very difficult task, finding ones ‘below market value’ isn’t easy; knowing what tax you’ll have to pay when you cash in your investments isn’t straightforward and finding an area that won’t be oversupplied with properties to rent and buy is going to make buy to let investment harder and harder over the coming years.
So how can a buy to let consultant help you?
1. Work with an independent consultant that DOESN’T make money from you when you buy a property. Ideally pay them a day rate so that their advice is independent to you and your circumstances and not relying on commission from property purchases.
2. An independent BTL consultant should be able to value a property properly for you. No property has ‘one price’ but properties do have a maximum you should pay for them and an independent person is less likely to get ‘carried away’ with bidding for a property than you are.
3. Consultants should already have a good team of recommended suppliers that you can use and should also secure a discount for you, saving you money on their fees and time finding the right people from mortgage brokers to insurance and legal/tax specialists.
4. Having an independent person to work with when analysing a property to buy (or checking out what to do with your current portfolio) is helpful as they have no emotional attachment to the properties you own or want to buy. It will help you see the ‘wood from the trees’.
5. Any consultant worth their salt will keep you up to speed with legal changes and market reports that are relevant to you, even once you have paid them for their services.
A good consultant will not charge thousands of pounds for their services. They may be a good letting agent that gives advice free of charge or charges you hundreds of pounds for their services. They may charge up to a £500 for individual work, but give taster courses for less than £300 (usually for two people) and some even offer them for free.
The main thing to make sure is any consultant that you work with ONLY makes money when you do, or they charge via seminars and one to one consultancy only and don’t sell or rent any properties.
I am one of the UK’s top property experts being regularly quoted in the press including the Telegraph, Independent, Times, Daily Mail and Express and have appeared on BBC2, featured on BBC Radio 4, Channel 4 and a number of local BBC Radio stations.
I have been a consultant to the property sector for a number of years and renovating properties for over 20 years. I have also written a number of books, including four for Which? – Buy, Sell, Move House, Renting and Letting, Develop your Property and the Property Investment Handbook.
Offering consulting services is definitely one of the most lucrative ways to make money online these days. A friend of mine decided to offer image enhancement consulting services. Everyday, she works with people who are having problems with their self-esteem and with those people who are struggling to succeed in life because of their image. She makes $1,500 – $5,000 per client. Sounds enticing, huh?
Here’s how you can jumpstart your consulting career:
1. Know what consulting is and what its not. Most people are still confused with coaching, consulting, and mentoring. You can’t be one of these people if you want to start a career in consulting, right? Read and learn as much as you can about this endeavor to know what is expected of you and how you can perform your job properly.
2. Active listening. If you are having a problem shutting your mouth even for a second, consider developing your active listening as early as now. It’s important that you get your clients to talk and that you listen to them intently so you’ll know their problems and their goals in life.
3. Communication skills. As a consultant, it’s very important that you do not have any problem communicating your thoughts and ideas for obvious reasons. Before you get started, I recommend that you improve your communication skills first by simply attending relevant trainings and seminars. Reading relevant online and offline resources will also help.
4. Learn from the experts. Work with people who are considered gurus in the field of consulting and see if you can solicit insider tips and expert advice that can help you get started on the right foot.