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The Independent Consultant: Building a Practice That Commands Premium Fees

This course teaches you how to build a sustainable independent consulting practice from positioning your expertise through landing high-value engagements and systematizing referrals. You will leave with real frameworks, templates, and pricing logic you can apply to your first or next client.

Professionals with domain expertise in business, marketing, operations, finance, or creative fields who want to launch or grow an independent consulting practice.

Course content

Why Specialists Earn More Than Generalists40m
Carving Your Niche: The Positioning Matrix45m
Crafting a Compelling Point of View38m
From Billable Hours to Productized Services42m
Value-Based Pricing: Anchoring to Client Outcomes50m
Building Your Service Menu and Rate Card37m
Running a Discovery Conversation That Closes44m
Writing Proposals That Win52m
Statements of Work: Setting Yourself Up for a Clean Engagement46m

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