Build and Grow Your Small Business Consulting Firm: The Course
All In One For Profit · 76 lessons · certificate on completion
Twelve modules from the book, one every three days: choose a lane, set up the firm, price it, land the first three clients, write the one-page proposal, deliver, grow, and run the first ninety days. Each module has short readings and a quiz, with an optional assignment you keep for your firm.
What you will take
- Your ebook: Build and Grow Your Small Business Consulting Firm optional, open right away
- The four reasons owners pay for help open right away
- What the owner is really buying, and who else is listening open right away
- Finding the real problem in twenty minutes open right away
- Where the demand is this year open right away
- Module 1 quiz and assignment open right away
- What a lane is, and what it does for you opens 3 days after you enroll
- The service catalog: six parts of every back office opens 3 days after you enroll
- Marisol's ten, cut to three opens 3 days after you enroll
- The lane sentence, and starting as a specialist opens 3 days after you enroll
- Module 2 quiz and assignment opens 3 days after you enroll
- Six things before the first invoice opens 6 days after you enroll
- The entity and its filings opens 6 days after you enroll
- The EIN, the W-9 and the bank account opens 6 days after you enroll
- Insurance in plain words opens 6 days after you enroll
- The engagement letter and the invoice opens 6 days after you enroll
- Module 3 quiz and assignment opens 6 days after you enroll
- An unlicensed field with a short list opens 9 days after you enroll
- The tax gates: preparing and representing opens 9 days after you enroll
- The professional gates: attest work and the law opens 9 days after you enroll
- Arranging loans, and the fee that rises with the loan opens 9 days after you enroll
- Investors, insurance and selling a business opens 9 days after you enroll
- Background checks, client money and your gate check opens 9 days after you enroll
- Module 4 quiz and assignment opens 9 days after you enroll
- Four shapes of price, and the one never on the card opens 12 days after you enroll
- Work out your hourly rate from real numbers opens 12 days after you enroll
- Price a project in four steps opens 12 days after you enroll
- Sell packages, and keep the software on its own line opens 12 days after you enroll
- Say the number, then stop talking opens 12 days after you enroll
- Module 5 quiz and assignment opens 12 days after you enroll
- Start with the people who already trust you opens 15 days after you enroll
- Write your list of thirty names opens 15 days after you enroll
- Say one sentence, the same way to everyone opens 15 days after you enroll
- Open the door with the owner's own numbers opens 15 days after you enroll
- Follow up three times, and find out who decides opens 15 days after you enroll
- Module 6 quiz and assignment opens 15 days after you enroll
- A proposal ends a worry by a date opens 18 days after you enroll
- Ask the ten discovery questions opens 18 days after you enroll
- Scope the work in three lists opens 18 days after you enroll
- Write the one-page proposal opens 18 days after you enroll
- Get it signed, or walk away opens 18 days after you enroll
- Module 7 quiz and assignment opens 18 days after you enroll
- Five kinds of engagement, four parts each opens 21 days after you enroll
- The books and invoicing playbook opens 21 days after you enroll
- The people playbook opens 21 days after you enroll
- The sales pipeline and operations playbooks opens 21 days after you enroll
- The lender package playbook opens 21 days after you enroll
- Write the handoff note opens 21 days after you enroll
- Module 8 quiz and assignment opens 21 days after you enroll
- One sign-in, separate clients opens 24 days after you enroll
- The seats, and who controls them opens 24 days after you enroll
- What the client pays, and which plan opens 24 days after you enroll
- The practice organization, and Marisol's Monday opens 24 days after you enroll
- The upgrade conversation and the quarterly review opens 24 days after you enroll
- The partner program on the business line opens 24 days after you enroll
- Module 9 quiz and assignment opens 24 days after you enroll
- The ceiling, and the five moves past it opens 27 days after you enroll
- Subcontractors and specialists opens 27 days after you enroll
- Contractor or employee opens 27 days after you enroll
- Workshops opens 27 days after you enroll
- Referral partners, and what their rules allow opens 27 days after you enroll
- Related organizations, the second-year plan and Marisol's December opens 27 days after you enroll
- Module 10 quiz and assignment opens 27 days after you enroll
- Trust, on one page opens 30 days after you enroll
- Confidentiality and conflicts opens 30 days after you enroll
- The duty you do not have, and the one you do opens 30 days after you enroll
- Marisol at Bright Path opens 30 days after you enroll
- Employee data and the California Consumer Privacy Act opens 30 days after you enroll
- AI tools, and resigning well opens 30 days after you enroll
- Module 11 quiz and assignment opens 30 days after you enroll
- A calendar, not a decision: days 1 to 10 opens 33 days after you enroll
- Days 11 to 60: the gates, the names and the first proposal opens 33 days after you enroll
- Days 61 to 90, and when the calendar slips opens 33 days after you enroll
- Marisol's ninety days, and the two weeks to skip opens 33 days after you enroll
- What comes next: two paths opens 33 days after you enroll
- Module 12 quiz and assignment opens 33 days after you enroll