You have industry-specific experience and expertise. You love a challenge. You like helping people find solutions to their problems. In short, you have everything you need to be a successful, independent business consultant.

Independent business consultants are in high demand. And the internet makes it possible for consultants to meet and work with clients anywhere in the U.S. and even around the world. That's why there's never been a better time to start-up your own consulting practice.

If you've been employed by a business or corporation, the idea of jumping out as a solopreneur can seem daunting. You can make it less so by breaking down the steps to becoming a self-employed consultant.

Step 1: Take an inventory of all your skills and areas of expertise. Now choose the one key skill you want to focus on.

Step 2: Ask yourself, "Using that key skill, what specific business problem am I best at solving?"

Step 3: Find businesses that need that problem solved.

Those three steps may sound simplistic, but the truth is, they're a very practical outline of the best way to start building your business as an independent consultant.

Every one of the consulting experts on the faculty of Consultants Gold began their own practice with these three steps, and used them to start their own journey to incredible success.

These consulting experts are ready to share the steps they took to reach success. Their Study Action Groups will walk you step-by-step down the road to your own success as you learn how to get more clients and bank more money.

Consultants Gold is the premier membership community created by independent consultants for independent consultants. You'll connect with their faculty of experts, and network with a peer group of independent consultants looking to share experience, leads and opportunities.

Being a solopreneur doesn't mean you have to struggle on all alone. Become a member of the Consultants Gold community and find the help and support you need to build your own highly successful consulting practice. You can get started with Consultants Gold for FREE when you accept out 7-part course, The Consultants Quickstart Guide To Getting Clients. simply type your name and primary email into the box to your right for instant download.

Ask any consultant, whether they're established or just starting out, "What's the number one thing you need to be successful?"

They'll all answer the same. "More clients!"

Knowing how to find potential clients and sell them your services is the key to building a successful consultancy. More clients equal more profits for you. so here's a few tips for making the job easier.

Tip #1. Be Everywhere
Networking is a vital part of your marketing and sales program. The more people you meet, the more potential prospects you'll have access to. And prospects are the larval stage of clients.

The trick is to be everyplace you can possible meet prospects. and thanks to the internet, this is easier to do than you might think. Have a blog. Have a newsletter. Be on LinkedIn. Be on Facebook. Be on Twitter. Buy publishing content online at places your prospects are likely to be found, you'll have many more opportunities to meet and network with potential clients.

Sound overwhelming? It doesn't have to be. It's easy to hire people to create and publish content for you.

Tip #2: Make Every Face-to-Face Contact a Marketing Event

Some people get so involved in online networking that they forget how important face time is. Remember that every single person you meet face to face comes equipped with these two potentials:

• They may be one of your future clients.
• They may refer you to one of your future clients.

Introduce yourself to everyone you meet, give them a card and your elevator speech. That man bagging groceries at your supermarket may look like just another retired gent earning extra cash, but he may also be the father of the business owner that wants to hire your expertise.

Tip #3: Join Consultants Gold
One of the biggest challenges of becoming a solopreneur is learning to wear all the hats, run all the departments in a start-up business. If you've transitioned out of an executive position that provided you with a ready-built team, suddenly being on your own can be a shock. There's no one to provide another perspective, no one to provide accountability, no one to provide new ideas and input.

Consultants Gold is a membership- community created by independent consultants for independent consultants. Consultants Gold will help you connect with their faculty of acknowledged experts, men and women who will help you learn from their mistakes as well as their successes.

And you'll connect with a peer group of independent consultants, people that share your interests and challenges. Together, you'll have the opportunity to form joint ventures, to share leads and to provide support and motivation to each other.

The team at Consultants Gold is dedicated to helping you build the personal and professional success you want and deserve. They'll help you get more clients and bank more money. You can get connected with Consultants Gold now at NO COST by typing your name and email into the form in the upper right corner. You'll receive a FREE ecourse titled The Consultants Quickstart Guide To Getting More Clients, and an introduction to the best resource for self-employed consultants!

Through hard work, you've built the skills you need to be an effective business consultant. Your industry-specific experience and expertise are valuable assets that businesses want and need.

But the skill set it takes to be a great consultant is not necessarily the same skill set it takes to be a great entrepreneur. Starting up and running your own independent consulting business comes with challenges you may not have faced before.

As an employee of a business or corporation, you were part of a team. As a start-up entrepreneur you're a team of one. You're the one that has to make purchasing decisions. You're the one that has to plan and carry out a marketing program. You're the one that has to make the sales. And if you're like most start-up, you're the one that has to make the coffee and carry out the trash.

Wearing all the hats through the hubbub of start-up can seem overwhelming. But here are three easy steps you can take to make that difficult first stage of self-employment simple and successful.

Step 1: Write out a detailed description of ALL your skills and areas of expertise.
Taking a complete inventory of everything you know, and everything you know how to do, will give you a personal profile you will draw on often over the next few years.

Step 2: Working from your list of skills and areas of expertise, work out one key skill set you can offer to consulting clients. Trying to be an all-purpose business consultant is one of the most common reasons that new consultants fail in their first year. Choosing one specific area in which you excel helps you narrow your focus and target your perfect client.

Step 3: Join Consultants Gold to begin building a network of consulting experts and consulting peers. Being an army of one can be lonely. It can also be dangerous. It's easy to loose perspective when there's only one viewpoint. And it's easy to make costly mistakes when you don't have a peer group to ask, "How did you handle this problem?"

Consultants Gold will help you connect with their faculty of acknowledged experts, men and women who will help you learn from their mistakes as well as their successes.

And you'll have the opportunity to connect with a peer group of independent consultants, people that share your interests and challenges; people that ill share contacts and opportunities.

Consultants Gold was created by independent consultants for independent consultants. Their goal is to help you build the personal and professional success you want and deserve.

Get started with Consultants Gold today, Type your name and primary email into the form in the upper right corner. You'll receive the FREE Consultants Quickstart Guide To Getting Clients.