Product Description
The acclaimed Million Dollar Consulting gives consultants the tools and advice they need to grow a firm that rakes in at least $1 million per year. Alan Weiss, “the consultant’s consultant,” shows step-by-step how to raise capital, reel in new clients, set fees, accelerate growth, and more. This updated and expanded edition will appeal to both Weiss’s many current fans and a whole new generation of readers looking for the best advice available for anyone who wants t… More >>
Million Dollar Consulting: The Professional’s Guide to Growing a Practice
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#1 by Anonymous on April 1, 2010 - 3:43 am
If I get the spam e-mails about Make Money Fast, and don’t do ‘em, my friend did, and lost, like, a hundred dollars! why should I buy a book?
‘Cause it works! ‘Kay, I’m no Bill Gates yet, but I am making some serious green!
I used this and Mikel Levin’s Gorilla PR: Wired, and BOOM! Had to go to HR Block just to do my taxes!
So, go for it!
Rating: 4 / 5
#2 by Lenny Laskowski on April 1, 2010 - 5:03 am
Alan Weiss tells it like it is. If you want to learn from one of the best…read EVERYTHING Alan Weiss writes! Alan’s insights and experience are second to none. I personally own just about every book Alan Weiss has written. He is not only a consultant’s consultant, but he is also a gifted writer as well.
Alan Weiss’s advice, insights and knowledge will take years off your learning curve. This book is a must for your library.
Lenny Laskowski, Author of National Best Selling Book:
“10 Days to More Confident Public Speaking”
President of LJL Seminars(tm)
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by Nemesis on April 1, 2010 - 6:51 am
There’s quite a bit of useless advice in this book. If I mortgaged my home or took out a loan for a business at the magnitude mentioned here, I could reduce my risk by just taking the money and investing it wisely in the stock market. Using “ferrari” in one’s e-mail to gain customers is nothing more than a party trick completely lacking in substance.
The author mentions that his past connections with ONE particular company formed the bulk of his revenue streams. I think that’s something akin to a “sugar daddy”. Furthermore, how can one continue to be an “expert” in this fast changing world without some sort of gritty research or continuing education? Nothing is mentioned about improving one’s self so that real content can be delivered. To top this, there is an insinuation that how the customer feels about you, affects your revenue stream. That’s baloney. That’s not consulting.
There is also some mention of providing consulting to executives. It’s no surprise that money can be made here but getting access is an obvious problem and consulting just the top people does nothing for a company as a whole.
Finally, the book is very weak on technology, paticularly the Internet and how to really use it. Perhaps the author thought he gave some good advice but in fact, he presented a narrow view of the consulting field, he missed a wealth of knowledge on this very subject and it seems, looking at the other books, that there is a bit of recycling or at best, mere incremental improvement in the message.
The reader should go elsewhere for good advice.
Rating: 1 / 5
#4 by Leah Cherry on April 1, 2010 - 8:43 am
I learned nothing. There is a list on nearly every page…this guy loves his lists. I’m a list person myself but OVERKILL. I got too bogged down in the lists and couldnt ever make myself concentrate on more than two pages at a time. I hate to admit it, because I usually give a book an even chance and will try to finish it, but I GAVE UP.
Learn how to write something other than a freaking list and I’d be more than happy to give your book another go.
Rating: 1 / 5
#5 by Pete Shea on April 1, 2010 - 9:10 am
If you can get past the arrogance, you’ll find some good ideas, but he would like to think himself as a demigod, and it gets in the way of his otherwise innovative points.
Rating: 3 / 5