Business Consulting Leads
Time To Take Your Consulting Firm To The Next Level
It took several years of web development and search engine marketing to create Business Consultant Now. Its service provides low cost consulting leads to business consultants and professional firms by passing on enquiries for local Business Support that it receives via its Business Consultant Now (BCN) website and network of business sites.
Professionals who are interested in trying out a different style of acquiring new clients ought to try our consulting leads service. We hope this will grow to become a valuable addition to UK consultants business development activities. We aim to establish and build a brand reputation as a leading low cost new client acquisition programme. Is this something that you might you be interested in? If so, please contact us to discuss your individual requirements (skillset, areas of expertise etc). as well as register for our low cost consulting leads (i.e. send you the right kind of prospective clients) we will also consider delivering a customised marketing effort according to your needs . We sincerely hope you will notice and be impressed with the energy and enthusiam of the Business Consultant Now service, and consider favourably the many potential benefits for your consultancy firm using BCN. We list below some general scenarios which may help you better get to grips with how BCN can help you grow your consultancy business.
Business Consultant Now's value proposition to deliver prospective client-finding services is (a) low cost consulting leads that consultancy firms can convert into fee paying work and (b) to deliver significant time and money savings. There are many intangile benefits of the service. Consider the benefit of streamlining i.e. consultants can choose when to outsource their client finding function, or the support in the initial stage of converting the enquiry into paid work. Incredibly there is no membership or subscription fees to be linked to Business Consultant Now. You are ultimately the judge of whether we succeed in delivering our promises, but this is what we are working hard to achieve. We aim to continuously improve the value created. We are looking for proactive business consultants, especially those withn a skill of working with start ups, competent at managing their own business, as well as their clients. We seek to build partnerships which involve a proactive level of communication and feedback We do not presume to tell you how to run your business, but we do have a choice of who we deal with. All consultants should have current professional indmenity cover. However if you currently out of cover you are welcome to make good use of our low cost PI cover finder service to get an idea of some of the best PI cover deals currently.
So the question is:
Do you want any of this business?
Here are some facts.
Each consulting lead differs dependant on size of business, but say a consulting lead from Business Consultant Now on average costs you £50 (plus Vat)
How might each consulting lead from Business Consultant Now have a positive impact on your earnings?
* A conversion rate of 1 in 2, intervention/contract/sale costs you £100 (+vat) based on exclusive leads.
* If your conversion rate is 1 in 3, the sale costs you £150 (+vat).
* If your conversion rate is 1 in 5, the sale costs you £250 (+vat).
Confused? Does reading the above information leave you with questions? Such as:
* What is the quality of the consulting leads, and what control do I have on what type of prospective clients I receive?
* Might I get too many or too few? What controls are there on volumes/costs?
* How does it all work?
I try to answer these concerns below. If any questions remain contact us to discuss your requirements or concerns in further detail. If you would like to try our service click Learn More images (above).
When one considers a consulting lead from Business Consultant Now and how much fee earnings potential could be worth to you and your firm in terms on return on investmennt (ROI), the decision to proceed becomes easier and more simple to make. A consulting clients' lifetime, according to industry norms, average months and years, rather than days. Some research has suggested management training and consulting firms have some of the lowest client retention rates. No doubt you will use your own in-house metrics to consider your return on investment analysis. However just one 10-day intervention is likely to be in the region of £4-£5000, so return on investment analysis is a relatively simple exercise. With a conversion ration of just 1 in 3 or 1 in 5, Business Consultant Now's value proposition is extremely attractive, entirely feasible and the opportunity also available to you today.
In terms of cashflow even a start-up client, after you have successfully won a project, is likely to be worth over £1,000 and your very first month's bill is almost certain to cover costs of any Business Consultant Now consulting leads received till this point.
So perhaps the real question to consider is: How much would you be prepared to pay for an opportunity like this? How much is that additional income really worth to your firm? I think we know the answer. Would £250 seem a good investment, especially since now that many clients these days are enrolled by paying monthly via standing order, meaning that, in cashflow terms at least, payback is within 30 days.
The reality with Business Consultant Now is that up to 70% of all enquiries are likely to be small businesses, i.e. of less than 2 years (and many of this category actually in their very first year of trading). This brings opportunities of a different kind. Your firm can opt out of receiving these leads if you wish, by simply unticking the relevant box in your Business Consultant Now's permissions, but you then say goodbye to potential earnings of getting in at ground level and building good client relationships and forging strong links at the start of an emerging business.
Statistics that show over 50% of all UK start ups close within 4 years, not all have failed. This is a metric that need not unduly concern a consultant working in the start up aread. Firstly, your payback period is very short so you are covered. Secondly, with your involvement their chances of survival are greatly enhanced; and finally, if they do survive because you helped the company expand you have the chance to negotiate additional fee earning opportunities and you might even be receiving additional bonus income based upon a revenue incentive scheme agreed at the beginning which encouraged you to nuture and support the double digit growth generated in no small part by your intervention and direction.
Did you know that Business Consultant Now can filter your consulting leads you receive by:
- Location Of Customer [Postcode District, or Main Town/Inner City Area]
- Consultancy service sought [marketing, lean manufacturing, merger/business sale etc]
- Business Entity [LTD, PLC, LLP, Landlords, Sole Traders etc] /li>
- Turnover
- No of Employees
How much do you currently pay to get a sale? How much time do your spend networking, canvassing etc. Like many consultants you might be astounded to discover how much the true amount of time, money and effort you devote overall to seeking out new prospects, especially when you cost in your own professional time (and opportunity cost) for all that effort you currently invest in so-called business development activities, namely networking, business lunches, speculative visits, speculative calls, designing newsletters, mailshots, telemarketing, Yellow pages, trade magazines, exhibitions etc.). We seriously doubt whether your returns on investment come anywhere close to the excellent returns we have suggested you are capable of by receiving just a few low cost leads from Business Consultant Now.
- Low Membership Fees.
- Low Monthly Subscriptions.
- You choose which consulting leads you buy, and which ones you choose to ignore.
- You can change what leads you receive, as demand and business resources change throughout the day, week, month or year with a phone call to a dedicated account handler;
- Once your firm has built up trust, as an accredited member of Business Consultant Now you can opt for 'no leads holiday' without needing to contact us.
Remember
Are we generating new business here? Think about it. Whether you like it or not, every sale generated from an consulting lead through Business Consultant Now is a sale lost by those not on the system. It goes to another consultant who, as a result, has just got ever so slightly bigger, and stronger. Hoping this client will come to you anyway or that the competitive situation will just go away, is unrealistic. Often behind or beneath this response is merely a lack of comprehension of how the Business Consultant Now process can benefit their consultancy practice. Management Consulting in the United Kingdom has come a long way. In fact, Business Consultant Now service still refers a business consumer to you, but nowadays the procedure is more focused. It is the closest thing yet to your beloved word of mouth referral, and you will also be able to exert considerable control whether you wish to increase or decrease the volume and category of referrals you receive.
Consider the process, if you have a moment more to spare. Business Consultant Now finds you a small and medium sized UK enterprise looking for consulting services online now, and offers them your services as part of a real choice of appropriate consultancy firms, matched to their ideal client business type, needs and budget. The consumer, at the same time, receives responses from the right type kind of consultancy service for their company's size, location and business activity. The consumer is delighted, receives real quotes from reputable accredited consultancy firms, appropriately matched, to help them as well as receiving the added reassurance of online support and telephone helpline from BCN. The process for the business consumer has been made simple. That is why it works so well.
It is also simple for you. The consultant gets an opportunity to pitch to a genuine prospective client, who has a desire to seek external help but has not yet decided which consulting firm to appoint. In extensive research carried out by Business Consultant Now in 2006 including a survey of business consultants it showed that more than 14% of business consultant leads failed to convert into paid work die to a lack of precevied need. BCN 's lead is a warm prospect, someone wioth whom you can negotiate attractive terms with, and an opportunity to increase your conversion ratios, plus saving you considerable time, effort and money. No wonder we are seeing a steady and healthy growth in demand for consulting leads from Business Consultant Now.
Who is this right for?
Experienced consultants who know how to communicate with prospective clients to extract value profitably for their clients and for themselves, and are sufficiently seasoned business advisers to understand how best to structure an agreement which reflects the nature of the work, and the status of the client e.g. lower daily rate in exchange a percentage of revenue going forwards, or first three months business coaching @£300 a month with additional work billed @£65 per hour (or whatever).
To succeed at converting consulting leads, and to maximise the enormous potential we offer you, you might like to consider the following as suggestions:
- Make a decision about the conversion rate you feel you could/should achieve.
- Filter your consulting leads to match your firms' strengths (and/or the kind of prospective clients you are likely to convert)
- Make sure these prospective customers get a response and initial consulting advice through the Business Consultant Now system first, (it helps consumers identify who you are).
- Then Follow up with a phone call to every low cost Business Consultant Now consulting lead, within as reasonably short period of time as possible after you responded via the system.
- For business consumers who don't instruct you, ask if you can keep in touch via newsletters etc. Often the client ends up using more than one consultant (Every consulting contact has a real value.)
This is a proven success strategy to gain more, in this case, business consulting sales.
Who is this not right for?
If you feel clients should come to you, or that you are simply not prepared to put in the relevant effort to respond properly to each consulting request and delivering good customer service, then Business Consultant Now is not for you. Naturally we reserve the right to choose which professional services are on the system.
What To Do Next
If you would just like more general info and to request a call back from Business Consultant Now for a general discussion, please use the contact form below (foot of the page). If however you are sufficiently interested and have already decided that you would like to try Business Consultant Now's service then why not save time and call us now or go straight to our simple contact form below. We limit the number of business consultants per specialisation per location on the system to ensure a fair spread of business, but sufficient to allow the consumer to receive a suitable selection (say 3). A Business Consultant Now colleague will contact you at a time convenient to you to customise the service to your requirements.
Business Consultant Now is part of Business Support Finder Ltd, an internet marketing service dedicated for professionals, and based at the ex-ICI Headquarters at Redcar. (Phone may be answered by a number of our internet brand names). We are delighted to answer any questions you may like to submit to us, so please do contact us, either by phone now or simply fill in the online form, and we'll call you. Have a good day. When you're linked with Business Consultant Now it certainly will be a good day. Together we can make a difference!
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