By: Joshua Feinberg
In the world of IT consulting,
a successful business is focused on selling consulting services, not products.
Services
While you might end up being a
dealer for someone or an authorized solution for another to help yourself in the IT consulting
business, you should not build your entire business around those things. The economy is no longer
motivated by the selling of products; it is run and moved forward by services and solutions and
real people, your clients.
If you get behind someone and
say, “I am this dealer,” putting it all over websites and business cards, you are basically acting
as a non-salaried employee of whatever product company you are backing. This will eventually turn
you into a commodity rather than a real IT consulting solution provider.
An Example
If you align yourself with a
software vendor, perhaps one that caters to the medical field, you have to figure out if this niche
is right for your IT consulting business. You should be trying to get paying clients initially and
gaining experience in a certain area.
If you are already working full
time in the medical field niche, providing PC support for someone that makes medical practice
management software, it makes sense to move through this niche into the IT consulting world since
you already have experience there and a credible track record.
Niche Experience Comes
First
If you are just starting from
the very beginning in the IT consulting world your first priority is to gain experience in your
desired specialization field before you make any big investments with vendors or go to conferences.
Start by getting clients or a part time job that allows you contact with small doctor's offices and
what it is like to work there before you start building an entire IT consulting company around it.
Know you like it and can do it before you choose it!
Article source: http://www.smallbiztechtalk.com/
