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Growing A Consulting Business | How To Grow A Consulting Business

August 26, 2019 By nickjervis

If you have made the excellent decision to start your consulting business, the next part is often the more challenging for consultants: Growing Your Consulting Business/ How To Grow A Consulting Business

How do you grow a consulting business the easy way and the sustainable way to ensure that your consulting business grows consistently?

The purpose of this article is to show you precisely how to do this by getting clients to come to you when they are ready for your consulting services.

Nick Jervis shows you how to grow a consulting business
Nick Jervis, specialist for growing a consulting business.

My name is Nick Jervis. Prior to launching my consulting business in 2003 I was a solicitor. However, I always enjoyed the marketing side of being a solicitor more than the legal side, so I decided to set up a marketing consultancy.

The one thing that I decided when I started my small business marketing consultant businesses I wanted to attract clients to it, just like I had achieved with the law firms that I worked for. I didn’t want to be out chasing down clients, I wanted to grow my consulting business by getting clients to come to me when they were ready. I call this ‘easy life marketing’. Who doesn’t want an easy business life?

I am delighted to say that I have achieved that. I have grown my consulting business by getting my ideal clients to ask me to help them at the precise moment in time that they are ready to engage my consultancy services.

The purpose of this article and my teaching on this website is to show you how you can grow your consulting business by doing the same thing too. When you achieve it, I can assure you that it is a lovely feeling.

Whilst some so called ‘marketing experts’ sell you that there is only one way to do this, and that way is to buy their training on ‘facebook marketing’, ‘LinkedIn marketing’ or the new latest fad….

I will show you what works and why it works from a marketing perspective based on everything that I have tried and tested since starting and growing my consulting business since 2003.

How To Grow A Consulting BusinessWhen I started my consulting business, I left behind a very nice salary, so I had to make my new business work quickly, and thankfully I did, although it wasn’t as quickly as I would have liked.

This is why I like to share what I have learned with other consultancy business owners to help them fast track their path to success.

Before I do that, I need to briefly explain the two different types of marketing and also ensure that you understand which Marketing DNA type consultancy businesses your business fits into. Until you understand both of these things you cannot be expected to consistently grow your consulting business.

If you want to know what it takes to grow beyond six figures in your consultancy button, click the button below:

How To Grow A Six Figure Consulting Business. Click here to download:>>

The Two Different Forms Of Marketing When It Comes To Growing Your Consulting Business

There are two main forms of marketing; attraction marketing or interruption marketing. Attraction marketing is cheaper and more effective. I call it ‘easy life marketing’ and it is the only type of marketing that you want to undertake as a consultant.

Interruption marketing is the form of marketing that most of the so called ‘marketing gurus’ try to sell you as the ‘only way to market a consulting business’. What they don’t tell you as they sell you their $497 or $997 course (always dollars, even when they are in England) is that it isn’t a very effective form of marketing, unless you are selling the training, that is.

What is interruption marketing? It is presenting your marketing message to someone who hasn’t asked to see it it and their primary purpose at the time is not to buy your consultancy services but to look at cute squirrel pictures.

Let me provide you with an example to ensure that you know the difference.

Imagine that you are on facebook looking at pictures from a friend’s party the previous day. You are laughing as you remember all of the funny things that happened, when, amongst the pictures of Hugh spitting out the caviar just like Tom Hanks in Big, you see an advertisement by ‘Bob Guru’ telling you to stop what you are doing and see how you too can make $1,000 a minute by watching his short two minute video, which pitches his webinar which then sells you his $497 training showing you how to build your business using video marketing…. yeh, sickening isn’t it?

Let’s remember why you went onto facebook – to browse photographs from a friend’s party.

You had absolutely no intention of buying any advice when you went online, yet here you are, vaguely interested to see how you can make $1,000 a minute without any skills or expertise (you can’t, by the way), so you sign up for the webinar.

The key points are:

  1. You didn’t go looking to buy advice. You are not a motivated buyer. Motivation is crucial.
  2. You were interrupted from your primary task of browsing photographs by Bob Guru’s advertisement.

Flip this position to attraction marketing. Attraction marketing is the complete opposite of Bob’s spammy interruption based marketing.

With attraction marketing you appear in front of your perfect prospects at the precise moment in time that they are looking to discover more about your consulting services.

Let’s imagine that you are a management consultant in Oxford. A perfect prospect heads to Google and enters “management consultant oxford” into the search bar, hits return and then sees your website at the top of the search results.

They click onto your website and you offer them a free brochure download about your range of services. They enter their email address and receive your free brochure instantly.

Inside the brochure you explain to them precisely what they need to do to get in touch with you.

You have captured a perfect prospect. You used attraction marketing.

I will go onto explain the different types of attraction marketing that you must use if you are serious about growing your consulting business, but before I do that, I must now ensure that you know which category of Marketing DNA your business falls into, Marketing DNA Now or Marketing DNA Nurture.

Marketing DNA Now or Marketing DNA Nurture For Growing A Consulting Business?

If you do not fully understand which of the Marketing DNA camps you fall into, you can spend a lot of time and money doing the wrong form of marketing.

I have had Marketing DNA Now business owners come to me having spent thousands of pounds following Bob Guru’s advice which is all about generating clients for a Marketing DNA Nurture business which he failed to explain was not suitable for them when they signed up. Why would he, or they would not have bought his training?

Some people have it easy when it comes to marketing. They can put an advertisement live today and make the phone ring on the same day. These are the Marketing DNA Now service providers. I envy them. These people sell services that people need immediately.

They would include a solicitor selling house moving/conveyancing services, a removal company doing the same and a PR company selling Crisis Management services, which are needed when a company hits the news headlines for all of the wrong reasons and they need the PR company to stop them sounding as bad as they are.

The requirement is that there is an instant need for these services. People aren’t researching around the topic in question, they are searching for a service provider that can help them RIGHT NOW!

For the rest of us, my own marketing consultancy business included, we fit into the Marketing DNA Nurture category.

Someone doesn’t wake up in the morning, jump out of bed and scream “Get me a marketing consultant right now or else”. Instead, they realise that they are seriously lacking on the new client front, head to Google and start looking for information and advice on how to grow their business.

They are firmly in the research mode, and it is your job to ensure that they find your business at this moment and that when they do, they do not leave your website without giving you their name and email address so that you can keep in touch with them until they are ready to buy your services.

If you fail to achieve this, you will never grow your consulting business to the size that you would like it to be. Never.

The sad thing is that nobody takes the time to explain this to you. I see Bob Guru selling interruption marketing training to Marketing DNA Now business owners all of the time, meaning that the training will simply not work for them, even if they implement all of it perfectly.

Nearly every type of consultant offers a Marketing DNA Nurture service.

Consultants selling a Marketing DNA Nurture service have one priority:

To grow their email list by offering Item(s) of Value (IOV) from their website or at seminars/live events.

The marketing plan for a Markedting DNA Nurture Consulting business is this:

  • Start an email list (I show you how to do this in my comprehensive guide below).
  • Write your Item of Value (IOV) showing your perfect prospects how to do something which helps their business and is related to your services – like my free guide below – download it so that you can see in detail how to do this).
  • Write an informative blog post once every week and add this to your website to attract more visitors to your website who are your perfect prospects. This blog should be at least 500 words but up to 2-3,000 words if possible. The longer it is, the more chance you have of Google putting you at the top of the search engine results. The blog should answer a question that your perfect prospects are asking. At the bottom of each blog post, put a button to download your IOV (again, as I have done below).
  • Send a weekly email to your growing email list using the content from your weekly blog as the content for that email. In this email tell your clients precisely what they must do to take the next step to working with you.
  • Share links to your article on your website and on all of your social media platforms to increase the chance of people finding your article and adding themselves to your email marketing list.
  • Watch your diary get filled with perfect prospects who are ready to buy your services having been receiving your emails for some weeks or months and being convinced of your expertise. Not only are they now convinced of your expertise but they are also not price sensitive. They want to work with you and you only and price is not an issue (this bit is especially nice).
  • If you have spare funds, you can use Google Ads, another very effective form of attraction marketing to grow your email list more quickly. Just remember that you are building your DNA Marketing Nurture email list, so it will take some time to generate fees from these prospects – you need to be able to bank roll the Google Ads until that money starts coming back to you in the form of fees.
  • Rinse and repeat ad infinitum (forever) and keep growing your consulting business.

This is the precise method that I have used to grow my DNA Marketing Nurture consulting business since 2003 when I set up my business.

You should follow this process too and watch your consultancy business grow.

To discover in detail how to do this, simply click the button below and let me show you step by step how to attract your ideal consultancy clients consistently so that you can grow your own six figure and beyond consulting business:

How To Grow A Six Figure Consulting Business. Click here to download:>>

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    “Before we started working with Nick, we had no clear idea of our paid traffic strategy.

    We knew there were people looking for what we offer, but we just weren’t getting them landing on our website, and when they did, they weren’t converting in the way we wanted them to.

    That’s when we enlisted Nick’s help, and it’s made a profound difference both to the number of leads coming into the business, but the quality too.

    He’s helped us bring in several very high-quality leads, which will be worth many hundreds of thousands of pounds, as well as helping our website become better and more conversion-focused too.

    I couldn’t recommend Nick more highly – if you’re looking for more leads and more sales, it’s a no-brainer to have a conversation.

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    “I run an HR business dealing with the nasty bits of HR (disciplinaries, grievances, terminations, etc). I have been working with Nick for 12 months now and it has really changed the quality of leads I am getting. My website is now attracting the right type of clients and brings in a lot more quality, and easy to convert, leads. Nick is clear in what the marketing priorities are to get me the results I want. Very easy to work with and cuts to the heart of the matter – no excuses!”

    Carolyne Wahlen, GAP HR Services, Goring

    “After working with Nick on our Google My Business strategy we are now ranking in the “Google 3 pack” and generating leads purely from our ranking!Nick also carried out a fee review resulting in a fee increase of 40% and no detrimental effect to volume. Double whammy with increased leads and increased income. Well worth taking the time to talk to Nick and definitely worth working with him going forward, it’s a no brainer!”

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    “Nick’s advice and guidance has been excellent. He cuts through all the noise and brings clarity. His focus is on what is effective and what will achieve the objective. He knows what works and what doesn’t and shows you the best way to approach a strategy.

    One particular aspect of marketing was hard to get my head around but Nick made everything so clear and easy to understand. When you speak to him you will see, he knows his stuff!

    Thanks Nick.”

    Shan Phoenix, Geneva Wealth, Harpenden

    Before meeting Nick, I was wasting money with Google, I had a high price per click and a trickle of leads. Now, having worked with Nick for 3 months my Google business page is optimised, my price per click is greatly reduced, customers are finding me and quality leads are flowing! Which means, my Google Ads spend is now profitable with a 3:1 return!

    That is why I would strongly recommend working with Nick if you want consistent leads and a greater return on your investment – thanks Nick”.

    Richard Linden, The Rent Guarantee Company, Harlow.

    “Through Nick’s advice and on going encouragement I have almost doubled my client base and am now looking to take on members of staff to deal with the increase in demand for my services. My success has been in no small way facilitated by my business coaching with Nick. I would, and I do, recommend him to anyone who wants to grow their business.”

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    “I’m new to google Ads, Nick is managing my ad campaigns and doing a great job, I’m receiving a steady flow of leads with a low cost per click meaning my marketing is paying for itself. Would recommend.”

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    “Nick’s professional advice, expert knowledge and constant encouragement have proved invaluable this past year. He has helped my business from the outset, offering me support and guidance every step of the way. His services come highly recommended.”

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