Laura's Consulting Guide

As a new business owner, this course was excellent for me to help gain focus and clarity. I found tremendous value in this course. It was a small group of participants that learned and shared together. Laura has a passion for helping business owners be successful. She shares her passion by guiding participants on action steps and thought processes to identify their specific niche and ideal clients. Laura's objective is to help consultants build their practice effectively and efficiently through learning from others experience and working together to help each other succeed.

I highly recommend this course for those considering becoming a consultant or existing consultants struggling with their practice or looking to refine their target clients and service offerings. Having worked in large corporations and as an entrepreneur and now pursuing a consultancy business to leverage my experience, I have found these tools and Laura’s approach invaluable in helping me understand my targeted client, the services offerings I can provide and the messaging to be used. Without this course material and instruction, I would have been struggling and making many mistakes, side-trips or in-efficient shot-gun attempts. This course has given me the confidence to know who I want to pursue in a very clear and laser- focused way. Who Do You Serve provides a disciplined, structured process to focusing efforts on defining the consultant’s values, what matters and where they want to go. This course provides an outstanding methodology helping new and seasoned consultants define their ideal client. • This includes understanding client wants and needs, understanding how the consultant’s service skills and offerings intersect with the client’s wants and needs. Until this intersection is identified, the consultant’s service offering and target market will be difficult to identify, market and approach • This includes a 5 Why’s analysis which helps in focusing on client’s needs • There is a structured process to determine characteristics and behaviors that a consultant wants in their targeting client list • There is a section that also treats clients desires and demands • There are tools for allow the consultant to define it’s ideal client, the characteristics of the ideal client desired by the consultant and screening tools to make sure the consultant focuses their efforts of clients that are truly who they want to serve – provides for efficiency of efforts invested in finding clients The course provides the methodology to create the messaging to be used in marketing – this is the pitch to be given to targeting clients that, when carefully designed and vetted, should provide clients a clear, concise understanding of how the consultants service offering addresses their needs and the value the consultant will provided. Once the Ideal Client is defined, the course also provides the tools to validate this messaging. Lastly, tools are provided to continually, on an iterative basis refine and restate the message as experience requires.