The Ultimate Guide To Starting An Independent Consulting Company In 2024 | Data Consulting 101

There are so many challenges you will face when starting a consulting company.

Where will you find your first client?

How do you develop a pipeline of future clients?

What should you focus on as a consultant?

I'll cover all of this in this video!

0:00 Intro
1:08 Problems You’ll Face When Starting A Consulting Company
3:45 What To Focus On When Starting A Data Consulting Company
5:50 How To Find Clients As A Consultant
10:29 How To Market As A Consulting
11:40 Defining Your Target Persona
17:03 Setting Up Your Sales Process
23:02 Review

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About me:
I have spent my career focused on all forms of data. I have focused on developing algorithms to detect fraud, reduce patient readmission and redesign insurance provider policy to help reduce the overall cost of healthcare. I have also helped develop analytics for marketing and IT operations in order to optimize limited resources such as employees and budget. I privately consult on data science and engineering problems both solo as well as with a company called Acheron Analytics. I have experience both working hands-on with technical problems as well as helping leadership teams develop strategies to maximize their data.

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[SeattleDataGuy]

If you'd still like to learn more about starting your own independent consulting company, then check out my course and community below(you can use the code "sdgd3" for 50% off:

[ShawhinTalebi]

Incredible tips Ben! Nailing down the right sales process is one of the most important bits here, but no one teaches you that on the typical DE/DS journey 😅

[RedCodra_]

Love hearing independent consulting best practices and what to expect! How do you approach accessing these clients' data and systems as a third party? Do they typically just give you a license (in the case of, say, Microsoft 365) as they would a W2 employee?

[WhyNotEmon]

I am curious. What documents should an independent consultant have? Other than a statement of work or managed service agreements. Are there any other docs you would add?

[matthewholder]

thanks for this video! I'm wondering, since I'm more on the analytics engineer side due to wanting to be in the data a lot more, if a business needs the data engineering capabilities also, should I outsource for the data engineering part, and then take over the analytics engineering myself with all the reporting, dashboards, metrics, data modeling etc ?

[Moonbat]

How much, in your case do you typically travel with mid to large size projects?

[ashraf]

Starting my journey as RealTimeData Consultant next year 2024.
Thanks to you Ben all your guides and checklist have helped me a lot
Looking forward to join consulting course to learn from you in much details ❤

Whats your say on my selected niche RealTime Data

[hubbiemid]

How soon after being in a entry level data role do u think one get started?

[crypt_hodl]

Interested! can you please have special pricing for people in Africa. 50% reduction is good but our earnings are way too low probably 20x less than those in US or Europe. It becomes difficult for us to participate in this type of good courses. Any help! Thanks.

[kvande]

The coupon code in the description and on the site isn't working

[mudassarm]

Can you redirect some clients to me? I am looking for clients in US.