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What Makes Selling So Difficult for Consultants?

by Mike Schultz and John Doerr on April 4, 2010

Consultants struggle when selling themselves. It’s easy to brag about someone else, all of their accomplishments, and how they’ve added a tremendous amount of value to their client relationships. But when they have to do this for themselves, however, they fear sounding too self-serving. To be successful in selling consulting services, you have to be able to sing your own song.

We’re Here to Help

If making the transition from consultant to rainmaker is difficult for you, we’ve got two resources to help you out:

Free Report and Email Tips

We’ve developed a free 27-page report, Selling Consulting Services Report: Forget Everything You Know about Sales and Begin to Sell Without Selling, that will give you a proven process you can use to start bringing in more new business now.

When you sign up to receive the report, we’ll also start sending you additional tips via email of the things we wished we knew when we first started selling our consulting services.

Click here to sign up for the free report and email tips.

New! Selling Consulting Services with RAIN Selling Program

Today we opened enrollment to a new online sales training program designed specifically to teach consultants how to sell. This is a brand-new program we’re launching along with an incredible charter member deal. Here’s what you’ll get in Selling Consulting Services with RAIN Selling:

  • 6 core modules and 27 intensive lessons, delivered online, designed to give you every last piece of the puzzle you need to fill the pipeline with qualified leads, win more new business, and command higher fees.
  • A GREAT charter member deal: enrollment for charter membership is open until April 16, and we have a fabulous deal for you. We’re offering the course at a huge discount and closing the doors on April 16. When we re-open the program later in 2010, the price will be significantly higher.
  • Access to members-only forums. You’re not going through this alone. In the forums you can share challenges and successes, get feedback from instructors, and learn from your peers.
  • Monthly teleseminars where we’ll dig deep into the issues you face and provide specific feedback and suggestions for your situation.
  • Worksheets, templates, tools, and checklists you can use to apply what you learn to your sales practices immediately.
  • Special charter member bonus: for our charter member group only, we’re including our research, How Clients Buy Professional Services Benchmark Report (a $345 value) absolutely free.

While we’ve delivered RAIN Selling to clients privately around the globe, this is the first time we’re making the training, tools, and resources available through the Selling Consulting Services with RAIN Selling online training program. And we’re doing it at an incredible price only for our charter members.

Check out what the new Selling Consulting Services with RAIN Selling program is all about, and don’t miss our incredible charter offer. Enrollment closes Friday, April 16.
Topics: Sales & Sales Process, Sales Approach, Sales Conversations

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