When Starting a Consulting Business, Avoid These Early Missteps

A growing number of professionals are turning to entrepreneurship. Many are choosing to launch consulting businesses, offering their expertise to companies as a service and asserting more control over their careers in the process. In the U.S., independent consulting is now ranked the seventh-fastest growing career.

What’s unique about starting your own consulting business is that you not only do the client work; you’re also responsible for building and running the business. That’s a new set of skills for most to acquire and flex as they enter this exciting stage of their career.

As an independent consultant of 13 years focusing on marketing and career development, I’ve made many well-informed decisions and costly missteps as I’ve steered my own practice. Here are the most expensive slip-ups to avoid when starting a consulting business—and an effective approach for reframing these challenges as opportunities.

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