Pittsburgh Consulting Community
Pittsburgh Consulting Community
Purpose
The Community is an informal gathering of consultants, mostly solo-practitioners, discussing our mutual interest in advancing each others’ businesses by:
- Learning how to run, market, and grow a consulting business,
- Providing more value for a client by doing something together that you couldn’t do on your own,
- Collaborating with others on projects
- Finding people who could fill a void in a project
- Finding experienced people who can develop creative solutions together
- Networking with like-minded professionals, and
- Sharing past experiences
Value
Establishing this Community provides the following potential value for those involved:
- The ability to create a virtual organization
- Independent consultant, solo-practitioner
- Have the potential/option to have associates
- Not dedicated to a single entity
- Adjunct consulting
- Have some back-up when you need it
- The ability to provide a unique service without the “bricks and mortar”
- Not a commodity approach
- Value-driven
- The opportunity to maintain a high margin business