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:

1. Learning how to run, market, and grow a consulting business,
2. Providing more value for a client by doing something together that you couldn’t do on your own,
   1. Collaborating with others on projects
   2. Finding people who could fill a void in a project
   3. Finding experienced people who can develop creative solutions together
3. Networking with like-minded professionals, and
4. Sharing past experiences

Value

Establishing this Community provides the following potential value for those involved:

1. The ability to create a virtual organization
   1. Independent consultant, solo-practitioner
   2. Have the potential/option to have associates
   3. Not dedicated to a single entity
   4. Adjunct consulting
   5. Have some back-up when you need it
2. The ability to provide a unique service without the “bricks and mortar”
   1. Not a commodity approach
   2. Value-driven
3. The opportunity to maintain a high margin business