Consulting Foundations Program
A guided 4-week program to get your niche, positioning, offer, and pricing right. Weekly live group coaching sessions with Richard Millington. Includes session recordings, workbooks, and frameworks.
Program Overview & Schedule
Selecting and Evaluating Your Niche
6 Rules For Picking A Niche
Find Your Tide Pool: Why Boring Sectors Win
Niche Selection Is A Reversible Decision
Yes, You Can Thrive Without A Niche (sort of)
Assignment: Define and Evaluate Your Niche
Week 1 Quiz: Niche Selection Fundamentals
Interactive Tool: Niche Evaluator
Session 1: Selecting Your Consulting Niche (LIVE)
Slides - Niche Selection
Discover the Right Problem to Solve
Buying Triggers: What Makes Clients Act Now
Research Calls: Your Secret Positioning Weapon
The Client-Problem Awareness Scale
Interactive Tool: Problem Discovery & Ranking
The Five Types of Positioning
Crafting Your Positioning Statement
Assignment: Craft Your Positioning Statement
Week 2 Quiz: Positioning Fundamentals
Interactive Tool: Positioning Statement Builder
Slides - Problems and Positioning
Designing Your Offers
The Six Services You Can Offer Business Clients
Metric Matching: Align Your Services To Metrics Clients Care About
Packaging & Naming Your Services
Diagnostic Deliverables: How To Package Discovery Work
Diversifying Your Services For Tough Times
Week 3 Quiz: Offers & Service Design Fundamentals
Assignment: Design Your Service Suite
Slides: Offers & Services Fundamenta;s
Session 3: Offers and Packaging
Session 3: Offerings And Packaging
Setting Your Pricing
Why Value-Based Fees Don't Work For Most Consultants
What Should Consultants Charge? Six Pricing Tiers
Don't Charge By The Hour
Sell Projects, Not Products
The Pricing Conversation: The Zero In Technique
Price Sensitivity and Raising Your Fees
The Danger of Starting With Low Prices
Week 4 Quiz: Pricing Fundamentals
Assignment: Build Your Pricing Structure