Problem - I am a Consultant who must learn how to find new clients.

Solution - Join the Business Consultants Forum

What is a Consultant?

The Business Consultants Forum

•What is a consultant?•Where do consultants find clients?•Introducing the Business Consultants Forum•Why join the Business Consultants Forum?•Financial considerations•Findersʼ fees•FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)

An Invitation to the first BCF meeting

The BUSINESS CONSULTANTS FORUM

Contents

What Is a Consultant?

Consultant (from Latin “consultare - to discuss”).

A professional who provides expert advice in a particular area such as management, accounting, law, human resources, engineering, marketing, security, etc.

Two general consulting categories - Internal and External.

Where do consultants find clients?✤ A consultant proposes solutions

to specific problems.

✤ A temporary executive fulfills a role that already exists within the organization.

✤ An interim manager is a hybrid form where a consultant is hired to bring specialist’s expertise to bear on a role that is temporarily vacant.

BCF is a forum, a unique meeting place, providing valuable and affordable professional services at low cost to its members.

BCF's primary function is to help members to acquire, as a part of its regular meetings, the marketing skills that are needed to find their first and subsequent clients.

BCF also provides contacts and coaching, in return for a modest finders’ fee to help members land a new contract.

IntroducingThe Business Consultants Forum (BCF)

Why join the Business Consultants Forum?

BCF members will benefit from a low cost business and personal development program, including ideas and suggestions from other experienced senior consultants on how to run a profitable business.

BCF is NOT a traditional association. It is a unique business consulting firm. Members will receive regular Newsletters and benefit from numerous networking opportunities. It also enforces a Code of Ethics.

✤BCF has a low quarterly membership fee and very reasonable meeting fees.

✤Prospective members may join the Forum for three months at a time, but an annual membership fee will cost less.

Financial considerations

Finders’ fees✤BCF has an optional modest findersʼ fee arrange-ment between members.

✤The BCF website will contain a brief summary of membersʼ consulting qualifications. ✤Members may use the BCF name and logo on their stationery, websites and business cards, providing a sense of community, affiliation and credibility.

FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)

Who stands behind BCF?

Don Smith is a "Consultant's Consultant".

He is a career management expert.

Qualified as a CMC (Certified Management Consultant), he is a bilingual trainer and was owner/manager of his Career Transition consulting firm for 15 years. For more information, see LinkedIn.

Don’s specialty is "finding remunerative work", from the very first client to how to minimize the ups and downs in revenue streams inherent to the consulting business.

The FIRST BCF meeting

✤The BUSINESS CONSULTANTS FORUM (BCF) will meet in March 2014 at the Quality Inn - Nickels Restaurant, (beside the Investorʼs Group building) on the Trans Canada Highway, on the West Island of Montreal.

✤There will be no cost to attend, except for the price of a breakfast.

The FIRST BCF meeting

✤The first breakfast group meeting will last about three hours and will be a little like a focus group. Participants will discuss their own opinions, beliefs and attitudes (either in French or English) toward the proposed Business Consultants Forum (BCF).

✤ Everyone will receive the BCF marketing work-shops outline plus the agenda of personal development present- ations. Of course there will be many networking opportunities. .

You’re Invited !If you would like to resolve the problem of

finding new consulting clients, reserve your seat for the March meeting, without

cost or obligation. Please e-mail donsmithnco@bell.net

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Summary of Business Consultants Forum (BCF) Membership Benefits

• BCF's primary function is to teach the marketing skills during regular meetings, in a workshop

environment, needed to find consultants' first and subsequent consulting clients;• Consultants can learn these skills, at low cost, through ongoing membership in BCF;• BCF is NOT a traditional association, with officers and rules. Rather, it is a unique consulting firm, in

business to provide services to its member consultants. Meetings take place initially at a modern hotel on

the West Island of Montreal. • BCF also provides appropriate business and personal development coaching, along with ideas and

suggestions from other experienced senior consultants on how to run a profitable business;• Use of the BCF name and logo on members' stationery, websites and business cards provides a sense of

community, affiliation and credibility, especially for new consultants; • There is no financial commitment to belong to BSF, other than a reasonable quarterly membership fee and

meeting fees;• The BCF website will contain a brief summary of each member's consulting services and qualifications;• Prospective members may join the Forum for three months at a time; an annual membership will cost

less;• There will be numerous networking opportunities during regular meetings and workshops;• Members will receive a quarterly Newsletter. A Code of Ethics is enforced.• BCF also provides contacts and coaching, in return for a modest finders’ fee to help members land new

contracts.