Comments on: 7 Ways to Land Great Consulting Work While In Between Jobs

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Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:15:27 +0000

[...] 7 Ways to Land Great Consulting Work While in Between Jobs (Personal Branding Blog): How to build your brand when finding a job, according to Monica O’Brien! [...]

By: Ryan Stephens Marketing » 11 Essential Blog Posts for March 2009

Ryan Stephens Marketing » 11 Essential Blog Posts for March 2009 — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:34:00 +0000

[...] 7 Ways to Land Great Consulting Work While in Between Jobs – Monica O’Brien (Personal Branding Blog) It’s no secret I do consulting on the side of my full-time gig. Some of you probably do to. If that’s the case Monica provides some solid, applicable advice you can put into action today. It’s quick, dirty and honest and if you can do all seven, chances are you’ll succeed. In fact, she’s doing so well she’s turned down full-time job offers and just kept her consulting LLC. [...]

By: Kurt

Kurt — Wed, 06 May 2009 23:03:56 +0000

“Use the lingo” basically says confuse the customer by spewing garbage phrases that they won’t call you on. It’s terrible advice to tell people to be purposely deceitful.

By: Mary E. Ulrich

Mary E. Ulrich — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:08:10 +0000

Love your ideas. My problem is that everyone wants me, only no one wants to pay me–they all want me to volunteer. I’ve done volunteer work all my life, but it would be great to actually make money to pay the bills.

I can’t seem to break out of this cycle, any ideas?

By: Crystal

Crystal — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:09:28 +0000

I stumbled across this entry on a “low self confidence day” — what a pick me up with some great direction! I’ve already done 2 things (start a blog and umbrella company) and am figuring out what I’m good at and an expert at via writing in my blog.
Ditto to what John says.
Great reading

By: Jennifer Floyd

Jennifer Floyd — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:29:35 +0000

Monica, your post includes great advice that’s very timely and helpful. I have just one point of contention: your section on “Use the Lingo.” Maybe you were being facetious and I missed it. But as a professional communicator, one of my missions is to eradicate all that jargony crap from my company’s communications! You can WALK the talk, but for heaven’s sake please don’t TALK that talk. It doesn’t mean anything and you’re not doing your audience or potential customers any favors if they have to translate your consultant-speak. If you’re consulting, presumably you already ARE an authority; you don’t have to use fancy vocabulary to prove it.

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kimberlyhirsh.com » A Manifesto of Sorts — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:04:21 +0000

[...] branding, personal development, personal finance, productivity, and writing. Via a post on the Personal Branding Blog, I found this excellent post: You don’t need a blog topic. Just start [...]

By: David Kamm

David Kamm — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:38:08 +0000

Monica,

Outstanding post! You’ve hit several nails on the head here. I’m currently taking the same path (with full-time consulting as my primary goal) , and am having tons of fun getting ramped up in this endeavor. Good luck to you as you move forward in your career.

By: John

John — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:51:11 +0000

Wow. Great stuff and so inspirational! I like the notion of going beyond tasks and producing results. There are also many intangible skills that people have that they don’t give themselves credit for that could help them obtain gigs. Being able to read people, work with different personalities, have an outside perspective, or an ability to see the big picture and refocus a business are important as well.

By: Desarae

Desarae — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:07:58 +0000

Great Post!