With a large boom of new businesses over the past 5 years cleaning consultants are making a lot of money. What is a cleaning consultant? A cleaning consultant is a person that analyzes a companies cleaning expenditures and recommends ways to save money on their cleaning expenses. A cleaning consultant can make money both from the businesses that are being analyzed and referral fees charged to cleaning companies for referrals.

Becoming a cleaning consultant is relatively easy. The first thing to do is gain knowledge about how cleaning companies work, the services they provide and current rates for cleaning in your area. If you look in the phone book there is an abundance of cleaning companies in every city nationwide. Most of these companies would gladly pay you a referral fee for a cleaning account because of fierce competition in the commercial cleaning industry today. On the opposite end most business will pay you a consulting fee for saving them money on their cleaning needs. When you have researched the commercial cleaning market in your area its time to set up a few cleaning comapanies as referral clients. The easy way to accomplish this is to pick a few smaller commercial cleaning companies who are just starting out. Set up and agree on a referral fee with these comapanies for each of the businesses that you send their way. It is advisable to choose cleaning companies that represent different areas of the cleaning market. An example of these different areas would be a cleaning company that provides basic cleaning needs, carpet cleaning companies and duct cleaning companies. Make sure to pick at least three companies in these cleaning categories so that you can have them compete for the lowest pricing possible.

After you have agreed on a referral fee from these cleaning companies its time to approach businesses that need cleaning services. A great way to approach a business is to offer a guarantee that if you don’t save them money you don’t get paid. The basic plan is to analyze what they are currently spending on their cleaning needs and suggest ways that they can save money by utilizing the cleaning companies you represent. Take a good look at every dollar they spend on cleaning including cleaning labor, janitorial supplies used for cleaning and basic sanitary supplies such as restroom products and waste management needs. Once you have made a list and priced out each of their commercial cleaning expenditures its time to create bids for the cleaning companies that you have recruited. Be detailed when submitting cleaning bids to these companies and spell out the standards of each cleaning task that is to be performed. Once they have filled out bids compare them for the lowest pricing and present the winners to the businesses that need to be cleaned.

A great extra way to make money being a cleaning consultant is to also provide sources for the cleaning and janitorial supplies that are needed for a facility. Contact local and internet janitorial supply houses for the best prices on products and make up a small catalog that you can present to both your commercial cleaning associates and the businesses that are being cleaned. Overall being a cleaning consultant is a win win situation for everybody involved with opportunities for you to make some good money also.

Today we are going to talk about how overwhelm kills your consulting business. Overwhelm is an emotion and like all emotions it has a trigger that causes it to happen. Check to see if you have these tell-tale signs that may be causing you to feel overwhelmed. Look at the suggestions on how to deal with feeling overwhelmed and how you can turn the situation around in order to add maximum value to your life and your business.

Overwhelm is an emotion, not a business problem. Feeling overwhelmed is the same as feeling happy, sad, encouraged, disappointed, excited, or angry. Emotions are a response to something. You have to address the event that triggers their intensity. What trigger event do you notice? Can you point out what is happening in your business that is making you feel overwhelmed?

To-do lists are a trick. To-do lists are a major culprit of feeling overwhelmed. Do you have things on your to-do list that never move? Do you have things listed to help you avoid the real work of your business? If you have an unfocused to-do list, it only stresses you out. Yes, you will be busy, but the tasks don’t move your business forward. Actually, this unfocused to-do list only adds to the frazzled and unfocused felling that leads to feeling overwhelmed.

Do things that matter. In order to get things back in focus, do things that matter.

Commit to you. Commit to the things you know you need to do so that each day builds on the one before. Commit to the things that improve your expertise, your understanding of the daily business operations, and your understanding of your clients. Do the things that make you a better leader of your consulting firm.

Commit to your business. What are the things that must be prioritized in order to improve your business and help it produce a better outcome for your clients? Does your sales process need refining? Should you re-commit to your client retention strategy? Does your service offering need to be improved? Recommit to those things.

Commit to your employees. Recommit to your employees. There are things you owe to your employees, clients, vendors and outsourcers. These groups support you directly and indirectly. Make sure you are providing for them in the very best way you can.

Be honest. Be honest in your assessment of you and your business. It may be something in the above list or something else. Only you know exactly what it is. Whatever the issue, go after the things that actually matter to the growth of your business.

Solve the time management trick. In order to solve the time management trick, you need more than a time management hack. You need more systems in place, more procedures, and deliberate ways of producing high level results. More systems also means that you need less stuff. You don’t need more software, more employees, more sheets of paper, or more templates.

Additionally, you have to be able to measure success. What does success actually mean? You have to be able to differentiate between a good result, a great result, and a poor result. Your environment, your team, your vendors, and your employees also have to be able to know the difference between a good, a bad and a great result.

Finally, in order to better manage your time you must prioritize. Choose the things that are most important to you and make sure those things happen. If you are consistently doing the things that matter most and those are highest on the priority list, then you’ll do them well. You will end up getting more momentum in your business simply because you can provide the best energy on the things that provide the best value. While it makes simple sense, it is easier said than done. It requires heavy commitment.

One of the less-explored areas in the IT market is in generating IT consulting leads, particularly in terms of getting IT consultants face to face with prospective clients. But how exactly does an IT consulting firm get quality leads?

Sales leads are important factors in the race to get ahead of the competition. Lead generation is especially easy, what with the newer communications technologies available. Telemarketing is now easier with innovations such as IP telephony where voice-based signals are conducted via Internet or any IP-based networks. These newer technologies not only increase accessibility, they also reduce the cost of communications. Before, only people in the same country as the targeted prospects are able to generate leads in that particular market. But with lower operating costs, the trend today is shifting towards outsourcing lead generation to call centers in other countries.

But how is it more profitable to outsource if you have a mind to have an in-house telemarketing staff? Here are some of the reasons why outsourcing is the way to go.

1. It is more cost-effective. Outsourcing to call centers, especially to companies from Eastern Asia, is cheaper than having your own telemarketing staff. Living costs are, as a rule, lower in Southeast Asia than in North America. If an IT consulting company outsources to a BPO firm from a Southeast Asian country, his operating costs will surely decrease.

2. Call center agents from these countries are as competent in the English language as native speakers, sometimes even more so. BPO firms, especially from the Philippines, have such high standards that Americans can’t tell if the speaker on the other end of the line is American or not. They also subject their agents to a rigorous training program to further boost their competency and to help them acquire the skills necessary to lead generation campaigns.

3. There is the matter of insurance. An IT consulting company, especially if it is based in the US, has to pay exorbitant rates for their employees’ health insurance. But if they try outsourcing lead generation to BPO companies, they’ll find that it’s much easier that way. They don’t have to pay for insurance since the company they are outsourcing to pays for their own agents. So it makes little sense for companies to employ telemarketers when the alternative is so much cheaper and more convenient.

Profit and cash flow management is key for IT consulting firms. It’s not uncommon for IT consulting firms to employ lead generation specialists but there is a better, and cheaper, alternative to an in-house staff and that’s outsourcing.

Today, online competition has become tough for many businesses. It’s hard to stay ahead of others and remain strong and competitive when you know that there are a lot of online businesses that are already performing better than yours. However, there’s only one secret to an outstanding online presence and performance, and that is excellent SEO – something that only a good search engine consulting firm can give.

Search engine consulting firms are known to provide huge benefits to various online businesses. Most of them are equipped with the necessary techniques and strategies that ensure not just more traffic to the web but also quality targeted traffic. Good consulting firms believe that targeted traffic is more important than generating more traffic, for what is a good amount of traffic if this traffic is not interested in buying your products or services? Driving hundreds of visitors that are not really relevant to the site only overloads the web server without giving the expected returns. Targeted traffic, on the other hand, provides visitors that are more likely to purchase products and services that are offered.

To generate targeted traffic, these firms can help you come up with the most appropriate and relevant keywords to your website. They can also help you decide on the appropriate methods that generate huge traffic to your site, from blogging and content writing to social bookmarking and directory submissions. They use the newest and best tools available online to help you promote your website 100 times faster than you probably can manually. With their help, your website will be indexed in major search engines and will become visible to your target readers.

Aside from these, many search engine consulting firms can also help your website become more attractive and user-friendly by recommending the necessary changes on different website elements, which may include additional content and copywriting and site navigation changes. They can help you update your website with content that will help you turn your website traffic into loyal customers.

Search engine consultants employ the most appropriate search engine optimization techniques and strategies as these are what your business needs to start generating excellent returns. They also guarantee that your keywords are competitive, your website has good content and that it has excellent rankings in various search engine result pages.

To achieve these, you need to find the most appropriate and legitimate consulting firm that will efficiently work on your website and help you generate better business results. It is necessary that you determine what your business really needs and what kind of services you want from them. You also need to determine your budget. Search engine consultants charge monthly fees as they continue to work on your website. Whether you’ve recently ventured into an online business or have been doing it for quite a while, hiring a search engine consulting firm will always be a wise move to make most especially if you do not have enough time to invest in your website promotion.

Consulting and ‘interviewing’ a psychic is the foundation of an excellent reading. A good presentation of strategic questions is the best way of understanding your complicated situation and seeing it from the psychic’s perspective.

Like a search on a computer, it is how you ask the question that produces the desired results. Have an open mind and don’t expect a structured context of illustrated predictive analysis. A psychic consultant receives fragments of vital information pertaining to the subject matter. It is up to you to dissect and utilize the information in your associations.

Here are my suggestions for a good psychic reading.

Preparation

Choose the right format. Most people prefer a face to face consultation. If out of the geographical location of your preferred psychic, a phone consultation serves well. If you live a great distance, you can inquire about an email consultation.

1. Face to face: If you have questions about particular people, have a photo, business card or something pertaining to the person in question available. Many psychics are capable of remote viewing a person with simply a name and location but it takes time and the information is limited. Have specific questions about the person ready. I like to present a general analysis of the person I am reading first and then go into their particular questions. In many circumstances, the initial general reading covers most of their questions. If you are contemplating business or legal ventures, bring in all related materials. Before predicting on specific questions I first troubleshoot the notes and records that are brought to my attention through a technique called Derma Optic Perception.

Record your reading. I personally have a habit of taking notes for my clients but suggest that people bring in their own recording device because note taking does not capture all the information that comes through. Nothing is worse than getting back from your psychic consultation and finding that you did not have your session recorded or accurately documented in notes.

Confirm the time and date in advance. I am always researching ways to offer clients a choice of consultation time slots to suit their needs and schedules due to everyday changes. I appreciate an email or phone reminder the day before your reading.

2. Phone Consultations: Your voice is the medium in which the psychic will use to lock on to your energy frequency. This form of psychic reading can be particularly efficient when you have sent the psychic a recent photo of yourself prior to your appointment. Also, a phone consultation cuts out travel time to and from the psychic’s place of business. Also, it is easier to find 20 or 30 minutes in your agenda but a face to face consultation requires at least an hour.

3. Email Consultations: With properly written questions, email readings are precise, specific and to the point. Most people think email readings are a bit unreliable in terms of depth and accuracy. This model does not work well for a conference. I personally use a remote viewing technique to conduct email readings and prefer a name and geographical location of my subject matter to be provided by my client.

During your consultation, psychic perceptions will flow rapidly with little encouragement. When this occurs, it is best to just listen. When the stream of information has slowed or stopped, go ahead and direct the psychic to your next question.

Psychics are just people like you. They do not enjoy being placed upon a pedestal nor do they prefer the category of weird or strange. Be as polite and courteous as you would like to be treated and you will have a wonderful, long term experience with the psychic of your choice.