When you have the technical skills, knowledge, abilities and experience in the ever-changing world of IT, you may have the burning desire to branch out on your own and establish your own services firm in the form of being an IT consultant\u2013either as a specialist or generalist.<\/p>\n
But the key questions you may have may leave you pondering:<\/p>\n
– Do you specialize or diversify?<\/p>\n
– What about keeping your skills up to date?<\/p>\n
– How do you ride through the slow times during IT \u201cpeaks and valleys\u201d of IT projects and engagements with clients?<\/p>\n
– What about the administrative burden of running your own IT consultancy (e.g., taxes, accounting, sales, marketing, promotion, etc.)?<\/p>\n
Hear what a successful IT consultant has done in order to stay ahead of the IT technical curve and yet keep loyal customers and accept exciting and key engagements focusing on state-of-the-art IT technologies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Check out the full podcast and also all of the other great content on Struggling Entrepreneur.\u00a0 I’m also recording a new interview with Fred Castaneda tomorrow.\u00a0 I’m looking forward to it and will post a link when it’s available.\u00a0 Stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Recently, it seems that both techies and non-techies have been really interested in the pros and cons of starting their own businesses and working on their own.\u00a0 With all of the economic issues and uncertainty in the U.S., it’s to be expected.\u00a0 In fact, at one point, I thought about creating a blog focused on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,36,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-tips","category-presentations","category-webcasts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}