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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Step by Step Guide to Startup a Consulting Business: A Practical Checklist for First-Time Consultants - Register, Set Up, and Launch Your Consulting B

Step by Step Guide to Startup a Consulting Business: A Practical Checklist for First-Time Consultants - Register, Set Up, and Launch Your Consulting B

Merianda, Srikanth

Paperback

Series: The Consulting Business, Book 1

Business GeneralManagement

ISBN10: 1539144143
ISBN13: 9781539144144
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Oct 17 2016
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.21 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A step-by-step, no-fluff setup guide for anyone building a consulting practice from scratch. Starting a consulting business isn't complicated, but it's easy to get the sequence wrong, pick the wrong entity type, or skip the one step (leads) that actually keeps the business alive. This 2026 edition walks through fifteen steps in order, with current guidance throughout and two new chapters for founders working from outside the US and for scaling the back office once the core setup is done. What's inside:
  • Choosing and registering a business name, and picking the right entity and state
  • Setting up a website, phone system, business location, and business email, with a 2026 tool-stack sidebar in place of one aging vendor recommendation
  • Business cards, basic insurance, invoicing, and a one-page brochure
  • The strongest chapter in the book: building a recruiter hot list so job orders come to you instead of the other way around
  • New: starting and owning a US consulting entity from outside the US, including the EIN-without-an-SSN process and the Form 5472 filing requirement (general information, not legal or immigration advice)
  • New: automating the back office as you scale, once the fifteen setup steps are behind you
Written by an operator who has built, staffed, and run an IT consulting and offshore delivery business, not a theoretical playbook. Read it on its own as the setup checklist, or pair it with Book 1, How to Start and Run IT Consultancy Business (the decision), and Book 2, How to Build and Grow Your IT Consulting Startup (the marketing and day-to-day), for the full series.

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