GH: Virtual Consulting: How to Start a Location-Independent Consulting Business

The Side Hustle Show

Nick Loper

Business, Education, Entrepreneurship, How To

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

A location-independent consulting business that replaces your day job income in a matter of months? That's what Paul Minors achieved with his virtual software consulting side hustle. You might recognize Paul’s name. Paul is a productivity blogger and consultant from New Zealand. He was part of a fun productivity roundtable episode we did towards the end of 2016 -- that was episode 197 if you want to go back and check it out. At that time, Paul was putting the wheels in motion on his consulting business centered around specific software tools. If you can hitch your cart to a rising tide of interest in a particular tool, and become the go-to expert in that space, you can do really well. Paul was able to leave his day job within a couple of months of starting his business. He was then able to go traveling with his wife for 6-months while working 15-20 hours a week from his laptop. After arriving back home, he started working full-time on his consulting business. “I noticed the impact of that straight away, within a couple of months I had doubled my income,” Paul told me. It's clear Paul has figured out this business model. This episode is packed with ideas you might be able to apply to your own areas of expertise. Maybe you’ll even uncover some areas of expertise you never really considered that special before. Tune in to episode 344 hear: How Paul came across the idea of offering his first consulting services “by accident.” The several different marketing channels that drive targeted traffic to his website How he’s added more products and services to his portfolio Full Show Notes: Virtual Consulting: How to Start a Location-Independent Consulting Business New to the Show? Get your personalized money-making playlist here!

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0:00.0	Here's an oldie but a goodie from the archives from the side hustle show Greatest It's collection
0:06.6	How to set up your location independent consulting business and land your first clients
0:13.8	What's up? What's up Nick? Over here. Welcome to the side hustle show because you might be taking for granted the skills and expertise
0:20.1	You already have that's called the curse of knowledge once you learn something. It's hard to imagine not knowing it
0:26.0	But for the rest of the world, maybe they could use your help. That's what happened for Paul miners a productivity blogger and consultant from New Zealand
0:34.1	If that name sounds familiar, you might remember Paul from a fun
0:38.4	Productivity roundtable episode we did toward the end of 2016 that was episode
0:43.4	197 if you want to go back and check it out, but since then Paul's built a really cool business earning
0:49.1	Thousands of dollars a month enough to quit his job helping other companies and individuals with stuff. He was excited about
0:56.1	Now a lot of this conversation is going to center on specific software tools, which I think as a side hustle consulting
1:02.8	Tactics is fantastic. If you can hit your cart to a rising tide of interest in a particular tool
1:08.8	Become the go-to expert in that space. You can do really well
1:12.4	But if we take it one level higher
1:14.1	I think Paul's strategies are applicable on a much broader scale not just software consulting
1:18.8	So listen in for the ideas you might be able to apply to your own areas of expertise or maybe
1:24.8	Uncover some areas of expertise. You never really considered that special before notes and links for this one plus the free PDF
1:31.3	Highlight real download are at side hustle nation.com slash Paul miners
1:36.0	miners
1:36.8	My n o r s and of course you can head over to Paul miners.com to check out all his stuff
1:41.9	Which I think is very well done. So here's what I think is exciting about this topic
1:47.2	Paul took something that at one time he'd never heard of knew nothing about and over time turned it into a profitable business
1:54.6	There is absolutely nothing stopping you from doing the same. I'll be back with my top takeaways from the chat with Paul after the interview ready. Let's do it
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