E138: Scaling Your Consultancy Business with Erin Halper

<p><strong>Special guest host Hoan Thai leads the conversation today as we get to know more about Erin Halper, the CEO of </strong><a href="https://betheupside.com/"><u><strong>The Upside</strong></u></a><strong>, which helps professionals launch, build, and scale thriving consultancy businesses.</strong></p> <p><strong>Here are some power takeaways from today’s conversation:</strong></p> <ul> <li>The Upside offerings<br> </li> <li>How business experts can benefit from The Upside in terms of consulting<br> </li> <li>How the pandemic helped accelerate their business<br> </li> <li>The biggest mistakes companies need to avoid when getting into consulting<br> </li> <li>How hiring a virtual assistant changed the game for her and the best thing about not being location-specific<br> </li> <li>Reasons why someone would be an employee<strong><br> </strong></li> </ul> <p><strong>Episode Highlights:</strong></p> <p><strong>What The Upside Does in Terms of Training Consultants</strong></p> <p>The consultants are already great at what they do. The Upside doesn't help them execute their work because they're already experts at what they do. Instead, they help them build a business around their expertise and help connect them to the right people as they have built a community around this movement.</p> <p><strong>The Upside Offerings</strong></p> <p><a href="https://betheupside.com/accelerator/"><u>The Upside Accelerator</u></a> - It's a step-by-step high-level action plan for early-stage consultants where they walk them through everything they need to know about building a successful, thriving, profitable consultancy practice sooner than later, in the first few months of starting.</p> <p><a href="https://betheupside.com/membership/"><u>The Upside Membership</u></a> - a curated community of consultants and industry experts who support and advance one another in business.</p> <p><strong>3 Biggest Mistakes to Avoid When You're Getting into Consulting</strong></p> <p><strong>1. When you don't define your offering in terms of R