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Tips for Success as an Engineering Consultant

Be better than anyone in "something" "When you're young, you have to aim and hope that sooner or later you'll know something better than anyone else in the world," he says. Maybe you're not the best in the state or country, but if you have this program and you think intelligently about what people will need or want in the future, you have the opportunity to that people come to you because you have that expertise. "

Develop as many tools as possible while being young because that's where learning is the easiest. Increase the size of your technical toolbox as much as you can.

Offer a strong point of view people hire engineering consultants for their idea and opinions.

"You must have an ego because no one wants to hear someone who does not have a strong point of view," he advises. A customer does not want to hear things like "Maybe you'd like to try this" or "It seems like a good idea." Clients hire a consultant to provide an answer, and most clients are smart enough to recognize that you are not using perfect information because they are not smart either and that's why they hired a consultant to start.

Do not be afraid of marketing. "Someone said that the best marketing is done by people who may not be the best but persistent: do not let someone tell you:" We do not care ", you get discouraged is a learning experience, with consulting you can explore different types of work to find what you want to do and find the types of customers you want to work with. "You can only do this by trying, so is very important to be there and do a lot of marketing.

As a last word of advice that the best marketing is a happy customer. That's why it's important to work hard to ensure that current customers are happy because they will come back to you.

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