How To Start a Training Business

© Copyright Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD, Authenticity Consulting, LLC.

This topic assumes that you already have some expertise in training and are thinking about starting a business to be a professional trainer. The guidelines in this topic are focused on helping you to start a new organization, expand a current organization, or start a new service. If you do not yet have expertise in training, you should review much of the contents of the topic Training and Development, and then certainly practice training in a variety of venues, including with evaluation from other trainers and participants in your trainings.

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Are You Really an Entrepreneur?

• Are You Personally Ready to Start a New Venture?

Starting a New Organization?

• Should You Start a For-Profit or a Nonprofit?
• Starting a For-Profit Organization
• Starring a Nonprofit Organization

Planning Your New Organization

• Business Planning

Deciding the Legal Structure of Your New Organization

• U.S. Enterprise Law — Forming Organizations

Or Expanding a Current Organization?

• Business Development

Or Starting a New Product or Service?

• Product Development

Marketing Your New Organization, Product or Service

• 10 Tried and True Tactics for Getting Your First Coaching Client
• Social Networking
• Authentic Marketing vs. Self-Promotion

Getting and Keeping Clients

• Sales
• Customer Service
• Customer Satisfaction
• Close More Business (Get More Clients)

Getting Paid

• How to Get Paid What You’re Worth
• What To Do When Your Client Doesn’t Pay

Dealing With Clients

• Types of Clients (to answer critical question: “who is current client?”)
• How to Fire Bad Clients
• Defining Success Between Consultants and Clients

When to Bail from a Project

• When to Bail from a Consulting Project

Minimizing Risk

• Minimize Consulting Liabilities and Risk
• Risk Management

Staying Centered as a Trainer

• Personal Wellness
• Stress Management
• Time Management
• Work-Life Balance

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