Becoming an Excel Consultant advise

[Dannyh1]

Hi,

I am looking to earn some extra cash using my Excel/VBA skills - not mega bucks, an extra £2-3k a year would be nice.

I know there must be hundreds of businesses out there who are using maybe 1% of Excel's potential, but they don't know it!

I have put adverts in the local paper last few months but so far nothing biting.

I'm no MVP, but I know from experience that I have got a lot to offer Excel-wise, in comparison to the average office worker.

I have a list of 1500 companies & addresses from where I live (Liverpool, UK) split into sectors (manufacturing/financial/government/travel & leisure etc.....)

I'm looking for advice from any other consultants here on how they got started, what type of industry they targeted etc...

Many Thanks in advance,
Danny.

 

[BenMiller]

From my experience I'd say the biggest problem small business have is with mailing lists having inconsistent data.

If you are good with text manipulation, advertise something along the lines of "Do your employees spend hours manually going through mailing lists in Excel fixing them up?"

 

[Dannyh1]

Thanks Ben - that is a good thought. 1st port of call direct mail companies

 

[BenMiller]

Or printing companies which do in-house mailings for clients, and sometimes need to work through the client's messed-up lists. Might be a better call, because they're not equipped to handle that - they do graphics and printing.

Also think event planners, charities, etc.

 

[Dannyh1]

Brilliant thanks again Ben

 

[BenMiller]

No problem! Just telling you what I've done, in my own experience Let us know how you make out