Image via CrunchBaseConsultingforce.com - empowering consultants to acheve breakthrough results with their clients
Brief Profile of Entrepreneur
Its 2013...….. 8,000 business consultants will have completed 80,000 business transformations, affecting €400billion in revenue, positively impacting 4 million employees, generating over €1.2billion in fees – all because they decided that €50 a month to use consultingforce.com was a good investment – and what’s more we will have the critical markers of success to those businesses and consultants spawning a revolution in business effectiveness. "The principles are consultants, bankers, educators and IT gurus - when you put this combination into a room, with a sprinkling of passion, you get something truly amazing - and that is what consultingforce.com is - something that will enable consultants transform businesses, the way salesforce.com transformed the sales professional.
We will achieve this vision by;
Building a scalable, open source and secure multi-tenanted SaaS Platform whereby consultants for €50 per month can:
• Manage all client interactions in a secure workspace accessible online and offline
• Have access to v2020 processes or use their own processes to ensure consistent delivery of consulting engagements, using templates for meetings, reports and proposals with accompanying workflow.
• Track their client’s progress using Key Performance Indicators, in addition to existing financial ratios, to track their performance against their own targets and against benchmarks aggregated anonymously from their peers.
• Optimise their time, by managing their time, resources, billing, marketing and sales activities with one integrated system
What's new, interesting, or different about what your company does?*
We have the team, we have the processes and we have something else, a little bit of magic that may appeal to you......
..... let me also tell you that not only will consultants, business and their employees benefit – people who are not so lucky as to be in jobs will also benefit, because we will dedicate 1% of our profits, people and resources to help those not so well off by applying these same principles to charities and philanthropies to make them more effective as well.
…. So do you want to hear more, do you want to share this wonderful journey, to be part of something that can usher in the next great transformation in positive business…. And remember, 2013 is just a milestone, it’s a milestone that proves what’s possible., and from that point on we will grow, we will affect more businesses as the tsunami of business transformation grips the planet, with something real and tangible.
…. Now I’m not saying it’s easy, no, it will take hard work, we will have to take our concept and breathe life into it, we will need to take what we have on paper, what we have as a result of the 100 customers we have already transformed and build a prototype, a prototype that will show our existing consultant associates what’s truly possible, that will show a North American Bank who has 500 external consultants, that we can help them with their 5,000 consulting engagements every year…
… we will show you the plan and then you can decide who to introduce us to, who give us the €200k we need to build the prototype and prove our concept over the next 4 months before we look for the remaining €1m to build consultingforce.com and make you 10 fold gains in 2013 as we share this journey together.
Given 20-20 hindsight, what would you do differently?
" "Our original company is called V20:20 Consulting and we focused too much on the consulting side, working with banks as referral partners, which took away from our main vision, our vision which will net Angels and VCs a 10 fold return on their money.
Now we are focused, we don't have the last 9 months back, but we have our passion redoubled, and we will succeed.....
....my questions is this - do you want to part of this success or will you be like the guy who turned down, eBay, JK Rowling or Virgin Atlantic?
What is your most memorable fund-raising experience?
" "Walking into a meeting with a senior banker, who said ""just because they had got things wrong with the economic bubble that exploded in everyone's face, didn't mean they had to change they way they did business, after all banks will be around forever and you won't be!""
I'm looking forward to driving past that guy in my new car in 2013, when we have been proved right, when people with vision join us, when people with passion get what we are saying, when the world business leaders stop and listen to people on the ground, who feel the pulse of this planet everyday - yes, then my friend we will see a revolution, a shifting in thinking, a way where business care about their customers and profit results, as opposed to focusing on profit and forgetting about customers."
