An independent consultant

A successful first couple of quarters?

Since becoming an independent consultant last October I have enjoyed a quietly successful first half year’s trading, with some generous contacts made in my former lives inviting me to help them do what they needed to do to make their own grown-ups happy.

I have helped with winning tenders, carried out tree surveys on development sites, I have undertaken a hedgerow survey, I have objected to the making of a TPO, I have inspected hazard trees, I have helped draft management strategies, and I have been active as the Industrial Advisor to an arboricultural HE provider – quite a good mixed bag stretching me as I help others.

However, perhaps as a consequence of the more generalised economic downturn, things have quietened down for me as we move toward the end of Q1 of 2012.

In-bound marketing

One consequence of not being able to trade my time for money is that I can look at ways that others have used to seek to direct traffic to their door, and so I have developed my Linkedin profile and used my Twitter account to seek out those who might be able to benefit from the services that I can offer.   I sent my cv to Klout to score and they were scathing and so I have re-worked it, whether it will make a difference I can not say – I don’t suppose it’s the reason that things have gone quiet, do you?   Following an exchange of comments on Linkedin with Steve Scaysbrook of Konstrukshon Ltd (steve.scaysbrook@konstrukshon.co.uk) I am about to embark on a similar exercise with Google+