I'm here to help coders become consultants. My services are for you if:
- You need expertise and support in making the coder to consultant transition.
- You feel almost ready to start charging clients for advice or strategy but need support in making that leap.
- You've landed a great consulting gig and want to make your marketing repeatable so you land future great consulting gigs.
- You're a consultant wanting to self-publish your first book and would like guidance about doing that.
- You're a generalist, you're doing fine, but you have a hunger for something more...
If instead you need help with pricing, sales, financial management, or people management, check out the list of world-class resources listed on my Referrals page: https://philipmorganconsulting.com/referrals-to-other-experts/
Again, my focus is helping coders become consultants. This is a business transformation, and it is a personal transformation from competence to self-made expertise.
My services are therefore not a general purpose multi-tool useful for almost anything. Instead, they are a small set of special-purpose tools that are invaluable in the context of the coder -> consultant or competence -> self-made expertise transitions, and much less valuable outside that context.
Here's how this all fits together:
Explore this map more here: https://my.mindnode.com/k2sQQckhwnYoWEcpTzyrEgTxv6CGU5VuA1xrb8HV
If my services seem relevant for you, then the next step is to understand which service is ideal for your specific need(s).
In the table below, you'll see that I focus on 4 business goals you might have and offer 3 kinds of services (and several DIY products) to help accelerate your progress towards those goals. So if you identify the column that matches your goal(s), and the row with a suitable type of support, then the intersection of that column and row will identify the best-fit service for you. (On mobile devices, try landscape orientation for a better view of this table.)
Forms of support | Goal: Decide how to specialize | Goal: Generate leads | Goal: Cultivate exceptionally valuable expertise | Goal: Commercialize IP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Highly customized support ("tell me what to do, give me completely customized guidance and support in doing it") | 1:1 coaching | 1:1 coaching | 1:1 coaching | Consulting (generally for firms with >5 employees) or 1:1 coaching (generally for individuals) |
| Semi-customized support ("tell me what to do, give me semi-customized guidance and support in doing it") | PAP | PAP | TEI | TEI |
| Experiential learning ("tell me what to do, I'll challenge myself to figure out how to do it and get both the business benefit *and* the personal growth benefit") | Indie Pentathlon | Indie Pentathlon | Self-study version of TEI (coming soonish) | Self-study version of TEI (coming soonish) |
| DIY best practices guidance ("tell me what to do and describe how to do it, I'll implement on my own without support") | The Positioning Manual & Specializing Without Failure | Coming later | Coming later | Coming later |
Quick links to specific services:
Products
If my services are not a good fit now, I also have some products that may be just what you need to make some progress on your own transitioning away from being a generalist and towards being a more successful specialist: