{"id":77,"date":"2022-05-04T05:20:58","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T12:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sidehustleera.com\/?p=77"},"modified":"2022-05-04T05:20:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T22:20:58","slug":"how-to-start-a-side-hustle-consulting-business-that-gets-paid-with-kai-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sidehustleera.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/04\/how-to-start-a-side-hustle-consulting-business-that-gets-paid-with-kai-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Start a Side Hustle Consulting Business that Gets Paid, with Kai Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"514\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sidehustleera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/R2-00050.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-78\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sidehustleera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/R2-00050.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.sidehustleera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/R2-00050-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sidehustleera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/R2-00050-768x493.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sidehustleera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/R2-00050-650x418.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Consulting can be a beautiful business model because it transitions you from selling what you do to selling what you know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So what do you know that other businesses might pay for? What could you consult on?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We cover all that and more with&nbsp;Kai Davis&nbsp;this week on The Side Hustle Show. You may remember Kai from episode 4, \u201cHow to Quit your Job and Move to Hawaii,\u201d in which he shared his strategies for getting clients and the framework he used to quit his 9-5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I asked Kai back on the show because he\u2019s one of those guys I always get so many great ideas from every time we talk. He\u2019s a year further along in his business and has some excellent and hard-won insights to share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Learn:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>How to figure out what you could consult on.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kai\u2019s \u201cflipped pyramid\u201d approach.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How to make your consulting business viable as a part-time project.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Two unique strategies for landing your first clients.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The pricing strategy that removes your hours from the equation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How to set clients up for a retainer or recurring revenue relationship.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kai\u2019s \u201croadmapping session\u201d strategy that now allows him to charge a premium rate for a service he used to give away for free.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How a consulting business could \u201cscale\u201d beyond trading hours for dollars.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kai\u2019s step-by-step framework of how to start your consulting business and get your first clients this month, in one hour a day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Quotable:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cAre you selling your time or are you selling results?\u201d&nbsp;<\/em>Tweet this!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>LookShiny.com<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kai\u2019s email<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Double your Freelancing Rate by Brennan Dunn<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Side Hustle Show with Virginia Roberts<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Patrick McKenzie |&nbsp;Patio11.com<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Draft Revise<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kai\u2019s free weekly newsletter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consulting can be a beautiful business model because it transitions you from selling what you do to selling what you know. So what do you know that other businesses might pay for? What could you consult on? We cover all that and more with&nbsp;Kai Davis&nbsp;this week on The Side Hustle Show. You may remember Kai [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-77","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-consulting"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehustleera.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehustleera.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehustleera.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehustleera.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehustleera.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehustleera.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehustleera.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/80"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehustleera.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehustleera.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehustleera.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehustleera.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}