Start Your Own College Planning Consultant Business: Your Step-By-Step Guide to Success - Paperback

by Eileen Figure Sandlin (Author), Entrepreneur Magazine (Author)

A record 21.6 million students attended American colleges and universities in the fall of 2012. Of those students, the U.S. Census Bureau says, more than 4.4 million were in the 15-19 age bracket, the market primed and ready for the advice dispensed by college consultants. The experts at Entrepreneur zero in on this growing marketing and show education enthusiasts how to turn their passion into profits with a college planning and consultant business.

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Cash-in on Your Higher Calling

Thanks to today's busy lifestyles, nearly 4,500 institutions of higher learning, and millions of college-bound students, the demand for college admissions consulting services is skyrocketing. Using counseling skills you may have already honed in a secondary education setting, or knowledge you've gained from other relevant sources, you can benefit from this booming opportunity--starting a viable business and helping your people achieve their personal potential.

Coached by our experts, learn how to identify your specialty or services--from steering high school students towards acceptance, to assisting in filing admission and financial applications, and other market needs. Moreover, master business basics such as establishing your company as a legal entity, outfitting a home office, managing finances, promoting your services, and more. Plus, access contact and resource lists, sample documents, and expert interviews from practicing college planning consultants.

Includes:
- Statistics relevant to the academic community
- Tips for establishing a home office
- Market research to help you reach your target audience
- Business professionals who can help you do business better
- Naming ideas
- Professional resources
- Cyber techniques (including websites and social media)
- Advertising and public relations tactics
- Financial strategies
- And much more

Consider this your lesson plan for success--start your business now!

Author Biography

Entrepreneur Media, Inc. is the premier content provider for and about entrepreneurs. Their products engage and inspire every day with advice, solutions, and resources that fuel the bold and independent way entrepreneurs think. After 31 years, nobody reaches more growing businesses.

Entrepreneur Press is a leading small-business trade publisher, providing aspiring, emerging, and growing entrepreneurs with actionable solutions to every business challenge--ultimately, leading them from business idea to business success.

Eileen Figure Sandlin is an award-winning writer and the author of 18 nonfiction books. She also has written more than 800 articles and thousands of newsletter articles. Sandlin is a professor of business communication, interpersonal communication and English at a major Midwest university.