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Information consultant business is a specialized business. You need to know your subject. You can be a good legal consultant if you have a background in law; you can be a good marketing consultant if you have a degree in marketing management; you can be a good media consultant if you have worked in the media. However, you need not limit your expertise to one field. You can branch out to other fields as your knowledge base grows.

Knowledge of your own subject has two advantages. The first is that you know what kind of information the industry needs. Two, you know people in that particular field. This makes it easy to get your first contract.

Tools that you Need

You need to have access to the net and your own personal library. There is no other way to run an information consultant business. You have to know more than your client. Only then you can provide him that extra information that can help him transform his business. Earlier, information consultants depended solely on books, magazines and newspapers. It was tedious, back-breaking work, because considerable time was spent on searching for information. Even the search process was expensive because the consultant needed to buy or acquire sources of information. Today, the net provides a sea of information. The only thing is that this information is scattered over the net. It has to be collected, collated, evaluated and analyzed.

After this, the information needs to be organized. Please remember that all information that is stored in a digital format is searchable. This saves considerable time looking for those nuggets of information that are buried deep inside reports. Earlier, despite extensive indexing the search was a cumbersome process. However, there is always a danger of losing the information if the computer malfunctions or the hard disk crashes. So, every information consultant must have a backup. Ideally, this should be a second computer. Also, all information should be copied on CDs and stored separately.

# posted by Medical Information : 3:28 AM