Dear Friend:

I am not particularly bright or gifted. So just about everyone who knows me is surprised by where I am today.

About the only things I’m any good at are writing, speaking, and marketing. And I’m not great – just decent. I don’t have an MBA or a Ph.D., or professional licensing of any kind.

Yet, working from the comfort of my home, I made over half a million dollars last year in my little one-man consulting business. I made about that much the year before, too.

While neighbors wake up bleary eyed and moaning, rushing to catch the bus for their grueling morning commute into the city (that is, unless they’ve been laid off and are wondering how to pay the mortgage this month), I sit peacefully at my PC – thinking, reading, writing, and talking on the phone with my clients.

My home office window looks down on our wooded property, where chipmunk, squirrel, deer, raccoon, and fox roam freely. I sip my morning coffee in peace and tranquility, while other folks are already stuck in yet another boring, endless meeting – part of the soul-deadening corporate life I gladly left behind a long time ago (and I’ve never looked back since).

I love being a freelancer. My definition of success is “Doing what you want to do, when you want to do it – and being paid very, very well for it.” Being an independent consultant has made that dream come true for me – as it can for you, too, as I’ll explain in a minute.

Being a “freelance consultant” has given my family and me a comfortable, worry-free lifestyle. I became a self-made multi-millionaire while in my 30s, and since then, there’s nothing my wife and kids want that I can’t easily indulge them in.

(Although, I don’t always do it! I prefer a modest lifestyle. I always buy cars for cash, and while we live in a $600,000, 11-room house in an expensive suburb of Manhattan, it’s mortgage-free. We also have zero credit card or consumer debt.)

But it wasn’t always that way … until I got some incredibly shrewd, unbelievably astute guidance on how to succeed as an independent consultant.

By following that advice, I gradually built my solo consulting practice, earning many millions of dollars over the past two decades giving advice to local and national clients.

Now, that “million-dollar advice” on how to start and run a successful consulting practice is once again available.

And just as a friend shared this life-changing information with me two decades ago … and helped make my dreams come true by doing so … now I want to share it with you. If you will let me.

In 1982, I had just quit my job as an advertising manager for a manufacturing firm – because they asked me to relocate from New York City to Wichita, Kansas, and my fiancée at the time didn’t want to go.

I thought that, instead of looking for another job, I might try doing some consulting. So I decided to freelance. I had less than $2,000 in the bank.

I had no idea how to get clients … how to present myself to prospects … how to package my services … what to charge … what clients were really looking for … or how to close a deal. And so my income was, well … calling it “pitiful” would be generous: I made about $7,000 in my first 6 months.

Then one day a friend handed me a thick manual he had in his possession.

It was a home-study course with the ungainly title of How to Guarantee Your Consulting Success and Your $250,000 Annual Income, and it was published by something called the American Consultants League (ACL) – an organization I’d never heard of.

I’m an avid reader of how-to business material, so I decided to give the manual a quick read.

To my surprise, How to Guarantee Your Consulting Success became my “Bible” for getting my new consulting practice off the ground – and generating millions of dollars of income from consulting fees over the past two decades.

I referred to it for years as a source of guidance, inspiration, and ideas. Every page was dog-eared and filled with notes, underlines, and highlights. Whatever the manual said to do, I did.

And boy, did it work! In 1982, my first year in business as an independent consultant, I grossed $39,000 (my annual corporate salary had been $27,000). In 1983, my income shot up to around $80,000.

Every year after that, I earned steadily more, and always well above $100,000. The last couple of years I’ve grossed around half a million dollars a year, making a handsome income despite the sluggish economy. (You can, too.)

Now, my consulting specialty is marketing, because that’s what I know (my first two jobs were in corporate marketing). Yours will be in whatever field of knowledge, skill, or service you know best.

Consultants are needed in virtually every area: Accounting … advertising … architecture … business management … customer service … debt resolution … e-commerce … financial planning … graphic design … human resources … IT (information technology) … manufacturing … marketing … operations … product development … quality control … risk management … sales … stress management … time management … training … Web site design … writing … and dozens more.

The point? If you know something that other people or organizations need or want to know, then you can make a handsome living as an independent consultant.

Today you cannot buy How to Guarantee Your Consulting Success in a bookstore. In fact, you cannot buy it anywhere, at any price.

But now you can get a PDF copy via email absolutely FREE when you become a member of The American Consultants League.

Founded in 1983, ACL is one of the oldest and most respected professional societies for independent consultants.

And, it’s the only association I know that is oriented toward helping both novice and experienced consultants become more successful and profitable.

This year, the ACL directors and I did a major revision and update of How to Guarantee Your Consulting Success to help you succeed as an independent consultant in the 21st century.

And here’s just a sampling of what you’ll find in this new and improved program:

Is joining the American Consultants League – and taking our home study course, How to Guarantee Your Consulting Success – worth the investment of your time and money?

Here’s what your fellow consultants are saying:

The bottom line: How to Guarantee Your Consulting Success gives you everything – and I mean everything – you need to know to earn $250,000 a year or more as an independent consultant. No wonder so many self-employed consultants I know are self-made millionaires!

Now, I mentioned that you can’t buy this course, but you CAN get it free when you join ACL.

I highly recommend becoming an ACL member, both for new consultants as well as seasoned pros looking to take their income and practice to the next level.

Just look at all the benefits of ACL membership

Let some of the world’s most successful independent consultants help you build your own six-figure consulting practice every step of the way.

Perhaps you’re like me -- and millions of other Americans -- who dream of leaving the routine grind of working for others and strike out on their own.

Maybe you’ve been downsized and outsourced all the way out the corporate door. You might be looking for a more enjoyable and challenging way to make a living. Or maybe you simply want to cash in on your expertise, strike out on your own, and earn a handsome 6-figure income even an airline pilot, lawyer, or doctor might envy.

Well, when you join the American Consultants League, you don’t have to “go it alone” as you start and build your six-figure consulting practice.

That’s because ACL gives you an “instant support” network.

You can exchange ideas, ask questions, and get help online from your fellow ACL members on the ACL website’s Bulletin Board.

And, while on the Bulletin Board, you can also get personal advice, feedback, and guidance from the highly successful consultants who sit on the League’s Board of Advisors.

Let me briefly introduce you to these advisors -- your consulting success “team”:

To hire any one of the experts on ACL’s Board of Advisors to consult with you for just one day would cost anywhere from $1,000 to $4,000 or more (some only take on big corporations as clients and are not available to work with individuals, no matter what the price).

But now you can hire the entire American Consultants League Board to coach you in your consulting practice all year long … for the very reasonable “retainer” of just $29 a month … simply by becoming an ACL member. That’s less than what you’d spend to take just one course at a local college!

At this special rate, available to new members only, ACL membership … which includes the consulting course PDF, CPC exam, accreditation, networking opportunities, referrals, 6 free special e-reports, 2 free newsletters, two free critiques of your marketing materials, a free individual coaching session, and thousands of dollars worth of other benefits … is the best investment you can make today to ensure your consulting success.

We are offering membership in the American Consultants League to you on a risk-free trial basis.

As soon as we hear from you, we’ll rush via email the complete How to Guarantee Your Consulting Success course and your 6 free bonus e-reports to you.

When the How to Guarantee Your Consulting Success course arrives, examine it carefully.

I think you’ll experience a thrilling sense of excitement and discovery akin to what treasure hunters feel when they hit a payload of sunken gold coins on the ocean floor!

But if not, just notify ACL within 60 days. We’ll cancel your membership, refund your payment in full, and that will be the end of the matter.

As for the 6 bonus e-reports (list price: $19 each), they will be yours to keep FREE and with no cost or commitment of any kind … our way of saying “thanks” for giving the American Consultants League a try.

To sum it all up, just look at all you get when you join the American Consultants League:

Purchased separately, this package retails for $4,400. But a 1-year membership in the American Consultants League gives you all of the above and more for only $349 – less than a dollar a day! Your savings: $4,051.

You pay a dollar, without even thinking about it, for coffee, juice, or a snack. Isn’t achieving outrageous success in your consulting career worth a dollar a day, too?

And it really doesn’t cost you even that: If you start off your consulting practice charging only $100 an hour (far less than the average consultant bills), you’ll more than pay back twice the cost of your ACL membership -- for the entire year -- in just your first day of consulting!

What else in today’s economy gives you such a rapid return on your investment? (Certainly not college courses. They cost thousands of dollars and are entirely theoretical. They won’t help you succeed in the real world of freelance consulting hardly at all.)

Now let me tell you why I urge you to take us up on this risk-free offer, even if you don’t think you are interested in joining the American Consulting League or taking our course:

In chapter 4 of the How to Guarantee Your Consulting Success manual, we reveal the most powerful marketing strategy ever developed for successfully selling consulting and professional services. It has been used by hundreds of consultants with enormous success over the past 20 years.

This strategy is so simple; you can literally read the section on it in a few minutes. Then, once you’ve learned the strategy, it’s yours to use forever – whether you join ACL or return our course for a refund.

Just by learning this one strategy, you can literally double the response to ads, direct mail, and any other promotions you do – and generate a flood of new leads and lucrative consulting assignments.

With that in mind, why not order your risk-free copy of How to Guarantee Your Consulting Success manual?

Click on the subscribe button below to sign-up immediately. (And see my P.S. below for one more good reason to do so today.)

Sincerely,

Robert W. Bly, Board Member
American Consultants League

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P.P.S. With the unemployment rate at over 6%, and more downsizing in the works, consulting is an increasingly attractive career alternative for corporate employees.

You can work at home, set your own hours, earn a handsome six-figure income, and build a stable of steady clients who rely on you for advice. You have no commute. Endless meetings are a thing of the past. YOU make all of the decisions in your business, without consulting a committee. And with no boss, you can’t be fired!

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