How best to market IT consulting skills?

Question by sideshot72: How best to market IT consulting skills?
I’m thinking of taking on solo indie projects, like helping people set up networks, servers, troubleshooting computers, making web sites, customing MS Office apps in VBA, writing 3-tier software, backend work. You name it–I can do it. Not to brag, but I am very good at it and people know it. As an aside, I’m bad at other things like dancing and chemistry. But I am a serious computer whiz.

Isn’t there some way I can spread the word and start doing jobs for people, then finally hire other people to work for me?

Marketing seems to be the problem here. I might know computers, but I have no idea how to market. I’ve tried using friends/word of mouth, but it just seems like a dud. Any ideas?

I don’t want a consulting job. While that seems like an obvious answer, I just don’t want to depend on others like that. I want to get in the driver’s seat here.

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Answer by tommy d.
I’ll take some time (don’t know how long) and get back to you on this,i’ll have to study your Q/A’s for greater insight-ktf.x

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What is the best approach for marketing a business app consulting company online to the local community?

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We are a small (husband and wife) consulting company specializing in data mining, development of custom reports, ERP implementation and configuration, and development of custom, web-enabled applications for business process management in the San Francisco Bay Area (focusbizconsulting.com). Keywords for our type of business are very expensive. What is the best way to promote our business to the local community online?

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