With the majority of contractors now charging £300 - £700 per day for their services - and the use of contractors becoming much more widespread - this is a career move that is fast becoming an option for more and more of our readers. 

So where's the catch? Business coaches agree that the critical success factor for doubling your earnings is consistently winning work and ensuring you are billing as much of your time as possible. Each week spent looking for projects rather than working on assignment, you are literally losing thousands of pounds.

So how can you ensure that you spend your time working on assignments and billing clients, rather than scrabbling to find your next piece of work?

Ensuring you have access to a steady stream of new client opportunities

Contract consultants admit that building up a network of clients and finding new sources of business can be hard. That's why we put together this special subscriber service providing client leads for aspiring and practising interims & contract consultants.

We’ll talk more about how we generate these leads in just a moment. Firstly, though, a fascinating independent survey recently revealed how contract consultants and interims secured most of their new work. The results were startling and are presented below – with the most important source of new work first.

Amazingly the survey demonstrated that intermediaries provide more new work than recommendations / referrals, repeat business and direct marketing campaigns combined. That means unless you are a truly expert networker you simply have to work with intermediaries in order to maximise your chances of securing a solid stream of new business. If, like most of our readers, you find working a room and networking pretty tough going, then finding effective intermediaries you can rely on becomes absolutely key to your success.

That’s why this contractor service was established, to provide professionals like you with a rich source of new project leads and to act as a trusted intermediary within the market.

By subscribing with us you can gain access to:

• A dedicated job board - currently featuring 165 contractor opportunities
• A dedicated forum to allow you to swap leads and network with other interims / contractors
• A news mining service to allow you to find out which firms are winning new business and need additional consultants
• Regular job alerts as new opportunities become available

Without doubt, just the access we provide to new client opportunities will provide a fantastic return on your subscription. Our team of ten staff are in contact with over 1000 consulting firms, clients and agencies – who between them provide a regular stream of new assignments that keep our subscribers working on paid assignments rather than tied-up with unpaid marketing work.

Find your next contract consulting job in just minutes

You can begin searching our latest contract consulting and interim assignments within a matter of minutes. For £30 + VAT, you will have a full year’s subscription to this service, or for £6 + VAT you can have access for the next 30 days.