Networking, Mentoring, and Education for Consultants and Solo Professionals
Come to our virtual meetup on Friday, February 13th to network with your fellow consultants and solo professionals. You'll get a chance to make new connections and learn from your colleagues.
We'll be on a video call from 1:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. Eastern Time.
This meetup is sponsored by the Society of Professional Consultants (SPC) and is open to members and non-members.
There's no registration fee to attend. We're limiting the meetup to 25 people so please register and save your spot. We hope you can join us!
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Simple Customer Relationship Management (CRM) for Solo Consultants
How do you keep track of your prospects, customers, and business development? Have you found simple spreadsheets don't give you enough information and complicated CRMs give you too much information?
Everyone says you need a CRM, but almost everyone you know hates their CRM. Why is that?
Join CRM expert Reuben Swartz for a practical workshop that cuts through the confusion and shows you exactly what you need to know about CRM systems for your business.
You'll discover:
This workshop is perfect for people who:
Because here's the truth: Just picking a CRM and ticking a box doesn't make you successful any more than buying a gym membership makes you fit.
Come and discover what actually works in the real world.
There’s no charge for this workshop.
About Our Speaker
Reuben Swartz is the founder of Mimiran, the fun CRM for independent consultants who love serving clients but hate "selling". He's also the host and chief nerd on the Sales for Nerds podcast.
He went from a background in computer science and software engineering to sales and marketing consulting for the Fortune 500, while struggling with sales and marketing for his own firm.
His mission is to help other independent consultants make a bigger dent in the universe and get more clients by using their talents to teach instead of market, connect instead of network, and help instead of sell.
Come to our virtual meetup on Friday, March 13th to network with your fellow consultants and solo professionals. You'll get a chance to make new connections and learn from your colleagues.
AI is in Everything Everywhere All the Time: How to Legally and Ethically Incorporate AI into Your Consulting Business
Artificial Intelligence is now baked into almost every tool you use—email, slides, search, CRMs—so the real question for consultants isn’t if you’ll use AI, but how to do it without risking your reputation or your business.
In this one-hour, plain-English workshop led by Erin Austin, you’ll learn how to fold AI into your everyday workflow in ways that are legally compliant and ethically solid.
We’ll cover what you need to know about protecting your intellectual property, ownership of AI-generated content, how to protect your clients’ confidential and proprietary information, and where the real legal and ethical red lines are.
You’ll leave with:
Harvard-trained intellectual property lawyer and AI legal strategist Erin Austin empowers experts, consultants, and creators to protect what makes them irreplaceable in an AI-driven world. Drawing on deep legal expertise, behavioral research, and real-world examples, Erin exposes how unchecked AI adoption is reshaping authorship, eroding trust, and blurring the boundaries of ownership.
Her provocative keynotes challenge professionals to proactively claim their ideas, safeguard client relationships, and lead with integrity—even as lawmakers lag behind. Erin equips audiences with the tools to navigate legal uncertainty, resist commoditization, and set their own ethical standards for success in the age of AI.
Come to our virtual meetup on Friday, April 10th to network with your fellow consultants and solo professionals. You'll get a chance to make new connections and learn from your colleagues.
Stop Sounding Like Everyone Else: Messaging in a Saturated, AI-Flattened Market
Your work is strong and your reputation is solid. Yet in 2026, your marketing may be producing inconsistent leads, slower decisions, and more “good conversations” that don’t convert. Does your messaging sound the same as your competitors?
In this session, Sue Begent reveals what’s actually happening when buyers quietly place you in the “credible but not urgent” category, and how to correct the messaging signals causing the misread before it calcifies into your positioning.
Attend this workshop to learn how to:
After Sue’s session, you'll leave with:
Sue Begent is a messaging recalibration specialist for experienced coaches and expert practitioners whose work is exceptional, but whose message is no longer converting consistently in today’s AI-flattened, trust-recession market. With 20+ years as a Fortune 500 marketer, 8 years as a nurse, and 9 years as a mentor, she blends strategic precision with deep human insight.
Sue helps micro-business owners restore authority, pricing power, and decisional momentum by aligning their message with how premium buyers now decide. Her work is known for warmth without softness, urgency without pressure, and clarity without marketing theatre.
