Ask HN: Starting my own customer analytics consultancy?

Posted by tixocloud on Thursday June 23, 2016 @05:02PM
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I'm starting my own customer analytics consultancy and am wondering if anyone has any advice on landing your first client?

My experience has spanned from financial services, CPG, manufacturing and insurance. I was a software engineer on a business intelligence team and have built data warehouses, data models, ETL pipes and reporting. I've since become more involved with the analytical side of things where I work with Tableau, Python and Excel to identify new strategic opportunities.

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Re:Ask HN: Starting my own customer analytics consultancy? by venkasub on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @02:51AM (#11999938)

You might have to embed yourselves in the company(/Customer) as a contractor and show them the value-prop, build confidence and then take over complete projects. The first customer is primarily though word-of-mouth!

(Sorry, but this is pretty much the standard advise for any consulting gigs)

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Re:Ask HN: Starting my own customer analytics consultancy? by tixocloud on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @05:29PM (#12004976)

Thanks! That's a great tip.

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Re:Ask HN: Starting my own customer analytics consultancy? by codezero on Friday June 24, 2016 @10:35AM (#11970045)

I work for an analytics company, and I think the easiest way to get your first customer would be to focus on a specific tool that customers struggle with, and position yourself as an expert in that tool. For example, target Tableau shops and show how you can bring extra value to them.

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Re:Ask HN: Starting my own customer analytics consultancy? by tixocloud on Friday June 24, 2016 @01:57PM (#11971961)

Thanks for your thought. Would you mean focus on shops who've implemented Tableau already or shops who implement Tableau for their clients?

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Re:Ask HN: Starting my own customer analytics consultancy? by codezero on Friday June 24, 2016 @10:15PM (#11974869)

That's deeper than I thought. Target both? You probably will have more luck with shops they implement tableau, but why not find out which is better :)

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