GovClose | Start Winning Government Contracts
Oct 16, 2026 · 19 min · 13 segments
Start a Government Contracting Career: https://www.govclose.com--------------------------------- What's an overlooked business you can start after 50 using the experience you already have? In this…
When I say consulting business, I mean that you are starting a business that you can run from your home, which is where I am right now, Initially with one person, that one person would be you, and companies will pay you for advising them or offering simple services that you can do remotely.
When you're selling to other companies, this is referred to as B2B or business to business.
The mistake people make when they start a business like this is they focus on what they want to sell, what they want to teach, not what is actually valuable to a company.
Because remember, in order to get paid a lot, What you're doing has to solve a problem for a business and it has to be a problem that they are willing to pay for.
Preferably the problem that you're solving makes a lot of money for that company or has the potential to make a lot of money for that company.
Some examples of things that could be difficult to make work, not impossible, but some things that could be difficult to make work for a high income consulting business are the following.
Maybe you're a nurse and you want to teach bedside manner or write a book on how to take care of people.
If you come from the construction industry, you may want to teach companies or advise them how to build furniture.
In fact, I could point you to courses, consulting businesses that do specialize in some of those things.
But companies are going to be much more likely to pay you if the advising that you can do helps them to make more money.
Remember, the more money you can help a company make, the more you can charge, or in other words, the more you could get paid.
If you've watched this channel before, you have heard me say over and over again, the US government is the single biggest purchaser of goods and services in the world.
And we can see exactly how much of those things or services that they're buying.
Let's say you spend a career as a nurse, as some of our students in GovClose have.
Now, if you learn the government contracting expertise, how to sell to the government, when we're approaching companies that are in the healthcare or medical services space, and they're The message is I can help you win government contracts in an industry that spends $46.7 billion a year on these specific type of things.
We were just looking at nursing, right? We've got general healthcare services, laboratory testing services.
When I say consulting business, I mean that you are starting a business that you can run from your home, which is where I am right now, Initially with one person, that one person would be you, and companies will pay you for advising them or offering simple services that you can do remotely.
When you're selling to other companies, this is referred to as B2B or business to business.
The mistake people make when they start a business like this is they focus on what they want to sell, what they want to teach, not what is actually valuable to a company.
Because remember, in order to get paid a lot, What you're doing has to solve a problem for a business and it has to be a problem that they are willing to pay for.
Preferably the problem that you're solving makes a lot of money for that company or has the potential to make a lot of money for that company.
Some examples of things that could be difficult to make work, not impossible, but some things that could be difficult to make work for a high income consulting business are the following.
Maybe you're a nurse and you want to teach bedside manner or write a book on how to take care of people.
If you come from the construction industry, you may want to teach companies or advise them how to build furniture.
In fact, I could point you to courses, consulting businesses that do specialize in some of those things.
But companies are going to be much more likely to pay you if the advising that you can do helps them to make more money.
Remember, the more money you can help a company make, the more you can charge, or in other words, the more you could get paid.
If you've watched this channel before, you have heard me say over and over again, the US government is the single biggest purchaser of goods and services in the world.
And we can see exactly how much of those things or services that they're buying.
Let's say you spend a career as a nurse, as some of our students in GovClose have.
Now, if you learn the government contracting expertise, how to sell to the government, when we're approaching companies that are in the healthcare or medical services space, and they're The message is I can help you win government contracts in an industry that spends $46.7 billion a year on these specific type of things.
We were just looking at nursing, right? We've got general healthcare services, laboratory testing services.
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