"Use Your Network" Sounds Simple.
Until You Sit Down To Do It. 

• You open LinkedIn to reach out to someone.
• You scroll past hundreds of connections.
• You land on five or six obvious names, then your mind goes blank.
• You wonder if it's weird to message someone you haven't spoken to in three years.
• You stare at a blank message box, trying to write something that doesn't sound needy, generic or salesy.
• You close the tab.
• You go back to tweaking your website instead. It feels productive. It isn't.

This kit exists to fix that exact moment. Not with more marketing advice, but with a clear answer to who to contact, why now, and what to actually say.

Dear solo consultant,

There's good news and bad news for your solo consulting business.

The good news: your first few clients will usually come from your network. I've seen this pattern play out in over 300 conversations with successful HR business founders on my podcast, and in coaching many more directly. Nothing beats it early on - not LinkedIn posts, not speeches, not cold pitches, not ads. That changes over time, as you build a reputation of your own. But almost nobody starts there, no matter how confident they sound about it.

Now the bad news.

The problem isn't that people don't believe this. It's that "use your network" is hard to actually act on. Out of everyone you've worked with over your career, who do you contact first? Why would you get in touch with them now, rather than any other time? And what do you actually say, so it doesn't come across like you've only gotten in touch because you want something?

Most people don't have a marketing problem. They have an unsent-message problem. You open LinkedIn, think of five or six obvious names, and then your mind goes blank. So you close the tab and go back to tweaking your website instead.

What Winning Your Next Client Actually Looks Like

When Alice booked her first coaching call with me, she hadn't launched her consultancy yet. There was no website, no logo, nothing - just an idea taking shape.

She was planning to do all the usual busy work: designing a beautiful website, writing lots of "thought leadership" on LinkedIn, going to networking events, maybe even running some ads in a local business magazine.

I changed all that. I asked her to focus on her immediate network, but to do it in a simple, structured way that actually yields results.

The result? She landed a $1,400-per-day contract before her website was even published, and before she'd officially launched her new business.

Nothing about that was clever marketing. It was well-structured, proactive reconnection with her network, done in a way that was real, honest, and definitely not "commission-breath sales call" style.

That's the pattern I keep seeing repeated in the HR businesses that get off the ground fastest.

Alice isn't the exception. I've seen a five-figure consulting project come from one note. A six-figure consulting project come from a single Facebook message. None of it started with a campaign. It started with someone I already knew - and there's a good chance your next client is sitting in your network too, waiting for the same kind of message.

Ben Geoghegan

Founder, Get More HR Clients

I'm originally from Australia, now based in Ireland, and for more than a decade I've helped HR professionals build profitable, enjoyable consulting businesses. I've coached more than 300 HR consultants, worked with boutique HR consultancies and HR technology companies, and recorded 315+ conversations with successful HR business owners and industry experts on my podcast, A Better HR Business.

After all those conversations, one thing became clear: the consultants who build successful businesses aren't always the strongest HR practitioners. They're the ones who know exactly who to talk to, and when.

What's in the kit

It's a practical, guided kit - not a course, and not another ebook you'll open once and never finish.

• 40+ message templates, organized by situation rather than one generic message sent to everybody - former bosses, past clients, referral partners, people who've changed roles.
• A 30-day action plan for moving from dormant relationships to conversations and opportunities.
• The 100-Contact Network Builder - a way to recover names from across your career, not just the six or ten people who spring to mind first.
• A simple decision framework for every contact: who to reach out to, why now makes sense, and what the right next step is.
• Starting-out and established-consultant versions, depending on whether you're announcing a new consultancy or quietly filling a gap in your pipeline.
• A tracker for your contact list, why now, next steps, and progress.
• Worked examples across employee relations, L&D, reward, OD, compliance and fractional HR.

I want to be honest about the templates, because I know how these things are usually sold. They're not scripts that magically produce clients. Their real job is to remove the blank page - a sensible starting point you adapt to the relationship, the shared history, and the actual reason you're getting in touch.

Who this is for

It works whether you're:

• Preparing to start consulting and want to map your network before you launch.
• A relatively new consultant still looking for your first few clients.
• Established, but your pipeline has gone quiet.
• Finishing a project and needing to reopen conversations you let go quiet.

It's built for independent HR consultants and small HR consulting firms specifically - employee relations, policies and compliance, organizational development, leadership, engagement, L&D, reward, fractional HR, all of it.

What people say about working with me

"Ben's insights played a real role in sharpening my approach to marketing and positioning myself as a new Organizational Development and Leadership Consultant." - Terry Holmes, Founder & Principal Consultant, The Good Org

"Ben's industry knowledge is brilliant and really helped me develop my niche, core services and pricing structure - especially useful if you're making the jump to HR consultant or feel stuck in your existing consultancy." - Rebecca McShane, Founder, SureHR

"Ben clearly understands HR buyers and knows how to help HR service providers align with buyers' needs." - Andy Najjar, COO at FutureSolve

"Ben is an outstanding resource for helping HR consultants with any aspect in the Human Resources field. His information is not only fresh but useful and 100% proven effective." - Jeanette Verhovany, Founder and CEO, Virtual HR Canada

What it costs, and what you get

I won't pretend this guarantees three clients in 30 days. Nobody can honestly promise that, and I'd be suspicious of anyone who does. What it will do is help you have enough of the right conversations that introductions and opportunities have a chance to show up - the way they did for Alice, before she'd even launched.

A few questions people ask

I don't have a big network.

Most people think this until they actually sit down and map it out. The kit shows you how to recover contacts across previous employers, projects, clients, suppliers, training and associations. Most experienced HR professionals have a considerably bigger network than they remember.

I haven't spoken to some of these people in years.

That's fine, and it's normal. The kit includes genuine reasons to reconnect and messages suited to relationships that have gone quiet. It doesn't ask you to pretend things are warmer than they are.

I hate asking people for work.

The first message usually isn't asking for work. Its only job is to restart contact and get a reply that keeps the conversation moving.

I haven't fully worked out my positioning yet.

That's fairly normal too. Real conversations often do more to clarify your offer than sitting alone trying to perfect it on paper.

What if nobody replies?

That's why it's a 30-day plan rather than a handful of messages. It's built so you don't send five messages, hear nothing, and quietly decide the whole idea doesn't work.

The boring but important bit

This kit gives you general information, not advice tailored to your specific situation - everyone's network, business and circumstances are different, and how much you put into it will vary. So I can't promise or guarantee any particular result for your business or your income. I think it's genuinely useful, which is why I built it, but I want to be straight with you about that.

If you buy it and honestly don't find it helpful, just ask for your money back. No questions asked, no hoops to jump through.

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