My student asked me… “Teacher, why different offices everyday?” I answered simply that I’m a consultant. But that only opened up an avenue for more questions. I realized that not a lot of people really understand or fully grasp what a consultant is.

Not to be condescending, (ok, so I am a bit…) but here’s how dictionary.com defines what a consultant is:

a person who gives professional or expert advice

and here’s wikipedia‘s definition:

A consultant (from the Latin consultare meaning “to discuss” from which we also derive words such as consul and counsel) is a professional who provides expert advice in a particular area of expertise such as accountancy, the environment, technology, the law, human resources, marketing, medicine, finance, public affairs, communication, engineering or waste management.

The main difference between a consultant and a ‘normal’ expert is that the consultant is not himself employed with his client, but instead is in business for himself or for a consultancy firm, usually with multiple and changing clients. Thus, his clients have access to deeper levels of expertise than would be feasible for them to retain in-house, especially if the speciality is needed comparatively rarely.

Basically, I tell others (people, professionals, proprietors, businessmen, etc) what to do and how to do it. Since I’m a Marketing and PR Consultant, I tell people how to sell their products, or how to keep their product’s or their company’s image good.

Gets??? Di pa rin? Ask me…