SoloSkills.com has come about due to the low cost cloud offering of Office365, an ideal subscription model for independent workers and entrepreneurs who would create small businesses. I have held a store of small business consulting materials for years looking for the right way to provide these materials at a low cost to the widest possible audience. Since I advocate sharing information digitally, in a browser window, I needed a web site as an example of how I think information should be shared. Before Office365, it was too hard and too costly.

Each of us enjoys a unique solo experience. Independent spirits with individual brains and bodies. Going beyond that requires strategies for successful relationships with others. We value relationships that get good results. Whether through friendship, family, group, business or community--people working and playing together at life is our highest calling. We desire to strengthen the goodwill holding these relationships together and to grow using advanced forms of networking and communication.

This is not just a philosophy of life, it is a practical reality. Any strategy for economic survival in this age requires people to band together to produce results in the market. Education in a complex age has created specialists in every field. My friend Mike studied eight years at Davis to learn how to grow vegetables. Each of us today is challenged by rapid changes in technology and tools. Fortunately, most of what we need to learn is available for free on the web!

Business enterprise requires expert level ability in financial analysis, accounting, law, taxation, personnel, management, pricing, public speaking, leadership, marketing, sales, advertising, graphic design, network administration, websites, telecommunications, demographics, psychographics, recruitment, training, policy, operations, work flow, processes, standards, communication, planning, tracking and team building.

Small businesses trying to grow into bigger businesses offer a unique opportunity for those who want to produce value and results from the consulting approach.

At SoloSkills.com, we believe that each business needs a basic package of business skills delivered by its consultant. Beyond that basic package, the specific areas of expertise that would benefit the business the most can be called in by connecting to Specialists through the SoloSkills.com network to coordinate and deliver the consulting experience to each small business.

SoloSkills.com Consultants and Specialists are dedicated to enhancing small business growth by coordinating the expertise required and implementing an advanced platform for growth into each business they work with.

Working with the Client can occasionally be in person, but the primary form of delivery is over the phone, both voice and by sharing of computer screens. While a consultant is delivering service to the Client, they are connected by their computers, so they can demonstrate solutions right on the screen at the business while they speak.

The SoloSkills.com philosophy is that the time has come for technology to stop holding people back, and to start partnering with knowledge to encourage the process of growth that is the basic requirement of most small businesses.

The existing paradigm for computing in business is that when your computer systems no longer support the way you do business, you have to tear it out and start over with a new system. This means that technology is actually slowing progress for businesses and people rather than promoting it. With Office365, we believe it is now possible for businesses to create a modular plug and play approach to technology, which enables them to grow in a consistent and easy process.

SoloSkills.com Consultants sign up their own Clients, or are assigned Clients signed up by SoloSkills.com. They can work with up to 30 Clients at any one time. This includes one gratis Client for every ten that pay. The gratis Client should be a nonprofit or some other disadvantaged business.

Specialists work only for Consultant's Clients when coordinated by the Consultant. Consultants and Specialists stay in contact with the website and can participate in business development brainstorming activities.

SoloSkills.com Consultants can also be called in as specialists by another Consultant. Consultants bill at $50/hr.

So a typical Consultant who is handling 20 Clients and performing 90% of the service while farming out 10% to Specialists, would work around 20 hours and earn about $1000 a week or $50,000 a year. A Consultant who is handling 30 Clients and putting in time as a Specialist, would work around 40 hours and earn about $2000 a week or $100,000 a year.

SoloSkills.com Consultants and Specialists would handle their own taxes and insurance needs, along with providing their own computers, Office365 website and phones. The best way to set up payment from a new client is to create an automatic transfer of $400 each month, that can be cancelled at any time the Client feels his business is far along to carry its progress forward without continuing support.

The bottom line is that most small business owners really just need someone they can talk to on a regular basis about the challenges in their business. Someone who can help them maintain their focus on business development. Many Clients have said to me, "Now I get it. I can't solve all my problems at once, but as I get the system for solving business problems into place, I can see a light at the end of the tunnel and know that eventually I will be successful in my business!"