General

• I am a consultant, why would I want to join PCGI?
• How does PCGI Work?
• I am a sales person and have worked to find client consulting engagements in the past, why would I want to join PCGI?
• I have been working with a Client for many years, why would I, as a member of PCGI, bring my client into the PCGI consortium?
• I am a consultant, who determines my billing rate with a PCGI client?

I am a consultant, why would I want to join PCGI?

PCGI Provides a number of opportunities to get work.  Other members of PCGI are motivated to get you work and keep you working.  With PCGI, you also have the opportunity to earn revenue outside of normal consulting activities by acting as a Project Manager, Client Manager, or Member Manager.  Also, because of the structure of compensation and low overhead, PCGI pays a very competitive portion of your earned billing rate.

How does PCGI Work?

The PCGI Membership agreement describes the specific relationships as a member, but in a basic sense, as a PCGI Member, you can assume different roles to earn a corresponding commission percentage of a consultants billing rate.  There are five basic roles to make a complete successful consulting company.  With PCGI you earn as much as you participate.

1. Client Manager - Creating a relationship with a Client with consulting needs
2. Project Manager - Selling and maintaining the complete lifecycle of a specific project for the client
3. Consultant - Providing the consulting expertise to satisfy the project requirements.
4. Overhead - Maintaining the billing and payments for the consulting engagement.
5. Member manager - Recruiting and maintaining talented consulting resources. 

I am a sales person and have worked to find client consulting engagements in the past, why would I want to join PCGI?

When you join PCGI, you have a large group of consultants that you can place.  This gives you better response to your client needs.  Also, PCGI is not limited to just one discipline.  By having different consultants with different strengths and disciplines means that you can provide your client with resources for a number of different needs.

I have been working with a Client for many years, why would I, as a member of PCGI, bring my client into the PCGI consortium?

At PCGI we realize that the relationship with the client is very important.  By bringing the client in as a PCGI client, you would become the Client Manager.  As a client manager, you can provide the client with a number of different resources in different disciplines beyond yourself.   That means that you will receive 10% of all the billing that goes through the PCGI network.  It also gives you the opportunity to act as a project manager to the client thus enabling you to earn an extra 5% of the PCGI consultants billing.  Your existing engagements would not need to be billed through PCGI.

I am a consultant, who determines my billing rate with a PCGI client?

You and the Client manager do.  The rate can be major determinate as to whether you get the work, so you need to work with the Client Manager to meet the market conditions.  Sometimes it may be better to be available at a lower rate to get more work.