I created a company about 2 years ago to provide some legal protection when I did a project for a friend of mine.  Since then, I have decided to try and take my consulting gig full time.  I am curious if people out there have advice on how they landed their first contracts out there, and if they were able to work full time to pay the bills and start their consulting company, or if they had to take a loan out and risk it.

 Thanks everyone, glad to have joined the commons!

I'm categorizing this fairly widely because I think it could be a failry valuable tool for consultants who run their own websites (for marketing and biz dev) and/ or who consult for websites that are trying to reach a broader (read non-English-speakng) audience.  I'm also posting this here because I think this (or something like it) could be a very handy tool for Consultant Commons it self, as we try to reach out to a broader audience, and really distribute all of our "knowledge" far and wide.

 Please comment if you have found a better implementation of this code (see my notes at the end)

This document describes the level of quality and professionalism that staff will uphold in all dealings with clients, partners, colleagues and other staff. It may also provide information that can be translated for use on a website, in Statements of Work, Memorandums of Understanding and Letters of Intent. In addition, it may be used to inform new staff orientations, training documents, and other internal standards created, at the program-level, by program managers.