Engineering Consulting Business

Engineering Consulting Business Success Stories [2024]

Pat Walls

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Updated: October 8th, 2024

Turn your engineering expertise into a thriving venture with an engineering consulting business. This concept involves offering specialized advice and solutions to companies, helping them tackle complex technical challenges and enhance their operational efficiency.

It's a business that leverages your unique skills and experience, allowing you to work with diverse industries ranging from construction to IT. You'll provide value by conducting feasibility studies, optimizing processes, and ensuring regulatory compliance.

There's substantial demand for expert engineering consultants, making it a potentially lucrative field. However, it requires a strong foundation in your engineering discipline, excellent problem-solving skills, and the ability to communicate complex ideas effectively.

If you have a knack for technical problem-solving and are eager to share your expertise with a variety of clients, starting an engineering consulting business might be the career move you've been waiting for.

In this list, you'll find real-world engineering consulting business success stories and very profitable examples of starting a engineering consulting business that makes money.

1. Machinery Partner ($4.8M/year)

Ciaran, the founder of Machinery Partner, came up with the idea after realizing the large service gap between machinery dealers and customers in the heavy equipment industry. He saw an opportunity to digitize the industry and started reaching out to end-users to recruit more dealers, boosting revenue by 47% in just 18 months. Inspired by active Facebook groups and the trust-building power of content, Ciaran launched Machinery Partner and has since sold nearly half a million dollars worth of machinery per month, with plans to raise financing for rapid growth.

How much money it makes: $4.8M/year
How much did it cost to start: $25K
How many people on the team: 6

How I Started A $400K/Month Business Selling Heavy Machinery

Machinery Partner's founder Ciaran made almost $500k in machinery sales last month targeting small to medium-sized contracting businesses in the US and aims to become the go-to digital dealership for heavy equipment, with its standout quality being accessible remotely, delivered directly from manufacturers.

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