About Us

Welcome to the Golden Gate Consultants Net! 

The Golden Gate Consultants Net (GGCN) was established in 1998 in the San Francisco Bay Area as an informal networking for consultants.

In May 2009, the Golden Gate Consultants Net Europe was established and headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany. So the GGCN is now International.

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Although the focus of the network is consulting, we encourage participation by anyone who believes they might benefit from the network.

It is generally accepted among consultants that "The Network" is the most powerful means of acquiring business and sharing information relevant to consulting.

Our Mission

The mission of the Golden Gate Consultants Net is to provide greater value to our clients and increase our success as consultants by leveraging the collective knowledge, experience, sales & marketing capabilities and consulting skills of our network.

Breakfast Networking Meetings

Monthly breakfast networking meetings are held both in the U.S. and Europe. The purposes of the breakfast meeting are for participants to get to know each other better, to learn what each is doing, and to share information, opportunities and marketing ideas.

 If you know of someone who might like to attend, please invite them. Just forward your invitation to them.

If someone would like to be added to the e-mail list, they should forward their e-mail address and contact information to one of the contacts individuals listed below.

The Golden Gate Consultant's Net US breakfast meeting is held the second Friday of the month.  Golden Gate Consultants Net Europe also meets monthly, usually the last Friday of the month.

Who to Contact?

If you have questions or wish further information, contact one of the individuals below:

• GGCN Europe: GGCN Founder Ron Raumer of Raumer & Associates in Heidelberg, Germany, or

• GGCN U.S.: Claus Schafhalter of Sunogos and Duane Lamoureux of Lamoureux Consulting in the San Francisco Bay Area, California.

Ways that you can benefit from the Network

In addition to attending the breakfast networking meetings, there are other ways that you can actively participate in the network and benefit from it:

• Share information about your consulting practice with others. You can send an e-mail to the entire network describing the type of consulting you do and what type of engagements you are seeking. Use the breakfast meeting e-mail invitation and simply click on “reply to all”. Then copy and paste your message over the existing message and click send! Or e-mail you message to one of the contacts and we can forward it to the entire group.
  
  Shameless self-promotion is encouraged within the network!!!.  

• Share consulting opportunities. If you become aware of a consulting opportunity that you are not pursuing, e-mail it out to the group, or to selected individuals that you believe might be interested in it.

• Share interesting ideas, articles and web sites. E-mail interesting ideas, articles or web sites to the group.

• Need a consultant for your project? Find one with the GGCN. If you are looking for a consultant for your project, consider the members of the GGCN network. For a list of members and their Resume/CV, look in the GGCN group on  Linkedin. Just click here or on the GGCN Resource List link on the left side if this page to see how to use Linkedin to find consulting resources. You have to be a member of the GGCN Linkedin group yourself to be able to see other consultants.

Consulting Partnering Guidelines

A question frequently asked in the breakfast meetings  is: "How can I partner with other consultants and split fees". You can view two simple consulting partnering guidelines that have worked well for me over the past 10 years by clicking here - Consulting Partnering Guidelines. They are designed to build long-term partnerships between consultants. They are voluntary, requiring agreement by both parties of course.