Business Coaching

All businesses have strengths and weaknesses. When that business involves only one person, these strengths/weaknesses become amplified. The biggest problem 'solopreneurs' face is they don't know how to manage all the roles they need to fill. Poor management in any area will leave the business unbalanced, resulting in inconsistent marketing, stagnant sales, and overall frustration for the business owner. They often feel that instead of running their business, their business runs them.

In order to achieve success with a balanced business, we work on several areas of your business, focusing on skill building, overcoming fears and time management to fit all of them in.

Owning Your Role as a CEO: Set a Strong Foundation

• Create a Clear Vision, Strong Mission and Highly Inspired Purpose
• Learn how to set S.M.A.R.T. Goals and develop a strategy to achieve them
• Understand priorities and base action according to those priorities

Staying on Top of Finances as a CFO: The Deciding Factor on Whether or Not You Stay in Business

• Understand profitability and cash flow
• Learn how to read a P&L Statement and Balance Sheet
• Determine when to hire an accountant and/or bookkeeper
• Create a budget

Becoming the Marketing Manager: The Lifeline of your Business

• Define your ideal client or customer
• Craft a marketing strategy
• Build power partnerships
• Make prospecting calls with ease
• Design an elevator speech
• Attract referrals

Embracing Your Inner Sales Associate: Close the Sale Effectively

• Install value for your product/service
• Ask for the sale without seeming pushy
• Track results to make your process more effective

Believing in your Role as the Customer Service Representative: It Takes More Effort to Find a Customer Than to Keep One

• Find ways to stay proactive with your clients/customers
• Stay ahead of your competition with innovation
• Determine how often to contact your accounts
• Learn how to contact with creativity

Recognizing the Importance of Follow Up: The Key to Success

• Quantify the value of follow up in your business
• Follow up without fear
• Know what to do if you can't get a hold of someone

Accepting the Necessary Administrative Assistant Role: Reduce its Impact on Your Business

• Understand the repercussions of avoiding this role
• Streamline your systems for minimum effort (or develop them in the first place)
• Manage your time so paperwork doesn't take over

Developing a Human Resource Branch: Get the Support You Need to Take Your Business to the Next Level

• Calculate a dollar per hour value to what your time is worth
• Determine when you hire someone and for which department
• Decide whether to hire someone as an employee or outsource
• Find creative and cost effective ways to get help

Curious about how coaching can give your business a boost?
Request a FREE coaching session today!

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