Archive for January, 2009

Small Business Coaches As Business Planning Coordinators

Small business coaches have become a critical member of the business planning team. In the 21st Century we will see their role expand exponentially in importance, especially among the members of successful family owned companies.
Successful family owned companies, those whose decisions are often – probably too often, driven by non-business issues make up the vast [...]

Small Business Coaches Help Their Clients Identify and Sort Their Priorities

Business owners typically have many goals for their business. They are likely to fall into long term, short term, intermediate term, and undefined term categories.
They write them down in their notebooks and they look at them or not as time goes by. Some goals get met and others forgotten.
Unfortunately the ones that get met are [...]

Small Business Coaches Are Masters of the Business Succession Planning Process

Whether we are planning for the future of a business or planning our next road trip, to get somewhere we have to know where are right now and where we’re going, before we can determine which way is the best for us to go right now.
And we have to get agreement on where things stand [...]

Successful Small Business Coaches ARE Different!

Small business coaches are everywhere.
Why are some more successful than others? Why do some business coaches make three times, five times, even ten times what their counterparts make.
How is it possible that small business coaches who look like they know the same stuff, have participated in the same business coach training, and seem to [...]

Small Business Coaches Make More Money Optimizing Their Relationships

To succeed, financially, as a small business coach you really must optimize every relationship you have with your prospects and your clients.
I worked with business owners for over three decades. To this day over 60% of my clients come from one of three industries. And each client ends up taking advantage of the widest possible [...]