Posted by stevezog on November 26, 2010 under Uncategorized | 
Why are so many business owners taking on a business coach these days? They know that working with a business coach can lead them down the path to a better life, not just a better business.
Do you want a better life? Of course you do, who doesn’t? Nobody lives a perfect life, despite what they may want you to believe. As we say at ActionCOACH, there is always room for improvement, which is why so many people are choosing to work with a business coach these days.
Where does your life need improvement? Is it in your business itself or your personal life? One of the greatest things about working with a business coach is that, while the focus may be on your business, the benefits spill over into all aspects of life.
Think about it. One of the main reasons so many business owners choose to work with a business coach is because they don’t have the balance they want in life. They find themselves running all over the place just to get the day’s tasks accomplished without taking the time to enjoy the rewards of their hard work.
Does that sound like you? Is your business an albatross around your neck? Then you need a business coach.
What’s the point of building a successful business if you can’t enjoy the fruits of your labour? Nobody wants to run into an early grave, but too many business owners find themselves concerned with work and only work every day. But not the owners who have a business coach.
If you don’t have a business coach, ask yourself, do you have time to see your kids’ games or school activities? Can you afford to leave your business for a month and know your team will have it running as expected when you return? Can you afford to leave for a week? How about a day?
Again, if any answer is no, you need a business coach.
Aside from restoring balance so you can enjoy life, the benefits you’ll gain from working with a business coach are immeasurable. Imagine your profits growing and having more time to live your life. You can’t get there without a business coach.
When you’ve realised you’ve had enough of running the race just to stay in place, call ActionCOACH. A business coach that works in the ActionCOACH system is trained and prepared to make your business grow and give you back the life you always thought you’d have. What are you waiting for? Get a business coach today.
Posted by stevezog on November 25, 2010 under Uncategorized |
There was good news for businesses all over the U.K. in late September as the economy saw its largest growth in almost nine years. Of course that good news was tempered by the fact that this growth hasn’t been accompanied by an increase in hiring or any real change in the economic plight of most of the nation’s middle class.
Times are still tough for small businesses, despite the numbers getting better, so there are a couple of avenues entrepreneurs need to turn to if they want to make their business grow. At the top of that list is hiring Business Coaches.
Why should your business hire a Business Coach? There are many reasons every business needs a Business Coach. A Business Coach will hold you accountable, a Business Coach will give you systems and tools that will help build your business and a Business Coach has only the best interests of your business at heart.
Business Coaches are not an investment that’s right for everyone. If you aren’t truly committed to making your business grow, you don’t need a Business Coach. If you’re happy with a lack of time and money in your life, then a Business Coach may not be right for you.
But if you’re one of the millions of business owners around the world who know that their company can be doing more, and they should be doing less, then you need a Business Coach.
Today all over the UK we hear that things are turning around, that the economy is getting better, but have you seen the proof yet? If you and your business are waiting for the recovery to hit you, stop waiting and start doing.
The right Business Coaches can show you where you’ve gone wrong and what you can do to turn your business the place where you spend all of your time to a thriving commercial enterprise that works… without you there. Call ActionCOACH and partner with a top Business Coach today.
Posted by stevezog on November 24, 2010 under Uncategorized |
The phenomenon of business coaching is among most exciting developments in the world of business in some time.
There are many reasons for working with business coaches, including an increase in your free time and cash flow.
In addition to these two big reasons, there are also many ancillary reasons to work with business coaches. After working with business coaches, you will find increased job satisfaction and morale throughout your staff.
They will also be more willing to work as a team while improving their working relationships.
Finally, working with business coaches can improve your team’s ability to execute strategies and deal with the changes we see every day in the business world.
Business coaches teach many ways to improve your team’s performance. Greater transparency and accountability throughout your organisation will help your employees to feel empowered. It will also provide them with a sense of ownership regarding not just their job, but the company itself. Business coaches have real world solutions to help you find the right way to boost productivity while making your employees happier about the place they hold in your company.
If your employees feel good about themselves and their jobs, it’s only natural that they would be willing to work together. Often companies with a lack of accountability find it difficult to get their staff to truly work as a team. Business coaches know this isn’t a good situation for any company and know what to do to change that aspect of your company for the better.
With a better attitude toward their job and co-workers, employees will naturally show an increase in production following the teachings of business coaching. It will be much easier for your team to function as one unit when working on long-term goals. Business coaching teaches you how to delegate authority, empowering your team. This makes reaching goals much easier for your employees, since they know what is expected from them and when it is expected.
Dealing with change is never easy, but it is something that every company deals with. Business coaches know how to put plans in place to ensure that any change involving your business will be handled in a professional manner.
Business coaching has many benefits in the tumultuous economic environment we live in. Aside from improving your quality of life and finances, business coaching will make your workplace a better, more productive place to be. Be sure to take advantage of all that business coaching can offer you today.
Posted by stevezog on November 23, 2010 under Uncategorized |
Business coaching is a service that coaches clients in all areas of business. From marketing to finance to sales, a business coach can be vital to a business, and more so than a consultant — a business coach helps guide the client to solve problems, rather than just fixing everything for them, and teaching nothing.
Today’s business coaching lesson is about customer service. Often overlooked by business owners, it is actually very important to running a successful business. Read on:
1. Remember the little things…
It’s is surprising how little you need to do to impress someone. It could be as simple as getting them a chair when your waiting room is full, or carrying their purchase to the car.
In the end, these small things help build a relationship, and relationships count. Think of how many businesses you deal with simply because you ‘like the guy who serves you’ or you ‘always enjoy chatting to the lady behind the counter’.
Here’s a few examples of extra service that only takes a few seconds, but will last for days in the customers memory…
Make a customer a cup of coffee, and record their preference on a record card. Next time they come in, say ‘Cup of coffee? White with one isn’t it John?” How much would that impress someone?
Sending them a card on their birthday with a special offer is also a great way to follow up and build rapport. The easiest way to get the date is to put their birth date on the customer detail form (you may wish to leave the year out in case they are a little coy about their age).
2. Add value…
Occasionally it pays to add something extra on top. You need to be careful though, so the customer doesn’t come to expect it every time.
But that extra touch will leave them on a high, and probably encourage them to refer a couple of people. Here’s a few examples…
Give them a trial sample of another product – you can usually get these from suppliers free. Just a small satchel of hand lotion, or chips, or nails or anything can make a customer feel good.
Or when you sell a product give them something for free which has high perceived value but low hard cost to you – such as a gift cheque to spend with you next time.
3. Co-operate with other businesses
This is definitely the best and cheapest way to get your customers raving about you.
Here’s how it works…You approach another business and ask them for a free gift you can give to every one of your customers. If the business owner is smart, they’ll oblige you with something great – a gift voucher or a free service.
What you’re actually doing is advertising their business direct to every one of your customers. More than that you’re recommending that business. That’s a pretty potent form of promotion.
The benefits are massive. Imagine if your hairdresser sent you a $10 voucher to spend at your local gift store. You’d be pretty surprised, and impressed. Or what, if your gym sent you a voucher for a free tanning bed session? It may seem like a simple gesture but it can have a huge effect on the way your client views your business.
Posted by stevezog on November 22, 2010 under Uncategorized |
Business coaches are often hired by clients to help with hard decisions. And hard decisions are something every business owner has to face at one point or another: take Richard Branson.
Branson owned Virgin Records and Virgin Airlines until he had to make the tough decision to sell the record company. And while it was the right thing to do, it was still hard for him to sell the company he had started as a teen, the company that he had toiled hard to make successful, even signing the likes of Janet Jackson, Genesis, the Sex Pistols and Lenny Kravitz.
Read exactly what Branson told BusinessWeek here.
Posted by stevezog on October 19, 2010 under Uncategorized |
If you are a business owner, everyone in your immediate vicinity may want to offer business advice. Everyone seems to think they know what’s best for your business, but as you know, in reality they have no idea, they are no expert.
They may tell you that you need to paint the building, you need to cut prices, you need to let go your staff with no real concept of what that means for you and your business. As with so many other aspects of life, everyone thinks they are an expert on someone else’s business.
That’s why you need to find the right business advice for your company. The right business advice isn’t a bunch of red herrings designed to make you think you’re working harder. The right business advice is designed to make you work smarter.
The right business advice isn’t something considered for five minutes and thrown together. The right business advice only comes together after much consideration is taken and all points of view are considered. Most importantly, the right business advice offers you proven results to make your business grow.
Business is as competitive as ever and businesses that thrive find the right avenues for business advice. More and more businesses are investing in Business Coaching to ensure they receive only the most relevant and powerful business advice.
The leader in this growing industry is ActionCOACH. ActionCOACH doesn’t give random, run of the mill business advice. ActionCOACH uses hundreds of proven strategies to tailor a program that fits your businesses specific needs.
Whether you need business advice on the way your building looks, your profit margins or building a great team, only ActionCOACH has literally hundreds of strategies to get you on the road to success.
Posted by stevezog on September 29, 2010 under Uncategorized |
How is your business? Are you the unrivaled leader in your field or are you constantly fighting for market share with other businesses that seem to be one step ahead of you? Could a Business Coach make a difference? Did you ever consider that maybe your competition has a Business Coach and that’s why you’ve fallen behind?
Think about all the things a Business Coach can do for you. With a Business Coach, you are no longer alone. You have a resource you can always turn to find out the truth and keep you accountable.
The right Business Coach helps you focus on the bottom line, but also continually shows you small things that can have a huge affect on the way you run your business, as well as the way your business runs you.
One big reason your competition may be ahead of you is the way they manage time. A Business Coach teaches clients to work ON their business not IN it, giving business owners more time to concentrate on making their business grow instead of being concerned with the day to day operations.
Another area where a Business Coach can help is in marketing. At ActionCOACH, we have literally hundreds of marketing strategies that are proven to work when growing a business. From generating more leads to increasing profit margins, and everything in between, a Business Coach trained by ActionCOACH knows how to generate results for business owners.
Finally, a Business Coach should be able to teach their clients how to be accountable in both their professional and personal lives. Do you take responsibility for everything, both good and bad, that comes out of your business? If you’re falling behind the competition, you can bet they are taking responsibility and that is likely because they have a Business Coach.
Don’t wait any longer. Catch up to your competition and hire the best Business Coach you can today. Just contact ActionCOACH and gain the most valuable resource your business could have ever imagined.
Posted by stevezog on September 28, 2010 under Uncategorized |
Have you wondered what the next growth field in business is? The answer is: business coaches. Working with business coaches is growing in popularity all over the world, making it among the fastest growing fields in the world of business today.
Why?
Because every type of business, big or small, no matter where they are, needs to take advantage of every resource available in this day and age and resources like quality business coaches can lead to better balance between work and home. Of course, top business coaches aren’t easy to find, unless you know where to look.
What is the biggest challenge facing you and your business? For many business owners, finding the balance in life to enjoy the fruits of their labor is probably the most important thing.
For too many small business owners, life is nothing more than consistent work challenges, without the opportunity to stop and smell the roses. That is one reason why more and more business owners are using business coaches. Business coaches help entrepreneurs and business owners strike the balance they have been looking for and get what they want out of life.
So how can you start using the right business coaches?
The first step is to understand how to get the most out of the business coaches you use. A lot of people and companies say they know what it takes to be successful business coaches, but where is the proof?
How many business have they helped in the past? Are these business coaches properly trained to do the work your business needs? Are these business coaches trained to not only offer the best advice, but also teach you how to implement it? Unless they are business coaches trained the right way, the ActionCOACH way, it’s impossible to know if you’re using quality business coaches until it’s too late.
The best business coaches in the world come from the same place, ActionCOACH. With offices in 32 countries around the world and systems and tools that work in every type of economy, ActionCOACH has the business coaches to take your business to the next level.
Posted by stevezog on September 27, 2010 under Uncategorized |
Vanda Hollinshead- Rowell is one of the top business coaches in the United Kingdom. Since coming to work with ActionCOACH, Hollinshead- Rowell and her clients have won a number of awards, including achieving the coveted Platinum level as one of the top business coaches in the ActionCOACH system.
Only the best business coaches in the world work with ActionCOACH. Every week, ActionCOACH business coaches work with thousands of companies in 32 countries all over the world.
The business coaches at ActionCOACH are able to work with so many businesses throughout the world because they have the tools, systems and strategies to make any business, anywhere work. Vanda Hollinshead-Rowell is counted among the top in the world consistently over the years due to the way she uses those tools.
As with most ActionCOACH business coaches, Hollinshead-Rowell emphasizes five key areas each business must focus on. The emphasis on each area depends on the businesses needs, the type of business it is, as well as the goals set forth. The key areas business coaches focus on are sales, marketing and advertising, team building and recruitment, systems and business development and, customer service.
Hollinshead-Rowell’s goal as one of the top business coaches in the U.K. is to help small business owners spend less time working in their business and more time working on their business. She also uses her position as one of the top business coaches in the world to help her clients put the fun back in their business and life.
As a small business owner herself, Hollinshead-Rowell knows what it is like to worry about the day-to-day survival of the business. That is one reason she is on the top of the heap when it comes to business coaches in the U.K. She knows that as a business coach, making the amount of money needed to build a business and personal life is not easy. Business coaches understand what it’s like to put in long hours and wonder what happened to the dreams of the business owner because, like Hollinshead-Rowell, they have been in that position themselves.
Business coaches like Vanda Hollinshead-Rowell and the rest of the ActionCOACH team are ready to help you change all of that.
All of the business coaches in the ActionCOACH system work together to redefine your dreams and visions. Then business coaches like Hollinshead-Rowell will put into place the necessary systems, strategies, and tactics that will turn any business venture into a thriving, successful one.
There is no time like the present, to get started on your dreams and goals. If you are ready to move your business to the next level, find out how the business coaches at ActionCOACH can change the way you do business to achieve the results you deserve.
Posted by stevezog on September 21, 2010 under Uncategorized |
Do you ever feel like you’re in a rut? How does that feeling affect your business? How does it affect your personal life? Odds are that being in a rut and the lack of motivation that accompanies that rut is a killer in many different aspects of your life, especially in your business.
So what’s the best way to get out of your rut? How can you overcome your lack of motivation and get the best out of yourself, your life and your business? The answer is easy when you think about it: work with a business coach.
Working with a business coach is the hottest trend in the world of business today, and for good reason. The right business coach keeps entrepreneurs focused and moving toward their goals.
So, how can working with a business coach do all this? The answer is simple, accountability.
Often, when business owners find themselves in a rut it’s because they have lost focus on the future of their business. Perspective is gone and they can’t see the forest for the trees. This can be an overwhelming feeling for small business owners, but a business coach can help.
After all, what’s lonelier than running your own company without someone you can trust to turn to for advice? A business coach is a confidant that can be trusted to offer the best in business advice.
Without a confidant to turn to, all of the pressure is on the business owners, not only work on the business, but work in it as well. That situation can be very dangerous to the long term well-being of a business, without the help of a business coach.
Without a business coach, it’s easy for any business to become stagnant, doing the same things over and over again, whether they work or not. This is the definition of a rut and it can kill any small business if not handled correctly.
If you and your business is in that position, it’s time to hire a business coach. A business coach will offer perspective and confidentiality, but most importantly, a business coach provides small businesses with proven systems and tools to stay on the cutting edge and continually move forward so they can stay out of that rut.
Whether you should work with a business coach comes down to one question. What kind of business, and life, do you want? If you want to break out of your rut and move your business to the next level, hire a business coach today.
