Free Business Coaching

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Read on to find out what the catch is.

I’ve  been reflecting the past couple of weeks about what is important to me in my coaching.

I am so very  passionate about business. I love seeing how a business works, how I can speed up its growth; more customers, more sales, out of the box strategies. But more than building my own businesses the greatest high for me is when I help you  succeed.

As the saying goes, give a man a fish and you feed him today, teach him to fish and you feed him forever.

Its such an amazing feeling when I work with a client and see their business evolve and grow, when I see them moving towards the success that they have dreamed of. To help them break through their own personal barriers and see the massive impact of that transformation.

This client went from being an employee to starting he own practice:

“Working with Rob, I accomplished things that otherwise would have remained unfinished ideas. Instead of getting overwhelmed by day-to-day tasks, he guided me to take measured steps that helped me achieve my longer term goals. A compassionate and attentive listener, Rob is able to get to the heart of the matter in a single question. He was always generous in sharing information about resources I wouldn’t have known about, and educating me–without ever preaching–about helpful small business concepts and useful technology.”

Avrum N. – Ontario

Upwards of $500 per session

I don’t come cheap. I dedicate an immense amount of my time and energy to coach you to your own personal greatness.  You would love to have me coach you but $500+/session is way more than you can afford.

Coaching you into a full paying client.

If you can’t afford me coaching you at this point I would like to help you get to the point where you can afford my rates.

I have come up with a game plan that will essentially cost you nothing to have me work with you.

The Coaching That I Will Give You

  • One hour initial one-on-one phone consultation ($750 value)

    I will send you an intensive questionnaire that will help us both gain awareness as to where you are, were you want to go and what strategies might serve you in reaching your goals.

  • 15 minutes of  Laser coaching per week ($500/month value)

    Every week you can send me an email to request a 15 min private laser coaching phone session. Laser coaching helps to quickly clear the barriers/noise that are getting in your way and massively improve your focus.

  • One hour team Coaching ($3000/month value)

    Each week based on the coaching of previous week we will have a team coaching conference call, where we will work through a issue together. This will help you to see your peers perspectives and expand your learning.

  • 1.5  hour Bi-Monthly Business Building Seminar ($4000/month value)

    Twice a month I will introduce you to powerful business and marketing Ideas that will help to launch your business towards geometrical growth.

As well I there will be forums where you can network with your peers to help each other to maintain focus and continue to grow.

How much am I going to charge you for this coaching?

“Whoa! Charge me? Rob, I thought you said the coaching would be free.”

You did hear me right. In fact it will be free in one of two ways. Just bear with me a bit more.

Each month you are going to get.

  • 1-on-1 Laser Coaching
  • Team Coaching
  • Business Seminars
  • Networking

The value of this is $7500

But I am not going to charge you that.

I’m not even going to charge you $5,000, $3,000 or even $1000 per month for all of this.

For the next 6 months I am only going to charge you

$299.00

But as I said before its really going to be free.

OK Rob, So How Is It Free Then?

I am not interested in a relationship with you that does not add to your business success in a big way.

I am not here just to hang out with you and make you feel good about yourself.

I am here to make you money!

I beleive in a performance based model, If I don’t succeed , you don’t pay.

Free #1

When I work with you my objective is to help your business grow by at least 20% over the previous year.

An Example:

Say your business has been making you $50,000 per year for the past 5 years.

Through my business coaching you grow by 20% or $10,000

Cost of coaching for 6 months ($299/month) is $1,794

Your profit over the previous year $8,206

So in essence it costs you nothing as I will only get paid with new income that is created through our working together.

Free #2

The first month is a trial period. You do not have to give any payment information at all. If after the first month you decide to continue you will be registered and will be billed $299. Each month you will be asked if you received your moneys worth. If yes. you will be billed $299 if not you won’t be billed anything.

A Small Group.

I will only be working with a limited number of clients through this process, as I only have a small window of time available each week to work with you.

6 Months Only.

This is not an indefinite offer. This coaching process will only be available to you for 6 months.  My intention is after 6 months to graduate you to a full paying client with all its benefits.  My objective is to create millionaires.  If after 6 months you have benefited from the coaching and wish to continue,  but are not motivated to go for significant an ongoing growth in your business, I will be glad to refer you to one of my peers who works with smaller businesses.

Now It Is Time For Action

Our lives are defined by the actions we do or do not take.

If you are serious about growing your business to the level that deep down inside you know it truly attainable
fill out the form below and I will contact you to arrange a short phone conversation to answer any questions you might have and to book our discovery session.

I look forward to taking you way beyond any success you have experienced up until now.

Free Coaching

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Why Are Smart Businesses Owners Hiring More Strategic Marketing Coaches In Bad Times, Than They Ever Hired In Good Times

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For some it might be counter intuitive, but think about it.

As a business owner what do you want to do when times are tough. You want to cut back.

You cut back on marketing, advertising, and coaching. Why?  Because you believe business is going to drop big time and you go into hibernation mode.  So in your mind you logic that the best thing to do is cut back on all the EXTRAS.

But are they really EXTRAS?

Lets look at each of them.

Advertising

How has your advertising been working up until now?  Has it brought you in business? Is it paying for itself?

Say you are running a monthly ad that costs you $500.  It brings you in 50 customers per ad run and the average order is $15.  So your return after ad costs is $250.

Now lets say you expect business to drop 30% in this tough period. So instead of getting 5o orders you will only get 40 at $15.  Now the return is only $25 and more likely its a negative if you have product costs. So for discussion sake we will say that in this scenario after expenses you are actually losing $75 on this ad.

It would seem clear that you should not run this add again. Right?

If your product or service is a one off then there might be a need to hold back, but if your customers buy from you on a repeat basis you might be really harming your business.

In the above situation if you were losing $75/month and stopped the ad you would save $900 (75×12) over the year. But by doing this you would also lose out in getting 420 (35×12) new customers as well. If you have only a 40% retention rate of customers it would me that you would lose out on $2520 in repeat business the following year (40% of 420 -> 168 x $15)

As well it is important to realize that in tough times the advertisers probably have more ad space available and would be willing to cut you a deal during this time period. Try to see the big picture.

Even from this basic example it can be seen how detrimental it would be to your business to eliminate advertising during tough times.

Marketing

Marketing is more that just conventional advertising, it is not just about letting people know that you have  a product and where you are located. It is about creating a relationship with your customer.  Its giving the client the opportunity to see how important they are to you, to know that they are under your protection and have their best interests in mind.  The media ad you put out might bring in a customer once. The way you market yourself and your business will determine whether they are one time purchasers or lifetime clients.  When you market yourself effectively and put in the effort to stay at the front of your clients thoughts. They even in tough times they will stay loyal to you, and they will not even leave you for a lower priced competitor.

Coaching

If the above conversation on Advertising/Marketing and marketing gave you insights on how you can grow your business, you are already seeing the power of training.

To often you stand alone, you try to succeed all by yourself. You put an unrealistic expectation that you should have all the answers and if you cant do it, it will just prove that you are a failure.  The reality is that you cant do it alone. You are only on this earth for a short time (you should be blessed to live to a ripe old age), there is only so much you can learn on your own.  By benefiting from what others have learned you eliminate a lot of time and frustration and bring the possibility of greater prosperity into your life.

As a Strategic Business Coach I am here to help you succeed.  I spend all my time discovering what will make your business better so you can spend you time becoming super successful.

My Offer To YOU (A $500 value)

If you are serious about growing your own business, about putting in the effort and dedication that is required to help you business thrive. Then It would be my pleasure to spend  a complimentary 30 min (I charge $1000/hr) on the phone with you to discuss your business and share some insights on how you can create geometrical growth.

If you think you cant do much in thirty minutes, I will give you a recent example.  I man called me up, he has a vending machine business. His business was stagnant in the past few year and now he is interested in seeing it grow.  After asking him a few question, he realized that he had not raised his prices in a number of years. He was at least 20% below what his peers are charging. That insight from a thirty min conversation will add over $10,000 to his profits this year.

Enter you your name  and email right now in the  coaching insights box in the top right of the page. I will connect with you within 24hrs.

I look forward to your success.

Hard To Create What Will Be While Living In If Only…

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Enjoying a reflective walk in the forest with a client yesterday, I noticed that several times he used the phrase If only.

Today as I was sitting at my computer, and as a result of a recent email, I checked a quote for a stock I once had invested in. When I sold it, I made a profit. It eventually went down to 50 cents, but today it was trading $5.

I immediately found myself thinking, If only I had kept that stock. If only I had bought more shares when it was at 50 cents.

If only… If only.

What are some of your If onlys?

  • If only I would have married…
  • If only I would have dated…
  • If only I would have studied…
  • If only I would have chosen…
  • If only I had… I could have had…

Where does this type of thinking lead you?

Returning to the Past

Probably back into the past. It reminds you of choices you could have made and failures that resulted from not having made that set of choices. Perhaps it leaves you feeling frustrated or depressed, because you’re not nearly as far along as you’d like to be.

How well does this type of thinking serve you? How well does it help you get closer to achieving your goals and dreams?

As you take a moment to reflect, I am sure you realize that being frustrated with the If only‘s  and What ifs of your past doesn’t serve you in a positive way. Living with past disappointments holds you back from achieving successes in the future.

So what can you do if struck by an If only?

ROAR

I’m not suggesting that you pretend you’re a lion and roar away, although I wouldn’t be surprised if that released some endorphins, made you smile and increased your overall feeling of well being.

Reflect – Take your self back to the situation. Try to understand what thoughts and feelings were at play when you made your choices.

Options – If a similar situation were to present itself again, what choices might you make? What thoughts and emotions might you draw upon?

Action – Once you decide the options that would work best, what will be your action plan when a similar situation would present itself in the future.

Reflect Forward – Imagine a time in the future when this situation presents itself again. See yourself taking Action on the Options  you have chosen. Spend the time to savor the feelings that arise from this forward reflective process.

By going through this type of process, you free yourself from the negative life impact of living in the past and instead harness your life learning to drive yourself forward to future successes.

Key To Success – Visualization

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Visualization

This article discusses not only the power, but the absolute necessity of employing your gift of imagination to achieve success.

Baseball Example

Our community baseball team made it to the finals this year as the top team, and the finals are best of three.

In the first game we got crushed. The first inning was almost comical, but the majority of our team didn’t find it very funny. In fact with that one inning we went from the posturing of a top team to that of a defeated back-lot bunch.

Entering our second game, we tried to get our momentum back, but you could see in the faces of our team members that we did not believe we could prevail.

Needless to say, though we played a stronger game the second time, we lost that game too and the championship. I could say that they defeated us, but the truth is that we defeated ourselves.

Why am I telling you about my baseball game?

For me, I treat much of my life as a learning lab. I get curious how I act and how others act in any given situation. Because I didn’t take the game personally (I like to have fun), I was able to step outside myself and see how I was reacting.

I have discovered if I visualized how I would look and think if I was a top player, I could actually perform closer to that level. I tried it in this particular game and hit a nice double.

But what I found more interesting (and the focus of this post) was how others perceived themselves.

During the game I suggested to one of our top hitters — who wasn’t hitting very well — to visualize what he would look like performing at his best. I did this with the hope that it would get him into the ZONE. He replied that he was NOT a visualizer, that he had had a trainer try that with him before, and that he just didn’t have the capability to visualize.

What was interesting was that a few minutes later he was talking about something from the past and you could see how his whole persona changed. He was smiling, his eyes had a sparkle, and he was standing taller. He didn’t even realize that he was visualizing.

Unfortunately when he got up to bat he was not seeing himself at his best. He struck out and the game was over.

Intention and Visualization

Before you can take an action, it must first start as an intention in your mind. Even when you do something unconsciously your mind is still actively initiating this process.

What is interesting to note is that our minds work in images not in text. If I say the word “Airplane” your mind does not start typing A, i, r, p, l, a, n, e. Instead you suddenly think of an airplane that is familiar to you. That’s why, if you read any book on memory techniques the focus is almost always on visualization.

With that understanding you can begin to move past the statement, I am not good at visualizing things. The very fact that you’re reading this post right now, demonstrates that you have the capability to visualize. If you couldn’t visualize, then all that you would see is incoherent rows of letters.

Realizing that all your actions are preceded by your mind seeing the required process, what do you need to do in order to improve your likelihood of success? Exactly. Create the right visualization..

You may be thinking, “What if what I’m visualizing can’t be done?”

Let me relate the story of Roger Bannister.

History and science indicated that it was impossible for a human body to run a mile in under four minutes. Roger Bannister understood that he could not physically push his body past its limitations, but he believed that his mind could surpass them. Bannister spent much time visualizing himself break past the four-minute barrier. Eventually the image became so embedded in his mind that when the time came to race, his mind took his body into the reality that it perceived.

Spend time reflecting on the many inventions of the past 50 years. 200 years ago these were just fantasies in peoples minds. All that we imagine has become or is on its way to becoming reality.

So, you may want to invent a new type of energy to power our cities, to greatly improve your business, or to weaken a bad habit.

How can you implement visualization to help you do this?

Reflecting Forward

One of the processes I use to help my clients is an exercise I call reflecting forward.

I ask the client to follow these six steps:

1. Be clear on your intention – What is it that you want to accomplish? What will its accomplishment do for you?

2. Decide how long would you would like this to take – Be realistic. How long do you think it should take you to work towards your objective?

3. Close your eyes and visualize yourself at that point in the future, having achieved your desired goal – You might vividly see this in your mind’s eye or it might be just an awareness. Visualization does not require seeing in detail.

4. Interview your future self – Ask your future self the steps that he took to achieve the desired goal. What where the hurdles? What were the lessons learned? What would he do if he could do it over again?

5. Return to the present and create an action plan – You have the insight of visualization; now create a concrete plan around it.

6. Take immediate action – To breath life into your endeavor, make sure you take action within the following 24 hours. Otherwise it will end up becoming a mere dream.

Conclusion

Remember that in order to create success, you have to be able to visualize it. You need to trust that you have the talents and abilities to accomplish your desired goal.

To paraphrase Dr. David Schwartz in his book, The Magic Of Thinking Big:

If you can perceive and believe, you can achieve.

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