You don’t have $10,000 – $50,000 to hire a consultant. Yes, it would be nice to hire someone to do it all for you, but you don’t have that kind of money lying around. You can hire a coach for considerably less and still get a lot of the benefits you get with a consultant. Besides, you’re the DIY type anyway.
Besides this, look at the over-all personality of the business coach. Does he come across as someone too eager to please? Does he come across as someone downright rude? Both these extremes could be detrimental to your business. The ideal would be somewhere in between. Before finalizing on a coach, discuss money. See if there are any additional offerings like books or CDs etc. Check to see the availability of the coach. Be clear about the money and time issues right from the start. Be sure that you find an experienced and dedicated person that meets all these criteria to make a success out of your business.
The online Business Coach you choose should be able to relate to you. If he or she cannot relate to you and where you are in life, then you will have a hard time applying their advice because they don’t know where you are coming from. For example, if you don’t have a lot of money to spend on your business, you need to find a coach that started their business with little money. Using an online business coach that started with 2-3 financial backers is not going to help you much.
Someone who understands your circumstances. I’m a mom of 5. I understand the challenges of mothers; we can have the best intentions and yet one sick child can slow us down for a week. My coach, an older gentleman with no children, couldn’t understand why I wasn’t able to accomplish the 20 goals a week that I would set for myself. If I had a Business Coach who was also a mom she wouldn’t have allowed me to set that many goals. And she would have remained patient during the challenging weeks. If you have a small business, home-base business, children, illness, or other circumstances find a coach who understands but does not allow you to use it as an excuse.
Could you imagine a football team without a coach? How about a student without a teacher? Maybe a business owner with no training? Of course not! The team, the student, and the business would all fail. But so many people start their online business with no training, no support, and no encouragement. That is why the great majority of online businesses fail. When you start to look for someone to coach you in your online business, what should you look for in that person?
The easier we can make giving referrals, the more effective we can make it (and more likely to happen). Modern technology has the answer: email. There are two reasons for this. First of all, it creates a written record of the referral, so that the contact information is readily accessible. The second reason, probably even more important, is the the “carbon copy” function of email allows the person doing the recommending to notify both the person they are referring and the person they are referring to at the same time.
Being coached is not always a pleasant experience. I don’t particularly enjoy being told what I am doing wrong but I know my coaches have my best interests at heart and they give me positive feedback along with the constructive criticism.
If you can, meet with your coach personally, but if you can’t do that, modern technology has made it possible to meet with coaches in online training centers. That is the next best thing, and it is quite adequate. In fact, many of those training centers are much more than adequate. They are excellent!
A good coach must be a successful online. He/she must be consistent in his/her income earning. My mentor earns not less than $50,000 every month. Which shows her method of marketing is not a flash in the pan type, but a consistent one. So make sure He/she possesses this quality otherwise don’t HIRE that person as your coach.
Go with coaches who involve you in the process. I am pretty sure that you would like to know everything that’s going on with your business. So, go with coaches who will not mind working hand-in-hand with you.
How can a business coach increase my business?: It depends on the business; some companies that I work with might have to focus on the marketing, or providing sales training, or work on a time management system, GAPS, to produce results in their business.
Make sure those dreams were things that meant something to you emotionally. Things that you had not been able to achieve in your normal routine and might not achieve in quite some time without the extra time and money technology coach networking is going to bring you.
Financials: Do you look at your business numbers? Do you understand them? A business coach can help you plan and reach your financial goals. He or she can also help you get rid of any limiting beliefs about money.
Do you really need a coach in Internet marketing? Well, I guess it really depends on where you’re at in Internet marketing and where you desired to get to. Are you making money in Internet marketing? Or are you not? Are there people online who are making more money than you are? If indeed there are, then it would only make sense. Spending time with those people online who are making more money than you are, could give you the benefit of seeing how to actually get it done.