NO small business can cover all the bases in one package!
Smart small business owners play to their strengths, and get advice on how to deal with their weaknesses.
How?
Once our simple Business Snapshot has highlighted where your gaps (weaknesses) are, The Coaching Group can prepare your individual “prescription” for business success and refer you to our relevant specialists for help.
If you already know what you need, then you can choose your own off-the-shelf package.
The Coaching Group
- are specialists with specific, knowledge of YOUR biggest hurdles
- services at reassuringly AFFORDABLE prices.
- specialised coaching, brainstorming and mentoring.
- Australian, specialist coaches with low-cost, “off-the-shelf”
and individual coaching, mentoring, or services in
Business Prosperity- Comprehensive Business Health Check
- Business Prosperity Coaching
- Employee to Entrepreneur – A Helping Hand
- phone and email coaching and services to make it EASY for YOU, the busy Small Business Owner (no matter WHERE you're based).
- are all small business owners themselves.
- know how to help you make changes that directly impact
- YOUR bottom line,
- YOUR satisfaction
Business Prosperity
Is this YOU?
- New to business after moving from employee to business owner?
- Are there times when you still feel totally stumped on how to be in business?
- Doing everything “right” in your business, but still not getting where you want to be?
- Think the only measure of a business's success is if it's turning a profit?
- Know something in the business isn't quote right, but find it hard to step back enough to find out?
- Always focussed on working “in” the business and not too good at working “on” the business?
- Feeling stressed about your business and its success?
- Ever sat down and looked at the various aspects of your business?
- Does the business plan ever get pulled out and revived or updated?
- Ever step back and look at all of the different aspects of your business and rate how well they're doing?
Sometimes your problems as a business owner can stem from you, and sometimes from your lack of experience or knowledge in specific areas.
The Coaching Group's Comprehensive Business Health Check is a review of several aspects of you and your business.
The very fact that you take the time to do it will benefit you in growing your awareness.
The results will allow
Comprehensive Business Health Check
- Completing the Health Check allows you to have a written guide to stepping away and reviewing your business
- You receive an 8-page questionnaire that will help you review your business
- Your returned questionnaire allows our Business Prosperity Coach and Founder Monique Alamedine to develop a prescription for the sorts of assistance you might need.
- Includes a 15-minute phone consultation with our Business Prosperity Coach.
Cost:
$23Business Prosperity
Is this YOU?
- Are you the ONLY or PUBLIC face of your business?
- New to business after moving from employee to business owner?
- Are there times when you still feel totally stumped on how to be in business?
- Doing everything “right” in your business, but still not getting where you want to be?
- Busy on systems, structures, figures, and not taking notice of the “YOU” in your business?
- Always focused on working “in” the business and not too good at working “on” the business?
- See your business' “cup” as half-empty rather than half-full?
- Feeling stressed about your business and its success?
Sometimes your problems as a business owner can stem from some of your own personal (soft) skill-gaps.
Business Prosperity Laser Coaching
- Business Prosperity Coaching works with you on those back-end skill-gaps.
- 15 Minutes of pre-booked Laser Coaching
- Single sessions whenever you need them
- Prescriptions for other specialists and products at the Coaching Group as necessary
- Develop areas like:
- Vision
- Goal-setting and Accountability
- Results
- Time Management
- Personal Awareness
- Adapting from Employee to Owner
- Managing your Fears of Failure and Success
- Motivation Hurdles
- A positive attitude
- A holistic/“helicopter” view of YOU and your BUSINESS
That can only ATTRACT more of the kind of profit and prosperity you've dream of!
Cost:
$...Marketing
Have you discovered that “building your business” doesn't guarentee “they'll come”?
That's because no business can succeed without effective marketing.
Is This YOU?
- Current marketing not bringing the results you expected?
- Can't afford to keep hiring a marketing specialist for each new product?
- Want to do your own marketing, just not sure how?
- Need a 12-month marketing plan?
No matter how small the outlay, marketing is as essential to your business success as being paid for your products!
Marketing Makeover Coaching Package
- Learn to think like a marketer
- Learn how to market YOUR product/service on a VERY small budget!
- Back to basics coaching program
- Gives you all the marketing fundamentals
- defining your target market
- developing a unique selling proposition
- brand image
- understanding buyer bahaviour
- conducting no/low-cost market research
- product design to match market needs
- structuring pricing
- distribution
- promotional strategies
- developing a marketing calendar
- For anyone struggling with Marketing (whether Start-Ups OR established businesses)
- initial 30-minute telephone session,
- unlimited monthly email support working through fundamentals
- one BONUS 15-minute brainstorming telephone session (for use any time during your coaching)
Cost:
$...Internet Marketing
Have you discovered that “building your business” doesn't guarentee “they'll come”?
That's because no business can succeed without effective marketing.
Is this YOU?
- Is your website making you the kinds of money you expected it would?
- Has your cost of your website been outweighed by increased profits from internet marketing?
- Know why your internet marketing has lacklustre results?
- Competitors stealing a march on you because their website brings them leads and sales?
- Need help with Internet Marketing?
- Know that its time to move some of your business promotion online?
Internet Marketing Coaching Program
- Learn marketing in plain language
- Build both online and offline marketing strategies
- Introduce new revenue streams to your business
- Access cutting-edge internationally-proven trends and add them to your business
- Learn the fundamentals of a successful online presence
- Develop advanced online marketing strategies
- Phone training and mentoring for ________ per session _________ per month
- Unlimited email/Instant Message mentoring between sessions
Cost:
$297 per monthAdvertising
Is this YOU?
- Advertising and promotion not effective?
- Having trouble kick-starting your advertising?
- Know that advertising is essential for your business?
- Never have time to start your advertising campaign?
The Coaching Group Advertising Products
- “Half my advertising works – I just wish I knew which half!”
Advertising Results Analysis Tracking Session –
- 2 hour face-to-face (or phone) session
- Receive report of
- steps,
- samples of simple tracking sheets,
- instructions on how to set up and analyse a results tracking sheet
- follow-up mail enquiries to Advertising Specialists for general questions/concerns
- monthly marketing email newsletter with tips and hints on low/no-cost marketing and advertising
- Follow-up sessions available (see below)
- “Step by Step Mentoring” – Advertising Follow Up sessions –
- monthly marketing activities and advertising health check
- fortnightly phone call to evaluate actions, and progress, and set new tasks
- “keep you on the straight and narrow”.
- Only available for those who have completed Advertising Results Tracking Session
Benefits
- Clear plan of what to do to start your advertising
- Month by month check lists of tasks
- Professional marketing partner for advice and help
- Diva Campaigns
Especially for our Women in Small Business
Branding
Is This You?
- Got a business name?
- Got a logo?
- Still struggling to get people to connect their problem to your solutions?
- Unhappy with the image your business seems to give people?
- Finding your logo isn't you?
- Reluctant to hand out your business cards?
- Not sure your image is professional or business-like?
- Sick of feeling amateur?
Then maybe your brand:
- Doesn't exist,
- Has no power
- Is unknown
- Has no strategy to manage it?
The Coaching Group Branding Products
- “Make Your Brand a Legend” – Brand Recognition Package
- 2 hour telephone session
- receive document outlining
- next steps,
- best advertising vehicles,
- ways to improve your brand recognition and
- how to consolidate your brand
- follow-up mail enquiries to Branding Specialist for general questions/concerns
- monthly marketing email newsletter with tips and hints on low/no-cost marketing and advertising
- Brand Coaching
Just Building a brand? OR Looking to add new products to your range?
- 2 one-hour sessions on building your business brand
- Covering
- brand-building on the Internet,
- branding decisions,
- brand name selection,
- brand strategies and brand extensions.
- Logo Creation
Benefits
- Helps build your brand and your business name
- Makes you readily identifiable
- Marks your difference from others in your industry
Money
Is this YOU?
- Having trouble managing your cash flow?
- Not sure how best to deal with your assets?
- Not sure how to analyse and maximise your spending and income to best manage your business
- Think you could probably make savings on overheads, stock etc but not sure where to start?
The Coaching Group Money Products
Money Coaching Program
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Public Relations
What's the difference between PR and Advertising?
PR gets your business talked about and subtly promoted by a journalist and YOU DON'T PAY.
Advertising is a fee-for-service promotion of your business.
Is this You?
- Not sure how to use PR for YOUR business?
- Never had success with media releases?
- No idea how to create a media release?
- No idea where/how to have media releases get maximum impact?
- Never thought of having a PR strategy?
- Got no media contacts and know you need them?
The Coaching Group Public Relations Products
- PR Campaign Development
You receive:
- a press release
- a company or personal profile
- submission of your press release to relevant media outlets
- follow up of your press release submission
- Access to bonus offer
Bonus Program –
As the story angle is one of the most vital parts of your PR campaign, we also offer
- two suggestions for story angles
- follow up for each story
Benefits
- tailored specifically for micro and small businesses
- brings excellent media and communications skills to your business
- is prepared by professionals with extensive PR experience
- will save you many valuable hours
- removes the need to individually submit information to relevant media outlets
- knows the tricks to successful follow-up on the progress of submissions
- priceless ongoing contacts within the media industry.
- PR Coaching Program
Get the guidance and support to ensure that you gain the maximum benefits from your PR campaign. The Coaching includes:
- one 30-minute monthly PR strategy phone session
- unlimited email support
- one additional 20-minute phone session (in the first month of coaching)
- to determine your goals for coaching
- and your public relations campaign
- learning to plan and take action on your own PR campaign
- an experienced PR coach
- brainstorming opportunities
- strategy advice to reach the media
- suggestions for new and unusual angles for media releases and articles
Benefits
- tailored specifically for micro and small businesses.
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Career Transition
Is This You?
- Recently moved from “employee” to “business owner”?
- Findign the change harder than you'd imagined?
- Not as simple and straight-forward as you first thought?
- Feeling isolated?
- Missing having someone to bounce ideas around with?
- Finding that you're missing skills you never knew you needed?
At The Coaching Group, our Transition Specialist will steer you away from the potholes in the road to successful business ownership. Her clear guidance and direction will have you rapidly building
The Coaching Group Career Transition Products
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Cost:
Systems Assistance
Can you answer these?
- Can your business run on auto-pilot?
- Do you have an endless to-do list?
- Does delegating a task to someone else just mean more work for you explaining or correcting mistakes afterwards?
- Hate doing your book-keeping or leave the admin work till last?
- What will happen to your business if you are unavailable (on your well-earned holiday, or if you are sick)?
- Can your staff step in and do things for you exactly the way you like them done?
- Is your business concept so good that you'd love to replicate it?
- If you sold the business right now, could someone walk in and take over?
Once you have well documented systems in place in your business, it not only makes management easier in the short-term, it's also essential if you want to sell or franchise your business in the future.
Benefits
The Systems Assist Coaching Program helps you- gain a sense of achievement
- reduce the daily stresses
- develop simple effective systems
- delegate tasks to others with confidence
- create the time to develop your systems
- implement monitoring and evaluation of your systems
- make systems improvement a natural part of your business
- improve your own and your staff's time management
- increase productivity for you and your staff
The Coaching Group Systems Assistance Products
- Sensational Systems E-Course
- Weekly automated emails
- delivering important systems development information in an easy, at-your-own-time format
- Includes practical activities and tasks
- Feedback on completed tasks
- Guided Systems Assist Program
- 8-week program
- Includes Systems Assist Work Booklet
- First session 1.5 hours
- Then 30-minute sessions weekly for 7 weeks
- Guides you through the workbook
- For Busy people needing 1-on-1 support for their systems development
- Immediate feedback and brainstorming opportunities for development and implementation
- Systems Assist Support Program
- Includes Systems Assist Work Booklet
- 2 sessions per month
- One-hour sessions fortnightly
- Allows you to work through the Systems Assist Work Booklet alone
- Immediate feedback and brainstorming opportunities for development and implementation
Relationships
Is this YOU?
- Do you and your partner work together in your business?
- Is your business a source of conflict for your partner or family?
- Are the pressures of being a Business Owner causing strain between you and others?
- Do you have high staff turnover rates?
- Do you feel confident in dealings with conflict with staff or clients in your business?
- Do you need to have a difficult conversation with someone?
The Coaching Group Relationship Products
- “Improve Your Communication Skills” E-Course
- Offers an email-delivered Improve your Communication Skills (e-course) for you to work through - one step at a time
- Communications Skills Improving Coaching
- Includes Improve Your Communications Skills (e-course)
- Offers unlimited email coaching and advice, directly with our Relationship Specialist
- “How Do I Handle This Difficult Conversation?”
- Single session of One-on-One Phone Coaching for 45 minutes
- Focused on the Difficult Conversation you need to have
- Help to get the best outcome for you both
- With tips to manage your own feelings in the conversation
Benefits
- Has you solving problems by talking through them
- Gets you talking naturally and constructively with those you deal with personally or professionally
- Helps you achieve higher levels of co-operation and buy-in from staff, clients and family
- Builds you ability to seel you and your services with credibility
Energy
Is this YOU?
- Are you always tired?
- Sometimes “lose it” over seemingly little things?
- Constantly feeling stressed?
- Worried because you have no energy left for your partner, the kids, family or friends?
- Your body keeps “letting you down” with infections, injuries, etc
- Can't bear the mess around you, but no time to sort it out?
The Coaching Group Products
These are all signs that Energy Drainers are alive and well in your world.
- “Energy Boosters For You Success” E-Course
- A series of short exercises to help you identify Energy Drainers in your life and how to find your Energy Boosters
- Delivered weekly to your email Inbox for 6 weeks
- Energy Boosters For Your Success Tele-Seminar
- Teleconference call for 1 hour
- Group Participation (depending on numbers)
- Bonus Workbook for you to follow after the call
- Registrations and payment in advance
- Energy Boosters Support program
- Includes Energy Boosters for Your Success E-Course
- Personalised, unlimited email access to our Energy Specialist for advice and support as you make changes to your energy Maintenance patterns
- Your Personal Energy Boost
- Individual Energy-Maintenance Review sessions
- Personal phone coaching
- Only available to purchasers of Energy Boosters E-Course or Teleseminar (see above)
Party Plans/Direct Selling
- Just starting in a direct selling or party plan business?
- Not getting the promised financial rewards from party plan selling?
- Lack confidence when you're presenting your sales information?
- Need to learn the “tricks of the trade” of direct selling and party plan selling?
The Coaching Group Direct Selling Products
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Web Sites
- Know that its time to move some of your business promotion online?
- Feel out of it because you DON'T have a website?
- Want a website that's easy to manage?