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2 business owners get an EXTRA $20,000 in 6 months after 5 years of no growth on their own. Here’s how they did it.

Tim and David, co-owners of Eagle Eye cleaning company, are perfect examples of beleaguered entrepreneurs who broke free from overwork and made thousands of dollars through the help of a business coach.

Like many new business owners, Tim and David drove themselves into the ground, working 80 hours a week and sacrificing their personal lives to make their business work. Still, despite their best efforts, their company saw no growth for five years and almost went out of business. Almost.

After being on a business coach’s mailing list for years, Tim and David finally decided to take action and take him up on his offer. Not only did they had a stable income as a result, but they also found work–life balance. Now they work half-days while earning more than ever.

After finding out about Tim and David’s shocking success story, we thought it was important to share their story with readers who also want to increase their bottom line and free themselves from unhealthy overtime work. The solution they found gave them not only more financial freedom but also time freedom. It changed their life; hopefully, it changes yours too.

The solution 

With the help of their business coach, Tim and David discovered that the secret to business growth is having a reliable helping hand. Their business coach did all of these for them to pull up Eagle Eye from the brink of financial ruin.

  • Created an effective sales process that turns cold calls into loving, paying customers without hard selling
  • Drew a standard operating manual and systematized their hiring process so that they hire only the best people
  • Initiated a dual checklist quality control process to make sure the job is done right according to Eagle Eye’s expectations
  • Enlisted both owners to go to Toastmasters and CrossFit to improve their confidence, leadership skills, and overall health and consequently make them more productive and resilient to stress
  • Established better time management and weekly goals so that they can do more with less time and get their tasks done
  • Relieve the owners from other work to focus on sales and retention and how to over-deliver to their customers

Tim & David’s story and results

Tim says this about their business coach: “Our sales have massively improved by over $20,000—that’s about 15 percent of our sales—just because of the advice he had given to our company. I would recommend him ten-out-of-ten.”

David added, “Each and every week, the meetings are getting better, and we’re progressing all the time. [To] anyone who’s considering taking his business coaching, that’s the best thing we’ve done for our business—ever.”

  • Boosted their income by 20% in six months
  • Reduced their 14 hours/6 days work week into half-days
  • Hired five staff members for their team
  • Cushioned the impact of losing two key clients due to external circumstances

Conclusion:

As a result of working with a business coach, Eagle Eye cleared the path to their $500,000 net profit goal. They also averted a catastrophe when two big clients had to end their contract, at no one’s fault.

You might be doubtful about the benefits of getting a business coach, but the only way to quash those doubts is to try it yourself. The results are indisputable if you stick to the coach’s program. After your experience, please tell us about your success with the business coaching program to generate recurring revenue for your business.

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How Failing To Track Progress Can Ruin Your Business

Progress tracking is a hallmark of project management. Various tools exist for measuring progress against set goals and milestones. Probably the single most influential thing you can do to improve your business is to monitor it better. However, despite its immense importance, many people still fail to track the progress of their projects accurately.

There are many reasons for failing to monitor your progress. Perhaps everything is going well, and you feel no need to exert additional effort towards your projects. Maybe you’ve encountered problems and can’t find the time to reflect on your progress so far. Perhaps you want to track your progress but don’t know how to proceed.

However, you are undermining your prospects for future success if you do not regularly pause to evaluate what you’ve accomplished so far. By inadequately monitoring your progress, you expose your business the several disastrous but preventable risks. Nevertheless, there are many doable and practical methods for progress tracking that you can apply to your business.

What Happens When You Lose TrackTo track your progress, you need to recall the tasks you’ve already finished as well as the tasks that still need to be accomplished. By forgetting to monitor your work, it becomes easier to lose track of how well you’re doing so far. This lack of clarity can easily demotivate you and your team, making it harder to push through obstacles to finish your projects.

Additionally, the lack of information can give you a false sense of the status of your projects. You might imagine that you are still doing well when in fact you are already weeks behind schedule. Conversely, you might think that you are still far from your goal when in reality you are already nearing completion, giving you and your team unnecessary stress. Both of these things can divert valuable time, attention, and resources away from issues that actually exist, making it easier for simple mistakes to escalate into major problems.

Additionally, by not analyzing and recording your progress, you lose the opportunity to learn and improve from any mistakes. Trial and error methods cannot work if you have no way of assessing your performance. It weakens your ability to adapt to changes, as the missing information forces you to stick with old methods. In this competitive economy, your inability to adapt can spell doom for your company, and all of these can come about just because you failed to track your progress correctly.

How To Properly Monitor ProgressFortunately, it is easier than expected to track your progress. There are many methods that bosses use for progress monitoring. Even a simple to-do list written on a piece of paper can already be enough for many applications. You may also try note-taking software such as Google Keep or Evernote, as well as more specialized apps such as Trello and MS Project.

Regardless of the method you use, it’s more important is that you consistently update the information you place in these tools. At regular intervals, reflect for a few minutes on your progress and write down your observations. Use this information to plan the next steps you’ll take, and remember to do all of these steps no matter how busy you are so that you eventually acquire this important habit. After this point, tracking your progress will feel like second nature, and you will have taken one significant step towards securing the success of your company.

Beware Of The Five Pitfalls Of Business Failure

Here’s an unpopular truth: not every person’s business idea becomes a reality. For every successful entrepreneur are several people, who have watched their businesses crumble on their feet. A beginner is prone in thinking that they belong to the former, the successful entrepreneurs. However, there are so many pitfalls along the way that they quickly can end up as the latter.

So, how do you avoid those pitfalls? How can you attain success? For starters, you will need to know and understand the four common pitfalls that every new business is at risk.

1. Getting Swayed By Entrepreneurial ExcitementEntrepreneurs always get excited about novel ideas. However, if you let your excitement cloud your judgment, then you’re already tipping over one major pitfall! Entrepreneurial excitement is one tricky slope. It makes distinguishing ‘interesting ideas’ from ‘new opportunities’ almost impossible.

While entrepreneurial excitement can be used as motivation for efficient planning, it also drives entrepreneurs to make hasty decisions. Beginners overcome with this feeling often launch their ideas without a proper business plan. It is no wonder that their businesses fail in the long-run.

2. Poor Leadership And ManagementOne common cause of failure is poor leadership and management. Many entrepreneurs fall into the pitfall of micromanagement with the belief that this leadership style will lead to more productivity. But everyone knows that’s not true; the stories of businesses of micromanagers can testify to that.

However, micromanagement is not just the example of poor leadership and management. Lack of communication, no working standards, and financial management are things that entrepreneurs need to avoid.

3. Vague Success IndicatorsFeedback is an essential component of your business plans. How can you know your progress if you can’t truck the performance of your business? For this reason, you would need to establish success indicators or a proper feedback system.Feedback shouldn’t just come from your customers; all of your stakeholders must be involved. Yes, it is important to know the opinions of your customers, but your employees and investors’ views are valuable, too.  Once feedback is given, it is essential to consider the content of this feedback, whether it is positive or negative in nature.

4. Lack Of Knowledge Or ExperienceMost of the time, a business fails because an entrepreneur is new to the scene. For a company to become successful, the entrepreneur behind it must be versatile. They need to have a standard, working knowledge of marketing, sales, finances, and management. They also need to update their skills and knowledge of industry trends. For a beginner, this is almost too much to handle. So, what’s the solution? Learning! With 21st century technology, an unaware beginner can access resources and learning materials that talks about these concepts. They can also be in contact with knowledgeable mentors who can guide them on their projects.

5. Final Words Failure is a natural occurrence in the business world. Some businesses grow and flourish, while others stagger and fail. But businesses don’t just take-off or fall on their own. As the one who leads the company, the entrepreneur is responsible for the success or demise of their business. Where will your business end up to? Remember: it all boils down to you.

Sources: http://www.passionforbusiness.com/articles/why-businesses-fail.htmhttps://www.successharbor.com/why-some-businesses-fail-while-others-succeed-02132015/

Things You Need To Know

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Double Your Business Coaching Session 2 | Small Business Coach

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Small Business Coach Daryl Urbanski Call #2

Business Coach Shows You How To Double Your Sales
With Your Existing Budget

On this call with business coach Daryl Urbanski, he expands on lesson 1 – T x C = $$$ to discuss how a small business should approach doubling sales without increasing expenses in their business.

(If you missed lesson 1 and would like to listen to it, click here)

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Use this and listen to the call. Post a comment after you’ve listened and let me know what you think.

Why This Business Coach Believes These 2 Metrics Are
The MOST IMPORTANT For Your Business

Small Business Coach Daryl Urbanski Call #2

One of the first things anyone working with a business coach needs to realize is they probably aren’t tracking important metrics in their business like they should. Most small businesses have their financials in order and a book keeper to help them. But those often are not the most important numbers they should be following. They are necessary, but Daryl would argue, not the most important.

In this call Daryl discusses what he feels as a business coach, are the 2 most important metrics every business owner should know and why these 2 are so important.

Daryl Urbanski Business Coach

More Money, Less Effort, Happier Customers = Awesomesauce

Small Business Coach Daryl Urbanski Call #2

Once you understand these two metrics and why a business coach would think they are so powerful, you’re ready to move on to implementing them in your business to increase your own profits and protect you from economic turmoil as well as increased competition.

The slide above shows how with a proper business coach, you can make more money from your existing marketing budget.

Daryl Urbanski Business Coach

This slide shows what your funnel should look like once you put it all together. If you need help or would like to speak with a business coach, you can click here for our mastermind program. With proper coaching and implementation you can realistically expect to increase sales in your business by at least 10% (a very conservative estimate) using this approach.

Some business coaching clients have reported exponential growth. No promise or guarantee of earning potential can be promised however as the situation for each business, market and economic area fluctuates and may be different.

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Small Business Coaching Q&A Call

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Small Business Coaching Q&A Call:

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Raw & Uncut Small Business Coaching Advice

In this unedited recent small business coaching call, small business owners – just like you – emailed in questions on how to address problems they were facing in their small businesses. The opened up and ‘said it like it is’ so you could have a candid look at how you can solve these problems in your business.

Some of the questions we go over in this small business coaching call include:

 

  • “Why is it harder for business owners to acquire family members and friends 
as customers than cold market?”
  • “How do you brand yourself?”
  • “How can I grow and improve my small business?”
  • “How do you stay organized and keep accurate records?”
  • “The biggest problem by far for me is successful marketing. I get good word of mouth and recommendations, but advertising is almost completely ineffective despite considerable advice and attention to it.
  • I have no idea why this is so. Moreover, recommendations and a good reputation do not bring more clients through the door. Furthermore, undercutting all my competitors has failed to lead to more consultations and raising my prices even slightly puts people off, despite the fact that my competitors charge ten times my rates or more. 

What should I do?”
  • “How can I use social media to grow my business?”
  • “How is starting a business with a partner different than starting a business on your own? What do I need to consider?”
  • “It’s hard when you have a small business with little to no employees, because you are everything in the company. You do the work of the management, finances and labor, if any. It’s hard to keep everything balanced, and to find time to complete everything, yet still try to keep your business growing. How do I stay motivated?”
  • “How do I keep customers?”
  • Plus Much More!

 

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Small Business Coaching For Busy People

Whenever I’m asked to do some small business coaching it’s often really important to get background information from the the callers. The more I know about a small businesses problem the easier it is for me to coach them and address their problems.

How This Small Business Coaching Call Will help You

In this call we were fortunate enough to have are good group of people for small business coaching call. People who sincerely wanted small business coaching and were willing to open up for everyone including you to listen to. Very brave thing a lot of us are free to step forward and reveal intimate details about what we’re doing. Or even just to admit that were having problems. That’s one small business coaching is all about. Turning does problems into opportunities.

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