Tuesday, August 5, 2008

5 Ways a Business Coach Can Help You Achieve Your Goals


Starting and growing a business is hard work. And if you're trying to get new clients and business with your website, that can add to your challenges. If you've never done any internet marketing before, it can be confusing and overwhelming. You may be in the business that you love, but frustrations can make it seem like you will never get off the ground. We moms don't have time to waste!

Along with ambition and motivation, we sometimes need something more.A business coach can share know ledge and inspiration with us and help us find the things within ourselves that we need to succeed. Here are some ways that a business coach can help you reach your goals:

1. A business coach can help you gain an objective view of yourself.Often we are the last people to realize our own strengths. A business coach can give us insight into which traits are standing between us and success, and which ones we need to concentrate on using to our advantage.

2. Business coaches can help you discover how to work more efficiently. When you have a million things to do and little or no help, it's not unusual to become overwhelmed and not work as efficiently as you could. Your business coach can teach you how to sort out priorities and get your work done more quickly and with less
stress.

3. A business coach can help you delegate and outsource effectively. We may be tempted to do it all ourselves, but that's often just plain impractical. A business coach can help you determine whether we should hire employees or outsource work. He can also give us pointers on how to assign and keep track of work for optimum efficiency.

4. A coach can share knowledge and connections that you might not otherwise have access to. For example, if your website isn't getting enough traffic, you're too busy building your business to learn the ins and outs of marketing your website online. A coach can help you gain specialized knowledge quickly so you can do what needs to be done(or outsource what needs to be done!) to grow your business passively
with your website.

5. A coach can be a coach - they can tell you want you need to hear(but may not want to). If you had your 17 year old nephew build your website or you built it yourself, you may have some major issues that are driving customers away. An experienced internet marketer can point out these f laws and help you make changes that can lead to more newsletter subscribers, more customers, more sales - and more money, in just an hour.

To sum up, a coach can put you on the fast track to meeting your goals. If you feel stuck and aren't getting the results you want, it's more than worth hiring one.

Carrie Lauth is an internet marketing mom of 4 who offers coaching and website reviews. To read more about her services, visit
CarrieLauth.com/hire-carrie.htm

1 comment:

silvester said...

A coach can share knowledge and connections that you might not otherwise have access to. For example, if your website isn't getting enough traffic, you're too busy building your business to learn the ins and outs of marketing your website online.
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