Why You May Need A Business Consultant / Coach?
A Business Consultant / Coach is here to help you grow personally and professionally. Your Business Consultant / Coach is able to help you start, re-start, resolve existing business problems and help you affordably grow your business at your pace at your comfort level.
- Insanity Check – doing business the same way over and over and expecting different results?
- Not enough time to get your job done – mostly reactive as opposed to proactive?
- Do you feel disorganized at work? Having fun yet?
- Need to redefine the company and understand the new challenges of today?
- Are you sure of your market? It has changed – have you?
- Is your sales market/customer base focused and razor sharp?
- What is your customer? Do you understand your customer? Who is your customer?
- Labor negotiations coming up?
- Does your company(s) appreciate you? Sales territory big enough? Commissions good?
- Is cash flow a problem? Has it always been a problem? What is profitability and am I profitable?
- Are you making enough money for the stage of life you are in?
- Do I need to continue working out of an office/plant or home – when and why do you change?
- Is your business paid off? Are your payables too high and growing?
- Interested in applying for a Grant?
- Have you checked the wording on your business documents? Are they current?
- When was your last vacation? Afraid to take one?
- I am a outside/inside salesperson, how should I work with my home office?
- Is my company giving me a wide enough territory or is it getting more restrictive?
- Do I want to be an Independent Contractor, why and why not?
- Staff need training? How often?
- Problems with your staff dependability? Can you trust them? Can they trust you?
- Do I Need a partner? Do I want a partner? Do I need more staff?
- Should I hire more staff? Is employee leasing an option?
- Should I replace some staff – Who? When? Why? Why not?
- Are your staff’s jobs clearly defined? And current?
- Should I hire friends, family, neighbors?
- Issues and or differences with partners or shareholders?
- Are you able to measure their effectiveness – how?
- Need help re-structuring your business?
- Interested in starting a new business?
- Interested in buying another business? Expansion?
- Is your spouse interested in starting a home business? Or any new business?
- Do you want to sell your business? And do something else?
- Not making enough money in your existing business? Does your spouse agree?
- Family business problems with your spouse, father, husband, adult kids, adult grandkids, etc.?
- Working 6-7 Days a week, evenings till late, always tired, and not enjoying your family?
- Do you enjoy yourself, moody, irritable, and unable to concentrate at times?
- Interested in retiring from you job – what next?
- Do you have a mission statement?
- Need a Business Plan? Business Analysis? Business Strategy? What is a Goal Plan?
- Need a Marketing Plan? Market Analysis? Market Strategy? Am I in the correct market? New market?
- Business Evaluation? What is you/your business worth?
- What are the difference between the business, marketing and goal plans?
- Do you understand Relationship Marketing? What is 21st Century Marketing?
- Business in the 21st Century is fast and furious and every changing – can you keep up? Do you know how?
- Do I need a Product/Service Confidentiality Agreement with my staff and clients? Why?
- Who owns the patents on my products? Do I need one?
- Problems or not, need to renegotiate contracts with vendors, suppliers, customers, loans, etc. for better terms?
- Problems with customers, clients, patients, partners, financiers, etc.?
- How do I measure my effectiveness as business owner, sales leader, businessperson, negotiator, personnel manager?
- What does my support staff do all day?
- Sales Staff issues – growth, motivation, maturity, production, future and training?
- Have your sales grown or stagnated or stayed level? Why? Why not?
- Is my sales staff relevant? – Is my market clearly defined and visible? Do my Sales Staff understand their market?
- Is your business up to 21st Century standards? Web presence? Internet active? Internet marketing?
- Are you so frustrated with your lack of progress that some days you don’t want to get out of bed and go to work?
- Can an old dog be taught new tricks? Of course!