ActionCOACH Linda Bigler worked with Amanda Johnson, a financial planner and advisor. Before working with Linda, Amanda was having difficulties hiring competent staff. Listen as Amanda talks about how she was able to hire the perfect personal assistant by using the ActionCOACH hiring process.
Premiering June 1st, “The Business Of Coaching – Winning the Game of Business” is a 22-minute documentary-style video that demonstrates how business owners overcame adversity, financial worries, as well as gain quality time with their families…all through business coaching.
Get an in-depth look into the world’s 2nd fastest growing industry, listen to stories and insight from business coaches and their clients from around the world, and hear how business coaching creates success for companies
Looks like Louis Vuitton purses won't be on sale anymore.
According to this week’s Bloomberg BusinessWeek, high-end retailers are back to selling full-price items and not doing as many promotions or discounts to attract customers.
According to SpendingPulse data, the prices for U.S. luxury goods increased 11% this March from a year ago. Pre-recession, the average price of a luxury handbag was $2,000; last year this decreased to $1,600, and this year that price increased to $1,800.
With the luxury market seemingly on the rebound, this would appear to be a good sign…yet unemployment rates are either stagnant or decreasing still.
With this new data, does this mean businesses can start — just start — to exhale a sigh of relief? business coaches, would you advise your clients any differently with information about the luxury consumer and the potentially changing economy?
People become business coaches for perks like flex work hours.
It’s a story that’s becoming fairly common — people leaving careers they’ve had their whole lives to follow their true passion — but often times, even though people leave careers to start their own business in something that’s been a hobby for years, they still need help.
The Wall Street Journal recently published a story about high-powered executives who left their careers to, for example, start their own restaurant or work for a nonprofit. Even though they were executives at one point and know exactly what needs to be done in order to make their businesses successful, sometimes — as business owners might know — it’s easier said than done.
A lot of people the Wall Street Journal interviewed also wanted to work less and have more time for friends and family, and with their career changes, some have been able to do just that.
Said Rick Walleigh, 59, who left his management position at a tech company for a position in a nonprofit, “Work is a lot more fun if you’re not the one who is ultimately responsible for everything.” Walleigh now works 25 hours a week as opposed to 60-70 hours a week at the tech company.
Read the full article here. ActionCOACH and Brad Sugars is mentioned toward the end of the story because, let’s face it, lots of people become business coaches after long careers with other companies at other positions. Set your own hours and help other professionals in situations you once experienced — there’s lots to gain from a career change like that.
Business owners already go through an unbelievable amount of hard work to get their businesses up and running, much less grow it to a successful business.
Imagine if in addition to all the “normal” challenges to being a business owner, you had another challenge thrown at you from left field? A challenge that could not only affect your business, but also your life?
That’s exactly what happened to Michele Alexander, a top business coach, when one morning, she woke up completely deaf. Alexander isn’t a business owner herself, but a certified business coach. Not being able to hear her clients, business owners, who needed to work through business issues, could have proved detrimental, but she managed to get through the day. She didn’t let any of her clients down, despite the fact that she couldn’t hear them!
Michele’s experience going through what seems like an impossible challenge — business coaching clients while deaf — just goes to show the lengths certified business coaches go to to make sure their clients succeed and reach their utmost potential. Find out more about what a business coach and business coaching session can do for any business here.
Think no one will read your blog? Think again, because that’s probably what most of these bloggers thought when they started blogging. Now they’re on ProBlogger’s Top 30 Bloggers to Watch list.
Even if you don’t have your own blog set up, it’s easy to blog with ActionCOACH’s ActionBLOG, our own blogging platform. The ActionBLOG has traction in search engines from the ActionCOACH brand, and networking and connecting with other business-minded potential clients and other business coaches is easy.
With the ActionBLOG, any posts you write have a larger reach – reach not only business coaches, but also coaches’ clients. Clients visit the ActionCOACH site for information and tools, and the ActionBLOG is a tool they could use.
Who knows…if you blog enough, maybe you’ll make ProBlogger’s list next year.
Business Coaching | Stephanie Sims | August 20, 2010 | 
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