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Does This Describe You?

Elevating Your Business provides educational services, support and products to financial service professionals and B2Bs.

Our clients are USA based and love what they're doing, have chosen their careers/businesses. They are experts at what they do. HOWEVER, they will admit, behind doors of course, that they suck when it comes to running their business. Actually, they've been ignoring very important parts of their business and those parts continually come back to bite them in the ass. What are those parts? Well, they're the parts that Elevating Your Business happen to be experts in and have been doing for more than 30 years -- creating simple processes that help streamline and automate their planning, operations, administration and marketing!

Our clients want results -- increased profitability, straight forward focused and to work smarter, not harder. They they bring their vast industry knowledge and vision they've had for their business to the table; and we bring our 30-years + worth of high-quality business experience to the mix.

What you have in common with our clients is that you use the word "passion" to describe why you started your business (or why chose your field). However, your quickly growing business has hit that point where they aren't enjoying it like they used to. And after being in business between 3 and 15 years, they find themselves putting out fires all the time with no time to actively do what they enjoy.

Oh, you're a big thinker with lots of ideas swirling around in your heads. You own your business as an investment with annual gross revenue of 6 and 7-figures OR their goal is to reach those figures.

Do You Struggle With These Problems?

The systems you created have stopped working. Ineffective planning, lack of innovative resources or support is hurting your bottom line. There are many reasons why this may be happening. See how many of the problems below resonate with you:

You're tired of putting out fires all the time. You're exhausted or overwhelmed by all you're doing daily because your company is in growth mode. When you went into business you never realized all the busi-ness you'd have to do or number of hats you'd be wearing. Your interests and passions are going to the wind because you're doing the HR, accounting, or answering the phone all day.
Your profits or production numbers have flat-lined, declined or just aren't growing as much as you know they can. After increasing almost every year, you've run out of ideas and you're not sure how to change things. The planning process you've had is no longer working and you want something simple and new. Or possibly you don't have a plan?
You're loosing good employees or consultants -- left and right. Maybe you're having hiring problems. Maybe not. Possibly you're not sure how to implement a new employee or retention solutions in your organization. But you know that hiring and training new people is costing you money that you don't want to spend.
You have no time and work/life balance has been thrown to the wind. It's also possible that every time you take time off, either there is no money coming in or you come back to a really big mess. There are things you know you should be doing to grow your company or department but may not have the time to even look at them.
You may be frustrated with the challenges of attracting bigger clients. Or clients who who don't pay on time or always seem to want discounts. Worse of all, you're not valuing your own knowledge and are giving people discounts or deals!
You say: Who has time for planning? Maybe you know that you need to be out and about doing more marketing and promoting. Business Plan? Marketing Plan? Financial Plan? They just don't exist.
You're loosing your passion for running your company Or maybe you're getting older and realized that you won't own it or run it forever. You're ready to create your legacy. However, you haven't yet set your business up to sell or haven't created a succession plan. It's even possible that your company isn't worth a hill of beans to a buyer because it's not turn-key.

If you answered yes to any of those scenarios, you're not alone. Maria's worked with 100's of clients who are in your shoes.

"There is a very big gap between knowing something, or reading something and implementing it!" -- Maria Marsala

Whom We Work With

Business Owners, CEOs, Executives and Branch Managers in these fields.

Primary fields (in alpha order): Finance: Accountants, Bookkeepers, Brokers, Branch Managers, CPAs, Financial Advisors, Financial Planners, Insurance Brokers, Mortgage Agents, Tax Preparers; B2B: Computer Repair, Copywriters, Database Designers, Graphic Artists, Internet Marketers, Networking, Programmers, Software Developers, Virtual Assistants, Web Designers; B2B Consultants: Benefits, Communications, Employment, Fitness Trainers, Human Resources, Health, Image, Management, Marketing, Meeting Planner, Organizers, Productivity, Secretarial Services, Speakers/Trainers, Word Processors

We've also worked with these business owners: Practitioners: Architects, Attorneys, Chiropractors, Naturopathic Doctors, Massage Therapists, Reiki Practitioners.; More: Career Coaches, Counselors, Manufacturers of Environmentally Friendly Products, MLMs

Do You Sound Like Our Ideal Clients?

Over the past 9 years, we've noticed that our best clients typically share many characteristics. If these characteristics fit you, chances are that we can help you be more productive, work smarter and increase your bottom line. Clients will be most successful in working with us if:

You are ready to make the time to do the work. As much as you may be prepared to make changes in your life, you are ready to carve out the time in your current schedule to make it work.
You have high standards. Good enough isn't enough. In your pursuit of excellence, you enjoy being challenged and are ready to work in partnership; collaboratively. You're a life-long learning, at work and personally, and "your word is your bond, " period.
You are not the norm. You're used to throwing the status quo out the window because you want more than those around you. The phrase "rebel" WITH a cause resonates with you and makes you smile. And you're committed to long-term solutions although you might put a quick-fix patch on it first.
You've been making an investment. Healthy profits are important and so are people and the community. You're committed to making a positive difference in people's lives personally and professionally. In fact, you've been doing it for years.
You are building a an investment. The book Rich Dad, Poor Dad is no stranger to you. However, you're stuck in self-employment mode; having to work all the time. You're ready to set your business up to sell some day, work when you want to work, do what you want to do or leave it to your heirs.
You understand there are no quick fixes. In order to work smarter, increase productivity and earn more, you know that it will take significant effort on your part to plan, perform, and see the profit or productivity increase.
You HATE the "busi-ness of business." Being passionate about the work you do, you tell me privately of course, that you suck at or just don't enjoy a majority of the business part of business. Things like administration, planning, systems development, marketing, Internet marketing, and finances turn you off. However, those are just the parts of business that I LOVE and that comes so naturally to me! You just want to do your thing but right now you aren't able to.
You are very knowledgeable; an expert in your field. You want to move to even higher levels of fulfillment with your vision and knowledge. You know that you don't stay on the top by sitting still for very long. And you're always looking for ways to improve productivity and profitability.

While certain industries we work with, like financial planners, sell products through their companies, many of our clients, sell services. Those who do are looking to create additional streams of small business income, create products or info-products, maybe speak, or are serial entrepreneurs. And most of all, they're all coachable.

Next Step...

Now you have a good idea of the kind of great clients we work with, the issues we help them resolve, and what they have to do to be successful. If you have a lot in common with our ideal clients learn more about how Elevating Your Business works to help you get all you desire and reach your goals -- faster! Or simply contact us to discuss your specific challenges.

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