How We Work Together
On this page we'll provide you with a sense of our beliefs, approach to client projects, and tell you how we differ from our competitors.
It Takes S.A.S.
Turbo-charging businesses takes S.A.S.
Support
Accountablity
Systems
Results
When you work with us you can expect the following results:
You'll be super-focused.
There are so many things to think about in business and so much new "bling" coming at you daily! Our clients can easily set priorities and catch mistakes faster because they're monitoring their efforts. We're very much into helping our clients find SIMPLE solutions to doing complicated and complex things. You'll become more efficient, effective, focused, and create systems that are easy to update.
After creating their one-page business and marketing plan, clients report that they finally feel like they can breath again.
You'll earn more.
Focused marketing naturally leads to more business. You'll take a fresh look at your ideal clients
and how you can reach them in large numbers.
Most clients find that they're reaching their milestones even quicker than they originally thought. In fact, the first year, they usually update the income and client numbers at least twice. Many clients increased their income and productivity, earning 1/3 to 1/2 more in as little as six months. Ask Maria about her double-income guarantee on one-year packages.
You'll learn how to fish.
Maybe not really fish, unless you want to learn how to fish as Maria fishes, but what we will do we'll teach you the "how to-s" of business so that the next time you need to do "__x__" you can do it yourself, guide your staff to do it, or feel confident hiring us or one of our partners to do it "your way".
Educating our clients in areas of business they haven't come across before is about 1/2 of what we do. It's the "Edu" part of our EduCoaching™ and EduVising™systems.
You'll make better decisions, easier.
First of all, when a business owner is constantly in emergency mode the chances of making mistakes is higher.
Our clients (even those who have been in business 20 years) find it amazing that by re-creating their business foundation they're making meaningful long term decisions based on strategies rooted in solid information. Out of emergency mode, they've created "reserves" of what's important and what they can't do without. There are two extra bonuses here. First, you'll start noticing yourself saying "no" more often -- even to GOOD things, because you're striving for GREAT things. Another bonus is saying yes to better opportunities.
You'll enjoy your business again.
When you shift your focus back to what is important you will enjoy your business more and become re-energized.
At first, my clients hire others to do what they don't enjoy. Then they start hiring them to
complete tasks that they are good at but that aren't the best use of their time.
That goes for at home, too. It's very common for clients to hire cleaning help, landscapers and personal assistants, too
You'll consistently attract higher-end clients.
Focused marketing leads you to attract better clients; the types that will come back for more and provide you with referrals without you asking.
By taking all the information that is in your head, and putting it on paper, and brainstorming about it with Maria,
even how you speak about your company becomes clearer to those you meet and even to your current clients, too.
They'll understand who your clients are like they've never understood before and in return will be able to refer you better, too.
You'll have more time for fun and an improved personal life.
It's a fact. Working harder and longer hours only makes you very tired.
By taking back control of their business or department you'll experience less stress, work fewer hours, and watch your revenue increase.
You'll have a business that looks like you want it to.
Clients have offices who don't want them. Other clients want offices and don't have them. Others travel when then don't want to. The list goes on... We'll work with you to create a new structure for your business that works for you now; and will work for you long into the future.
You'll have a partner.
We form a working, productive, and cooperative partnership with our clients. Even when we're not meeting, you're bound to find a resource (or two or three) that I've found that will help you execute your marketing plan better.
We're not partners in the legal sense of the word partnership, but in the human sense. That goes for the work we do with your team members, too!
When you work with Maria or her team, you will no longer feel alone a the top of your business.
Guiding Values
We believe these things about business:
Increased earnings are mandatory.
You're in business for many reasons and an extremely important reason is to make money.
We work very closely with our clients to help them reduce expenses and increase their earnings.
Self-employment is not an option.
Your business is an investment in your future.
If it's been just a job, we work with you to make a shift in mind-set from being self-employed to owning your business as an investment.
Whether or not you want to sell it, work one day a month, or provide it to your heirs, its investment in your future -- not a job.
Providing others with a paycheck is a gift.
To me, there is no better gift we can give others, than to
provide them with a job or consultancy in a company whose leader loves what they do and treats them very well.
Success is what YOU determine it is.
As you're completing your intake form you'll notice that you're answering many personal and business questions about your short and long term goals. That's to help me learn what success means to you, because it's YOUR definition of success that will be come my goal to help you reach!
Planning and measuring results matter.
You'll have access to a plethora of step-by-step planning and measuring support, tools, and software. In fact, once you compete your intake form and we discuss what's on it, the first goal is for you to complete either your life or business plan.
That's how we'll establish your objectives and then determine the criteria for tracking your progress.
Our Approach
Very New Yorkish - Like ME
Although I didn't know it until I moved out of New York, I'm told that I fit the profile of a stereotypical New Yorker.
You'll get the truth over me being nice every day (no matter what). You'll get a trusted advisor who loves life in all it's diverseness and am carefully adventurous. You'll get opinions and an extreme number of solutions, resources and ideas for just about every problem imaginable.
I'm bottom line, no bull-shit, lets get going, life is short, here's the gentle kick in the ass you need, sort of person.
And my clients tell me, often, that they wouldn't want me to be any other way!
It's about getting the golden ring
The work we'll do together will be a mix of difficult, awful, frustrating, exciting, wonderful, and lots of fun. Hey, change -- even good change -- isn't easy. If you want to start working together and don't intend on creating a business/marketing plan first, I can't work with you. And while my clients tell me often that I'm generous and understanding; however, if you know that you need to hire a coach who can hold your hand 24/7 - 360 days a year, please go elsewhere.
One size does NOT fit all
Different clients need different things. Although we have a variety of service modules (see services pages) and address a wide variety of issues at different price point, we approach each project listening to the clients and designing the project
to produce long-lasting results for your company with the least amount struggle.
Personalized response guaranteed
My client have a private email and private phone number directly to me. They know when I'll be away from the office and for how long so they can contact me when its important to do so. They do not go through my assistant -- even when I'm traveling. Most of my clients prefer scheduling their own phone sessions online using my system; the rest I do so when we have our last session of the month.
What's Different About Us
Why would you want to hire Elevating Your Business? When you look for a coach or advisor these days, there are many to choose from. But as you can expect, not all coaches, advisors, and trainers are created equal. Below are the reasons why we're different from our competitors.
Experience counts
I've been deeply entrenched somehow in business for more than 35 years; owning 3 businesses since I'm 14 along with a career on Wall Street and then non-profit management. I've run departments that were larger than most of my client's businesses, with accountability of billions of dollars. I persevered and opened my first consulting business, working with Wall Street companies, just 3 months after a terrible market crash of 1987. I have real life experience being employed in very small to gigantic companies with experience in finance, marketing, technology, operations, administration, purchasing, accounting, customer relations, team building and sales growth. That's what you'll get when you work with us.
Being online counts
The strategies my clients create usually, somehow, involve websites, web marketing, social networking, and the other ways to market online. So having help from someone who has been using a computer since the late 1970's and created the CoachMaria website 1998 is a good thing! You'll see people mention that I'm an article marketing or ezine pioneer (true). Put my name in a search engine and see what you find.
Training counts
You'll get the experience of a life long learner having spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to attend retreats, conferences, seminars, read books, listen to audios -- all in order to do my life, career and now business better. I've attended mediation training certification, teleclass training certification, graduated from Coach U - the first coaching school back in April 2000, am a founding member of Coachville (another coaching school), became certified in the One Page Business Plan® program in 2003 and continue my learning, too.
EduCoaching™ counts
Forget about getting a dust collecting long reports from us that outlines problems you know you have. We just don't do that sort of thing. We believe in simplicity, fill-in-the-blanks templates, systematizing, and fixing things that aren't working from the ground floor up.
Variety counts
While our clients who reap the most benefit do so by making a commitment to a one year process, we offer a variety of programs from one session to one year long. Many of our programs include "urgent calls"when you need them. There is no reason to stay stuck and every reason to get results.
Having a partner counts
We're more than a business coach. We partner with you and are driven to help you focus on the results that you tell us you want to achieve. And if we don't do it, we have a team of experts in their fields available to assist you.
Having systems count
We provide effective evaluations, assessments, audios, workbooks, samples, software, etc. that we provide you to shorten your learning curve.
Need a resource? No problem-o! I'm called "The Resource Queen" and can rattle off website names, books, and solutions that help our clients get unstuck-- quickly.
Being particular counts
We have high standards and so do our clients. We expect you to keep appointments, do the homework you agree to do, and keep agreements we've made on an ongoing basis. We do not take on every client who contacts us and we have had to fire clients because we couldn't keep taking their money when they weren't doing the work they know will help them grow their business.
Lots of communication counts
All you need is broadband Internet access and we're on our way. We communicate in ways they want and we offer them a variety of options. Like email, phone, Skype, video conferencing, and conference calls. We've traveled in the USA and Canada to work with clients in their offices (or at retreats) and we've had clients travel to spend time with us, too. However you want to communicate with us; we're sure to offer it!
What's Next?
Now that you have a real good idea about the results to expect, how we work and our approach, the next step is to learn how we work with clients.
Is Your Business Ready For Some Coaching?
Learn if your business needs a coach today. Give your business a Business Checkup and learn if you're coachable.
Are You Ready For A Breakthrough?
It's time to become the CEO of your life and business. If you're ready MOVE AHEAD FASTER and ACHIEVE REAL RESULTS, this program is for you.!
