You might be like many people, wondering what a coach or advisor can help you with.  Well, I was pushing one of my book keeping clients to write articles as a way to promote her business. She couldn't figure out what to write, although I gave her some suggestions that would help her business. Then one day I opened an email from her with the subject line of My First Article.  Below is what I found...  Enjoy, Why Hire A Business Coach by Angella Dagenhart Don't have a coach and wonder why people do? Before becoming a home-based business owner, so did I. But now that I have had the opportunity to work with my coach, Maria

By John Warrillow, author of "Build to Sell" wrote a short article on BNet called "How to Pick a Mentor: Take a Cue From Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt" I enjoyed reading the article and posted a comment. Then realized I should post the comment on my own blog :) So here it is. When I hire a coach (as I did recently - my fourth coach in 12 years) I'm able to do 2-4 times the amount of good things to run my business. I get a lot of feedback and thoughts about "better" things I could be doing or at least trying on for size. My current coach is my opposite from a standpoint

Before Story Menlo is a 25 year old company whose COO, Nora, contacted me because Menslo didn't have a clear path forward, and she felt that one was overdue. (Mike had told her that a plan was not necessary.) Nora and I worked "on the sneak" to create a plan. The firm had a niche but no ideal client within that niche. Many of the ways they had been marketing wasn't easily attracting the best clients to them. Nora worked on a SWOT. Then we worked to better identify the firm's most ideal clients. Mike did get involved, at first, kicking and then kicking more. He still thought planning was a waste of time and money.