Remote Coaching or Face-to-Face Coaching - What's More Effective? Today we have a guest post from Keith Rosen on the considerations between remote coaching and face-to-face coaching. Keith is the President of , a provider of leadership and sales coaching and corporate training. He is also the author of Coaching Salespeople into Sales Champions: A Tactical Playbook for Managers and Executives, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Cold Calling and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Closing the Sale. With more business conducted across online communication platforms and more sales teams operating in a virtual environment, many sales managers question how proficient they can be at coaching their team at a distance–especially if they have never been shown how to do so effectively.
While you may not always be in the same room as the person you are coaching, you can schedule regular coaching sessions over the telephone, or using an online meeting application such as GoToMeeting. More and more, remote coaching is quickly becoming the norm and not the exception. Uncover the Competition Before Stepping into the Ring. When running any business, no matter if it’s in the creative field or another field, it’s extremely crucial to understand your competition.
Competition is a great thing. Without it, you wouldn’t have a reason to do things better in your own business. Competition fuels motivation and gives clients many more options to choose from. Happy clients = happy business owners. Image credit: Julian Leach There are many different forms of competition we need to think about when running a business: Our own competitors (other freelancers or agencies) and our client’s competitors.
Why is Competition a Good Thing? At first thought, many business owners think of competition as a bad thing. From a Creative's Perspective You’ll need to know a few things about your competition if you want to compete: How they do businessWhat they charge their clients/customersWhat are they doing that you are not? How Do You Find Out What Your Competition is Charging? Have a Game Plan Image credit: Jeff the Trojan Rates & Pricing. Small Business Bliss – small business marketing tips and information. Google Authorship is certainly not a new thing. In fact, if you don’t have it yet according to some search experts, you’re already behind the game.
Sigh. What’s a busy small business owner to do? It’s OK, remember, just do the best you can and don’t feel like you must jump on every single little update that happens or your business will fall apart around you. If you haven’t had the time to do your authorship yet because you’re busy running your business (like I’ve been), I think that’s forgiveable Anyways, as part of my goals for this year, I wanted to focus more on the marketing tasks that are important to my business (versus just marketing for my lovely clients, which of course is why I’m here, but my own biz matters too).
Is it important to your biz too? What is Google Authorship? Even if you’re not exactly sure what it is, you’ve probably seen it in action. Search result without authorship: Search result with authorship: Why do you need it? It proves you’re human, to put it simply. Why Education Startups Do Not Succeed « Avichal's Blog. I co-founded PrepMe in 2001. We were one of the first education companies online and the first purely online, personalized platform.
We were acquired in 2011 by Providence Equity-backed Ascend Learning. In the last month, I’ve had 3 VC firms bring me in to chat with their partnership about education and 6 independent entrepreneurs reach out to me about their new education startup. This is a summary of what I tell them in person. Note: I am going to make some generalizations below. Most entrepreneurs in education build the wrong type of business, because entrepreneurs think of education as a quality problem. “Education is ripe for disruption. First, let’s qualify what they’re saying here. The average person in a developed country does not think about education the way a well educated VC or entrepreneur thinks about education. VCs and entrepreneurs tend to be well educated. The average, middle class person thinks about education as an expenditure, not an investment. How to Facilitate a Strategy Meeting | MyStrategicPlan Resource.
According to a past Fortune cover story, 86% of business owners and managers spend less than one hour per month discussing strategy. Not surprisingly, this same article also reported that nine out of ten organizations fail to implement their strategic plan. As you’ve probably noticed from our previous columns, we’re big proponents of regular strategy meetings.
Quarterly and, in particular, monthly strategy meetings allow you to keep your finger on the pulse of your strategic planning efforts and make any necessary adjustments before it becomes too late. Monthly strategy meetings don’t need to take a lot of time – 30 to 60 minutes should suffice. But it is important that key team members report on their progress towards the goals they are responsible for – including reporting on metrics in the scorecard they have been assigned. Consider these additional tips for making your monthly strategy meetings more effective: