Business Coaching

Do you have a clear vision of the future?

I work with more businesses on strategic planning than on business plans because the strategic plan is what takes us into the future. It starts with vision. With each business, there has to be a vision of the future. Some businesses have lost their vision. Others didn’t create one. I always think of driving. If I leave the house without a vision of where I am going I don’t know which way to turn. When I have a vision I can create a plan to get there. Vision is connected to the core purpose or mission of the organization. When both are clear and well articulated the plan for achieving the vision and living the mission can be achieved. When they are unclear it is time to get clear, really clear. In working intentionally on your business it makes sense to revisit both mission and vision.

An effective strategic plan is simple, clear and focused. It outlines how you need to focus over the next twelve months in order to achieve your goals. Each goal is well defined, with clear action plans. When strategic plans are BIG and cumbersome they tend to become abandoned. An abandoned strategic plan does you no good at all. Success does not happen by magic, it happens because you make it happen, or your team makes them happen. When there is no focus you spin your wheels and go no where, or you travel on all sorts of back roads that wind around, taking you out of your way and off your path. The strategic plan only works when it is a living document that you keep in front of you and you focus on each day and it has a clear destination – the vision. The strategic plan sitting on the book shelf looks impressive but only collects dust. When others ask if you have one you can say “yes”, but it hasn’t put any money in your pocket. An effective strategic plan works through monthly monitoring with your team; tracking your success, and identifying road blocks; then creating strategies to overcome them.

Limiting Paradigms

Everyone encounters road blocks, limitations or limiting paradigms or beliefs. Sometimes or maybe most times we create them ourselves. A limiting belief can be old history but it still haunts us. A limiting paradigm is created from the limiting belief. By monitoring your plan, tracking your goals and your road blocks you can intentionally take control of your actions and shift the limitations that get in your way. Let me tell you a story about a limiting paradigm that cost a store a $2000 purchase just the other day.

I recently went with my mother to buy a new computer. She had consulted with her computer consultant and a list of exactly what she needed. We arrived at the store and talked with a sales rep about exactly what she was looking for. She wanted a new laptop and a printer, but she wanted the printer for free and she wanted a specific brand of printer. The sales rep showed us the laptop and showed us the printer deals that they had available in the store. The printer that she wanted and that he recommended was not in the store. After talking with the sales rep we found that the printer was available through the company online but that we would have to order everything ourselves online. Here is the limitation. We stood in the store, $2,000 in hand and they could not give us all the pieces and provide the discount to the desired printer on-line. Do you see how their rule became a limitation? Do you want a $2,000 customer walking out of your business because of a limitation that you created? I know that I don’t. What happened when we researched it all at home was that we could get the computer with the printer at a different store for less. So, the company will still receive the wholesale revenue they could have had the retail price.

There are several strategies for overcoming road blocks or limiting paradigms. First is to identify them; to be aware enough that you can see them yourself and be willing to look for them. You have to be flexible and willing to shift yourself. You have to able to look at the systems that you have established and let go of them if they don’t work and are not serving your business any longer. It can help to work with a coach or mastermind group to support you in this and even to help you to identify what these road blocks are; people that care enough about you to “call you” on your stuff. Sometimes when we are in the midst of our own behaviors or systems it is impossible for us to see things ourselves. A coach can help you to identify these and create strategies for overcoming them, an action plan.

Masterminding

A mastermind group can serve this purpose as well and many others. According to Wikipedia, a mastermind group is a goals club. Napoleon Hill talked of mastermind groups in his book “Think and Grow Rich”. Hill discusses the value of building collaborative relationships as a strategy for growing your business and ultimately your wealth. The mastermind group comes together to work on each other’s businesses. Notice that it is “ON”, not “IN”. By outlining for a group of people what you are trying to achieve and the challenges you are facing the mastermind puts a group of minds together around you and your business and comes out with ideas, contacts, solutions and much more. By being willing to risk sharing your goals and dreams you may just realize them, faster and easier. It is amazing to watch groups of entrepreneurs collaborate. Even as you are working on another’s business, your business is benefiting. You are learning, you are thinking creatively, and you are coming up with new strategies, revised strategies or maybe even a new business or stream of revenue. Mastermind groups have existed in business circles for many at least a century, perhaps longer. They have been effective in helping to create wealth.

Business and Marketing Strategies

Staying up to date on the latest strategies for business and marketing is challenging in our fast paced world. The internet has changed the pace at which we live and the pace at which things change. There are several ways to do this. You can read business journals, on-line forums and blogs, participate in tele-seminars or keep your head in the sand and not change what you are doing. Up to date with technology and the internet is important as it becomes more and more a part of how people shop, find services and service providers. If you leave your head in the sand you will certainly miss the train. The coaching relationship with an effective and highly educated business success coach gives you access to new information, training and implementation strategies on each of those and you can pull your head out of the sand. There are so many effective marketing strategies that you can use but first you have to be comfortable wearing your marketing and sales skin. Many business owners are uncomfortable marketing and selling, especially if they are selling themselves.

In order to be successful you HAVE to get comfortable. Limiting beliefs comes into play in this arena quite often. We carry around a negative image of used car sales men, or door to door sales men. Yet, what we have found is that direct marketing is the MOST effective method of selling. We have to wear this skin and learn how to love it in order to be at all effective. Crafting an effective sales approach that is built on service and giving rather than on selling and taking is one of the keys. Information is one way to serve, to share information. But information alone does not sell: it is the combination of good quality information (and yes, this works in every business) and a compelling value offer. Again, in looking at value or benefit to the client we are shifting from sales to service. How do I serve my client — what’s in for them? What do they get out of it? This requires that you know your client, what their needs are and what they are looking for in your area of service or product.

Are you ready to learn the skills you need to really grow your business? If you could increase your revenue and do it faster and easier would you? Imagine…..

You Are Invited to…

The Most Exclusive, Personal Coaching Program for Entrepreneurs Available to YOU by invitation only…

Right now — A Small Group of Entrepreneurs is Quietly Starting to Re-Invent Their Businesses…Growing Their Incomes to Record Levels…And Transforming Their Personal Lives…

This letter contains a private invitation for you to join them in the only results driven comprehensive business coaching program for entrepreneurs of its kind…

I’m selecting only a small group of people to be personally mentored and coached by me this year.

I’ll take you by the hand and guide you step-by-step to creating the most profitable, fun, and lowest stress year of your life…get the results in your business that you’ve always dreamed of.

If you are serious about multiplying your income, and gaining a personal life you control, you are invited to apply for membership in this elite group.

But You Must Act NOW…

Each year I spend more and more money on my education, coaching and mentoring with my coaches, through books, tapes, seminars and marketing mastermind groups. Each year it is BY FAR the highest pay off investment I make. To continue to be successful, I need to continually sharpen my skills and associate myself with other like-minded people. I continue to invest in my business.

My discovery is not unusual; I’ve never seen a superstar in any profession who wasn’t relentlessly molded by a coach for most of their career. For example… Michael Jordan was “cut” by his high school basketball team before his coach stepped forward and personally mentored him to become the greatest basketball player of all time. Tiger Woods was not only the youngest winner of the Masters Golf championship, but he set the record for the lowest score. With all of his skill and talent, he credits his success to his coach – in fact, many coaches. He still uses a coach…

When I trained as a coach it was an emerging profession. I wondered – “do people really pay for this?” But what I have discovered is that I pay for coaching, over and over and so do the highly successful people I see around me. I have also discovered through my coaching clients that they have each received real value from the coaching relationship. The value is different for each one of them. Sometimes it has been monetary – their business has expanded. Sometimes it has been in how they operate their business. Sometimes it is a total shift in business and in life. For me, as the coach, I am always impressed with each client and honored to be a part of their lives and business. I am amazed at the growth that I witness, the leaders that I see building their lives in the ways that they want to live, taking control and being in the driver’s seat.

As I watched the Summer Olympics in Beijing I saw coaches everywhere. No one was there without a coach and not one of these athletes has ever won an Olympic Gold Medal without a coach or mentor of some kind. Why do we as business owners try to do it all ourselves. I know that I did and I failed miserably. Actors and actresses like John Travolta, Jim Carey and Julia Roberts all have coaches. And according to Forbes Magazine, more and more of the World’s top entrepreneurs, executives, business owners and coaches are using coaches to help achieve new levels of success…

A recent study released on the effects of executive coaching revealed that the ROI or return on investment was much greater than the investment (Sherpa Coaching, 2008). Part of why coaching is effective is because it is long term and it is based on a relationship. The coach and client co-create an effective and powerful working relationship. The coach is able to support the client in their goals over the long term. Most companies have historically invested in training. Training is the overload of new knowledge. What happens is that participants leave a training excited about what they have learned. They return to their work place and the day to day routine quickly takes over and the training is put on the shelf until there is more time. More time, just doesn’t happen for most folks. We all have the same amount of time. Coaching on the other hand can support the implementation of trained learning, because the coach keeps checking in, following up and asking about goals related to new learning or strategic plans or business goals. They aren’t allowed to slip through the cracks. Implementation increases.

Regardless Of the Skills And Talents You Bring To Any Profession, Achieving Success All Alone Is a Grinding, Almost Hopeless, Uphill Battle.

If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed or stressed-out with the seemingly impossible task of building a business that supports your ideal lifestyle. Then you’ll want to read every word I’m about to tell you. Here’s why…

I’ve developed a very special, limited opportunity to work with just a few business owners that is guaranteed to step your business up to the next level.

Also, because I will be working with you personally (you won’t get some glorified assistant masquerading as an expert), this program will require a substantial amount of my time. So I must put a strict limit on this program.

Why I Developed This In-Depth Mastery Program

One of the most frequent requests I hear from people who have attended my seminars and workshops is: “This is great, but I want even more. I want support and an ongoing relationship. I can’t figure this all out myself.”

If you’re one of these serious-minded business owners, I have some great news for you. I’ve developed a special in-depth program that will give a select group of people exclusive access to me and even more money-making tools and techniques. You’ll find all of this in my “Blueprint for Business Success Program”.

This is NOT a chance to sit on the sidelines, hear what works and then ’sneak’ your way out of doing anything. This is about taking ACTION. Be pro-active instead of re-active; sit in the driver’s seat.

I will be your accountability partner that is there supporting you on your journey and calling you on the things that you procrastinate on. I will be asking what you did and what you didn’t do and together we will break through the barriers that interfere with your success.

This program is all about DELIVERABLES…Getting STUFF to WORK!! And work fast and forever… are you ready to get started? We only a limited number of spaces open and they will go fast.

The Entrepreneur’s VIP Coaching Program covers every aspect of your business- all at a ridiculously priced value. Here are the full details on this comprehensive program and coaching opportunity:

Strategic Planning session to quick start your business ($650 value) with focus and clarity. This session uses the Best Year Yet™ strategic planning and implementation system. Along with your planning session you will receive an ONLINE account to track your plan and your goals. You will also receive Best Year Yet’s™ audio lessons. The Best Year Yet™ system has worked to increase results, improve focus and clarity with business leaders and their teams, around the world for the past 20+ years. Is it old and outdated? No, not at all. It is a program that is constantly improving. I believe it is the simplest strategic planning system available and will help get you moving quickly.
The full Launching Your Dream Kit that I wrote and fully developed (valued at $229). This kit is a multi-media kit that will give you additional tools you can use in developing and implementing your strategic plan.
A complimentary copy of soon to be published membership program: Bizology our Business Mapping Program. ($670 ++++) You will receive a binder with each lesson included (that’s 19 lessons plus 9 Special Reports)
Business and personal assessments that will provide you with valuable information and insights for where you are and where you need to go. ($350 value)
At least 12 hours of live group teleconference education and group coaching $540 with topics like: Thinking Multiple Streams of Income and Building Them; Wearing Your Sales Person Skin and Getting Comfy; The Leisure Plan; Staying Motivated; Is This My Hat Too? Outsourcing Basics; and more….
At least 4 hours of valued interviews with renowned business experts $200.00
At least 2 days per month that you can contact me for personal one-on-one laser focused coaching $4200.00 +++ {I am limiting my one-on-one coaching to these call-in day programs. I offer full days of coaching at my site for $3000 per day and individual coaching for $250 per hour. You will have two days that you can call-in and reach me on your schedule. I will provide you with action oriented; laser coaching at a rate of $350 per month.}
Full MP3 audios of the program, while you remain an active VIP Entrepreneur member. All group calls & tele-classes are recorded for your convenience and the audios provided for you. $1200.00
VIP member’s only forum. You can connect with other members via the forum. Post your work, your ideas. Connect with your mastermind group in a private area just for members of your mastermind. Connect with other VIPs in other areas of the forum. (Value $100’s++)
AND a powerful, collaborative mastermind group with in-person mastermind meetings $3,000.00++++ why so highly valued—because that mastermind group meets in person 2 times per year. You just have to get here. I provide the space, lunch and any learning materials that we need for the day. The space is nice and the food is great. But what’s really important is the power of the group—the mastermind. A high-powered mastermind group can skyrocket your business. We will also arrange for a group dinner reservation for those want to make a full day of it.
Plus bonus materials, a special VIP newsletter, e-books, software you can use in your business, recordings and more…. $1400.00+++

TOTAL $13,225.00 ++ (I just added more and the number is bigger than this)

You’re getting over $13,000 worth of coaching, support, effective marketing strategies, workbooks, materials and education at, quite simply, a snip of that price with the affordable option of $527 a month; or three payments of $2008 saving you several dollars over the monthly option (actually, $300); or a one-time fee of $5640 for a savings of $684 over the monthly option. This is a special “kick-off” price, it can’t last. I know that it is still an investment, an investment in you and your business.

But obviously, what’s more important is your ROI or your “return on investment”, not the “math game” of creating value, discounting, comparing and so forth. It’s not what you get for your investment in terms of what fills a box, a bag or stacks up on a price list; it’s what you get FROM your investment that really matters. And that is exactly what matters to me.

My goal in working with you is to get your business running smoother, easier and making more money. I have many tools in my tool kit to share with you about building a highly profitable and successful business.

Presuming you’re qualified to participate, have a legitimate foundation, an ongoing business, certain goals, and will be doing sufficient amounts of what I tell you to do – do you think it’s possible for you NOT to extract more than $12,200 in total value, back out of my coaching and all of the other materials you will receive?

We are going to explore your business, what’s working, what’s not working. We will look at how you generate revenue, what other streams of revenue you can generate and how to create passive streams of income (that’s income that comes into you no matter where you are and what you are doing. Income that arrives in your account throughout the day/night on an ongoing basis)

Make no mistake: this is the only way you will get my personal interest in what you are doing, my direct and personal advice, for so little money. I have drastically cut back on my personal coaching schedule and this is my only program right now for small business owners and independent contractors that includes my personal coaching. I can honestly say that I am not planning to add additional programs like this at this price. This IS an unprecedented opportunity!

Oh, and note – just about every other coaching program out there anywhere in this fee neighborhood delivers entirely, only via group calls and tele-classes, NOT real, individual personal coaching. In this case, you get me, ONE-ON-ONE, twice each month! You just have to call.

Summary of What is Included in This Program

Strategic Planning Session and Quick start
Creating a powerful strategic plan is really one of the keys to building success and abundance in your business. By using the Best Year Yet™ program you will have a powerful strategic plan, a complete system for tracking your goals AND an audio lesson for each month that will help to keep you on your path to greater and greater success.
Live Tele-Seminars
You will receive one live tele-seminar per month of substance rich content to move your business forward. Together we’ll walk through each step of the Dream Builder’s Map for Business Success program.
Guest Experts
Plus you will four interviews of guest experts in Business Success Strategies, Branding, Marketing, Publicity and other related topics to help you grow your business even faster.
Coaching Café
Let me coach you directly. Twice each month you can call me for personal laser coaching. Ask me your questions; ask your most pressing business and marketing question and get an answer customized to your business.
Mastermind Group/Collaborative Teams
You will have the opportunity to be a part of a Master Mind Group or Collaborative Team. The purpose of this group is to help you connect with other participants and help each other to meet your Marketing and Business Goals! What I have found personally from Mastermind Groups and working collaboratively with other businesses, is that I receive GREAT support but more importantly great ideas, opportunities to joint venture or partner and honest feedback. I see them more as a collaborative team that I am partnering with. Collaborative teams come together to share their vision, their plan and their challenges and solutions. With all of that they receive feedback, information, support, collaborative opportunities and more. They are vital if you are a micro business or small business without a board of directors or trustees. You are able to talk with each other and review material from the program. One of my mastermind groups just wrote a book. We had the idea during a weekend retreat and wrote the book in 6 weeks and are now working with a publisher. I have also formed a collaborative team with two other coaches to develop and offer an intensive coaching program. I have worked to put businesses together in collaborative marketing partnerships that benefit all business owners. Mastermind Groups are powerful. We will have three in-person mastermind days here in Northwest New Jersey. I pay for the day and you pay for your travel and accommodations. In addition, you will have the opportunity to connect with Entrepreneur VIP Members via the forum and conference calls.
Bizology.Biz Business Building Mapping Program. This includes 20 complete business building workbooks and audio lessons with most. The program also includes several assessments. This program is fully accessible via the Internet. You will receive each lesson via email and be able to access it and download your materials.
Launching Your Dream Multi-Media Kit
Money-Back Guarantee
If you decide after attending the first week that you aren’t blown away with what you’re learning you can have all your money back, no hassle.
–and much, much more..
- You will learn proven strategies, systems and processes that you can duplicate again and again for predictable results.
- Learn how to work fewer hours, make more money and enjoy your business.
- What If You Can’t Make The Live Call?
  No problem. Every call is digitally recorded and available as Streaming Audio for online listening and is also available as MP3 download in a PASSWORD PROTECTED AREA reserved for VIP Entrepreneur’s ONLY.
Price Lock: I am just sending this invitation out to a few people to start this new program. I totally expect and know that the program will fill quickly and easily. I also know that as it does I will look at the price and it will increase. If you register today, you lock in your price. What does that mean? Well, it means that if you stay in the program after your first year, you continue to pay at YOUR price, not the current program price. That means you continue to reap the benefits and you continue to pay a low price for life. Join my exclusive coaching circle at an affordable price.

Why Am I Offering This?

I love this work; bringing business owners to success quickly and easily, together. I am not sure I will have an opportunity to offer this program again; my upcoming year is already planned out with a new corporate program commitment and book writing and new product program development. I love working with groups of people. I love to observe the synergy that occurs, the collaborative relationships that form and the great abundance of success that builds and builds and builds. It is fun and always amazing.

This group is only for the serious minded entrepreneur who is willing to take action. I know it’s a challenging time and it is even more important to focus on your business in highly constructive ways. It’s not a time to hide out. This group will motivate and inspire you. This is no time to hide – we have to focus, collaborate, and align on our top goals to accelerate our success. Step out and be a leader.

Is this program right for YOU?

This program is right for YOU if:

You have a BIG vision

You are a passionate entrepreneur

You are ready to take BIG action

You know that a coaching relationship will help you take BIG action

This program is NOT right for you if:

You are a whiner

You are used to not accomplishing your goals and don’t want to change

Have a negative attitude and don’t believe in your ability to succeed

Have Questions?

Complete the enclosed application packet, mail it into the address below and we will schedule an interview for you where you can ask any additional questions.

I’m starting with a total of 17 spaces Total…Max…No More!

I want to be sure that I can serve each and every person in the program fully. I expect that this program will sell out quickly. It is therefore — first come, first served. The fun begins as soon as I receive your application form. I look forward to having you join me!

Sincerely,

Donna Price
The Business Success Coach
931 Maple Ave
Newton, NJ 07860
www.compassroseconsulting.com

973-948-7673
The Business Success Coach!

P.S. Remember, seats are very limited and are first come first serve. So don’t delay! Act while it’s still fresh in your mind. This is a time to be conservative, but it’s not a time to let business growth slip away because you were scared. Don’t sit on the sidelines. Join in and keep your energy flowing to accelerate your business growth, now, despite the state of the economy.

I work with an exclusive group of entrepreneurs each year to build incredible success within their businesses. Our work is accomplished through private one on one coaching, group coaching and masterminding. This program is designed for highly committed and motivated entrepreneurs and isn’t right for everyone. But it is the program that I see as the most comprehensive coaching program on the market as it provides you with all of the coaching and a complete business building curriculum through the Bizology.Biz program in its fully published format.

To apply for the VIP coaching program you must complete the application packet and fax it back to the office for review.

I am fairly picky in selecting entrepreneurs as I want them to be a good fit for me and a good fit for the mastermind component of the program.

To complete the application: