You need a coach if you want help:

• organizing your thoughts
• creating a practical and effective plan
• prioritize goals and tasks
• being more accountable for following through on tasks
• maintaining high motivation even in the face of difficulties
• understanding how you sabotage your efforts (and figuring out what to do about this self-sabotage)

Additionally:

• the advice and experience of someone who is successfully self-employed
• to understand the basics of business planning and marketing
• to learn business and marketing skills in a rapid fashion
• to find ways to manage and follow-up on your business success

If you want help in both areas, you need both coaching and consulting. I strongly encourage my clients to use me as a coach-consultant, the best of both worlds.

In all cases, I will:

• Ask thought-provoking questions to stimulate you to look at things in new ways
• Really listen to what you say. Not only to the surface content of what you are saying, but also listening for the patterns, beliefs and feelings behind content
• Give honest feedback on what I observe
• Assign you tasks do between coaching sessions
• Work with you to help you grow your business

Here are some perennial topics that I often discuss with my clients:

• Where are you now in your business’s vision, where do you want to go and how are we going to get there
• How to develop a one to three-page business plan
• How to get more clients and retain them 
• Brainstorming on a marketing plan that’s actually do-able by a small business owner
• How to keep more profit from the revenue you’re earning
• Exploring how internet marketing can build your business
• How to balance the demands of being self-employed with your personal life
• Developing systems (operations procedures manual) so that you can hire a team and move on to the next level – managing your team

In 1989, having recently migrated to Australia I started my first business – importing homewares from India to wholesale/distribute to retailers.

This business grew to over $850K in annual sales within 4 1/2  years however due to bad financial management and restrictive cashflow I was forced into shutting shop.

With the leftover stock, I opened a retails outlet in a busy shopping centre. 

With the rise of discount stores, I could not compete on price with them and this directly affected my profit margins. Overheads outgrew income revenue and I again had to shut shop.

Determined to make my next business successfully I enrolled in a marketing degree at Griffith Uni as I felt I lacked in marketing skills

My next venture was an Indian restaurant – because of my passion for the food industry and having worked previously as a chef I naturally assumed that I’d get hordes of customers flocking to my restaurant ….Boy was I wrong!

Soon I was to discover that being a chef and running a restaurant are worlds apart – I was cooking, waiting, ordering stock, doing the accounts, hiring and training staff, doing the marketing and working late into the night cleaning up after the diners left….:(

Then the shopping centre started renovating and the sales dropped, overheads continued to rise, reliable staff were almost impossible to find, my ads didn’t seem to work….the tax bill came in and my bank stopped their line of credit….leaving me no choice but to close down.

As depressing as those days were, my entrepreneurial spirit was still alive and deep down I knew I will succeed one day.

With the debt I had to repay back, I had no choice but to find a job.

While working as a sales rep I came across Michael Gerber’s E-Myth  – Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It

Seems like Michael was talking straight to me – so I signed up for the E-Myth Mastery courses. While doing the program I dabbled in an eBay store, purchasing stock from the local wholesaler and selling on eBay, Etsy and Amazon.

The store grew in sales volume over the next 10 years and gave me the opportunity to work fulltime in the online store and to expand the range of the products using dropshipping – this was the perfect business model with low overheads and good profit margins.

I had also completed my E-Myth courses and also trained as a business coach with EBC Academy where I graduated as a certified coach – however, I felt I wasn’t ready to work as a business consultant yet.

Having sold the online store I ventured into the digital marketing business forming the agency Get Found Marketing

Working with small business on a daily basis, I  came across many business owners experiencing the same issues I had in the past – staff, marketing, lead generation, closing sales to name a few. To date, I work closely with small business owners to help develop lead generation and lead conversion as well as systems development solutions.

Since 2004, I have become a certified coach with the EBC Training Institute, Further, I have completed intensive advanced training in small business development (NEIS) with the Queensland Depf Of Small Business.

During this period, I have gained significant coaching, sales and marketing experience with individuals aspiring to start their own business and working with established small business owners experiencing a slow down in sales.

In 2019, I established Business Growth Club – a platform for budding entrepreneurs who want to start their own business and want guidance and assistance to grow their businesses into profitable ventures.

My Mission is simple – to help start-up entrepreneurs avoid the traps and challenges of launching and growing their business by getting  dedicated one on one mentoring and support.

I offer a complimentary 30-minute telephone business discovery and coaching session so that you can experience coaching and assess the chemistry between us

You are under no obligation to hire me – and are free to use any marketing and business growth info I provide to you during our session to grow your business – it’s a win-win for you!

The cornerstone of an effective coaching relationship is trust. It is critical that the confidentiality of our conversations be totally protected. You can absolutely count on that. If there is information that needs to be shared, you and I will discuss what is appropriate and how it is to be shared.

At the end of each weekly session, you will leave with very specific action-oriented assignments or an action plan for the week. At the beginning of the next session, the first order of business will be to review and assess your progress on the action plan from the previous week. I record all weekly action plans and progress assessments so they can be cumulatively reviewed when necessary to assess progress over a longer period of time.

As a coach, I can only provide the expertise that I have. If I see that there is the support that you need that I am not equipped to provide, I will let you know and, whenever possible, refer you to appropriate services. I do a lot of business networking in support of my businesses.  As a result, I have established close working relationships with highly qualified professionals from a wide array of fields, including, but not limited to: accounting, banking, branding and marketing, business law, website developers, digital marketing specialists to name a few.

A System is simply a step-by-step process for creating clear processes and procedures for every part of your business

Whatever your biggest business challenge, more often than not, the root of each problem is the same: a lack of systems. Having interconnected systems is the only way to solve your challenges and build a business that functions as an integrated whole.

Furthermore, your business systems will ensure your business is performed predictably – exactly the way you want it to 

Yes. We will develop systems for your lead generation – getting more inquiries and finding new customer using several lead gen channels like Google, Facebook, Content marketing etc.

Then we will fine-tune your lead conversion strategies like developing scripts for closing more sales to retaining your existing clients and stopping them from going to the competition.