7 Ways a Mentor Gives You Competitive Advantage...

ACTION International Business Coaches help teach business owners how to do business ‘smarter’ and grow their ‘identity’ so that their business, which is a reflection of the owner can grow too. Here’s why every serious business owner should have a coach…

1. Someone to help you refine your ideas into practice. You undoubtedly have great ideas... some you’ll be able to put into practice easily. Others will be raw, and need refinement to implement. We have a vast, practical knowledge of what makes strategies work; which areas of your business they affect, and how to test, measure and verify, your strategies so that you can tell which are profitable... and axe those that aren’t.
2. Someone to help you grow your marketing strategy repertoire. Sometime you’ll just ‘run out of ideas’ on how to market and build your business. You’ll have access to more business development strategies than you could ever use. But at all times, your mentor will teach you, so that you understand the principles and can apply them for the rest of your life, to any business you choose to get involved with.
3. Someone outside, looking in. After a while, often you can find that you don’t see the business with the same clarity that you used to. Like living next to a busy road, after a while you don’t hear the traffic. We can help you take a fresh look at yourself and your business.
4. Someone who sees you as your clients do. It can often be difficult to put yourself in your prospects' and clients' shoes. Being involved in the business, you know how your business works and what you're trying to achieve, what the benefits of your product or service are and of course all the technical jargon and acronyms. Your coach can far more easily put themselves in your prospects' and clients' shoes and so can help you get your message across far more effectively. Your coach is your clients’ eyes and ears.
5. Someone to be accountable to. Its often too easy for business owners to neglect the management and marketing of their business because the technical work stacks up. We help you organise your time, so that you don’t run on a ‘feast & famine’ cycle, or need to work more than 8 hours a day. Sharing of your goals with your Mentor also means, that if you don’t complete them, your mentor will want to know why. Would you’ve ever passed school if your teacher never checked your homework?
6. Someone that knows how to leverage you out of your business. Often business owners are the technicians in their business. Sometimes people think they’ll only need to work hard in the business for a year or two before they can magically employ someone else, or start working less in the business... it just doesn’t happen without help. We guide business people in setting up simple systems that allow you to work less ‘in’ the business and more ‘on’ it.
7. A team member that’s an investment not an expense. Your investment in mentoring will yield immeasurable benefits to you as the owner, as well as, measurable returns to your company. You will apply your new knowledge for the rest of your business and personal life. You will learn how to build businesses, any type of business, build incredible teams, of one or one hundred and you’ll learn how to become the person you need to become, to have what you want to have.