This Growth Coach business coaching blog will be quite simple.  It will consist of a series of fifteen tough business coaching questions every small business owner should answer for himself/herself.  Find out if you truly own a business or simply a demanding job. Be brutally honest and face your current reality ... the ways things truly are ... not how or what you wish them to be. If yo...

It should be no secret, selling is an essential skill for higher levels of success and wealth in your personal and professional life. To advance as an owner, leader, manager, or professional, at a minimum, you have to be knowledgeable and competent in this critical communication skill. Want to achieve a rapid increase in your revenues?  Then simply get better at selling. You will experi...

Business owner, are you a hands-on technician? Do you tend to get lost in the daily, technical trenches of your business?  Are you working almost exclusively "in" the business instead of "on" the business?  Are you the Chief “Everything” Officer touching most, if not all, transactions, doing most tasks, and solving most problems for your company?  If so, you are most likely suffering fro...

As the CEO and Co-Founder of The Growth Coach, a North American business coaching franchise system, I'm always trying to feed my mind and spirit with a diet of positive and valuable information.  After all, if you don't keep yourself positive, productive and motivated, who will? As an entrepreneur, like you, I’m 100% responsible for my mental state, success, and happiness.  Therefore, co...

As entrepreneurs, business owners and professionals, very often we can get lost in our busyness and forget why we do what we do and what life is really all about.  As B.C. Forbes warned us, “Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.” Let this business coach ask you, “Are you living a balanced, fulfilling, meaningful, and rich personal life?” If no...