Stay in the loop – Don’t miss what’s coming next!→ Easy Affirmations To Boost Your Confidence: For New Business Owners Looking for a easy and simple way to boost your confidence as you start your new business? Truth is, there is no new business owner who couldn’t use a boost to their confidence. Reality check…

My journey to coaching went like this: I didn’t even know what a coach was or how business coaching worked. I did, however, have a “wake up call” as many would say, that in a way guided me to the idea of coaching. A wake up call that led me to a profession that has come to feel custom made for me.

The catalyst toward me becoming a business coach was an MRI.

Stay in the loop – Don’t miss what’s coming next!→ A Strong Business Vision Makes Success Easier To Achieve Having a strong business vision is essential. It helps guide us and allows us to really target our business and its message to the right audience. It’s something we can build on and grow into. But…

Stay in the loop – Don’t miss what’s coming next!→ A Business Coach Can Increase Your Success: 4 Powerful Ways   We all want to “get our money’s worth” when we make an investment, right?  But you may be asking what is your money’s worth when it comes to hiring a business coach? Only about…

Stay in the loop – Don’t miss what’s coming next!→ Declutter Your Business In 20 Simple Ways Just as our homes fill with clutter, so do our businesses. I know first-hand how stressful clutter can be. I also know it takes time and energy to declutter your business. But, here’s the thing — Clutter makes…

Stay in the loop – Don’t miss what’s coming next!→ How To Quit Your Job And Start A Business I thought I was ready to quit my job and start a business. I’d planned! I’d prepared! But when I quit my job to start my own business in 2006, I found out I really wasn’t…

Stay in the loop – Don’t miss what’s coming next!→ What I Love About Business Coaching There are so many amazing things I LOVE about business coaching. Being able to help women step into their roles as business owners and service providers for 17+ years has been my dream. It was difficult to limit my…

Stay in the loop – Don’t miss what’s coming next!→ 4 Powerful Ways To Create A Solid Business Plan A business plan is a must-have document to guide your endeavors, to help you grow, and ensure you smash your goals. This one doesn’t have to be 25 pages with graphs and tables; it doesn’t have…

Stay in the loop – Don’t miss what’s coming next!→ Title: Choosing The Perfect One As A New Business Owner? Business Owner is your title. Stepping out of Corporate America and into the world of business ownership? Trying to find the perfect title for what you want to pursue? Wait! One of the first shifts…

Stay in the loop – Don’t miss what’s coming next!→ Self Growth In Business, The Hidden Journey Most individuals don’t realize the powerful self growth in business ownership. Yet, owning your own business and being your own boss is the most powerful personal development journey available. When I started my own business in 2006, I…

Stay in the loop – Don’t miss what’s coming next!→ How To Use The Law Of Attraction For Business Many do not realize how powerful the law of attraction for business can be. And as a business owner, they can aid you in drawing in the success you want, the clients you desire, and the…

Stay in the loop – Don’t miss what’s coming next!→ 10 Powerful and Life Changing Lessons From My First 10 Years In Business After my first 10 years of being a solopreneur, here are my top 10 lessons learned in business. Oh how very powerful and life changing these lessons have been. My own experiences…

Stay in the loop – Don’t miss what’s coming next!→ Align Your Business To You In 4 Proven Steps Taking the time to align your business to you is one of the keys to building the successful business you dream of. When you align your business to you it means you’ll find fulfillment in the…

Stay in the loop – Don’t miss what’s coming next!→ Spring Clean Your Business: 8 Simple Steps To A Business Fresh Is It Time to Spring Clean your business? Even if it’s not actually spring? Solopreneurs are so busy growing their business that they forget to spring clean their business. Much like we need to…

Stay in the loop – Don’t miss what’s coming next!→ Self-Care For Business Success: A Not So Simple Secret  As business owners, we often put our self-care behind marketing and clients but it is a key to our business success. And this is especially true if we were raised in a perfectionistic, “suck it up…

Stay in the loop – Don’t miss what’s coming next!→ Business Development: 40+ Powerful Questions To Propel You Forward Business development can be challenging. It’s common to be inspired and enthusiastic about our business vision only to get stuck and confused about what to do next. Below are questions to help you identify your goals,…

Stay in the loop – Don’t miss what’s coming next!→ Building A Successful Business: My One Big Secret  My one big secret to building a successful business is from Frank Sinatra. Because, the big secret is DO IT YOUR WAY, do what works for you! Not what the rest of the crowd is doing. And…

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Stay in the loop – Don’t miss what’s coming next!→ 10 Creative But Simple Ways Achieve Your Business Goals Check out these 10 creative but simple ways to achieve your business goals with joy and fulfillment.   1. Team Up With A Partner: Find someone who is working on a similar goal or project. Set…

Stay in the loop – Don’t miss what’s coming next!→ Four Simple Ways To Make Your Passion A Profitable Business Are you interested in turning your passion into a profitable business and a value to others? Because if you are, the following steps will help you identify and draft business goals that are both realistic…

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So, you’ve decided to hire a business coach. Now you’re wondering “What can I do to make sure that I get the most out of business coaching?”

To help ensure your investment of time, money, and emotion in business coaching has an optimum ROI (return on investment,) I want to share these top tips on how to get the most out of your coaching.

Ultimately, I see the job of a coach as one of figuring out what you need to make the shift from unsure to courageous so you can take step after step with more and more confidence.

My work, as a coach, revolves around having a deep interest in and clear understanding of you and who you’re designing your services and marketing for.

My coaching focus is less about ensuring we get to a solution and more about ensuring you evolve your way of thinking and operating so you can come to future solutions easier and with more confidence.

After coaching with hundreds of business owners and operating my own business for 10+ years, I now have a clear philosophy for owning my own business.

The following principles provide me guidance in my decision-making and keep my mindset clear and focused on my priorities.

Stay in the loop – Don’t miss what’s coming next!→ My Unique Coaching Approach My coaching approach has become more defined since starting my coaching business in 2006. Helping hundreds of service professionals start, grow, and manage their businesses has given me an opportunity to hone my skills, clarify my passions, and develop a coaching…

Improve your business services using one of the greatest mindset tools, affirmations. Affirmations have the power to help you improve your business services, programs, and package offerings allowing you to increase your impact.

I’ve long said that fear is not all bad.

In many ways, fear keeps us safe from harm. but sometimes fear gets confused on what’s harmful and what’s helpful.

Hello! I’m Coach Erin.

I help first-time solopreneurs plan, design, launch, grow and manage their own service business.

I’m the best business coach for you if you want to:

This blog post is for those business owners who are so busy doing their thing that they’ve never really sat down to figure out exactly what stage they’re in, or for those business owners who want guidance on the stages and what they can expect to see in each one.

As a service-based business owner, you’ve probably heard the debate about selling time versus selling value. When you sell individual services (like a single Reiki session, or a single massage), you’re selling your time. If you sell packages (like multiple massages, or a trio of sessions – massage, yoga, and counseling, you can sell your clients on the value – on what they get out of it (greater relaxation/better mental health? Something like that).

No matter how long you’ve been in business, there’s always an opportunity to re-examine existing packages or create new packages.

Creating a thriving business starts by defining your niche. It will set you up to achieve better results, quicker and with fewer costs.

Developing a well-defined niche can take trial and error. Don’t stress over starting out with a broader niche and then narrowing it down as you work with more and more clients, it’s very very common.

Ask a handful of successful business owners what the secret is to their success and you’re likely to get many different answers. But I’ll be that the one that comes up the most often is, “I hired a business coach.”

Working with a business coach can be life-changing. But finding the one that gets you the results you’re looking for can be a challenge.

With coaching being a non-regulated industry, there are likely many answers to the question, “What does a coach actually do?” as each coach has their own unique style, approach, and philosophy.

10 Things Climbing A Mountain With HubbyTaught Me
About Business, Goals, And Being A Leader

For more than a decade (since 2006) I’ve worked with hundreds of women who own their own services businesses and face one very common challenge that I also experience. That challenge is talking with one’s spouse about your business.

Sure it can be fun and easy to share with our husbands when we feel confident, are making money, our clients are successful.

But what about those times when we feel like nothing we do is right, our clients aren’t satisfied with our service, we lose a client to someone else?

3 Categories to Include in Your Business Budget and Why You Should Think of a Budget Different Way. In business, budget is not a dirty word. A budget is a tool that helps you to allocate your resources. A budget is a tool that helps you ensure your business’ future.

Discover 10 Exercises To Make Blogging Easier

In today’s business world there is unspoken pressure to always be launching, always be growing, always be scaling, always be developing new and better products, programs, and offerings. From my own experience I know just how easy it is to get pulled in, sucked in, and stuck in this message and lose sight of why you started your entrepreneurial journey in the first place. I also know how hard it is to fight against this pressure, to feel the judgments of other women business owners. You just want to cave in and follow the crowd.

While business coaching is certainly gaining in popularity, women have been hiring coaches to help them start and manage their businesses for years. Here are five of the top reasons why women hire a business coach.

If you’ve never worked with a coach before, you might be confused about what a business coach actually does. Every business coach has their own style and focus, so it’s often to have mixed definitions.

After being a business coach for more than a decade, I’ve decided it would be best to gather my client’s definitions of what coaching really is.

Being a business coach for over a decade, the truth is I love what I do and can’t see myself doing anything else. Click through to discover my top 18 reasons I love being a business coach.

Discover one woman’s perspective on why she hired a business coach to help her grow her service business.

Developing your solopreneur business niche helps you focus your marketing. More importantly, it helps you focus your services so you can craft your expertise and create the greatest benefit to your clients.

By creating high-level benefits for your clients you create more value and more value compels higher fees.

Numbers Don’t Tell Your Success Story If You’re Tracking the Wrong Ones
Numbers are important for business growth and every business owner looks at social media followers, newsletter subscribers, and website visitors, and points to those as indicators of success. BUT —

The truth is this: Female business owners are comparing themselves to others using the wrong “numbers” and then setting goals around those wrong numbers.

If you don’t have a content marketing plan in place for the year or you’re finding that coming up with regular content is a struggle, this post will offer you a little inspiration.

How long does business coaching take? On the surface seems like a simple question, but the answer is complex and complicated.

You can be the best business owner on the planet and the best at what you do, but if you don’t have a great client experience from the start, it may be a struggle to keep them coming back.

A positive client experience is what
will keep clients coming back for
more services and can drive referrals.

Knowing which business coaching program is the right one is enough to make even the savviest women a bit befuzzled!

Let’s dive in a little deeper and talk about how to determine which coaching program is right for you. Because let’s face it: It could be a part-time job, just finding the right one.

I’m a big believer that celebrating is motivating. I also believe that taking the time to recognize the awesome things that happen each week generates momentum.

As Business Owners, we often need to be reminded that we don’t always have to accomplish huge things to move forward. It’s the little things, over time, that make the biggest impact.

With so many myths about business coaching out there, it makes the big step of hiring a business coach even harder.

I hear it from my clients all the time. Either they don’t know what coaching is (or what it can do for their business) or they’ve had a bad experience with a coach in the past.

That’s why I want to kick some myths of business coaching to the curb so you can feel more comfortable about making the decision to work with a coach.

In the coaching industry, it has become common practice to offer free initial sessions. Most often these are called discovery sessions.

The “behind the scenes” strategy to these sessions is to help the client discover all the work they need to do on their life, business, or another area the coach specializes in. But, doe they work?

Figuring out how to choose the right business name is a struggle most new business owners face.

One way to choose the right business name is to simply use your name as the business name. Or a variation of your name works too.

But, there are some instances when using your name is not the right business name.

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HERE ARE MY TOP 10 HOME BUSINESS BENEFITS:
Running your own business comes with many benefits. But, operating a home business has even more awesome benefits.

Working with a coach is pretty personal. You’re expected to dive into some deep topics, often with someone you don’t know very well.

I want to make sure you know me–and some of my quirks. Not only does this humanize me a bit, but it’s just fun to get to know people on a different level. Discover 40 truths about Coach Erin.

Having Client Contracts of Understanding and Financial Agreements is essential to your business success. Contracts not only provide structure to your business — they also save your relationships.

Having a client prep form can improve the value of your services. When it comes to building a relationship with a new client, service providers and their new clients benefit from a bit of preparation.

Hello fellow Business Owners looking for a snazzy title, Business Owner is your title. Stepping out of Corporate America and into the world of business ownership means shifting.
And one of the first shifts business owners need to make is believing they need a title. As a business owner, Business Owner is your title. No other title is needed.

In the business world, I hear “charge your worth” often, it’s like a hidden rule. An automated response. A very ego attractive marketing message. And quite honestly, I’m afraid is doing more harm than good. And I once believed it wholeheartedly but I’m not buying into anymore.

I see too many women business owners trying to do multiple marketing strategies. Starting more than one or two strategies at once ends with business owners saying, ” I don’t know how to market”. Even the greatest strategy isn’t going to work if you don’t implement it beyond the surface.

After owning my own business and coaching hundreds of women since 2006, I’m here to share with you ten bits of business wisdom. May these business wisdom bits provide you with inspiration, clarity, and direction in starting and managing your own business.

Money is an important topic for women who own their own businesses.

We all need it, we all spend it, and we all want to make it. But what is your meaning of money, beyond just what you’re doing with it day-to-day?

A while back, the meaning of money came up in various ways in my coaching business. So, I started to reflect on my meaning of money and realized I’d never put any effort into defining it.

In 2006, when I first began offering business coaching for online service businesses, I never imagined the variety of industries I’d have the opportunity to help.

I’ve now worked with 40+ (and counting) different varieties of service businesses. And, as of August 2020, I’ve clocked over 2,000 private coaching hours. I’ve helped over 300 women start, modify, and grow their businesses.

Having the right business startup checklist is key to your success.

How do I know? Because not having the right one was my FIRST mistake.

Click through and uncover quick coaching questions to guide you in finding the best places to market your business.

Because I believe in transparency in business is important, I’m parting the curtains and taking you behind the scenes into my life. Buckle in because, it’s going to be raw, real, and not so “rose-colored glasses.”

Being able to successfully build a business as a first-time business owner is not exactly an easy task. Not impossible. Just not easy.

That’s why, after coaching women to start their own business since 2006, I’ve created these 9 steps to build a business.

I want to help you successfully build a business that has a solid foundation to grow on.

A client recently ask me, “Erin, what’s your BIG DREAM?” Little did she know she was asking me an awesome coaching question. A question that made me think, ponder, and consider while also pushing me to put into words what it is I want from my business and my life.

Who knows, maybe your BIG Dream and my BIG Dream have some things in common?

Business Testimonials are one of, if not, the best marketing tool. According to a B2B Content Marketing Report Survey, testimonials are more effective than any other type of content marketing.
Testimonials can gain the trust of potential clients and convert even the most reluctant into a client. Yet, new business owners often find getting testimonials to be a challenge. The fear of feedback is one of the most common fears of new business owners which is why I’m here to offer 7 ways to make getting testimonials not so icky.

Feeling like your business is failing is no fun. Yet, having your business fail in the first year is not uncommon.

Read on to discover the five main reasons your new business is failing.