By Jim Symcox on Nov 13, 2009 in coaching, mentoring | 0 Comments
Coaching is steadily becoming big business. And business coaching even more so. Some people say it’s expensive, others that a coach doesn’t really help them because “they could have done it for themselves.” To answer the first point a coaching organisation has issued a coaching press release where they noted the massive ROI with coaching: [...]
By Jim Symcox on May 27, 2009 in coaching, mentoring, Pricing | 0 Comments
I went to see a prospect a few weeks ago down in London. The MD runs a nice sized company (over £30million turnover). We were discussing a combined project with another business I’ve dealt with before. Both the MD and the managing partner were amazed at how incredibly cheap the other company was offering to [...]
By Jim Symcox on Dec 12, 2008 in Jay Abraham, Marketing, Marketing Strategies, mentoring | 0 Comments
Do desperate times mean that a business should pay more attention to their marketing? Let me look at a few marketing strategies/tactics that Jay Abraham usually incorporates in his marketing to answer that question. The Strategy of Preeminence Jay Abraham often speaks about the strategy of preeminence. In a nutshell it’s all about the following [...]
By Jim Symcox on Aug 1, 2008 in business coaching, Business Growth, Business Process Improvement, Entrepreneurs, mentoring, self development | 0 Comments
We all need a little criticism in our lives. Otherwise how could we improve? However, the carpers, the doubters and the envious we can do without. Ex-president Theodore Roosevelt said it best, “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of [...]
By Jim Symcox on Jul 2, 2007 in coaching, mentoring | 0 Comments
You may not have heard of Dan Lok, although he’s the self-proclaimed number 1 website conversion expert and has a lot of people who back up what he says. I’ve been a subscriber to his email newsletter for a number of years because I like what he writes and of course I also like to [...]