Boost Your Business
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Develop a stable business fast
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Follow proven steps, using powerful tools to identify your offer
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Develop a marketing plan that will fill your sales funnel
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Do the work you love to do and fulfil your ambition
Have a business idea but hesitating to take the leap?
Most people feel daunted at the prospect of starting their own business venture.
This causes them to delay action - there's always something more urgent to do than follow your dreams.
Maybe you've spent months or even years thinking about this idea but not moved forward very far.
But if we don't follow our dreams we'll be left disillusioned and unfulfilled.
Women have considerable success as business owners, but only if they have the courage and discipline to keep going.
Not sure if you're cut out for life as business owner?
You've heard that self-employment and business building is hard work. It is.
The pressure of demands and the need to be resilient is high.
We talk about being in charge of our own hours but more often than not we're trying to play all the instruments in the orchestra ourselves.
Business leaders need to know how to manage their anxiety, how to develop a plan and commit to it.
Running your own business is not for everyone, but missing your chance to take one of the most exciting journeys of your life is a tragedy!
Tried before and it didn't work out?
Do you have a vision but no plan to get there?
Perhaps you keep making a start and don't know where to go from there.
So you keep going round and round in circles without making progress. Exhausting and demoralising!
Process is the most powerful tool in getting to our goals.
Without the right processes, energy is wasted and confidence and motivation diminish.
We need an informed plan we can stick to.
Women Sell Themselves Short
Research shows that while women are as capable as men, they can often be less confident at work. For example, while men will apply for jobs when they don't meet all the criteria, women will wait till they meet all the criteria and feel they probably do so more than others before applying.
Women leaders also have a tendency to want to be liked which can mean they hold back from putting themselves forward or rocking the boat.
And the pandemic and working remotely has had a negative impact on women getting their views heard and even getting promoted.
MARGO CASHMAN
CEO: BREAD & BUTTER
Let me tell you, I did.
How successful will your new venture be?
Where do you sit on the Ladder?
We go through these stages as we prepare to start a business venture.
Perhaps you are at LEVEL 1: Prospecting. You are looking around for the best idea but no real focus.
Perhaps you are at LEVEL 2: Primed. You now have clarity on your idea and you're excited about the possibilities in the future. You find yourself hesitating when you come to the action though. Your self-belief is failing or maybe you don't have conviction around your plan.
At LEVEL 3: Unpredictable You launch but the action, at first enthusiastic, becomes stop-start as you identify roadblocks, have not developed a cadence and are not accountable - confidence wanes and the project holts.
At LEVEL 4: Performing Moving in a fairly straight line from idea to successful execution, your confidence grows as you see the results of the action. There's a proven structured plan and you execute it.. You're on fire and so is the business idea.
Where are you now on the ladder and how does it feel to be there? How would it be to be at LEVEL 4? What could you get done and how would it feel?
Take a look at this Venn diagram. This is how you're going to get there.
PURPOSE
Identifying our purpose and hence our positioning and identity is central to how we develop our offer and how we engage with our market
What are we here for?
What is the benefit of what we are selling?
Why does our business exist?
OFFER
Who is our target?
What are their pain points? What are the problems we can solve for them?
How will we solve them?
What is are we offering and how do we articulate that, and deliver it?
How do we make ourselves easy to buy?
SALES AND MARKETING
New businesses often try to sell before they market. This is like proposing marriage on a first date.
Business to business to business marketing requires a plan, discipline and a commitment to increasing leads and building ever closer relationships with them.
3 COACHING PACKAGES
See PackagesREBECCA HARRISON
FOUNDER: MOSAIK CONSULTING
"I could not recommend Sara’s coaching highly enough."
It has helped me enormously both to grow as a person, as well as build the necessary resilience and positivity for my new venture, with lots of great frameworks and tips and tricks to fall back on should I waiver!
It's a brilliant mix of carefully curated and thought-provoking sessions, combined with personal check-ins and the flexibility to ensure it is very much tailored to your individual needs and where you want to get to.
There is discipline to ensure you are always building on your learning and can constantly envision and monitor your end goal.
Yet, there is also the ability to spark off Sara’s own diverse career and life experiences.
And it is huge fun too, as Sara makes it all the more enriching with her fantastic sense of humour and making it feel ‘real’ and applicable rather than theoretical and pie in the sky!
Don’t miss out, there are golden nuggets to draw on for a lifetime. Thank you Sara!
This Coaching is Right for you if ....
- You planning to start your own business or business venture
- You have a passion you want to follow
- You know where you want to go but not sure how to get there
- You're a confident person but not so confident about the risks involved in self-employment or leading a business initiative
- You've tried before but given up when you couldn't maintain the necessary behaviours
- You're looking for a sherpa who can guide you up the mountain.
This Coaching is not Right for You if ...
- You don't really have an idea
- You are not prepared to change some of your behaviours and try something new
- You are not committed to organising yourself
- You are not prepared to be held accountable (compassionately!)
- You are not prepared to put in the work to succeed
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
Mary Oliver, Poet
Coaching OptionsWhat You'll Walk Away with
(6 month program)
- Accountability, inspiration and support
- A refined definition of your business venture and what role it really serves your market
- A vision of where you want to be
- A positioning for market and purpose to motivate you and your staff
- A specific target market with a statement of the problem your plan will solve
- A marketing plan that you will actually establish during the program, with lead generation, funnel building and pull-through
- Sales techniques with proven success
- Structure to provide increased success and reassurance
- Guidance and skills for your journey to success.
JO CUTBUSH
FOUNDER: SOLVE INSIGHTS
"I would not have been able to get so much momentum that turned into sales so fast without her. "
I signed up to work with Sara when I had decided to start a new business. She helped me work through my offer and identify what really mattered to clients.
My sessions with Sara worked through all the steps to get up and running, but she also gave me a lot of positive support, inspiration and encouragement and all important deadlines.
I would not have been able to get so much momentum that turned into sales so fast without her.
Sara was able to adjust the content and flow to my situation and added so much value. I thoroughly recommend working with her.
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Sara Garcia
Sara is a self-leadership coach and speaker specialising in empowering women leaders and increasing their success and influence.
She works one-to-one to help women plan, launch and grow their businesses.
She lives to help others discover the fold-out page of their lives in which they discover how much more they have to offer and enjoy, and what they can achieve when they increase their courage and remove their blinkers.
Sara has built businesses in London and Sydney, influenced global brand strategy for companies including Coca-Cola and Nike, has a government accreditation for management in the UK. She uses hacks from her psychology background to get things done!
She's always up for a challenge having crossed the Sahara on the back of a truck and performed on the London stage.
It is said her coaching is a mix of challenge and compassion, inspiration, accountability and support.
She loves labradors and hates tinned tuna.
OPTIONAL PRELIMINARY UNIT:
BOOST YOUR BUSINESS DIAGNOSTICS $295 + GST refundable on any subsequent program
Optional preliminary stand-alone analysis of your business with recommendations on what you need to focus on to get the revenue through the door quicker.
Process
- Diagnostics questionnaire
- One-to-one session with Sara exploring your ambitions and concerns
- Examination of your targeting
- Examination of your sales and marketing processes
- Review of your value proposition (your benefit to your target)
- Overview review of website if you have one
Outputs
- Confirmation of where you're on the right track and why it's working
- Identification of areas you need to focus on next that will make the most difference
- One page report + checklist of priorities
