Best Growth Coaches for Your Online Service Business

You’ve been working hard and want to grow your online business. You’ve come a long way and you believe in yourself, Solopreneur. You also know you need someone experienced and educated beside you to help you. This is why I’m sharing some of the best growth coaches for your online service business.

Why You Need A Growth Coach

You know you have the potential to continue to grow but you are not sure what are the next steps or you may even lack the confidence to take that risk. That is exactly why you need a business growth coach to come alongside you.

What Is A Growth Coach

Let’s start by looking at the definition of a business growth coach.

These coaches provide valuable expertise, guidance, and support to help businesses overcome challenges, identify opportunities for growth, and implement strategic plans to increase profitability.”

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A business growth coach helps their clients to…

• Take stock of where you are (with services, finances, and more)
• Dream and set achievable goals
• Help you set up ways to reach those goals
• Find strategies to help overcome challenges
• Identify possible areas of opportunity or growth you may not see
• Guide you to implement those growth strategies
• Analyze progress
• Hold you accountable
• Review and give you strategies to continue growing
• Increase profits
• And more

What To Look For In A Growth Coach

Now, let’s discuss what to look for in your growth coach. A good coach asks great questions of their clients. Why? Because this causes you to think deeper and in new ways you may not have considered previously.

Other things to look for your in growth coach:

• Length of Time Coaching – how long have they been providing growth coaching services? Although they may be good within their first few months of coaching because of their business experience, you may want to look for a coach who has many years of coaching behind them.
• Experience (Industry Relevance) – what experience do they have and is it in the area you need to grow? For instance, do they work with online service providers are have they only worked with insurance agents? Ask about their experience and how it will relate to you and your business.
• Reviews & Testimonials – look for reviews and testimonials about them. Not just on their website but also on Google and other platforms (LinkedIn, etc.). Keep in mind that service providers do not get as many reviews as restaurants may.
• Overcome Challenges – a good coach will have overcome many business mistakes and challenges. You should ask a potential coach about the challenges they have faced and what they learned from those challenges.
• Encourager – I always tell my clients that I am their biggest cheerleader! It is true. Long before becoming a coach, I was a natural encourager and still am. Your coach needs to be realistic but also positive in nature. Make sure that you get along well and as much as I hate to say it, you want to click with them.
• Willing To Share Their Secrets – your growth coach must be willing to share their industry secrets to help you succeed and move to the next level.

Some Red Flags To Look Out For In A Growth Coach

As much as I’d love to stay with the positives and what to look for in a growth coach there are also negative things or red flags to watch out for in coaches.

Some Red Flags

These would indicate red flags:

• Negative Talk – if they talk negatively the entire time you meet with them that would be a red flag for me.
• Cannot Express Their Process – if the coach cannot express their process and how they will help you achieve your goals that is a red flag.
• Not Paying Attention to You (Wandering Eyes) – when a coach’s eyes wander off you and they appear to not pay attention or listen to you that is one I would not hire.
• Do Not Demonstrate Industry Aptitude – when you are speaking with a potential coach and they do not seem to understand or demonstrate a good aptitude for the industry you are in, that is also non-hire in my book.
• Sales First and Then You – if they are more concerned about getting you signed on and making the sale rather than digging into your need(s) that’s also a red flag.
• No Clear Success Story – if the growth coach does not have a clear story about their success and how they came to be in the place they are that is one to watch out for in the red flag area.

These are all warning signs when talking with potential growth coaches. They are not hard and fast rules to stick to but warning signs nonetheless.

Top Growth Coaches

Here are some leading coaches, thought leaders, and award-winning coaches*. Do your due diligence and see if one is a good fit for you.

1. John Maxwell (via his website) – Our proprietary methodology is based on John C. Maxwell’s The Five Levels of Leadership. It offers you and your team a comprehensive executive coaching and leadership development process that will inspire everyone to lead beyond their titles, find and develop other emerging leaders, and create a culture of leadership that propels your organization even when you’re not in the room.​

2. Tony Robbins (via his website) – Results Coaching is a personalized coaching program designed to help you achieve breakthroughs in all aspects of your life. You’ll work one-on-one with a coach who will help you bridge the gaps between where you are now and where you want to be. With tailored strategies, goal setting, and action plans, your coach will help you overcome challenges and achieve your full potential.

3. Tammy Durden – Award Winning Coach and Named Top 15 Coaches in Richmond. Tammy’s specialty is helping you grow by outsourcing (or building a dream virtual team).  If you are ready to step it up and scale by adding a virtual team. She takes you to the new revenue levels and teaches you how to continue the growth by building out your team. Tammy can help you take your business to the next level. She loves helping women create a business that fits your LIFESTYLE not squeeze a life around your business. Tammy is very affordable for her online providers. Her clients love her approachability and her thought-provoking questions that promote growth.

4. Grant Cardone (per his website) – Grant Cardone owns and operates over seven privately held companies, and a private equity real estate firm, Cardone Capital, with a multifamily portfolio of assets worth over $4.7 Billion. He is one of the Top Crowdfunders in the world, raising over $1.4 Billion in equity via social media. He is featured on Season 2 of Discovery Channel’s Undercover Billionaire, where he takes on the challenge of building a million dollar business in 90 days. Grant is also a New York Times bestselling author of 11 business books, including The 10X Rule, which led to Cardone establishing the 10X Global Movement and the 10X Growth Conference, now the largest business and entrepreneur conference in the world.

5. Ashley June Co – She says (via her website) -I help wild and radiant women coaches and course creators build generational wealth for their families through monetizing their God-given callings into coaching businesses so they can build a life of true time, money + spiritual freedom for their families while living counter-culturally and set-apart in this crazy world we’re in. Helping holy-spirit led coaches launch + scale biblically based coaching programs to $10-50k months online.

How To Keep Growing

Now, how do you keep it growing? First, hire one of these or the many qualified business growth coaches out there. Then implement one of the many digital marketing techniques I’ve written about about in the past. The best one to do, if you have not done any yet, is SEO blogging.

I’d love to hear how you decided and who you chose for your business growth coach!

Until Next Time and To Your Continued Growth!

Tammy Durden is a thought leader, speaker, and business coach for online service solopreneurs.

Tammy has established herself as an authority figure over the last 16 years of owning several online service businesses. She specializes in helping solopreneurs scale by outsourcing – adding a virtual team to grow your business.

*Disclaimer - not all coaches are created equal. Each of the coaches highlighted in this article is very different and serves different types of clients.  Some of them are very high-ticket coaches while others are more affordable.  This does not mean the more affordable ones do not have the same skills.  Do your research, sign up to meet them, and then decide which is the right one for you and your business.

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• Are you ready to Scale and want to add your first virtual team member?
• Overwhelmed and overworked and not sure where to go from here?
• Maxed out and cannot add any more clients but want to build your revenue?

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