Small business coaching services for ambitious entrepreneurs
“Every problem is a gift — without problems, we would not grow.” – Anthony Robbins, motivational speaker and writer.
I’m the kind of small business coach who doesn’t have time for excuses or assigning blame. So what if you’ve hit problems—tell me about a small business owner who hasn’t. It’s part of the deal. Don’t like it? Find another way to earn money.
Now, that might sound harsh, but I just wanted to let you know about my approach before you read any more. I work with small business owners every week, and they’ll all tell you that my no-bu****it approach helps them focus and prioritise. It also saves them a lot of precious time, but more about that later.
So, like minded business owners, why are you here? Why are you searching for experienced business coaches?
You’re searching for the services of a small business coach, but what’s the problem? Is life in charge of your own venture not working out?
I’m guessing you established your business to get away from the rat race, regain the freedom of making your own decisions, and build a legacy. However, you might not have anticipated how many challenges you have to face when running a small business. Instead of taking care of growing your business, you find yourself acting as a part-time office manager, accountant, and HR specialist.
When you feel overwhelmed, the best decision you can make is to reach out for advice and professional help from small business coaches.
So, here you are. My business coaching services are in high demand, but I’m highly selective about the clients I work with. This ensures I have enough time to spend with everyone who needs my help.
Book an initial discovery meeting today, and let’s get to know one another. If you like my direct, no-nonsense approach and I think I can help, I’ll create a bespoke business coaching program that addresses your needs and priorities. The rest is up to you!
I Have Helped Countless Small Business Owners Excel
If you feel like you can benefit from guidance and support from another, more experienced entrepreneur, small business coaching might be the thing that will help you get your business on the right track and enable you to thrive as its leader.
I know just how difficult being a business owner can be. It’s often an arduous, thankless, and lonely role. But you have to stop feeling sorry for yourself and fight—no matter how hard things might seem right now.
I’ve run my own business. In fact, I’ve run 11 of them, as well as a successful non-profit. But what kept me going was my vision. I decided what the ultimate version of my life looked like, and created a system to get there.
I’ve experienced my fair share of ups and downs. While I consider myself a business growth expert, I’ve also had to pick myself off the floor and fight back a few times over the years. It’s these experiences that make my small business coaching services effective.
I can offer you practical tools, a modern approach to marketing and straightforward advice on how to build a successful business strategy. Together, we can make your business achieve significant growth in a short period of time.
But know this: It won’t be easy. I’ll do everything in my power to extract every last drop of potential from you. Other business coaches will tell you what you WANT to know. I’ll tell you what you NEED to know.
Success Stories
Real Clients. Real Success. Real Results.
From feeling stuck professionally to landing a role far beyond what he expected. This is Egis’s story:
“Within the first couple of months of coaching, I achieved several incredible outcomes. I found an amazing, well-paid job, far beyond what I had expected, all with Jake’s support. I also entered a happy relationship, moved into the flat I had always dreamed of, started travelling the world, and gained a deeper understanding of myself. The journey has been truly transformative.”
Egis — Business Change Manager at London’s Leading Law Firm
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Common Problems Faced by Small Business Owners
Small business owners come to me because something isn’t right. And in many cases, they bring me a list of several things that aren’t working—either personally or within their business.
Some haven’t been able to deliver the business growth they expected when they started out. Others have hit a brick wall in terms of outreach and attracting new business. Some simply want to make their small business the best it can possibly be.
Three of the most common issues relating to small business are:
Not Enough Brand Awareness
If people don’t know you’re there, how can they buy your products and services? My small business coaching services are different because of the unique talents I bring to the table—one of which is marketing.
Whether you need help with digital marketing or SEO for your website, I can offer practical tips that will help. But I can also help you with the long-term, strategic planning that will deliver business growth for years to come.
Overwhelmed with Ideas and To-Do Lists
I became a small business coach because I realised at an early stage in my career that I was good at managing my time, making plans, strategising, and prioritising tasks. Yes, it took me a while to perfect these areas of my professional arsenal, but once I did, I never looked back.
A big part of my small business coaching approach involves helping people work smarter rather than harder. I don’t want to hear “There aren’t enough hours in the day, Jake!” There are if you prioritise your tasks and delegate where possible.
I’m also an ideas-based business coach. I understand the frustration when you generate lots of fantastic ideas but never seem to have the time or opportunity to exploit them. I’ll help you assess your ideas on their merits and decide whether they’re worth pursuing or need ditching.
A Chaotic Approach to Management
Stop throwing everything but the kitchen sink at your business. Stop getting involved in the day-to-day minutiae of operations if you don’t have to. If you’re not driving, you’re a passenger. And that simply doesn’t work when you’re supposed to be heading towards growth and profitability.
I always refer my small business coaching clients to a book that helped me in this regard. It’s called The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It by Michael Gerber. In it, he makes the argument that your business must have the capability of running on auto-pilot. If you need to be present at all times to keep it moving in the right direction, you can’t take the time and space needed to make more global, strategic decisions.
Why Do People Turn to Business Coaching Services?
Why are you searching for small business coaching services? Some of my clients can’t answer this question. Others lie to me or themselves.
Let’s cut the bu****it. You know something isn’t right. For whatever reason, business performance isn’t where it should be. You’ve run out of ideas, and you want the perspective and guidance of an impartial business owner with a talent for life coaching.
Am I right? I usually am. Now, it might take me a while to get to the root cause of your issues. I’ll need to ask you questions about your past, your experience, your relationships, and your hopes for the future. I’ll also ask you to talk about your strengths and, more importantly, your weaknesses. Depending on what I discover, I help small business owners improve several aspects of their approach.
Raise Your Self-Awareness
I’m going to make a bold prediction without having met you. My perception of you will be wildly different to your perception of yourself. And that could be one of the reasons why you’re struggling. My approach to business coaching involves getting you to see yourself as others see you. Once you understand this about yourself, you’ll know which areas to improve and which to build upon.
Capitalise on Your Strengths
Small business coaching isn’t all about working on your shortcomings, however. It’s also about identifying what you’re good at and working with that. If you know you’re way above average in a certain area, and I agree, that’s something to work on. Why? Because being the best person in the room will prove to be a huge advantage as your career progresses.
Think about a popular Japanese proverb for a moment:
“It’s better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a way.”
To give yourself the best possible chance of coming out on top, make sure the odds are always stacked in your favour. Choose your battles. Pick fights—metaphorically speaking—you know you’re likely to win. Make winning your new normal. My business coaching services are all predicated on this proven approach.
Learn How to Turn Setbacks into Opportunities
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”—Henry Ford.
If it’s good enough for the pioneer of the modern production car, it’s good enough for my small business owners. And it’s good enough for me. I’ve always worked according to this principle.
Too many small business owners become disillusioned when they suffer serious setbacks. Some even give up altogether. That’s a loser’s mentality. And I only work with winners.
Winning in life doesn’t mean you never fail—it means you always find a way to win in the end. While they may not feel like it when they’re crushing your spirit, significant losses and setbacks can teach you much more than your accomplishments.
As your business coach, I’ll show you how to keep your motivation levels high when things go wrong. More importantly, I’ll show you how to take key learnings from professional disasters—and use them to win the next time around.
Push You Out of Your Comfort Zone
I’m a small business coach who takes a similar approach to that of a personal trainer. A PT trains your body, while I train your business mind.
If you’ve ever been to the gym under the supervision of a personal trainer, you’ll know that pushing yourself further each time is important; it’s the only way you’ll get stronger, fitter, and more durable.
As a business coach, I’ll adopt a similar approach with you. Every time we meet, I’ll push you out of your comfort zone—which will get smaller and smaller each time. Eventually, you won’t have a comfort zone, as you’ll have broken through all the mental barriers in your way.
Define and Set Your Business Goals
This is a huge part of my business coaching services. Arguably, it’s the most important. Not individual goals, per se; rather your ultimate goal in life. I like to call this your vision, but that’s just another word for your dream.
I love dreamers. Every great business owner in history once had a dream. And when they achieved that dream, they moved on to the next.
One of my favourite people in terms of business success is Richard Branson. He’s had several dreams in the past. One of his first was to open an independent record store in London. Then he dreamed about starting a record label. And then he dreamed about starting an airline.
You can probably guess where this is going. In Branson’s case, it’s going into space!
My point is this: If you don’t have a vision for your life, you’ve got no final destination. Nothing you’re doing now has any point to it. Together, we’ll define your vision and go from there.
Create Systems for Long-Term Success
I’m a systems-orientated business coach. I prefer to have a plan and the tools required to deliver it. Systems are the processes and methodologies you use to achieve your incremental goals and, ultimately, your vision.
One system might be related to time management, which is one of my priorities as a small business coach in London. You’ve got a lot on your plate. In fact, you’re probably spinning several plates right now.
By managing your time effectively, you can ensure that all your priority tasks are completed each day, week, month, and year. You can also ensure your work-life balance is healthy. After all, if you’re not happy and enjoying loving relationships, you won’t be at your best as a business owner.
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Who Can Benefit From Small Business Coaching?
People who represent the backbone of any local community are its small business owners. You should be proud of your accomplishments, but there is always room for improvement.
One of the most widely spread myths about coaching is that only a businessman facing serious problems can benefit from the guidance of a coach. However, every small business owner can improve the way he or she manages a company and increase the effectiveness rate of all its operations.
A small business coach introduces a fresh perspective to the goals, values, and processes within a small enterprise and helps you grow and improve your business.
Key Aspects Of Business Management I Can Help You With
Coaching for small businesses consists of chosen entrepreneurial coaching elements, time management coaching, and business coaching. However, its primary focus is to provide small businesses with a strategy that will set them up as a strong brand in the local community and help them develop faster and more efficiently. Here are the key aspects you can improve thanks to cooperation with a professional coach
Goal-Setting
Set both long and short-term goals for your company and create a simple plan to achieve them. I can help you in this regard, as it’s an integral part of my business coaching services. But it all starts with defining your overall vision.
Clearly Defined Business Values
Reassess your business’s values and include them in your company’s culture and strategy. You’re the business owner, so your values ARE the business’s values. Of course, they will evolve over time, but it’s important that everyone sings from the same hymn sheet when it comes to values. Everyone should know what they are. More importantly, everyone should demonstrate and uphold them at all times.
Accountability
This is a big one for me as a business coach. All too often, people look for excuses when something goes wrong. They also look for people to blame.
I don’t care if someone else was ultimately responsible for causing you to miss your quarterly sales targets. I’m not concerned about the wider economic outlook or the Chancellor’s last budget announcement in Parliament. Your business failed to achieve a goal, and there’s nothing to be gained from excuses and the blame game.
If you have the energy to blame people and issues beyond your control, you have the energy to look for ways to succeed the next time around. By the time you’ve finished looking for excuses, you could have developed a new process or approach to use next time. If you choose my business coaching services, you’ll hear about accountability during most or all our sessions together.
Work-Life Balance
Running your own business can be a lonely and stressful role. At the end of the day, the buck stops with you. It’s your mortgage on the line. It’s your children’s future that’s at stake. It’s your annual vacation that’s in jeopardy. So, in order to provide and enjoy life, you neglect yourself, your family, and the people closest to you. That’s a counterproductive recipe for burnout and business failure. It might surprise you to learn that 20% of businesses fail within their first year of operation!
As your business coach, we’ll address areas of your personal life that need attention, too. Why? Because one can’t exist without the other. They’re two sides of the same coin. If you’re happy and content in your personal life, you’re more likely to succeed as a small business owner. It’s that simple.
Profitability
That’s the ultimate name of the game, right? Otherwise, why are you making all these sacrifices? Why are you missing school plays and family events if it’s not to make a profit?
Fortunately for you, I love making money. I’m good at making money. It’s one of the ways I differ from other business coaches in the UK. Money isn’t a dirty word in my office—it’s one of the driving forces behind my approach.
I tell business owners the same thing: Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s one of the top three—right up there with love and health.
If you can’t turn a profit, you’re on borrowed time—and so is everyone who relies on you. As your business coach, I’ll share my money-making insights, hacks, and perspectives. Remember, I’ve been in your shoes. That’s why I’m the right business coach for anyone who wants to make money on a consistent basis.
Effective Marketing
I’ve run my own marketing agency for years. I help clients with everything from website design to search marketing and SEO. If you need help raising brand awareness or getting the right messages in front of the right audiences, I have real-world experience and insights to offer.
Like all successful business owners, I know exactly who my target customer is. I know how to reach them and when. I have first-hand experience in branding, advertising, marketing, lead generation, and, ultimately, making money.
You can’t hope to be a successful business owner if you can’t reach your prospective customers. I can help you both in terms of everyday strategies and long-term planning.
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Why Choose Me as Your Small Business Coach
I say this a lot, but I’m going to say it again: I’m not like other business coaches. I don’t give a f**k about what people think of me. I know that might sound strange coming from a business coach, but hear me out.
All too often, my clients are paralysed because of the fear of what people might think. So what if your ambitious business idea didn’t work out. It matters to you, obviously, but why should you give a s**t about what your competitors or peers think?
This mindset has helped me enormously over the years. When you learn to not give a f**k, you learn not to be afraid…afraid of failures, letting people down, and making the wrong impression.
Too many business owners think that people help them through the goodness of their hearts. That’s a crock of bu****it. They help because they have an ulterior motive. At least most of them, anyway.
I like to say that they’re too busy listening to Wii-FM to have your best interests at heart. “What’s in it FOR ME?” is a widely listened to station that other business coaches won’t talk about. But I think it’s very important. Why? Because once you realise most people don’t give a s**t about you or your business success, you won’t feel as bad about not giving a s**t about them.
Now I’ve got that off my chest, let’s talk about the positive aspects of my talents as a business coach. My work as an entrepreneur speaks for itself. With 11 businesses and a non-profit with more than 600 volunteers, I’ve proved I can cut it in the real world. I’ve got nothing left to prove on that front.
My reputation as a London business coach precedes me. A lot of my work comes from word of mouth and referrals. And that’s because business owners trust me. I deliver for them, so they keep coming back for more. Many of my client relationships are long-standing collaborations that have delivered exceptional business growth over the years.
I’m also popular with business owners who want to change direction. Some want to diversify; others want to move to another niche or industry. That’s why you may see me referred to as a career change coach from time to time.
I work differently from other business coaches in London. Perhaps that’s why I’ve worked with a long line of high-profile businesses and organisations over the years. Among my most enjoyable collaborations are projects with Great Ormond Street Hospital, the Football Association, Brentford FC, Crystal Palace FC, and the Mayor of London.
My Approach to Small Business Coaching Services
Small businesses like my approach because it’s structured. And if small business owners need anything its structure and a degree of certainty.
When people ask me why I’m the right business coach for them, I draw their attention to my journey. I spent years turning both successes and failures into a system that can be used by other business owners with a few personalisations.
It took me more than a decade, but I created something that sets me apart from other successful small business coaches. It’s called VISION GPS, and it’s a process that can be used for both business and life coaching programmes.
Think of your small business career in terms of a journey. How can you set off on a journey if you don’t know your destination? That’s the first thing you need to decide. The same principle applies to small businesses. But instead of a destination, the business owner must set a vision.
Now, if you’re driving, the chances are you’d use a GPS system to ensure you get to your final destination quickly and with as few issues as possible. The best business coaching services map out a route to success, which is why I created VISION GPS—a satellite navigation system for achieving your ultimate dream.
V – Vision
The most successful executive coaches begin with the destination. Or, in this case, the ultimate dream of the business owner. Once this is set, you can plan the exact route you take. There may be several routes, just like there are with a car’s GPS. Which one you take will depend on what an experienced business coach tells you. In this case, my coaching business will play the role of your personal navigation operating system.
G – Goals
Your dream has to be big and ambitious. By definition, it can’t be easily achievable. If it is, you don’t have the right dream. Goals are like service stations on the route to your final destination. All you need to focus on in the moment is getting to the next service station. Once you’re there, you can focus on the next one. In the case of my leadership coaching system, the service stations are the goals we set together.
P – Planning
Goals without a plan are like footballers without a coach. They end in chaos and fail to deliver the ultimate win. That’s why a great business coach works with their client to create a long-term plan for success. In my case, this plan will take at least three months to complete. But remember, when a truly successful business leader achieves their vision, they quickly move on to the next.
S – Systems
Finally, you need the processes and methodologies to ensure every day is productive and reflects your plan. Your systems might be related to time management or prioritising tasks. They may involve confidence coaching to help you make bold decisions without worrying about what people think. Whatever we decide upon, we’ll ensure your systems are geared towards achieving your business vision.
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I believe I offer the best business coaching services in London. I know. I would say that, wouldn’t I? But what I can say with complete confidence is that no one has bettered my list of achievements—both as a coach and an entrepreneur.
Small businesses fail because either the initial idea was always doomed to fail or the business owner didn’t take the right approach to issues such as time management and goal-setting.
I’m determined to stop your business from suffering that fate. Book a complimentary coaching session with me today, and let’s plan your business success together.
1. What Is Small Business Coaching?
A business coach is a professional advisor who understands how to successfully run and grow a company. With experience in time management, productivity, team management and business strategy building, a coach will help you take your business from where it is now to where you want it to be, a small business success story.
2. How Do I Know If I Need a Small Business Coach?
Anyone can benefit from coaching as it focuses on overall development. No matter the revenue, time, and success rate, small business coaching is the modern way to make your business grow at a rapid pace. If you want to get ahead of your competition, or simply work on your personal development and the progress of your company, coaching might be the perfect solution for you.
3. How Much Do Coaching Sessions Cost?
A professional coaching session is an individual service adjusted to your and your company’s needs. The costs vary based on the extent of coaching you want and require, but know that my prices are more than reasonable, especially when you take into account my expertise and experience. Reach out to me, and we can come up with a suitable offer for you.
4. How Does Working With a Small Business Coach Look Like?
We can meet for our coaching sessions online or face to face, whichever is more convenient for you. As for what will happen during our meetings, I will assess the strengths and weaknesses of your business and you as its owner, and we will work on a strategy for bettering the current situation for your small business.
