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Growing a business is hard
It’s more than hard. Sometimes it feels downright impossible.
Like trying to learn Russian while cleaning a toilet.
You get out of a meeting and you’ve got 18 voicemails waiting. One from an angry customer and another from the mission-critical vendor who wants to be paid, NOW. And, oh, your spouse needs your help with the kids, the back yard needs mowing, and the car has to go to the shop because something doesn’t sound right.
Growing a business can be hard
It’s more than hard. Sometimes it feels downright impossible.
You get out of a meeting and you’ve got 18 texts and voicemails waiting. One from an angry customer and another from the mission-critical vendor who wants to be paid, NOW. And, oh, your spouse needs your help with the kids, the backyard needs mowing, and the car has to go to the shop because something doesn’t sound right.
Welcome to life as
a business owner.
If only you could get more of the right kind of customers -- the ones who are happy to pay you on time for a job done with excellence.
If only you could get the quality employees -- the one who are willing to work hard for the money you’re paying them.
If only you could start getting ahead -- putting money away for a rainy day and actually getting ahead so you can take some time off.
Well… you can!
Welcome to life as a business owner
If only you could get more of the right kind of customers -- the ones who are happy to pay you on time for a job done with excellence.
If only you could get the quality employees -- the ones who are willing to work hard for the money you’re paying them.
If only you could start getting ahead -- putting money away for a rainy day and actually getting ahead so you can take some time off.
Well… you can!
Enter Bigger Pie Strategies Business Coaching
A proven business coach helping aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners. We are experts in one thing – growing profitable companies through business performance coaching.
Enter Bigger Pie Strategies
Experienced entrepreneurs coaching aspiring entrepreneurs.
We are experts in one thing – growing profitable companies
through business performance coaching.
Wherever you’re stuck, we can help
More leads, sales, aggressive growth? You got it.
You won’t believe how easy it is to get your phone ringing with top-shelf, ready-to-buy prospects until you see our methods for yourself. It’s time to leave your competitors crying like little girls and begging for mercy.
Recruit winners instead of losers? Coming right up.
Only the very best hiring managers win the perpetual war for talent. You’ll join the ranks of elite recruiters when you learn how the top guns do it. It’s time to get the rock stars you deserve and let the rest work for the other guy.
Control your cash and stash money away? Easy.
Smart business owners know how to control costs, forecast and manage cash, and grow profits. It’s time to control the flow of money through your business and build a nice large pile of cash in your bank account.
Get your business ready to sell for big bucks? Let’s roll.
Any business can be turned into a cash machine that runs without the daily involvement of the owner. It’s time to turn your staff into a team that will run your business like they own it, so you can sell it to whomever you wish, whenever you wish.
Wherever you’re stuck, we can help
More leads, sales, aggressive growth? You got it.
You won’t believe how easy it is to get your phone ringing with top-shelf, ready-to-buy prospects until you see our methods for yourself. It’s time to leave your competitors crying and begging for mercy.
Recruit winners instead of losers? We got you.
Only the very best hiring managers win the perpetual war for talent. You’ll join the ranks of elite recruiters when you learn how the top guns do it. It’s time to get the rock stars you deserve and let the rest work for the other guy.
Control your cash, put money away? Easy.
Smart business owners know how to control costs, forecast and manage cash, and grow profits. It’s time to control the flow of money through your business and build a nice large pile of cash in your bank account.
Get your business ready to sell for big bucks? Let’s roll.
Any business can be turned into a cash machine that runs without the daily involvement of the owner. It’s time to turn your staff into a team to run your business like they own it, so you can sell it to whomever and whenever you wish.
Skeptical?
Yeah, I get it.
With thousands of people offering business coaching and consulting on their “proprietary” ideas at ridiculous rates, I’m not surprised that you can’t be bothered. In fact, I’m surprised that you’re still reading...
What does the average business coach, consultant, or trainer really know about running a business of their own, much less one like yours?
I couldn’t agree more. Good business success coaching is hard to come by.
Most of it is nothing but repackaged and regurgitated common sense you can find on the business bookshelves at Barnes and Noble.
But not so with Bigger Pie Strategies
Skeptical?
Yeah, I get it.
With thousands of people offering business coaching and consulting on their “proprietary” ideas at ridiculous rates, I’m not surprised that you can’t be bothered. In fact, I’m surprised that you’re still reading...
What does the average business coach, consultant, or trainer really know about running a business of their own, much less one like yours?
I couldn’t agree more. Good business success coaching is hard to come by.
Most of it is nothing but repackaged and regurgitated common sense you can find on the business bookshelves at Barnes and Noble.
But not so with Bigger Pie Strategies.
Our Founder and CEO
Bob Graham has been working with business leaders and owners in everything from corporations and privately held firms, to partnerships and couple-owned entities.
He guides them to better use their time, talent and money to more easily and effectively achieve their goals and ultimately FREEDOM from the day-to-day struggles that take up so much of their energy and time.
Drawing on his past experience in journalism, marketing, teaching and guiding college students at all levels on business plan development, he provides owners with the focus necessary to achieve more with less effort.
Our Founder/CEO: Bob Graham
Bob Graham has been working with business leaders and owners in everything from corporations and privately held firms, to partnerships and couple-owned entities.
He guides them to better use their time, talent and money to more easily and effectively achieve their goals and ultimately FREEDOM from the day-to-day struggles that take up so much of their energy and time.
Drawing on his past experience in journalism, marketing, teaching and guiding college students at all levels on business plan development, he provides owners with the focus necessary to achieve more with less effort.
Are You Buying Common Myths About Business Coaching Services?
Myth: Using business coaching services is a sign of weakness.
Fact: Some of the most successful people -- from Oprah to Tony Robbins to Tiger Woods -- rely on coaches to help them perform better.
They recognize that an outside perspective from an experienced business coach can influence their performance in profound ways. Small business owners tend to get wrapped up in the challenges of day-to-day operations; they rarely, if ever, have time to move from the tactical issues to planning for growth.
As a result, they remain mired in the business, never able to work on the business. Sound familiar?
Fact: Successful business coaches don't tell you what to do. They may make suggestions, but at all times they should support you as the small business owner making your own business decisions.
Effective business coaching services essentially hold up a mirror, allowing you to step out of your perspective to consider alternatives. Some alternatives may be ideal, some may need tweaking and some may not be worth additional consideration. However, each time you consider alternatives, it deepens both your understanding and resolve in accomplishing your objectives as a successful business owner.
In this way, business coaching can enable you to avoid common business problems and move more quickly toward your goals.
Myth: A business coach can't know or understand your business issues.
Myth: Business coaching should only come from someone in your industry.
Fact: Experienced business coaching involves helping small business owners avoid challenges and celebrate successes in their small business. Most of the issues you will address with your business coach will be universal to all small business owners.
When the situation involves an industry-specific challenge, having to explain the entire situation to an experienced business coach can have a powerful effect on your ability to understand the situation. Breaking it down to its essence and having to ponder and explain nuances often gives the small business owner the "a-ha moment" that enables them to move past the challenge.
Furthermore, the best business coach is able to bring lessons learned from other industries to the existing situation, thus giving the small business owner additional insight and resources.
Fact: You probably have a business coach already. It might be a spouse or significant other, a good friend, an employee or someone else you put into the role of business advisor.
Here's the sad truth: You put them into the role of business coach, knowingly or unknowingly, and they cannot win. They don't know when to support you emotionally, when to advise you like a business coach, and what's best for you and your situation. They have enough concern for your feelings that they cannot objectively support you as a business advisor. You have put this person in a no-win situation.
An effective business coach builds a one-to-one coaching relationship that is focused primarily on your business in a way those other people cannot. That objectivity can be insightful and empowering, as a successful business coach doesn't tell you what you want to hear. They tell you what you need to hear in ways that you actually can hear and take action around.
Myth: You don't need a business coach.
Have you ever considered...
If you knew the answer to whatever business challenge you are facing today or this week or this month, you would have already solved it.
That you cannot solve it on your own points to the need for a business coach.
10 Benefits of Business Coaching
Successful small business owners recognize the many benefits of business coaching.
Here are 10 clear benefits that small business owner derive from an experience business coaching program:
Assistance with setting realistic business goals and objectives. An experienced business can guide you to set SMART goals that you can accomplish and provide you the accountability to meet milestones on the path toward achieving those objectives.
Improving your communications. Small business owners must talk to many different stakeholders, including employees (who may be from different age groups more and more), customers and vendors. Effective communication is critical to success, and as a business grows, it becomes more important and more difficult for an owner to communicate effectively.
Greater business productivity. Business coaching helps to identify areas of improvement and develop strategies that lead to improved productivity. In this difficult market for employees, becoming more efficient can mean the need for fewer employees.
Increased motivation and morale. An effective business coach can help motivate and improves morale through effective goal setting and facilitating an open and honest dialogue among all parties.
Better team collaboration. Business coaching helps to create a healthy and productive working environment by improving communication, delegation, leadership and collaboration among teams.
Enhance decision making. With the help of business coaching, individuals and teams consider additional perspectives that lead to better decisions. They also learn how to more quickly and skillfully respond to any changes in the business or industry.
An unbiased sounding board. Successful small business owners explore ideas before taking action. Other business owners opt to act rashly. A business coach can help you explore ideas more fully, challenge your thinking and provide additional perspectives that might not have been weighed otherwise.
Cost cutting. The best business coaches provide you with ways to cut costs by streamlining processes, changing vendors or refining work responsibilities. Finding effective ways to trim costs is a key function of a successful business coaching program.
Replacing the unintended business coach. Every small business owner has one or more people they go to when they need advice or a second opinion. Unfortunately, that person — a spouse, a significant other, an employee or friend — is thrust into the position of providing advice on something they aren’t well versed in. Even more worrisome is that the role of advisor gets in the way of their intended role as an emotional support person. A business coach replaces this person, allowing that relationship to flourish as it should, while improving your business.
Instilling more confidence. A business coach can help build confidence and empower the leader and employees to take on greater challenges and responsibilities. The business coach can help people uncover the lessons to learn from experiences so they can face the same situation with a new perspective next time.
If one or more of these benefits appeal to you, please schedule a time to discuss business coaching.
Bigger Pie Strategies
Experienced entrepreneurs coaching aspiring entrepreneurs. Need business coaching for growth? Call now for your FREE Key Ingredients call. No pie-in-the-sky. (Actually, a bigger pie!) No generic ideas. No hard sell. Just straight-forward analysis of your marketing and sales chops, team-building skills, gross and net profitability, and business transfer readiness.
It’s time. Contact us.
Bigger Pie Strategies
bgraham@biggerpiestrategies.com
Forest Hill, Maryland 21050
410-241-8980
Extended Bob Graham Bio
Executive Business Coach, Pie Cooker
Extended Bio for Bob Graham
Since 2010, Bob Graham has been driving the profitable growth of a small businesses.
Executive Business Coach, Pie Cooker
Since 2010, as CEO of Bigger Pie Strategies, he helped hundreds of entrepreneurs, businesses and other entities bake a bigger business pie by increasing profits, empowering employees and improving efficiency. Guided an executive through new business launch, generating more than $3.2 million in sales in first year; guided mobile vehicle repair businesses‘ expansion into fleet management; created an improved online sales system to 4X sales with no more staff.
Business Book Author, Dynamic Speaker
Author of The Renegade Way (Mason-West Publishing House, 2021), exploring how we as Renegades can find and navigate our own unique pathway to success. Co-author of The 55 Soft Skills That Guide Employee and Organzational Success (Mason-West Publishing House, 2018). Proven speaker/trainer with clients including the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Collegiate IT Conference, McCormick & Co. and Johns
Hopkins University, The Think Group of 5-star restaurants.
College Professor, Business Plan Competition Head
Taught undergraduate and graduate marketing, consumer behavior, communications and business courses at Johns Hopkins University. Oversaw the annual Johns Hopkins University Business Plan Competition, drawing more than 80 teams from all of the JHU campuses, as well as other colleges. Previously taught journalism, English and business courses at Towson University, Goucher College and Strayer University.
Can Be Funny, So-So Golfer, Not a Guitarist
A proven and time-tested master at wit (at least in his own mind), his humor has been characterized by some as “not funny at all,“ “not another dad joke,“ and “Really, you thought that was funny? Really?“ A great driving range swing that falls apart on the golf course, he shoots around 100 (on a good day), despite playing as often as possible.Owner of four guitars and a ukelele, he's know to struggle to play anything beyond the easiest of songs in a recognizable fashion.
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