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Business Coaching - helping Business Owners work less, make more money and get their lives back!
Small business owners today are busier than ever before, working longer hours and making less money. The business is their life and they have no time for family or friends, let alone themselves. Most are so stressed they have forgotton how to dream and enjoy life.
The top 3 common problems facing small business owners today:
- Word of mouth used to work but it’s no longer working. There aren’t enough people coming in the door. Yellow pages, newspaper ads, radio and TV are not working and are expensive. Some have a web-site but it’s not bringing in new customers. Some have paid a lot of money to search engine companies but they are still not getting increased sales.
- It’s so much more difficult to close customers and it takes more time. Consumers are not spending as much as they are used to and are more resistant to impulse buys.
- Most business owners so busy, their business is their life and they have no time for family or friends, let alone themselves. Many are reluctant to hire because they have been burnt in the past after training employees who have left and started a competing business.
In summary, leveraging internet marketing, automation through people or systems, higher sales conversions and effective leadership will allow the small business owner to work less, make more money and get their lives back.
Karen provides business coaching to enable small business owners to do it themselves, or full business solutions for the business owner.
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Business Coaching Services
1:1 business strategy coaching
The purpose of these 1:1 strategy coaching sessions is to assess where your business is today and develop a strategy and plan to get you to your revenue goals and/or exit strategy you want to target.
Testimonials
"It was amazing that with the short amount of time I spend with Karen, she was spot on in understanding where my business was and she was able to provide me with very helpful advice and guidance on my exit strategy. I had just about given up hope until I met with Karen and she has given me a new lease on life with her great business ideas and areas to focus on which will bring in the biggest bang for the buck" - Henry Norden, Day Spa.
Help for business owners seminar series:
Which ones are right for you? How do they work with your offline marketing efforts?
Karen Mills, with her 16 years in the technology industry including the early days of the internet and a small business owner herself, will give you the insider's perspective, cutting through the hype so you can determine which marketing tactic is valuable for your business and how to implement it effectively.
Karen is one of the few marketing professionals with an excellent track record in sales. Karen has successfully built marketing and sales teams bringing in revenues in the tens to hundreds of millions of dollars. Her marketing campaigns have won awards, her ground-breaking CEO/CFO/CIO round-tables were awarded "Best Practice" at Microsoft and rolled out nationally. Karen has won sales achiever awards to Fiji, Hawaii, Monte Carlo and Singapore. She worked for Oracle, Microsoft and many startups and partnered with HP, IBM, Sun and Internet startups on joint marketing and sales initiatives.
"Karen very quickly was able to pinpoint the reason why we were not getting any prospects from our web-site! She gave us a thorough education on the necessary elements of internet marketing as it relates to our business and outlined a step by step strategy for us to get our web-site ranked on the front page of google so we can start leveraging free internet traffic." - Ralph Matamoros , Spadaro Legal Services.
"Karen was able to coach me on the differences between marketing and sales and how I should go about improving our marketing efforts to secure sponsors for our orchestra, in particular leveraging the internet and integration with an email marketing system. Her step by step recommendations were very clear and easy to understand. She taught me how to figure out the needs of my target market and how to package a solution that met their needs. She has opened up a whole new world of opportunity for us!" - John Hester, freelance musician and faculty member Pepperdine University.
Help for business owners seminar:
Help for Business Owners: Improve your sales skills - learn how to increase sales while saving time.
Karen will share with you her successful secrets in closing sales, managing a pipeline and over-achievement of revenue goals while managing time effectively. You will learn how to
· identify your hot prospects quickly so you can focus on closing them
· stay in front of prospects who are not ready to buy without chewing up your time
· close effectively, selling value instead of product.
· provide a VIP client experience to get repeat business
· train and motivate your sales staff to consistently produce excellent results
Karen Mills, with her 16 years in the technology industry and a business owner herself, will give you the insider's perspective on how to consistently over-achieve revenue goals. Karen as a top performing sales professional and has successfully built sales teams responsible for tens to hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. She has won many top performer awards, promotions and 100% sales achiever clubs to Hawaii, Monte Carlo, Fiji and Singapore. Karen worked for Oracle, Microsoft and many startups and partnered with companies like HP, IBM, Sun etc on joint marketing and sales initiatives before leaving corporate America to start her own small businesses. Karen coaches sales professionals and small business owners, increasing their sales conversion rates while saving them time.
This seminar is free with a donation to the SCV Senior Center Supportive Services Emergency Fund.
Help for business owners seminar:
1:1 leadership coaching
Help for Business Owners: How to motivate and retain your employees so you can get your lives back.
Karen will share with you her secrets in building, leading and retaining successful teams who consistently over-achieve on goals. Today's world has changed and 'old style' of management is no longer effective. If your employees are demotivated, slacking off, rude or surly to your customers or they cannot seem to do anything right without your intervention or they leave once you have
trained them, then this will help you.
Karen Mills, with her 16 years in the technology industry and a business owner herself, will give you her perspective on how to motivate and retain employees. Karen has successfully built and led technical, marketing and sales teams. She was known for rapid turnaround of demotivated teams into high achieving teams and for leading cross-functional teams (ie. working with employees who do not directly report to her) or multi-company teams (working with staff who works for other companies). Karen worked for Oracle, Microsoft and many startups, partnered with companies like HP, IBM, Sun etc on joint marketing and sales initiatives before leaving corporate America to start her own small businesses. Karen coaches small business owners on effective leadership principles giving them their lives back by helping them replicate and scale their businesses by hiring and retaining their best employees.
This seminar is free with a donation to the SCV Senior Center Supportive Services Emergency Fund.
Karen Mills is a self-made business woman. Even though she did not have the typical advantages of parents, childhood, family, friends or a network, she has found ways of not only surviving but winning in the competitive arena of business and in life.
Karen is a 2 times immigrant – from Malaysia to Australia and from Australia to the US. She is an expert in making new starts in new countries, new cities and new careers with no help, no friends and no network.
Her amazing capacity for adapting to a constantly changing environment is the key to her success. Karen holds Bachelor of Science degrees in Chemistry and Computer Science and a graduate Degree in Chemistry, creating 15 new compounds which were published in 2 prestigious scientific publications. Karen was always at the forefront of technology from the early days of the mini-computers, databases, PCs, applications software and the Internet, working for highly successful companies like Oracle, Microsoft, startups and Internet startups like CommerceBid.com and CommerceOne.
Karen worked in every aspect of the technology industry: development, customer support, sales support, marketing, operations, business development, channels and alliances and sales, covering geographies from Australia to Asia-Pacific, US and Canada, UK, Europe and Eastern Europe and Latin America, giving her a 360 degree view of the industry. Her ability to pick startup winners made Karen a millionaire by age 38. Karen left corporate America to focus on her passions and to incubate small businesses.
She has made many difficult life choices along the way to uphold her happiness. Throughout her life, Karen’s coaching and mentoring has changed the lives of hundreds of people and is very rewarding. Karen’s experiments in living life simply with integrity and joy have led her to focus on serving others through her talents. Karen coaches business owners to help them work less, make more money and get their lives back!
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