How We Work
Elevating Your Business works side-by-side with our clients as their trusted advisor and partner. Our goal is to help you increase their bottom line, be more productive, work smarter and live a high quality life. And we just don't say that -- we help you do it!
Every clients we accept (we don't accept everyone who requests our services as clients) utilizes our proven to work proprietary process called Corporate Secrets, and the One Page Business Plan®
We work with our clients in ONE specific area: Systemization!
Systematizing is about planning and creating systems for as many areas of your business as possible.
- Systems make up the foundation of businesses.
- Systems allow you to spend time elsewhere -- where you want.
- System provide your company with a framework for written systems that can be tweaked and made better and better as it grows.
- Systems help your company increase sales, attract better clients, bring traffic to your website and generate a consistent stream of prospects.
- Systems help you and your staff make better decisions,
- Systems create consistency within the company and make cross-training and training in general an easier task
What Systems? Below is just a sample:*
- Business and marketing plan
- Value proposition
- Ideal client profile
- Networking and elevator speech system.
- Systems for online marketing
- Pricing strategies (one of our major specialties)
- Marketing funnel and new income streams.
- Hiring and firing process
- Financial systems, forecasts and reports
- Operating policies.
- Collection processes.
- Strategic alliance system.
- Productivity and incentive strategies.
- New products/service marketing strategies.
- Training systems.
We have a team of business owners we consult with and provide our clients. They work with B2Bs who provide any additional resources, like graphic design website, legal assistance, sales coaching, copywriting, and more...
What's It Like To Work With Us?
Well, when you hire us or use our products you can expect the following results:
You'll be more focused. There are so many things to think about in business and so much coming at you daily! After creating your one-page business and marketing plan, clients report that they finally feel like they can breath again.
You'll make more money. Focused marketing naturally leads to more business. You'll take a fresh look at your ideal clients and how you can reach them. By monitoring your efforts, you'll catch things quicker. Most clients find that they're reaching their milestones even quicker than they originally thought. Many of our clients increased their income and productivity, earning 1/3 to 1/2 more in as little as six months.
You'll make better decisions, easier. First of all, when a person is constantly in emergency mode the chances of making mistakes is high. Our clients find it amazing that by re-creating their business foundation they're making meaningful long term decisions based on strategies rooted in solid information. Out of emergency mode, they've created "reserves" of what's important. There are two extra bonuses here. First, you'll start noticing yourself saying "no" more often -- even to good things, because you're striving for excellent things. Another is saying yes to better opportunities.
You'll enjoy your business again. When you shift your focus back to what is important you will enjoy your business more and become re-energized. At first, my clients hire others to do what they don't enjoy. Then they start hiring them to complete tasks that they are good at but that aren't the best use of their time. That goes for at home, too. It's very common for clients to hire cleaning help, landscapers and personal assistants, too
You'll consistently attract better clients. Focused marketing leads you to attract your ideal clients. By taking all that is in your head, and putting it on paper, you increase clarity and focus. Then even how you speak about your company becomes clearer to those you meet and even to your current clients. They'll understand who your clients are like they've never understood before and in return will be able to refer you better, too.
You'll have more time for fun and an improved personal life. It's a fact. Working harder and longer hours only makes you very tired. By taking back control of their business or department clients experience less stress, work fewer hours, and watch their revenue increase. In fact, one of our clients wanted to only work 1 day a week, and she created the management and systems necessary to do just that!
What We Value In Business
I believe these things about business:
Increased earnings are mandatory. You're in business to make money, not to run a not-for-profit. We work very closely with our clients to help them reduce expenses and increase their earnings.
Self-employment is not an option. Your business is an investment in your future. If it's been just a job, we work with you to make a shift in mind-set from being self-employed to owning your business as an investment. Whether or not you want to sell it, work one day a month, or provide it to your heirs, its investment in your future -- not a job.
Providing employment is a gift. To me, there is no better gift we can give others, than to provide them with a job or consultancy in a company whose leader loves what they do and treats them very well.
Success is what you determine it is. As you're completing your intake form you'll notice that you're answering many personal and business questions about your short and long term goals. That's to help me learn what success means to you, because it's YOUR definition of success that important to the process!
Planning is very important and measuring results matter. You'll have access to a variety of step-by-step planning and measuring tools. In fact, once you compete your intake form and we discuss it, the first goal we have together is to complete your business and marketing plan. That's how we'll establish your objectives and determine the criteria for tracking your progress.
My Approach - Very New Yorkish - Like ME
Although I didn't know it until I moved out of New York, I'm told that I fit the profile of a stereotypical New Yorker. I will tell you the truth over being nice every day (no matter what). I love life in all it's diverseness and am carefully adventurous. I am opinionated and have an extreme number of solutions, resources and ideas for just about every problem imaginable. You won't find me quitting something anytime soon. And oh, when it come trusting, I'm not a quick truster. But when I do trust, I stick like glue and am very loyal.
The work we'll do together will be a mix of difficult, awful, frustrating, exciting, wonderful, and lots of fun. Hey, change -- even good change -- isn't easy. If you want to start working together and don't intend on creating a business/marketing plan first, I can't work with you. If there are reasons why you can't schedule the time to do the work that's necessary, don't hire me. If you don't plan on making major and minor changes to your business, don't hire me. If you have a negative, I've done that before and it can't work, suffering, victim attitude, don't hire me. And if you need someone to hold your hand, let's find you someone else to work with.
I'm bottom line, no BS, lets get going, life is short, here's the gentle kick in the ass you need, sort of person. And my clients tell me, often, that they wouldn't want me to be any other way!
What's Different About Us
Now-a-days, when you hire someone to help you grow your business, you have many choices. So one thing to do is look at what sets us apart from the rest.
- We offer a full range of "on demand" business services -- coach, mentor, marketing strategist, computer trainer and Internet veteran. If at a session you want to be trained or have us work on your business plan by asking you questions -- then that's what you'll get! If you want to pick Maria's brain on a subject, you'll get that. Ask and it will be yours.
- Forget about getting a dust collecting long reports from us that outlines problems you know you have. We just don't do that sort of thing.
- As you'll see below, our clients who reap the most benefit do so by making a commitment to a one year process, but we offer a variety of programs and even customized programs for our clients, too.
Goals with action = results.
- We provide effective evaluations that help you determine where you are so you can get where you want to be.
- Do not hire Elevating Your Business if you're not willing to do the work that will help you reach your desired results. We have high standards and so do our clients. Expect you to keep appointments, do the homework you agree to do, and keep agreements we've made.
- We do not take on every client who contacts us and we have had to fire clients because we couldn't keep taking their money when they weren't willing to do the work the agreed upon.
- Our monthly program clients get "urgent calls"when you need them. There is no reason to stay stuck and every reason to get results.
Partnering
- We partner with you and are driven to help you focus on the results that will help you succeed.
- We're very much into helping our clients find SIMPLE solutions to doing complicated and complex things. You'll become more efficient, effective and focused and create systems that are easy to update.
Experience
- As one of my former coaches, Edie,once told me, "you've run departments with larger budgets than many companies -- you know business." You'll receive the experience of someone who has been deeply entrenched in business for more than 30 years and have worked in or with just about every department a company has to offer.
- Need a resource? No problem-o! Maria's been called "The Resource Queen" and can rattle off website names, books, and solutions that help our clients get unstuck-- quickly.
- And if we don't do it, we have a team of experts in their fields available to assist you.
Your Place or Ours
- logistically, we work with you in a way that will help your company the most be it at your place, a private place, or our place -- by phone, in Seattle or Poulsbo, WA.
- We have done training all over the United States and Canada, and are open to working with you in your global business, too.
How it works
Our basic structure is simple: phone consultation time weekly for 12 months plus unlimited email access in between. Then we work together step-by-step, executing task-by-task, to achieve those goals. Learn more about our different plans here.
REVIEW: You begin by completing our Intake Form where you'll define your life and business goals and set a few quantifiable goals.
PLAN: You'll develop a one-page business and marketing plan and we'll be there guiding you in the process. At the end of each session you'll determine 3 tasks to complete before the next session.
PERFORM: Complete the Success Tracker and keep me up to date on your progress and concerns between calls. Get more help during your session. We'll be there for you on the phone and Your mentor will be with you every step of the way.
PROFIT: Join our clients who earn more, most doubling their incomes, or who have more free time because that's what they wanted.
If you don't need 1:1 help but do need help we also have Millionaire Business Mastermind groups that meet online and on the phone.
What's Next?
Now that you have a real good idea about the results to expect, how we work and our approach, it's time to learn more about the specific services we offer. Click here now.
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