Small group coaching = Marketing Salon

How is business? Are you committed to the regular, ongoing marketing necessary for a viable business — not to mention a vibrant one? 30 minutes of marketing coaching can make a big difference to to the growth of your business.

In small group coaching programs called Marketing Salons, participants get ongoing face-to-face support, are held accountable for their goals, and get expert marketing coaching to help them reach their goals.

More single session Marketing Salons:

4 people each get 30 minutes expert coaching on their marketing then 5 minutes comments from the group. Clarify next steps, explore your marketing message, or just get unstuck. Bonus: everyone learns from listening to each other AND from offering useful suggestions to each other. Plus it’s fun!

The space is limited – register early. Cost $75 for the 3 hour session. Email Barbara or call 425-775-2715.

2012 dates coming soon!

Read below the photos to see comments from satisfied participants.

Do you want better results from your marketing?

I’m looking for a few business owners who want to make their marketing more strategic, more focused, and more effective. Marketing Salons generate great ideas, provide support, and create forward momentum to reach goals. Marketing Salons are an elegant and affordable solution to feeling stuck or isolated.

Here’s how they work: each person gets 30 minutes of focused coaching, then 5 minutes for comments from the group. You’ll learn from listening to your peers, and get great suggestions as they comment. Support grows each month as the group gets better acquainted.

Give yourself and your business the gift of structured, ongoing marketing support and see the difference it will make to your marketing and your business.

Enroll now! Call or email Barbara to register or to answer your questions.

Marketing coaching is a hybrid of consulting (marketing strategy, expertise, suggestions) and coaching (encouragement, sounding board, reinforcement). Both include incisive questioning, observations from an outside perspective, and access to my brain full of ideas, with a ready dose of humor.

The 2011 Marketing Salons will help you gallop to success

Marketing Salons help you to reach your goals with accountability and support in a small group. Groups meet in person every 2 weeks for 2.5 hours. You get 30 minutes individual coaching then 5 minutes of comments from the group. (limit 4 people)

3 new marketing coaching groups begin in May. Each has the same structure, but a different focus. Includes valuable worksheets. These programs cost between $300 and $465. Pay by check, or by credit card through PayPal. Prices on PayPal include their transaction fees.

Transform your marketing - Go from dreading to enjoying marketing and see improved results.

Explore what you do and don’t like about marketing.
Prepare to change your mind.
Find effective ways to market for you and your business.
Each member gets 30 minutes of individual F2F coaching plus suggestions from the group.
Four 2.5 hour sessions meeting every 2 weeks.
Dates TBD in North Seattle. (limit 4 people)

Create your marketing plan – Sustainable Marketing = actions you can keep doing so that they produce results.

Identify what your marketing program needs.
Brainstorm new approaches.
Make your plan to get results.
Learn a simple way to use and implement your plan.
Each member gets 30 minutes of individual F2F coaching plus suggestions from the group.
Three 2.5 hour sessions meeting every 2 weeks, plus 1 hour individual coaching.
Dates TBD in North Seattle. (limit 4 people)

Develop your marketing message - a clear, authentic message helps people identify you as someone they want to work with.

Develop the core concept that will inform all your marketing.
Prepare to dig deep to generate a powerful idea.
Learn from others’ examples.
Define your target market/audience.
Identify their wants and needs.
Learn about your competition
Each member gets 30 minutes of individual F2F coaching plus suggestions from the group.
Three 2.5 hour sessions meeting every 2 weeks, plus 2 hours individual coaching.
Dates TBD in North Seattle. (limit 4 people)

Enroll now!

Call Barbara at 425-775-2715 or email to register or to answer your questions.

What participants are saying about marketing coaching

“My marketing strategy has always been “stay off the phone and wait for someone to call who wants my services”. This has worked for years to a degree, but when I was ready to move to the next step and increase my volume of clients, I wasn’t sure of the best place to begin putting out energy to make myself more visible. I needed to bounce my ideas off someone with lots of experience in marketing in order to use my time and resources well. It was very affordable to join Barbara’s marketing salon, and that helped me commit to the series of sessions.

Brainstorming with other business owners in an intimate setting and hearing about their challenges and successes gave me more confidence in choosing my own directions. Being part of the Marketing Salon has been an invaluable experience, and helped me broaden my understanding in the area of marketing.

Barbara helped me streamline, refine, and improve ideas I already had, and she introduced me to new ideas I had not thought of. The presence of the other business owners in my group added to the experience exponentially, and having accountability partners was invaluable.

I highly recommend Barbara and her marketing salons, they have been a wonderful experience. She has a creative and imaginative mind and focuses right in on your goals, adding value all the way. Her encouragement and wisdom has helped me to move forward at a steady pace.”

Alexandra Immel, Alexandra Immel Residential Design

“As a member of Barbara’s Marketing Salon, I have received tremendously valuable support around my marketing efforts. Sharing my experiences, challenges and opportunities with a group of peers has been especially beneficial because we all come from different industries and have unique perspectives. I’ve brainstormed solutions to marketing issues with my fellow “Salon-ites”, while receiving Barbara’s focused and compassionate coaching on MY marketing issues and concerns. In addition, Barbara provides materials, resources, and support in between our meetings to support us on our journey. I’ve truly changed my relationship to marketing my business by attending these Marketing Salons.”

Victoria Dzenis, Serene Coaching

“Why a marketing salon? If you want to be supported in your struggles (fears, misconceptions…) about marketing.
If you want to explore new options and possibilities, the feedback you’ll get from Barbara and the other participants is invaluable.
If you need to be held accountable to really do something you should have done weeks or months ago.
So much of our marketing strategies is dictated by who we are, that you will most certainly also discover a little more of who you are.”

Mélanie Holt, Inner Gravity Rolfing