Texas_Signmaker
Very Active Signmaker
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Hiring a business coach
- Thread starter gnubler
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Boudica
I'm here for Educational Purposes
You should make a sign out of "s101wordcloud3" and put it up in your new office!
Boudica
I'm here for Educational Purposes
Because neither of those shapes were available in the shape library, and I didn't want to take the time to make a penis... I was at work after all.
Johnny Best
Active Member
I am so glad God did not say that when he made Adam.
gnubler
Active Member
This just reminded me of the time I got banned from another work forum for posting a word cloud. It took some planning, but the biggest word ended up being BEER. It was a corporate site and the admins were not pleased. 
Back on topic, I swear Signs of the Times magazine lurks around the forum for article ideas. Lots of coincidences related to threads I start: https://signsofthetimes.com/should-i-hire-a-business-coach/
And coincidentally I'm back to this, revisiting the idea of hiring a coach to help me with growth of the business.
ColorCrest
All around shop helper.
If you can afford the time, maybe spend an hour to watch Maggie Harlow's interview from the sign shop coaching podcasters of the Better Sign Shop folks.
Good luck.
Boudica
I'm here for Educational Purposes
Is this from the 80's?
Notarealsignguy
Arial - it's almost helvetica
Nope and you aren't either. Just sayin
Johnny Best
Active Member
Took my oldest son to a summer baseball camp some 35 years ago for pitching.
I stuck around to listen what these coaches were telling the kids. First guy up was a ex semi pro pitcher who was about 60 years old. He stood in front of the group and I was anticipating some sort of Yoda information. All he said was and then walked off. His words, ‘if you want to win games, throw strikes’.
To be honest, never was a good businessman. Never had a plan. Made mistakes and made sure I did not repeat them. But I did learn to throw a nasty curveball and strikes.
if you have talent, everything will work out.
I stuck around to listen what these coaches were telling the kids. First guy up was a ex semi pro pitcher who was about 60 years old. He stood in front of the group and I was anticipating some sort of Yoda information. All he said was and then walked off. His words, ‘if you want to win games, throw strikes’.
To be honest, never was a good businessman. Never had a plan. Made mistakes and made sure I did not repeat them. But I did learn to throw a nasty curveball and strikes.
if you have talent, everything will work out.
gnubler
Active Member
And if you don't? Some of us struggle more than others with life in general.
Johnny Best
Active Member
Well then, you need a Life Coach not a Business Coach. If you work hard and get talent you will feel superior to others and not worry about things you use to worry about.
Johnny Best
Active Member
I think that guy lives in Reading, PA.
gnubler
Active Member
Ha! The intro sure looked and sounded like it.
I watched it and I REALLY enjoyed Maggie's story. She lost her job at a family business, knew she wasn't cut out to be someone's employee, so decided to open a sign shop. I can relate.
Skip ahead and start watching at the 7 1/2 minute mark, the beginning is just a bunch of pointless chit chat.
That podcast has a bunch of good stuff, I'm playing them while I work. Stacy, this one might interest you: How to grow your sign shop in a small town. Sounds like you're already doing a lot of what's discussed.
gnubler
Active Member
I'd last about ten minutes with that freak. Exhausting!
DL Signs
Never go against the family
Two of the tech certificates I have are Lean Manufacturing and Critical Business Skills, the kind of stuff coaches and classes shove down people's throats, companies waste money sending people to, and they don't really fit into much of the "sign shop" industry. Most of their stuff focuses on streamlining assembly line type manufacturing, distribution processes, and labor management to maximize output. It just doesn't fit, or benefit small "job shop" type businesses that change direction, jobs, and processes, often several times a day. We're not in the widget making scenario where the "usual methods" benefit. They're about as useful for a small sign shop as Gino's life coach
Save your money. Get involved with your local business community, B2B organizations, Chamber of Commerce, find out what businesses need, and cater to it. Hit up factories, always good for repeat business. Banks source a lot of graphics and signage locally. Hit up realtors that handle commercial spaces for leads/ referrals. Bars, stay away from, too many can't pay their bill.... But it's ok to patronize them
Save your money. Get involved with your local business community, B2B organizations, Chamber of Commerce, find out what businesses need, and cater to it. Hit up factories, always good for repeat business. Banks source a lot of graphics and signage locally. Hit up realtors that handle commercial spaces for leads/ referrals. Bars, stay away from, too many can't pay their bill.... But it's ok to patronize them
JBurton
Signtologist
This is super true, until a point where you're making signs by the location & new builds only, at which point you are dealing with widgets, those widgets are small sign shops, and you need to leverage all of these critical business skills to strong arm them into getting signs on the wall at midnight. At that point we call them a national and their rate is at least 25% beyond what local customers pay...