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Internet Coach
The larger Internet Coaching companies may be legit, but I'm
still working on determining that.
When I make that determination to
my own satisfaction, I'll tell you about it in a future edition of
this Newsletter.
This particular
article is intended to explain why a legitimate Internet
Business Coaching company would have to charge the kinds of high
fees that so many Coaching companies ask for (anywhere from $3,000
to $6,000 or more)
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Internet Coach
A large Coaching
company will have many people working for them in the same set of
offices.
Let me give you an idea of what that costs them, by telling
you about what it costs us to run our offices.
Whenever you
bring a group of people to work for you in a closed environment,
like an office setting, it costs a lot of money.
I can attest
to that personally. My company,WorldWideBrands
employs many people in our offices near Orlando, Florida. My
Partners and I spent a great deal of money setting up those offices,
and a great deal more bringing on the (excellent) staff of
people we have here.
Once you have
the office space, which isn't cheap to begin with, you need to furnish
that office space. Desks, chairs, file cabinets, tables. Those
plastic things that you put on the floor that your chairs roll
around on (you wouldn't believe what those things cost!).
Staplers, paper, pens, sticky notes, and places to store and
organize your office supplies. Restroom supplies. A refrigerator for
everybody's soft drinks and lunches. Signs for the building and the
doors.
Then, you
need Phone Service.....
Thousands of
dollars for digital phone systems that run multiple lines over a
digital (T1) phone connection. An 800 number. Thousands per month in
phone service and long distance bills.
Of course,
you can't run a business without Computers.!
A PC for
every employee, and a couple of extras for training use. A Server
Computer to function as a central data storage location, and to run
nightly backups of all your data.
Thousands of dollars worth of
software licensed for all your computers and your Server. Printers
and a Fax Machine. A Network Router and Hubs.
The Computers
are useless unless they can connect to the Internet, so you shell
out more money for a High-Speed Business Internet Connection that
can handle the load when all your employees are working on the Net
at the same time, which they almost always do.
What happens
if there's theft, or an accident?
You are required
to pay for Business Insurance to protect yourself against loss,
and against someone being injured at your location. Of course, you
need to pay for Alarm System installation and maintenance before you
can even get the Business Insurance. Then you have
bills for Power, Water, and sometimes Natural Gas.
You have to keep
the lights on and the air conditioning running, or you're going
nowhere fast.
When that's all paid for, the real costs begin!
Whenever
you employ people, you have large expenses associated with that
employment.
We provide a great Medical, Dental, Vision and Life
Insurance Plan to our employees, as does anyone with a real business
location. That costs us a lot, every month. Then there's
Unemployment Insurance that we have to pay, and Workman's
Compensation Insurance. There's Human Resources Outsourcing,
Training Programs, Overtime, Bonuses, and the occasional Group
Lunch.
And that doesn't even take Payroll into account!
What
it all boils down to is that placing a group of people in an Office
environment costs a ton of money.
Be glad that you are
setting yourself up to work from home!
We
maintain our Staff and our Offices for the sole purpose of
researching and publishing OneSource
and
. Doing that takes all of the expenses and resources I've listed
above, plus a lot more to operate our sites and pay for research
materials and advertising.
When we work on our Directories, we are
all working on the same thing.
All of the attention of the Owners
and Employees of our company is focused on one thing, all the time: Researching and Publishing OneSource
and the related
information you see on our site.
Now,
imagine what it takes for a Coaching Company to put
twenty or thirty people in an office setting, and then dedicate
each one of those people to working with only a few of
their clients for months at a time!
Each one of those very costly employees can only work on just a
small part of their business for them: maybe eight or ten clients
that have signed up for Internet Business Coaching.
That's the only
way they can truly provide quality service to their Coaching
clients.
So,
when I see these companies charging $3,000 to $6,000 and more for
several months of personal Coaching, I do understand why
they need to do that! In order to provide quality
One-on-One service
to their Coaching clients, they have no choice but to charge that
much.
All that money does not go into their pockets!
Most of
it goes just to maintain the business itself.
That
doesn't mean, however, that they are providing quality
service. As I said, I'm still researching that.
The three companies
I have found look good so far, but I haven't gotten far enough in my
research yet to recommend any of them personally. When I do, any
recommendations I have will be posted in our Resource Center
and sent out in our FREE Opt-In Dropship Newsletter
Once
I form my opinion, I hope it will help you to form your own
opinion. :o)
Chris
Malta
