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Internet Business Coaching Too Pricey? One Affordable Option

By Lillea Woodlyns

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Internet business coaching can jumpstart your online business phenomenally.

Professional coaching can be pricey, yet one of the most common things you hear from successful marketers is that having a coach or mentor made a huge difference for their business. One of the greatest regrets they have is not getting it sooner.

Fortunately there are coaching options that are not as costly as exclusive one-on-one coaching. One of them is joining a paid internet business coaching forum.

If the forum is a good and very active, there are heaps of benefits. For example, you can get feedback from the coach(es) AND other forum members and also make connections to set up things like JV partnerships.

Although there are several good free marketing forums online, a good paid forum is much better when it comes to coaching. Why? Membership is usually lower so more attention can be given to each person. Also, the coach running the forum needs to provide value to keep members interested and willing to pay the monthly fee.

How to Find a Good Coaching Forum

First figure out which marketers are worth paying attention to.

Take care with this step because top marketers are not always good coaches and may not know how to run a paid membership forum properly.

5 Tips:

1. Ask for recommendations.

Join free internet marketing forums like the famous Warrior Forum and connect with other marketers on sites like Twitter. Make it clear where you're at and where you'd ideally like to be with your business. That way recommendations are more likely to be tailored to your needs.

2. Find out if the price is all-inclusive or if you have to pay extra for various features and services.

3. Check out other sites that the coach/marketer operates.

Do you like the approach and style? Do they seem honorable? Explain things clearly? If they are on Twitter, do you find their tweets interesting or useful or are they simply churning out sales pitches?

4. Connect with people who are active members of the coaching forum you're interested in.

Some questions to ask:

- is the forum very active? do people usually get answers quickly, within 24-48 hrs?

- are the coaches answering questions or is it mostly forum members who answer?

- are there any notable members who add special expertise and value to the forum?

- are there exclusive tools for members to build sites, research keywords, etc?

- how have they been helped so far?

5. Give a forum a trial run of at least a month or two.

Don't renew your membership if you aren't satisfied with the help on the forum, but give the forum a chance to improve by stating your concerns respectfully in a post or private message.

Internet business coaching is worthwhile and can be very affordable if you're willing to do a bit of research into options like paid coaching forums. With the right questions and answers you can find a forum that is well suited to your needs, skyrocketing your business in ways that may amaze you.

Lillea Woodlyns, online entrepreneur and business blogger, is very grateful for the help she gets on James Schramko's internet business coaching forum at http://www.superfastresultsnow.com

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