How Much Does It Cost to Get Professional Business Coaching?

The fee is the smaller number. The real cost is what you pay for the next year of working alone.

Owners search for a price, so here is the honest structure first, then the part most pricing articles skip.

What you will see

Prices vary widely.

In general, you are choosing between:

• One-on-one coaching. One person, focused on you. Good at an early stage.

• A peer advisory board. A facilitated group of owners, plus a shared operating system. Better once you pass roughly $1 million in revenue and the problems get complicated.

• Do-it-yourself. Free in dollars, expensive in time and mistakes.

Judge it by return, not price

Here is the question to ask: what is one good decision worth to my business?

If a group helps you avoid a single bad hire, fix a pricing mistake, or win back one stalled deal, the fee can disappear into one conversation. Think about what one wrong senior hire costs you in salary, lost time, and morale.

We hear from members that the return starts in month one. That makes sense. From day one you get access to the Business BluePrint and to owners who have already faced your problem and solved it. You do not wait six months to start applying what you hear.

The evidence

Research on peer advisory groups points to strong sales growth for members compared with owners who go without one.

Remove the risk

TAB Austin offers a three-month trial with a money-back guarantee. If you do not find the return, you get your money back.

I would rather lose a refund than keep a member who is not getting value.

Questions to ask any provider

1. What specifically will change in my business, and how will we know?

2. What happens if it is not working?

3. Who else at my size has used this, and what happened?

4. What is the commitment term?

The cost of waiting

The owners I talk to rarely regret joining. They regret the two years they spent solving things alone first.

If you want to see what you would be paying for before you pay anything, come to a TAB Austin CEO Roundtable.