{"id":3071,"date":"2008-08-13T20:39:22","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T01:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/13\/tips-on-expert-mentors-to-help-solve-internet-business-problems\/"},"modified":"2008-08-13T20:39:22","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T01:39:22","slug":"tips-on-expert-mentors-to-help-solve-internet-business-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/?p=3071","title":{"rendered":"Tips on Expert Mentors to help Solve Internet Business Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style='italic;' class='uawbyline'>by Bob B. Hamilton<\/div>\n<p>If you are considering using an expert mentor in your internet marketing business, you want to get the greatest possible results.  Hiring and expert mentor involves spending money.  It also requires your time and commitment to work closely with your expert mentor.  After all this isn&#8217;t just sitting with a group of fellow students in a classroom.  It isn&#8217;t sitting for an hour listening to a tele-seminar.  You are risking your internet marketing business and your reputation on the final outcome of the collaboration.  You must be able to work together to achieve the best possible results from the time you work with your mentor.<\/p>\n<p>You must have faith in the ability of any expert mentor that you select.  Thoroughly investigate their expertise and check their references before making a final decision.  Any expert mentor you select should be committed to you and the positive impact they have on your business.  Make sure you have no doubt about their plans and outcomes for the coaching they will be doing.  For your part, know there will be feedback, direction, assignments, and deliverables as a part of the mentoring process.  You must be ready, willing and able to deal with each of them appropriately.<\/p>\n<p>Commit to take decisive action exactly as you are told.  You must feel obligated to follow all orders and directions precisely as they are given.  This isn&#8217;t a time for shortcuts.  Understand exactly what everything means.  If there are instructions being given, then make sure they are crystal clear before moving on.  Manage everything as if it were part of a project.  That means you must create a project plan that includes all key assignments from your expert mentor, and the end dates for each.  Finish every assignment, exactly as defined, on or before the deadline.  Success when using an expert mentor is a shared responsibility.  Each of you must focus on the targeted results.<\/p>\n<p>Carefully screen several mentor candidates before making a final decision.  Consider not only your working style and the reputation, testimonials and style of the mentor, but also the problems you are currently facing.  The most common problems and issues revolve around the actual startup of your internet marketing business, problems and issues that you simply cannot resolve alone, and taking your already functioning business to the next level of performance.<\/p>\n<p>A properly selected expert mentor can have a major positive impact on results being achieved by your internet marketing business in very short order.  Since the problems being faced are so different the final results can vary greatly depending on the credentials of the mentor you select.<\/p>\n<p>A new startup business requires a significant amount of coaching and direction.  That&#8217;s especially true if you lack prior experience starting and managing a new business.  The startup issues can be totally overwhelming.  They include obtaining the correct licenses and permits for your locality, wages and taxes, interviewing, staffing and managing employees, technology implementation, product identification and development and much more.  In fact, the startup process can become a rocky road indeed if the correct steps aren&#8217;t taken.   That&#8217;s where an expert mentor can help steer your internet marketing business to a velvety smooth take-off.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most frustrating things that can happen to any business is to run into problems that just plain seem impossible to solve. Often the <a href=\"http:\/\/multimillionaireblog.info\" class=\"kblinker\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More about entrepreneur &raquo;\">entrepreneur<\/a> can identify the problem, but no matter how hard you work, the problem just stays right there, blocking all forward progress.  What seems impossible to solve can be easy for an expert mentor.  That coach can come in and quickly help you identify the exact problem, and then the best course of action to get it resolved.  You see the problem solving process, the options that appear, and then you learn as the problem is resolved right before your eyes.<\/p>\n<p>There is never an end to the challenge of continually taking your business to the next higher level of performance.  Yet this next higher level of performance may be completely new to you.  The right expert mentor knows what to do and how to do it.  This highly skilled expert mentor will likely be more expensive.  Yet achieving the results that come with this new level will make hiring them a good decision.<\/p>\n<p>Every business finds that it needs help at some point.  That includes every internet marketing business.  Minimize the risks and maximize the results by carefully selecting an expert mentor for your business.<\/p>\n<p>To your internet marketing success!<\/p>\n<div class='uawresource'>\n<div style='italic;' class='uawabout'>About the Author:<\/div>\n<div class='uawlinks'>Do you want to know more about internet marketing?  Download my free eBook on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketingsuccesscenter.com\">internet marketing<\/a>.  Bob Hamilton is an entrepreneur, author, writer, business consultant and trainer.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are considering using an expert mentor in your internet marketing business, you want to get the greatest possible results.  Hiring and expert mentor involves spending money.  It also requires your time and commitment to work closely with your expert mentor.  After all this isn&#8217;t just sitting with a group of fellow students in a classroom.  It isn&#8217;t sitting for an hour listening to a tele-seminar.  You are risking your internet marketing business and your reputation on the final outcome of the collaboration.  You must be able to work together to achieve the best possible results from the time you work with your mentor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1462,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-3071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing","tag-marketing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1462"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}