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Achieve your goals faster with guidance from someone who has done it.
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The offer
Thirty Minutes That Actually Costs You Nothing
Achieve your goals more easily and more quickly with guidance from a business coach who has actually built, scaled and sold businesses. That is the whole pitch, and the first thirty minutes are on me.
This is not a “discovery call” where someone reads a script and books you into a second call with a closer. It is one conversation with me, and by the end of it you will have at least one thing you can go and act on whether or not you ever pay me a cent.
I have founded four businesses and exited two of them, including an IT managed services provider turning over more than $5 million with 24 staff and 160 clients. I have also made expensive mistakes, which is frankly the more useful half of the experience. You can read the long version on the about Rob page and the reasoning behind the approach on why choose Rob.
If we do end up working together, it is monthly onsite sessions, one flat monthly fee, no travel charges and no lock-in contract. The pricing logic is explained openly on the business coaching cost page so there are no surprises waiting at the end of the free half hour.
How it runs
What The Free 30 Minutes Actually Covers
Half an hour is short, so it is structured. Roughly, it goes like this.
- 1
Where the business is right now (about 10 minutes)
You talk, I listen. What you sell, who buys it, how many staff, how long you have been going and what has changed in the last year. I ask questions, I do not present.
- 2
The bit that is actually hurting (about 10 minutes)
We isolate the real constraint rather than the symptom you noticed first. Poor cash flow is usually a pricing, margin or collections problem. High staff turnover is usually a culture or management problem. Naming it correctly is most of the work.
- 3
What I would do first (about 5 minutes)
I tell you the first move I would make if it were my business, in plain English. You keep that advice regardless of what you decide next.
- 4
Whether coaching is worth it for you (about 5 minutes)
An honest read on whether one-on-one coaching would pay for itself in your situation. Sometimes the answer is no, or not yet, and I will say so.
Come prepared
What To Bring To The Call
You do not need to prepare a board pack. A rough handle on these five things is enough to make the half hour count.
- Rough numbers. Annual revenue, gross margin if you know it, headcount and whether the trend is up, flat or down. Ballpark is fine.
- Your biggest frustration. One sentence. The thing you were still thinking about at 11pm last Tuesday.
- What you have already spent money on. Agencies, consultants, software, previous coaches — and what it did or did not deliver.
- What you actually want. More profit, more time off, a team that runs without you, or a business someone would want to buy. They lead to very different plans.
- Your questions for me. Ask about my track record, my failures, my fees, anything. I would rather answer it now than have you wondering later.
- Half an hour without interruptions. Take it somewhere the phone is not ringing. It works far better than a call taken from the ute.
The fine print, minus the fine print
No Obligation And No Sales Pitch
Let me be blunt about what this is not. It is not a free sample designed to trigger a high-pressure close. There is no “special rate if you sign today”, no countdown timer and no follow-up sequence hounding you for six weeks.
If at the end of the half hour you decide coaching is not for you, that is a perfectly good outcome and you will not hear from me again unless you get in touch. If you decide it is, we agree a start date and a flat monthly fee, and you can stop any month you are not getting value — the terms are on my guarantee page.
There is a reason I run it this way. A coach who has to lock clients into contracts is a coach who is not confident the work speaks for itself. I would rather earn the next month every month, which is also why every client review is from someone who chose to stay.
The deal
What You Get If We Work Together
No Contracts, Just Results
Fixed Monthly Pricing
20+ Years In The Trenches
Monthly Onsite Strategy
Straight Talk, Zero Ego
Founder-Speed Support 24/7
After the 30 minutes
Fall Back In Love With Your Business
Most owners who ring me are not failing. They are tired. The business works, but it eats every hour they have and they cannot see where the next level comes from.
The work itself runs across six areas — coaching, culture, customer service, cyber security, digital marketing and IT systems. Real results from that work include cutting a client’s digital marketing spend from $5,000 a month to $1,250, dropping IT spend from $3,500 a month to $500, and lifting staff retention from six weeks to more than twelve months.
You can see how the whole approach fits together on the 6 Pillars page. But the honest starting point is still a half-hour conversation about your business, not a framework diagram.
Two ways in
How To Lock In Your Free Half Hour
Fill in the form at the top of this page with your details and a line about what you need help with, and I will come back to you to arrange a time that suits.
If you would rather just talk, ring 1300 59 00 82 during business hours, Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm Melbourne time. Full address, hours and enquiry detail are on the contact page.
Melbourne sessions are face to face at your premises. Sydney and Brisbane are covered on regular trips, and everywhere else works by video call.
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Free Consultation Questions, Answered
Is the 30-minute consultation genuinely free?
Yes. No card, no deposit, no catch. You will not be invoiced for it and there is nothing to cancel afterwards.
I run it free because it is the fastest way for both of us to work out whether coaching would be worth your money.
How does the free chat happen — phone, video or in person?
Whatever suits you. Phone is the most common, video works well, and if you are in Melbourne I am happy to come to you.
Tell me your preference in your enquiry and I will work around it.
Do I need to prepare anything beforehand?
Nothing formal. Rough revenue, headcount and a clear idea of your biggest frustration is plenty.
If you have a P&L handy it helps, but I am far more interested in what is happening in the business than in a spreadsheet.
Will you try to sell me a coaching package on the call?
No. If coaching is a fit I will say so and tell you what it costs, once, and then it is your call.
If it is not a fit, I will tell you that too. Selling coaching to someone who does not need it is how coaches end up with the reputation they have.
Can I bring my business partner or general manager?
Please do. If two people share the decision, it saves you relaying everything second hand and it usually surfaces the disagreement that is actually holding things up.
What happens if we are not a good fit?
Then we are not, and you still keep whatever advice came out of the half hour.
Where I can, I will point you toward something better suited — sometimes that is the Business Networking Club, which costs a fraction of one-on-one coaching.
How soon can we have the conversation?
Usually within the same working week, depending on where the monthly client sessions fall. Ring rather than write if the timing is tight.
What happens after the free consultation if I want to start?
We agree a start date, a flat monthly fee and a monthly onsite session locked into both calendars. No contract, no exit fee and no travel charges.
You stay only while you are seeing value, which is the whole basis of my guarantee.
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