Affordable IM coaches/mentors?

Hi Jassen, I must take objection to this advice. Your doubts are not warranted. Let me explain why...

You may doubt that you can get coaching for around $30 month with direct access to your coach/mentor/sponsor (however you want say it) but you CAN! Why would someone do this? It's simple really...

Because if the system is setup properly, then by the coach helping that one particular person and many others at the same time, they will earn residual income off the efforts of the said student. This is why someone would and do offer coaching for their services.

This is a terrible waste of time and a good way to get a newbie to quickly become overwhelmed with too much information and paralysis. IMHO

I used to think that coaching for $100 - 500 was ideal since that was my budget years ago.

Now I don't mind spending $3000+ to break into new industries to learn stuff that makes others $10,000+ monthly and beyond.

It also doesn't completely make sense for highly successful marketers to provide coaching for peanuts compared to what they're making.

You want a pricing level that reflects the quality of the teaching that you're getting. Even at $5000+ the coaching should be excellent as long as the support and guidance are there. Tangible results and constant guidance are needed to really make it happen for you.

Back in early 2009 I was part of one of the vaguest and scammiest programs there was and it cost me a pretty heft amount to be part of it.

I don't regret being part of it because it was part of a process that led me to be where i am now.

The worst mindset to have in this situation is to think that all coaches are scams. That's obviously not true. But finding coaches who will grind with you and work with you until you make it can be a little hard to find.

I seriously recommend saving at least $3000 - 4000 before you jump in with any mentor. Some might charge more than that but that's at least a good amount to start with to ensure a decent $3,000ish monthly income with the proper effort.

If you need some guidance reach out and PM me. I have a list of people i have researched that you can look into.

It all depends on exactly what you are looking for in a coach/mentor.

One on One, personal coaching you probably won't get for less than $5k especially with email and skype access to them.

If you're looking for a coaching type product to point you in the right direction and preferably get you bringing some money in the near future (30-90 days) then Quick Start Challenge is a good choice. I talk about it on my blog as well.

The thing is that a lot of people don't understand is that most people don't have 5k to drop without much thought. If you are not in a position to lay out that kind of money then a low cost coaching product or membership can get you earning some money so you feel more comfortable spending more on high end coaching with the same person.

Even if you are certain the coaching you are about to purchase is from a quality coach it can still be quite a leap for some.

And yes the time of a quality coach is the biggest thing that causes the price to rise. Because, there is no way they could help everyone personally if 30 a month was the price. The price rises to keep their profits up while still having manageable groups of students.

Chris Farrell has a good membership for 37 a month I believe. He has a lot of content on there and forum and things but to get one on one time with him you are still looking at the high ticket price.

For a streamlined approach in 4 or 5 weeks of "do this, then this, then that" in easy to understand and easy to digest and implement chunks then Quick Start may be for you as I mentioned above.

Well care to elaborate on what you mean rather than giving vague criticism?

I'm assuming a lot of newbies will be looking at this thread so elaborating for their sake might be worth the effort.

Edit: Well I just read your thread about this and a few things need clarification. Not all people who succeed need coaches and I suppose you would group these people as the "lucky ones".

What you seem to be most against are these coaches who charge several grand to join their programs. While I agree that you don't necessarily need to link arms with these coaches to succeed it's hard to argue with the results many of them have with their students. I'm not saying that the success of the students justifies the coaching fee, just hear me out.

I take a very particular view of the payment for these programs, and I hope others at least understand my point here. The first coaching program i took up years ago was a disaster for me. I wasted about $3000 on coaching, which back then was a ton for me to give up, but it was the fact that i had to come up with it creatively and through some very out-of-the-box methods that most people don't think about.

The point is, I didn't let not having that money initially stop me from joining; I did whatever it took to get the money together because I knew if i needed to the same in the future I could repeat the same process.

That's more into the mentality of those who succeed, even when things look like absolute crap in your life that fire in you to succeed doesn't go out. Rather it grows stronger and drives your want and will to push onward. There's really no stopping you, and that's the mentality that creates amazing results when applied through your actions in life.

If i stopped my pursuit of an online income because of that coaching program back in 2009 I might agree with you saying that coaches who charge exorbitant fees for their services are ridiculous and people need to wake up. But there's an angle here that you have side stepped.

The very act of getting that fee together shows the fire that's needed to seriously succeed in business. If you really seriously want it that fee is nothing compared to the reward and that's what I think is missing from your point of view. Assessing the fact that the barrier to entry into these higher level coaching programs might be necessary in separating the mega serious action takers from those who let life conquer them rather than them conquering life.

It's an angle of evaluating the prospect to ensure that they're the type of person you want to work with. Some may disagree that a ridiculous fee doesn't need to be charged in order to evaluate their efforts, but thus far it's been the best way to gauge who is most serious about changing their lives for the better.

I am developing my own coaching program as well, with membership site and coaching via Skype.

But as the others mention here, the membership site only option will be cheap and members get access to some videos, but no personal interaction via Skype.

The Skype / in person coaching option will be much more expensive since it requires my time and commitment..

Actually, I think in most cases you will not really NEED a coach unless you've already got your online business up and running and just want to get to the next level. That's the "twilight zone" where no ebook or membership site can help you get through..

Sarevok,

That is exactly spot on the money! You explained this better than I was trying to do and if you receive any hate over this, they should be ashamed of themselves. Period. Nicely done bro.