CoachVantage

Hi! My name is Glen Oliveiro, founder of CoachVantage and Id like to tell you a story about why I decided to embark on a mission to self-fund and develop a solution for coaches. It all started with a phone call to an executive coach in response to a Strange question? email I sent her. As it turned out, that question What is the biggest challenge yo... u face as a coach? was not so strange after all. Constance and I spoke on the phone for over an hour. She told me all about the pain points and challenges she faced as a coach. As a coach, entrepreneur and small business owner, she has to multi-task effectively. Juggling between her love of coaching and helping others find clarity in their lives, she wears multiple hats. She has to organize her calendar, schedule coaching appointments, handle billing and invoicing, jot down and file session notes, manage her CRM database and remember to log her coaching sessions to get ICF-certified. On top of it all, she needs to be a marketing wizard, build her tribe and keep up with the social media buzz. The more coaches I spoke with, it became clearer to me that these challenges are not unique to Constance. I've spoken with over 100 coaches and asked them detailed questions about how they manage their coaching practice so that I can better understand the challenges that coaches face. They've shared valuable insights with me on their needs for coaching platform to systemize their processes. I attended ICF meetings, met coaches and made friends along the way. After 6 months of research, I had clearly understood the challenges of being a coach, entrepreneur and running a small business single-handedly. Most coaches told me that they use a hodgepodge of software like Excel, Google Drive, Dropbox, TimeTrade, Acuity and various other software to help them manage different bits and pieces of their business. But there was a problem with this. It was not giving them a holistic solution. They had to switch between different applications to get what they needed. They ended up wasting more ...Read More