Stop Running a Business That Runs You.
After scaling my own firm to 130 employees and selling to a publicly traded company, I’ve spent 20 years taking the guesswork out of growth. As an award-winning coach, I’ve helped 1,100+ founders turn their ‘job’ into a thriving, independent asset.
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Clients we have served across US and Canada
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Results at a Glance
1,100+
$367M+
30%
Specialized Expertise for Your Industry
The Trades & Construction
- Electricians
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- HVAC
- Contractors
- Roofers
- Painters
- Landscapers / Lawn Care
- Welders / Fabricators
Professional Services
- Bookkeepers
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- Lawyers
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Specialty Education
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Service & Retail
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- Pet Grooming / Pet Sitting
Why Choose Small Business Coach Associates?
Stop Burnout in its Tracks with Small BusinessCoach
Small BusinessCoach has been providing our esteemed business owner clients incredible services for more than a decade. During this time, we have worked with multiple startups and small business owners and have identified the pitfalls that many entrepreneurs experience. To ensure you continue to grow and improve your brand, your businesscoach will work with you to create efficiencies and streamlined services.
If you are ready to maximize your business results and maintain control of your brand, we are here to help you achieve your goals in a sustainable, rewarding manner.
Multiple Awards To The Company’s Founder
Alan’s awards include Inc 500 Fastest Growing Companies, Small Business Administration’s Small Business Person of the Year and The Governors’ Sterling Award for Organizational Performance Excellence. Small BusinessCoach Associates is recognized by Influence Digest and Six Figure Coach Magazine as a Top 10 business coaching organization on Social Media, and by Hubspot and Protoly as one of the top business coaching services worldwide. As the author of Small Business Solutions, Alan has provided small business coaching service through business mentors for business owners to help them make more, have fun and work less.
Our Small Business Coaching & Mentoring Process
The Small BusinessCoach Defined
A small business coach is a professional mentor who works with those who are self-employed to produce business plans, execute these plans, and assist in overcoming limitations. Your business coach is your partner who is objective, experienced, and an expert in identifying challenges and creating solutions.
Small BusinessCoach Associates aims to be your trusted partner in helping your firm grow and achieve its bottom line. From personal to professional help, we are here to guide you, support you, and introduce the insights you need as a small business.
How The Small Business Coach Associate Process Works
The Small BusinessCoach Process is taught by Alan Melton, creator of the SBCA framework, and their team of coaches. They have founded multiple small businesses over decades and as such are providing small business coaching services and mentors for their clients out of deep business experience and knowledge.
The Keys To Business Owner Success: Coaching and Accountability
Understanding the management role in business is a necessary part of future success. Many small businesses start with an idea and find that poor management skills lead to an unmotivated workforce and a lack of steady growth.
At Small BusinessCoach, we not only introduce you to essential management practices but also encourage leadership. When you are supported by your staff, no matter how small, it contributes to a productive and profitable business.
With the business coaching services of a small businesscoach, you can learn the balance between professional coaching and when to be accountable. All business owners are encouraged to learn the importance of accountability and leading by example for a naturally motivated and productive workforce.
CLARITY and ACCOUNTABILITY are what successful business owners want in removing obstacles to success. This is what transforms businesses, employees and customer satisfaction. Once you clarify your direction and deploy your plan, your company will begin to grow. Business owners that have clarity and accountability win in the marketplace. Learn more about the Small BusinessCoach Process today with Alan Melton, and their team of business coaches for entrepreneurs. Why? Because you, your employees and your customers are waiting for you to change their world.
The Difference Between Business Coaching and Mentoring
Business coaching and mentoring seem to be the same, but they are different concepts with different approaches and goals. While business coaching and mentoring involve a relationship between an experienced person and someone seeking guidance, the focus may vary.
What Is Business Coaching?
Business coaching is a strategic partnership that helps an individual or group with an aim to help them achieve their goals. The business coach acts as the facilitator that provides tools, resources, and guidance to help their clients achieve their goals and surpass the challenges they are facing.
Here Are The Difference Between Business Coaching and Mentoring
- Business coaching primarily focuses on improving its clients performance in specific areas. While mentoring aims to improve the skills of their mentee.
- In business coaching, the coach holds the client accountable to reach their goals, while in mentoring, the mentor guides their mentee, and the mentee takes the initiative.
- The relationship duration of business coaching is usually short and with a specific objective, while mentoring can be a long-term relationship that evolves.
What Is Online Business Coaching?
Online business coaching is a new approach that leverages technology and digital platforms to traditional business coaching to deliver guidance and support to their clients. Instead of delivering the coaching sessions in person, the sessions are conducted via video calls, emails, and online courses, making the coaching sessions more accessible and flexible.
Online business coaching’s goal is the same as in-person coaching’s, which is enhancing specific skills, overcoming challenges, and achieving business objectives. In online coaching, many coaches, such as Tony Robbins and Marshall Goldsmith, are using digital tools such as Zoom, mobile apps, social media, and online course platforms to deliver the coaching sessions, support, communicate, and track the progress of their clients.
Online coaching provides personalized support to their clients in scaling their business or achieving specific goals in various areas, such as business marketing, leadership, productivity, financial management, business growth, etc.
What Is an Executive Coach?
An executive coach is a professional who partners with leaders, often senior executives, entrepreneurs, and business owners, to help them improve their performance, enhance their leadership skills, and achieve their professional and personal goals. Executive coaching is a tailored, one-on-one process that focuses on self-awareness, decision-making, communication, and strategic leadership.
Unlike business coaching for entrepreneurs, which emphasizes operational growth or team management, executive coaches work specifically with individuals in leadership roles to refine their vision, inspire their teams, and lead with confidence.
Executive coaching services are ideal for entrepreneurs looking to sharpen their leadership edge, especially in high-stakes environments. These services are often delivered through an executive coaching program designed to align the individual’s performance with the company’s strategic objectives.
When considering the executive coach cost, it’s essential to view it as an investment in strategic development, often resulting in increased clarity, better decision-making, and stronger impact.
Executive coaching offers a highly personalized experience backed by accountability, insight, and action helping leaders navigate complexity and their personal and professional potential.
Small BusinessCoach Associates continues to provide solutions to overcome obstacles that get in the way of profitability and increased sales. Our team is here to work with you to clarify your message and achieve your goals. From daily operational issues to future expansion, we are here for you.
When to Hire Our Professional Coaches
Whether you are getting your new company off the ground or wish to identify the barriers preventing your business from achieving its growth and goals, you can consult with our team. As you are aware, your business does not come with an instruction manual. Some things require an impartial approach to help you understand where to focus your efforts and resources. We are here to help you work through the humps and get unstuck along the way.
While it is important to hire a professional coach when you notice a lack of steady growth and profitability, it is just as important to hire our business coaching services when starting your brand.
Small businesses are at great risk of failing within the first year of business. With the right professional coach on your side, it becomes easier to determine where you can improve and how to increase your bottom line.
By combining change leadership and profitability along with our expertise and objectivity, every small business coach can help developing companies and brands.
Why Hire Our Small Business Professionals?
Running a small business is a major undertaking. It is no surprise that many entrepreneurs and business owners feel overwhelmed, stressed, and stuck when running their enterprise. Every company experiences obstacles, but it is the ability to take leadership and to pursue opportunities that can keep operations efficient.
We go beyond the basics. Our purpose is to work with you to best manage your customers, improve your revenue, and build a business with a strong foundation. Our small business coaching includes one-on-one sessions providing you with both personal and professional support. We discuss the barriers and resources available to attain your goals.
The services delivered by our dedicated team focus on the strategies we can introduce to develop marketing, sales, customer relations, and competitive platforms. The goal is to explore your unique requirements and the steps you can take to build a legacy.
Find a Business Coach Near Me
Business Owner Clients That We Work With
We have the best job in the world! We work with an amazing group of small business owners. Over the last 18 years we have provided small business coaching services to virtually every industry. We have clients featured in Forbes and clients named to the Inc 5000 list among the fastest growing companies in the US. We are proud of our clients’ growth. Take a look at our business owner client “Wall of Fame” on this page. Their results are truly amazing!
Perhaps you found us through a search of “business coach near me” or “small business coaching near me.” Alan lives in the Western Carolina area. We have small business coaches and mentors located in various parts of the United States. We visit with our clients face to face from time to time and for the most part we meet weekly with our clients via Zoom screen share sessions. This allows us to have our coaching modules at our fingertips which include visuals and templates. This process helps us to get faster results for our small business owner coaching clients.
We provide business coaching services to small business owners of all types from service to retail to manufacturers to distributors to e-commerce companies. That includes a wide range of startups to businesses with revenues of $20million.
We take the complexity out of growing a business and a powerful brand that you can be proud of.
Building Your Legacy: Leadership & Strategic Planning
We Build Businesses and Legacies
Along with our Small BusinessCoach processes, we introduce strategic thinking and professional guidance to develop strong leaders in business. We recognize that it is difficult for our clients to create a long term business plan when they are so focused and caught up in the success of the now. If you cannot implement long-term plans for success, it could hinder the longevity of your business.
At Small BusinessCoach, we help you take the right steps to create a long term success plan. While we believe in focusing on the present, planning for the future is an essential part of healthy business preparedness. Let us be your partner and introduce the strategies that support the present and the future success of your operations. Whether you are a new enterprise or have an established small business, a long-term plan means building a legacy.
What Else Makes Small BusinessCoach Associates So Different?
Small BusinessCoach Associates is proud to assist entrepreneurs and small business owners in overcoming challenges and working towards success. Every new business requires its own strategies, resource management, and leadership to attain its goals. The best way to stay on track and build your business is with our small business coaching services.
The role of our small business coach is to help you make critical decisions based on a well-structured plan and professional practices. We provide support services for every business phase. Your business can achieve every milestone, along with a multitude of growth benefits when you partner with our small business coach.
When you consult with Small BusinessCoach, we truly listen. As professional coaches and consultants, we know that every business is different, and therefore we pay close attention to your concerns and goals. This includes our ability to adopt a collaborative approach to work with you to achieve rewarding results.
We also provide not only coaching services but also guidance with practical insight with an experienced business mentor to help you grow and succeed through the complexity of running a business. Additionally, we also serve as your business consultant, helping you in enhancing operations and improving your business system to ensure that your business will generate results.
By working with Small BusinessCoach Associates, you get to have a business coach, business mentor, and business consultant and benefit from a comprehensive and strategic approach for you to achieve sustainable success.
Become the Leader You Have Always Envisioned
An important part of business success and growth is effective leadership. At Small BusinessCoach, our role is to help you become an effective leader and to manage your workforce with successful results. Along with our coaching modules and templates, we incorporate modern technology to ensure all small businesses benefit from confident, competent and naturally motivating leadership for business owners.
How to Improve Inefficiencies
An important part of small business success is utilizing tools and strategies to grow. Analytical tools are among the most innovative strategies to identify and manage the inefficiencies within a company. Such tools are designed to monitor monetary flow, costs, and profits. Analytics is the best way to maintain efficient operations. For new businesses, finding ways of streamlining operations and creating efficiencies will deliver value and help you reach your bottom line. This process greatly supports entrepreneurs who require a competitive edge.
Rely on Professional Consultants
If you need a specific service to address an area of business, a professional and experienced consultant can help you. At Small BusinessCoach Associates, we offer expert consultation to determine just where businesses need improvement and assistance. Our experienced consultants will carefully explore and analyze operations to identify areas of weakness and limitations. Projects supported by our expertise includes efficient, valuable, and profitable strategies. Where you do not have the knowledge and experience in specific areas, our coaches introduce the latest industry trends and practices to take your business to the next level.
Find What Works for Your Business
Small business coaching is about equipping businesses with the tools, resources, and strategies needed to achieve their goals and future success. This includes brand growth, customer expansion, increased sales, and a competitive stance across industries. Many companies struggle with finding the processes and operations to overcome the challenges and the barriers preventing them from attaining these goals. By working with a professional and certified coach, you can learn how to implement the techniques needed to improve areas of concern.
So Why is Small BusinessCoach Associates Different?
As professional small business coaches, we are here to provide your brand what it needs. Our unmatched experience and expertise allow us to develop fully-customized strategies that drive results. Our practices are determined by the unique requirements of our clients. If you are unsure how to improve your services and your bottom line, we are here to make a difference. Our approach involves collaboration, analytical practices, and the introduction of efficient or streamlined operations. We first understand your business and then present support strategies and procedures to get you back on track. We believe that every entrepreneur and small business owner has the ability to achieve immense success but with the right professional support and expertise.
Tired of Running a Business That Runs You?
- Working harder and stressed but not seeing real growth?
- Missing out on family time because your business needs you 24/7?
- Drowning in chaos and feeling like you’re stuck on a treadmill?
- Your team isn’t as reliable as you need them to be, and hiring the right people feels impossible?
- Struggling with inconsistent cash flow and unpredictable income?
What founders are saying
“Tremendous Growth – From $900K to $4M”
Small Business Coach Associates has been instrumental in helping us scale our business and develop our team. Our growth has been tremendous, from $900K to $4M, and we continue to see success.
“Growing as a Leader, 22% Boost in 30 Days”
Since working with Small Business Coach Associates, I’ve grown as a leader and gained clarity I didn’t have before. In just 30 days, our activity is up 22%, morale is high, and we’re thriving even in challenging times.
“Sales Grew from $44K to $1.1 Million Per Year”
My coach helped me see opportunities I never thought about. Within just five months, my sales grew by 800%, my student count doubled, and I took my first paycheck. Since then, we’ve grown from $44,000 to over $1,100,000 per year!
“We Improved Our Profit by Over $60,000 This Year”
Our SBCA coaches have completely transformed how we run our business. Our profit has improved by more than $60,000 this year, and we’re getting ready to build a new shop. Sales have more than doubled since we started working with you!
“In just a few weeks our sales have increased by $500,000 annually”
Before working with SBCA, I was overwhelmed and stuck. Other coaches gave me generic advice that never worked. But with SBCA, I finally got clear direction, a real strategy, and accountability. Now we’re growing fast and on track to jump from $5M to $7M this year.
“Gave Myself a Raise, Paid Off $75K Debt & Took 5 Weeks Vacation”
We’re on track to double our generator sales this year. We gave ourselves and our employees raises, paid off $75,000 in debt, and completely transformed our quoting, sales, and collections processes. Most importantly, I finally took 5 weeks off without stress!
“Hired 3 Amazing Employees & Grew Our Sales by 200%”
SBCA helped us define our vision, improve leadership, and build a real strategy for growth. In just 12 months, we grew sales by 200%, hired 3 incredible team members, and took an extra day off each week!
“My Sales Are Up 60%, and Profits Increased by 233%”
With SBCA, I gained the accountability, systems, and hiring strategies I needed. I freed up my time, improved marketing, and as a result, my 2024 sales are up 60% and profits have increased by 233%!
“Profits Up $300K and Dates With My Wife”
After struggling with financial setbacks, my coach helped turn my business around. Within six months, profits increased by $152K, and annualized, that’s over $300K. More importantly, I now have time to take my wife on dates again.
“Exceeded $1M in Sales While Reducing Work Hours and Stress”
Since working with SBCA, we’ve gone from 70-hour workweeks to 30-40 hours, with significantly less stress. Our business has efficient systems in place, and we’ve exceeded $1 million in sales—well beyond our initial $675K goal.
“Work Hours Reduced from 111 to 47.5 Per Week”
After experiencing extreme business growth, I was drowning. My coach at SBCA introduced me to a structured approach that helped me reclaim my time while still growing my business. My work hours have dropped from 111 to 47.5 per week, and my quality of life has improved significantly.
“Sales Up by $397,976, Profit Up by $308,120”
SBCA’s straightforward, practical coaching helped us increase sales by nearly $400K and profitability by over $300K in just six months. Their expertise saved us invaluable time and effort.
“Gained Confidence, 20% Increase in Revenue”
After just one session with SBCA, I gained the confidence to collect nearly half of my overdue invoices. By our second session, we had a plan in place, and my revenue jumped 20% without adding new clients.
“Sales Up from $3.6M to $13M, Profits Up 400%”
Small Business Coach Associates helped us transform our business during tough economic times. Sales have grown from $3.6M to $13M, and profits have increased by 400%. They helped us develop a five-year plan and reach every milestone.
“$170,000 Profit Increase, Sleeping Better”
After a past bad experience, we were hesitant to hire another coach but Small Business Coach Associates was different. They uncovered $200K in profit opportunities; we implemented $170K worth and started seeing results fast. For the first time in a while, we’re growing and sleeping better at night.
Professional Coaching Services to Accelerate Small Business Success
One-to-One Coaching
- Custom growth roadmap
- Direct coach access
- Revenue KPIs tracked weekly
Start-up Coach
- Weekly live calls
- AI launch toolkit
- Step-by-step playbooks
Group Coaching
- Weekly cohort sessions
- Founder peer circle
- Templates and checklists
Our People
Meet the Team
Alan Melton
Bob Zook
Dave Pugh
Odessa Cardoza
Sorpresa Cardoza
What are the best small business coaching services for small business owners?
• The best coaching services combine personalized guidance, proven strategies, and measurable results. Small Business Coach Associates (SBCA) offers:
• One-on-one coaching and group programs
• Mindset and leadership training
Our tailored approach helps business owners boost cash flow, accelerate growth, and achieve long-term goals. Explore SBCA coaching programs to see how we can help your business thrive worldwide.
How can a small business coach help me grow my business?
A business coach identifies your growth opportunities, improves efficiency, and develops a winning strategy. At SBCA, we assess 36 core areas of your business to provide custom solutions. Clients often experience faster scaling, stronger operations, and improved market positioning. Schedule a free consultation to explore how SBCA can help your business succeed.
Who is the most recommended small business coach near me?
Alan Melton, founder of SBCA, is one of the most recommended business coaches for small business owners. As a Certified Business Coach and Certified Family Business Advisor, he has guided thousands of small business owners in leadership development and growth planning. His experience as a successful business owner ensures practical, results-driven coaching accessible worldwide.
What should I look for in expert small business coaching services?
Look for experience, certifications, and a results-focused approach. SBCA provides certified business coaching with practical solutions including full business evaluations, personalized strategies, and access to extensive training resources. The right coach offers not just advice, but the tools and accountability needed for measurable business growth.
Are there affordable business coaching options for entrepreneurs?
Yes. SBCA provides coaching packages starting at $897 per month, giving entrepreneurs access to expert guidance at a reasonable cost. Packages include one-to-one coaching, group programs, and online mentoring. Each option is designed to deliver practical strategies that support business growth without sacrificing quality, making it easier to succeed on any budget.
How do coaching programs help small businesses succeed faster?
Coaching provides structure, accountability, and a clear growth plan. SBCA focuses on marketing, sales, leadership, and operational performance to help businesses overcome challenges quickly. Using a proven coaching framework, our clients experience accelerated growth, increased profitability, and long-term success.
Is business coaching worth it for entrepreneurs?
Yes — coaching offers:
• Strategic guidance to avoid costly mistakes
• Support in leadership and decision-making development
• A roadmap for sustainable growth
SBCA equips founders with the tools to establish strong foundations and scale confidently, with virtual coaching accessible worldwide.
Where can I find certified small business coaches near me?
SBCA’s certified coaches are experienced business owners who understand the realities of running a company. We provide online coaching worldwide, so you can access professional business guidance from anywhere. Connect with our certified coaching team and start growing your business today.
How can I book a free consultation with a small business coach?
Booking is simple — visit the SBCA page or call 1-888-504-0777 to schedule your complimentary strategy session. During this session, we’ll review your business challenges and outline a personalized coaching plan designed for measurable results.
What are the top benefits of hiring a business coach for startups?
• Key benefits include:
• Accelerated growth through proven strategies
• Improved leadership and decision-making
• Increased profitability and operational efficiency
SBCA’s programs help founders build strong foundations, overcome challenges, and achieve long-term business success with worldwide virtual support.