
Business Owners... Join the Cedar Rapids Leverage ProfitCLUB!
Breakfast Meetings held 1st & 3rd Tuesdays each Month, 7 am to 8:30 am - ActionCOACH Training Center, Downtown Cedar Rapids - Membership includes Business Education, Peer Advisory Board, Business Planning & Team Workshops - Call 319-743-0642 for more information.
Are you working too many hours in your business? Do you remember the "dream" to start your own business - has that dream become a nightmare?
Are you looking to regain control of your life and spend more time with family and friends?
I'm David Drewelow, Head Coach for the ActionCOACH Iowa/Nebraska Team and I am a business coach with the World’s #1 Business Coaching Franchise (Entrepreneur Magazine, since 2004).
My first business started when I was in college - a painting business in my small town where we spent summers painting hundreds of houses, barns, buildings and a few other interesting projects. That experience taught me the value of owning a business and today as a coach, my goal is to help small business owners, such as yourself, spend less time working in your business and more time working ON your business. The goal, in the end, is to help you be more profitable and to learn how to have FUN again in your business and your life.
As your coach, I will be working with you in five key areas. The emphasis on each area depends on your needs, the type of business you have, and your goals. The key areas are: Sales; Marketing and Advertising; Team Building and Recruitment; Systems and Business Development; and, Customer Service.
As a small business owner myself in Iowa, I know what it is like to worry about the day-to-day survival of the business and making the amount of money needed to run my business and personal life. I understand what it’s like to put in long hours and wonder what happened to the dreams and vision I had for my life and future.
Based in Cedar Rapids, my firm of coaches is here to help you change all of that. We will work together to redefine your dreams and vision, and then we will put into place the necessary systems, strategies, and tactics that will allow you to turn your business venture into a thriving, successful one.
We define a successful business as: "A commercial, profitable enterprise that works without you!" As your Business Coach, I will function as an unreasonable friend who tells it like it is and keeps you working on the path toward your dreams.
There is no time like the present, right now, to get started on your dreams and goals. If you are ready to move your business to the next level, find out more about our team today. We offer a FREE, NO OBLIGATION consultation for all Iowa and Nebraska business owners. Find out how you can change the way you do business to achieve the results you deserve!
P.S. If you are a business owner, the first step to getting your business going is to take the "Business Health Check." Click here to get started.
Prosperity Seminar Prepares Business Owners for 2009
By David Drewelow, December 9, 2008
Monday, December 8th event draws over 40 business owners and their teams who attended the event in Des Moines on Monday, December 8th.
Attendees spent the afternoon working ON their businesses to develop a plan of PROSPERITY for the coming year. Attendees learned strategies, went through break out sessions and networking to help move their businesses to the next level for 2009. It was an afternoon of FUN and LEARNING for every attendee!
Presented by the ActionCOACH Iowa/Nebraska Team David Drewelow - Natalie Spitzig - Marty Smith - Teresa Propes - Greg Thompson - Jerry Akers - Shelly Koch.
Our Thanks to Our Prosperity Sponsors:
Employer Ease - Des Moines, Ying Sa, CPA's/Community Tax Clinic - Des Moines
Iowa Business Recovery Summint Helps Flooded Businesses
By David Drewelow, July 20, 2008
ActionCOACH and the Cedar Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce at Mount Mercy College. The summit featured Action Coaches and local presenters providing simple and practical strategies to create "instant cashflow" for every business owner. Most importantly, this event provided critical lessons on how to move forward in a business community impacted by a major disaster!
Highlights from summit presentations included...
"Getting Back in Business" - David Drewelow, ActionCOACH Head Coach, Cedar Rapids, IA
"Pushing the Reset Button" - Curt Nelson, Entrepreneurial Development Center, Cedar Rapids, IA
"Leadership for Your Team in Critical Times" - Cory Doden, ActionCOACH, Redwing, MN
"Re-setting Your Financial Controls" - Teresa Propes, ActionCOACH & CPA, Ames, IA
"Creating Instant Cashflow & Customers" - Jerry Akers, ActionCOACH & Sales Trainer, Cedar Rapids, IA
"7 Steps for a Guerilla Marketing Plan" - Natalie Spitzig, ActionCOACH & CPA, Des Moines, IA
"Lessons from Katrina & Out of the Box Thinking!" Brian Baudean, ActionCOACH, New Orleans, LA
Our thanks to our sponsors for their underwriting and support...
ActionCOACH Iowa/Nebraska Team, Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce,Mount Mercy College, Cedar Rapids Bank & Trust, Entrepreneurial Development Center, Saxton Strategic Space Solutions, Armstrong Development Center, Hawkeye Electric, Tektivity, Triplett Office Essentials, Corridor Business Journal, Mediacom and 89.1 The Spirit Radio.
New Business Recovery Fund Established
By David Drewelow, July 14, 2008
Our goal at ActionCOACH is to focus on providing whatever help, motivation and encouragment we can to help rebuild the local business community. We will be moving our offices back into the downtown area in doing our part to once again help create a dynamic economy that will be greater than before. Right now our task at hand is to help get as many businesses back on their feet as possible.
The Job and Small Business Business Recovery Fund was established by the Cedar Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce to provide financial assistance through outright grants and 0% interest forgivable loans to a small for-profit business (person or entity that sells goods or services) and/or the owner of commercial property in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, that has sustained uninsured physical damage as a result of the Flood of 2008. The Cedar Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce will accept applications from and award grants to qualified local businesses with less than 50 full time equivalent employees that intend to reopen and/or rebuild their business in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
To donate to this fund visit www.gcrcf.org. For more information, call the ActionCOACH office at 319-743-0642.
Cedar Rapids Flood Crest at 31 Feet - June 13, 2008