{ST.PETERSBURG, FLORIDA} – JULY 27, 2020 – ActionCOACH Tampa Bay Business Coaching Firm has made a number of investments to support local business owners in response to the pandemic. Those investments include donating five pro-bono strategy sessions per week to aid with applying for grants, employee changes, closing and re-opening procedures, and now proactive marketing and recruitment plans. The firm is also waving all their charges for monthly trainings and webinars now provided on zoom. The firm has also expanded their team of coaches by hiring a new outreach coordinator to share these resources with the community and welcomed a new Certified Business Coach, Scott Bedell, to provide more coaching for small and medium size businesses.
A survey conducted of local business owners showed 41.4% pivoting to save the business and making slow revenue gains while only 10.3% report still {having] limited growth ability and fighting for survival and the majority 48.3% reported growing rapidly. The top challenge selected with an overwhelming majority of 48.3% generating new customers (followed by 27.6% that stated shows even with rapid growth acquiring new customers will need to be a strategic effort and for some will require pivoting efforts now that events and networking are no longer sources of new business. The second major area of challenges at 27.6% was staying focused and taking action on what is important.
About Scott Bedell
Scott Bedell comes with a successful track-record for business development, leadership and building businesses for sale and exit. Scott graduated from USF-Tampa in 2004 with a degree in Industrial & Organizational Psychology, focusing on assisting businesses with 360-degree leadership, employee commitment and job satisfaction. However, during his Senior Year Scott started his first business, a local moving labor service, which he later built into a full service residential and commercial moving company in Tampa Bay before selling off his equity shares in 2009. Scott turned his entrepreneurial focus to the real estate market in 2010, helping to create a turnkey software that assisted homeowners through the process of reducing their mortgage. Scott has received various awards for his contribution to the local community, most recently being recognized with the “Corporate Kindness Award” in 2018 at HEP’s annual shareholder event. Scott has been an invited expert on WFLA’s Daytime TV, local radio, and a frequent panelist throughout the Bay Area. Scott has served as Keynote Speaker at National Conferences and a frequent speaker to such notable mentions as USF Educational U-Series, Stetson Law and the Department of Defense-Tampa. Scott provides fresh Innovative Insights and Business Coaching services for CEOs and business owners who want to take their business to the next level in achieving their dreams in business and in their personal life.
About ActionCOACH Tampa Bay
The local ActionCOACH Tampa Bay franchisee founded their business coaching firm in 2007. This father, mother and daughter team have grown their firm significantly over the years allowing them to help hundreds of business owners locally. The matriarch and Managing Partner, Barb Kyes, has lead the firm to ranking on the top franchise leaderboards as a Top 20 Firm Globally and Top 10 Firm in the United States. Ford Kyes also ranks in the Top 100 Globally as a partner coach and their daughter, Juliet Kyes, ranks in the Top 25 Globally as an employee coach and was named the Southeast Coach of the Year in 2019. The Kyes family are focused on utilizing the next decade in business to recruit, teach and mentor new employee coaches how to be successful and get results for business owners to build a legacy for the firm and to provide more support and value to the local business community.
About ActionCOACH®
ActionCOACH continues to grow in the United States and internationally helping small and medium size business succeed and reach new levels of productivity and efficiency. ActionCOACH continues building on its mission to create ‘abundance through business re-education’ domestically and globally and is set for major expansion in 2020. ActionCOACH continues to be recognized as a leader in the business coaching industry and was recently named the #1 Business Coaching Franchise by Entreprenuer.com in its 2020 Franchise 500 edition.
ActionCOACH the world’s largest business coaching franchise, was established and founded in Brisbane, Australia by Brad Sugars in 1993 when the concept of business coaching was still in its infancy. Since franchising the company in 1997, ActionCOACH has helped business coaching become more mainstream and the company has nearly 1,000 coaches in more than 80 countries working with approximately 18,000 businesses weekly to improve results. ActionCOACH specializes in coaching small to medium-sized businesses as well as executives, and their teams. ActionCOACH maintains its growth and strategic alliances by continual development of cutting-edge innovative technology, proven business processes, and systems to add value, satisfaction and additional income streams for its franchisees. ActionCOACH’s global headquarters is in Las Vegas. Visit actioncoach.com for more information.
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Local ActionCOACH Tampa Bay Firm Contact Information: www.actioncoachtampabay.com
Juliet Kyes, Partner and Business Coach
Email: juliet@actioncoachtampabay.com
2963 46th Ave N St. Petersburg, FL 33714
(727) 773-5761