Internet marketing coach for your online business? You should consider it because one of the most common things that successful marketers say is that having a coach or mentor made a huge difference - often was the line between failure and success with their endeavors. How do you find a good internet business coach? Ask around and collect a few names. You can visit free marketing forums and blogs to ask. When you get a list of names of good coaches find out all you can about them. Do you like their websites? Are their clients successful? Make sure you understand what you're getting for your money. How long will they work with you for x dollars? How much will they be willing to look at your sites and critique them? What is their specialty? Some coaches are not well versed in some business models and may be useless to you. An internet marketing coach might have a coaching forum where several people can be helped at once for a bit less money than one-on-one coaching. It may be to your advantage to do things that way. Will the coach be talking to you on the phone regularly or via e-mail? Decide on what is most advantageous to you before plunking any money down. Ideally you should have a weekly review of what you are doing and how to improve it. Be prepared to invest more than a few dollars for coaching, but don't go crazy on expensive coaching if you're still getting your feet wet in marketing. You have to decide how serious you are about making money and what is required of you. A coach is not going to magically solve all of your problems - you will have to acquire many new skills - but they can help you avoid the pitfalls that many new marketers face. Be prepared to work work work. A good coach won't push you beyond where you can go, but they will push you farther than you think you can go. There is a difference. If they are too pushy and put you off, stop and think if you're just being resistant or if they are being unreasonable. Look carefully for a good fit with your personality. If you like your coach, that's good. If you don't like them chances are that it won't result in long term success unless you are the type of person who can put aside personal feelings and just focus on the strategies they teach you.