About

“The Hub for Solopreneurs Who Sell a Professional Service”

GreatSmallBusinessAdvice.com was created for solo entrepreneurs (biz owners with very few or no staff), and you sell a professional service (see below for examples).

You are most likely here because you are determined to achieve success in your business, and I applaud that.

You have experienced some success already with attracting clients (fabulous!) and you’re ready to attract more clients and close more sales in your business more consistently. You are hungry for step by step strategies on:

• How to get more clients (ideal paying clients so your revenue is effortless)
• How to generate more referrals (so you don’t have to do all the work to bring in new customers)
• How to close more sales on the spot, easily AND without ever sounding salesy or pushy (so you can turn prospects into paying clients)
• How to find low cost/no-cost marketing to attract tons of clients (so you don’t have to break the bank)
• How to create, package and sell your services in a way that attracts more clients and sales (to grow your income exponentially)
• How to juggle all of your responsibilities as a solo business owner and NOT become a slave to your business (so you reclaim your freedom and flexibility while you’re earning a great income!)
• How to turn your website into a marketing and sales tool that brings you prospects & clients (salvation for any under-performing website)

And much more!

If this sounds like where you are then stick around and browse the wealth of client-magnetic resources available to you here at the hub for solo business owners. Oh, and feel free to check out what others are saying about us too.

Who We Serve

Here is a sampling of the businesses we serve around the world:

Accountants	Image Consultants	Professional Organizers
Web designers	Consultants	Speakers
Career Coaches	Event Planners	Makeup Artists
Copywriters	Video Production Services	Massage Therapists
Financial Planners	Errand Service Providers	Nutritionists
Virtual Assistants	Life/Personal Coaches	Tax Preparation Services
Interior Designers/Decorators	Marketing Consultants	And others!
Research Specialists	Trainers
Business Coaches	Photographers

About Allison

Allison Babb Phillips is CEO of Allison Babb International LLC, and founder of GreatSmallBusinessAdvice.com – a company devoted to the success of solo entrepreneurs.

Allison’s journey into entrepreneurship was an interesting one. After over 20 years of climbing the corporate ladder and becoming a successful senior manager at a software company, Allison began feeling quite unfulfilled.

Despite her remarkable success in the corporate world, she felt something was missing in her life. Deep inside, Allison knew that she was called to do something different in the world and that senior management was not it.

In her late thirties she began her inner search for what she was truly meant to do with her life (and by the way, yes, she’s often told she looks 10-20 years younger than her true age of 46)

Allison spent over 2 years wrestling with the idea of leaving the security of her 6-figure corporate paycheck. But as a single mom with two kids, Allison finally decided that it was time to step into entrepreneurship (petrifying as it seemed at the time).

But not so fast…

But success was not instant. While still employed, Allison realized that her true passion and calling was in her natural abilities as a gifted coach. She completed training at Coach University and started her first business as a Life Coach. Although she had some clients, without a mentor and without any business-building knowledge, her Life Coaching business eventually failed.

Allison quickly reflected on this experience and knew that to fulfill her self-employment dreams, she must first discover what it took to create a truly successful business. As a single parent, she knew that failure was simply not an option in her quest to become self-employed full-time.

The search for the success recipe…

Allison’s prevailing belief was “Someone out there HAS the recipe for building a successful business and I intend to find it.” And with that, she made the decision to study 6- and 7-figure solo entrepreneurs.

With relentless determination, she immersed herself in their programs, bought their books, audios, enrolled in their live seminars, listened to hundreds of teleseminars and, most importantly, hired several of them to coach her one-on-one. To the tune of well over $150K, Allison invested her own money in discovering exactly what it took to create a successful business.

Allison admits to being an information hound. She received and applied a colossal amount of teaching and coaching from experts in the areas of online marketing, direct marketing, information marketing, public speaking, copywriting, information product creation, product launch methods, wealth-building, creating and marketing workshops, success mindset and the list goes on!

Staying with her gift for coaching though, it was during her time of immense discovery that Allison started her second business as an Executive Coach. She used her senior management experience and leadership skills to create and teach powerful workshops to hundreds of managers and also to coach them one-on-one toward leadership success.

Goodbye Corporate Job

In her time as an Executive Coach, a funny thing happened. One manager after another began asking Allison for help in making their own transition from unfulfilling corporate jobs to self-employment.

This prompted Allison to transition from Executive Coaching into a business where she mentored and coached “corporate captives” on how to make a successful transition to entrepreneurship.

A magnet for solo entrepreneurs

From there, more and more full-time entrepreneurs were drawn to Allison’s authentic, motivational, action-oriented, and results-focused coaching. They began showing up asking for Allison’s advice and mentoring on creating successful businesses.

This led to the launch of GreatSmallBusinessAdvice.com where Allison now spends her time coaching and mentoring small business owners; with a heartfelt passion for bringing the business success recipe to solo entrepreneurs.

Reaching out to thousands

In addition to her Award-Winning Weekly Ezine that goes out to thousands who have showed up at her web site looking for small business help, Allison most enjoys sharing her message in person.

In addition to being featured on radio shows, TV shows, and newspaper articles, Allison is out each month speaking at live events, revealing easy yet lucrative strategies that small business owners an instantly put into action.

And still keeping it simple

Allison is an upbeat and very down-to-earth mom who likes to keep life simple. When she’s not taking her relentless high-energy to speaking gigs, or escaping to warm Caribbean vacations, Allison is usually kicking back at home with her husband and kids. “I’m a total home-body.” Allison says.

She is a devoted Christian who grew up in the tiny Caribbean island of Trinidad and Tobago then (ironically) lived in frigid cold Massachusetts for over 23 years.

Allison then “came to her senses” as she puts it, and decided it was time to retire the snow shovels. Allison now resides in Georgia with her husband and kids. She still has her sights set on moving further south in her attempts to reclaim that “85 degrees year around” she grew up with.

For the answers to frequently asked questions about Allison and her products and programs, you may call us at 678-401-7948 or email us here.