Let me first just say thank you for all the replies, and also, express how shocked I am that so many people here are vouching for business coaches. I would have thought just the opposite, that this crowd considers business coaches more like "gurus" to be avoided. So this is a good learning experience for me.
I think one of the challenges this forum has had since it's newest iteration (i.e. the original book coming out, the second book, ... and hopefully the third soon? ) is that it has a much larger reach and impact... however, the more people you jam into a community, the bigger chance you have for misinterpretation.
The idea of "guru" that is constantly referenced is someone trying to teach you something they've never done before... and charge you an exorbitant fee for it...
But there's a LOT of people out there (some famous, some not famous) that have succeeded over and over and over again and now have this idea of giving back.
MJ called one of these gurus out a long time ago "what came first, your book or your black card?" -- essentially saying that you getting rich teaching people to be rich... before you're rich... is kind of a scummy thing to do.
Then there's other people who are filthy rich who just love to teach others how to do the same, it's what lights them up. Hell, MJ is one of those.
Then the question about cheapness comes because my whole business is only generating roughly $90 bucks a month. I wouldn’t want to spend more than that on coaching since that will just add to more stress of scrambling to fill that minus budget. And I am not looking for more stress at the moment.
So far the least expensive coaching program I’ve found is for $25 / week on coach.me. I’ve had good success with them in the past for a completely different project, however, it’s still over my price range, which would cap closer at $25 / mo. So I think I will just go with one of the suggestions above to research on my own, but add “get a coach” to my list of future biz plans as soon as I can get to that level.
At your current level (there's nothing wrong with it), if you want to get access to the best coaches on the planet ... it's time to buy some books.
Think about this: someone works their entire life to figure something out in business, sales, marketing, entrepreneurship, trading, or whatever... they spend 40, 50, 60 years of their lives trying to figure it out and then they write a book on the subject that you can read in 4 or 5 days.
It's literally compressing decades into days.
I had ZERO when I was starting out. But I sought out the mentors I couldn't afford and read everything they wrote.
Keep in mind, I didn't always read what was popular, I only wanted to learn from people who had done it. People who could give me next steps. People who created something from nothing and had instructions on how to do it.
The only challenge with this route is you have to be the one to read the information, take notes on it, create an action plan for yourself, and execute on it.
You'd be coaching yourself until you could afford to hire someone worthwhile.
I'll pay $25 for a book all day long but I would never pay $25 for a coach.
I have 3 coaches I work with consistently right now.
One, I work for, who I probably won't ever be able to afford.
One I pay just under 5k/month for.
One I trade my services for his.
But looong before this I spent a LOT of time in Barnes & Noble