{"id":1213,"date":"2012-03-03T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T18:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2012-02-01T14:34:40","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T20:34:40","slug":"ernest-f-oriente-on-start-up-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/ernest-f-oriente-on-start-up-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Ernest F. Oriente on Start Up Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is taken from David&#8217;s interview with Ernest F. Oriente in\u00a0<a title=\"10 Super Coaches\" href=\"http:\/\/www.10supercoaches.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">10 Super Coaches<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Roughly how much capital\/money did you spend in the first 6-12 months, and on what?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was about $40,000. We had to buy a computer desk, a computer, phone, fax, cost for insurance, cost for telephone calls \u2013 we call all of our clients. We have a phone bill that\u2019s quite sizeable. And so those were the costs.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the interesting part though, when we were billing about $100,000 &#8211; $200,000, our expenses were about $40-50,000. Then we grew it from $200,000 to $400,000.<\/p>\n<p>In most businesses your expenses grow proportionately, but our expenses today are almost parallel to our expenses six and seven years ago. It still runs us about $40-55,000 a year to operate our business. A coaching business has fixed expenses so as you add more revenue all of that just flows straight to the bottom line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is taken from David&#8217;s interview with Ernest F. Oriente in\u00a010 Super Coaches. Roughly how much capital\/money did you spend in the first 6-12 months, and on what? It was about $40,000. We had to buy a computer desk, a computer, phone, fax, cost for insurance, cost for telephone calls \u2013 we call all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[123],"tags":[166,167,168,140],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1215,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions\/1215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}