Q: What is the Barb Helfman InnerCircle?
A: It’s a membership only coaching and mentorship program dedicated to helping plantscapers succeed. It gives you access to the best minds in the interior plantscape industry and provides you with powerful business building ideas, information, focus and support.

Q: What comes with my membership?
A: You receive:

• The monthly InnerCircle interactive newsletter (PDF Format) that provides timely, detailed information written in a style that allows you to reference key profit building take-aways and implement them in your business immediately. Topics cover, sales, marketing, operations, hiring, personal performance, leadership, business optimization, branding, competitive advantage and far too much more to list here.
• Monthly e-mail questions - send in your question and get back a detailed, solution based assessment. Put the best brains behind your biggest business issues. This one element alone far exceeds your monthly membership.
• Conference calls - Connect with the InnerCircle members for profit building conference sessions. Each call focuses on a key theme and is supported by an industry expert in that specific topic.
• InnerCircle Hotline - The InnerCircle hotline is an emergency only SOS call for InnerCircle members.  It works like this.  If you call this number, I stop what I’m doing and devote all my resources to help you solve your problem.  I will try and move heaven and earth to give you a hand when you need it most.
• Access to the restricted InnerCircle Portal - Get access to newsletter archives, preffered vendor lists, best practices and downloadable business forms, marketing and sales materials.
• ** Charter Member Status - Membership dues will never increase.  You get a $250 profit maximization plan.

Q: Who can join the InnerCircle?
A: The InnerCircle is for interiorplantscape company owners of any size.  It doesn’t matter if you are a one person operation or have 200 employees.  The InnerCircle is for owners who are committed to excellence and want to grow their profits regardless of their current scale. 

Q: Are there qualification requirements?
A:  Yes.  To be considered for InnerCircle membership you must fill out an online application.  Plantscapers without a long-term business track record will need to have a personal phone interview as part of the application process.

Q: Why should I join?
A:  You should consider joining the InnerCircle if you appreciate the power of belonging to a mastermind group committed to helping it’s members succeed.  Your business is a significant part of your life.  So much rides on your achievement.  It’s a smart investment to belong to a business development and coaching organization that can provide you with a cost and time effective way to get:

• EXECUTIVE AND PERSONAL SUPPORT - Running a small business can be tough, frustrating and lonely. As a business owner you need access to a support system that lets you express your personal and business challenges, hopes and fears in a constructive and confidential way so you can perform at your best.

•  IMPROVED OPERATIONS AND PROFITABILITY - The most successful business people in the world value the power of coaching for improving their results. They know outside professionals can bring a powerful perspective ti improve operations and business systems performance . A strong coach, brings out the best in you and helps you see things that others working in your business can’t see from the inside. The Barb Helfman coaching program keeps you working ON your interiorscape business, not only IN your interiorscape business. That’s the real key to success as an owner.

•  CONNECTIONS WITH THE BEST - It’s important to align with interiorscape peers who are committed to improving themselves and getting the most for every dollar and hour they spend. Your InnerCircle membership exposes you to their brainpower, their success and their cumulative experience. InnerCircle Members get the unique advantage of having the power of the group behind solving their business problems. Our quarterly conference calls expose you to the ideas and energy of dynamic business owners. Give your toughest business challenges to the InnerCircle and chances are one of the members has solved the same challenge and can instantly give you the solution.

• STRATEGIC FOCUS - It’s can be hard to step back from the day to day operations of your business and assess your strategic opportunities.  The InnerCircle forces you to go outside your business and FOCUS on the areas that give you what you really want.  It clears your mind and unlocks your best thinking.  Again, it doesn’t matter how succesful you already are - it’s about where you want to go and being prepared if the business environment turns against you.

Q: I see you offer a lot of free information on your website.  What’s different about the InnerCircle content?
A: The InnerCircle content provides much greater detail not only on what to do but how to do it.  It goes far deeper into interiorscape systems, strategy, sales, marketing and operations.  I provide up to the minute case studies of succesful plantscape company practices and their best programs.  I distill these lessons down into a step-by-step implementation process.  So the InnerCircle information is far more instructive, actionable and implementable than my free content.  Plus, all the InnerCircle content is supplemented by e-mail and conference call interaction. This approach often provides breakthroughs that reveal specific ways your company can directly profit from the InnerCircle strategies, ideas and systems.

Q: Is the InnerCircle membership worth $49.95 per month?
A: NO. It’s worth far more.  In fact,  expect the membership fee to rise for new members in 6 months. (Charter  Members will never have a price increase).  The only reason why my price is so low now is because the InnerCircle is being launched as a pilot program. 

Frankly, I’ve never conducted this type of program before.  The goal is to establish, test and refine the InnerCircle best practices with our Charter Members. During the pilot period, I’ll learn what makes the most impact to the group. I’ll add, subtract, enhance and along the way increase the value of the program significantly. With regard to price, it really boils down to this.

Based on my past consulting for plantscapers and over 30 years of running multiple interiorscape businesses, I know that almost every Interiorscape business is leaving a lot of profit on the table. This lost money should be in YOUR bank account. But because sales are lost that should be made, unnecessary expenses are incurred and non-strategic decisions are made - this profit does not go to you. It goes to your competitors, to the tax man and everyone else other than you.

The InnerCircle is designed to help you get that lost profit back. So really at just $49.95 a month with no initiation fee, the InnerCircle program can pay for itself almost immediately. Because every month InnerCircle members walk away with actionable ideas, plans, tactics and solutions that directly:

1. Increase your profits
2. Decrease your expenses
3. Maximize your time and business enjoyment

Q: How do I become an InnerCircle Charter Member?
A: Those who join the InnerCircle within the next three months receive "Charter Member" status.  As a Charter Member you never have a price increase.  Charter Members are also gifted $250.00 of my personal consulting time.  This private consulting will be used to perform a formal strategic review of your company and produce a plan to optimize your business profitability. 

By getting in at the very beginning, this perk essentially gives InnerCircle Charter Members a half year of membership free.

Q: How do I join the InnerCircle?
A: You must apply for consideration by filling out the online application form. You will be notified via e-mail of your application status within 5 business days. If accepted, you will receive a link to a page that allows you to purchase your InnerCircle membership.

Q: What are my payment options?
A: Dues are required to be paid by credit card. Your monthly membership will be automatically charged to your credit card each month.

Q: How do I gain access to the restricted InnerCircle Member Portal?
A: Once you have purchased a membership you will receive a confirmation e-mail. It contains your login credentials to the member only portal. Upon logging in you will be able to access all the information and downloads.

Q: What if I want to cancel my membership?
A: You may cancel your membership at anytime. Just drop us an e-mail or call with your request. (You will be billed for the current month’s membership dues. After that payment is received your membership is offically terminated)

Submit Your InnerCircle Application Online