{"id":7377,"date":"2026-04-20T13:47:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T11:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jimdo.com/blog\/?p=7377"},"modified":"2026-04-20T13:47:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T11:47:30","slug":"using-the-jimdo-companion-as-a-business-coach-kerstins-success-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jimdo.com/blog\/using-the-jimdo-companion-as-a-business-coach-kerstins-success-story\/","title":{"rendered":"How Kerstin Niedermayer uses the Jimdo Companion as her personal Business Coach&#8230;\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8230;and is reinventing her business from scratch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone who has ever built or restructured a business knows the feeling: too many ideas, too many possibilities, and the nagging question of where to even begin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s exactly where Kerstin Niedermayer finds herself. She&#8217;s a coach from Forstinning, Bavaria, currently in the process of reinventing her part-time business. 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But at some point, she realized her offering had become too broad, as she puts it herself. She wanted to get clearer and define a sharper profile. The problem: time and mental clarity were in short supply. The solution she found wasn&#8217;t an expensive startup coaching program or months of consulting. She found it in the Jimdo Companion &#8211; using it to think through her entire business from scratch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What she did with it was remarkably simple: She opened the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0W_7IU3_f7g&amp;t=19s\">chat feature<\/a>, described her situation, and worked through her repositioning together with the Companion. 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