In a very real way, becoming a coach is a calling. I was a coach long before I completed my formal coaches training. Most successful coaches were. So Look for these clues to help you decide if you should become a coach.

Do You Genuinely Want People to Become Their Very Best?

To become a coach, you must genuinely care about people, but not in a “frou-frou” “touchy-feely” way. You have to be willing to get in your client’s face and not let them off the hook. You need to get them in a corner and not let them out until they have faced and moved beyond their worst fear and sense of self doubt. You have to – if necessary – become their worst enemy now, so you can be the most valuable person in their lives later. All because that is what it sometimes takes to be a successful coach.

Are You Obsessed with Understanding what Makes People Tick?

Are you not just willing, but downright excited to understand the science of coaching? Do you read books on NLP? Do you find yourself Googling hypnotherapy? Are you willing to investigate coaching training programs and are you ready to spend years to master coaching skills? If the answer to any of these questions is “No” then you are probably not ready to become a coach.

Will You Become a Coach if It Means Fading Completely into the Background?

Are you able to be totally present and completely silent, so that your client can relax and let you into their subconscious mind? Can you listen for clues that your client shares and not jump to conclusions until they have completed the story that is even a secret to them? If you can put your client ahead of yourself in these ways then you are already a coach. And with training and dedication, you are on your way to becoming a great coach.

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Dave Iuppa
JTS Advisors Strategy and Accountability Coach

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To become a coach who rises to the top of the coaching pyramid fast and makes tons of money, you have to manufacture a celebrity status to thrust you into star like status. You’ve got to be willing and able to play the promotion game or you’ll end up in utter poverty and kicked to the curb like 90% of the lazy, losers out there who dare to call themselves a coach.

What I’m coaching you on today is my 3 step formula for how to follow the Lady Gaga path to create your coaching practice celebrity status fast, so you’ll be seen as a celebrity by your clients and you can then get paid the big bucks like a coach who has become a superstar.

Become a coach by manufacturing celebrity status

My formula for how to become a celebrity coach works for any coach no matter who you want to coach.

Becoming a coach is more than just learning a bunch of cool coaching technologies. You need to select a market you can serve and make a difference. You’ve got to overcome a few things to breakthrough to celebrity status.

Becoming a coach celebrity Formula:

1. Squash your anxiety
2. Build-up your: I’ve seen you somewhere identity
3. Know your stuff

1. Squash your anxiety

Stage fright has to fall by the wayside if you want to become a coach with a celebrity buzz. You’ve got to speak live. You’ve got to be willing to make videos and post them all over the Internet to be seen by viewers around the world.

Being afraid or not letting go of your ridiculous perfection will hold you back, and the scenery at the back of a pack of dogs isn’t very interesting. Truth be told, people who will watch your videos online want to see the real you. No matter how imperfect you may be.

Before you shoot your videos, shake out your body, loosen up your body so you don’t appear stiff. Know that you’re in control and you can record as many times as you need to feel comfortable that you’ve put your best foot forward. Get into your coach’s state of mind.

Speaking at live events and making lots of free videos so people can get to know you and get familiar with your talents in helping them get what they want in life, you will quickly catapult your celebrity status over the rainbow.

One last tip is to make sure that everything you do on the Internet and in the press leads back to your blog. On your blog, you can continue to engage, relate to, and educate your market until they’re ready to hire you as their celebrity coach.

2. Build-up your: I’ve seen you somewhere identity

You need broad exposure to become a coach with celebrity status. Once you’re over your selfish fears of being recorded, you’ll be ready for print, radio, and TV. Then you need a clear message or a relevant topic for what’s going on out there that you can be the resource for the press. It’s simple.

You figure out what the problem is for your audience. Find media outlets that target your audience. Then you call on the news outlets and let them know you can be a media resource for them for that target audience.

PR Tips:
1. No the problem people are facing out there in your media market
2. Have 3 solutions or points to make
3. Stay on message (always come back to your 3 points know matter what they ask you)

3. Know your stuff

You are an expert, right? The answer should have been yes. Now you may need to fake it a bit until you make it, but you need to prepare to become an expert.

- Dress like an expert in your market
- Get working on your book
- Earn an endorsement from someone who already has star like qualities

Focus and know more about your target audience and their fears, frustrations, and doubts than your competition. In your videos and on your blog, ask for feedback and comments on your work so you’re connected at the hip with the problems and the solutions people want and need in your media market.

With my celebrity creating formula you can rapidly Become a coach with celebrity like status by following these 3 simple, star-making steps.

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Donald R. Hunter, MBA, Certified Financial Planner
JTS Certified Accountability Coach

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If you want to use the internet to get client leads when you become a coach, you need to have a blog and post on it regularly “come hell or high water.”  That is something I’ve learned as part of the blogging team for the JTS Advisors coaches training blog.  In a previous post, I wrote about some of the pleasures I’ve discovered as part of the team.  But it isn’t all fun and games when you take blogging as a serious daily responsibility.  So today you’ll hear about some of the pain involved in the process, like the fact that it’s 2:30 am right now as I am writing this because I have a deadline!

The Integrity You Learn When You Become A Coach Applies To Blogging

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For marketing when you become a coach, there’s not much point in erratic or infrequent blogging except as writing practice.  At coaches training blog we have a commitment as a team to get seven blogs posted every week.  That means that we need to keep track of who’s doing what and how many blogs are available for posting.  It also means that occasionally someone sends out an urgent message saying she just can’t do it that day, and can someone else submit something.  It’s a matter of doing what you commit to doing and always being in communication with everyone else involved–accountability as everyone on the blogging team has learned it to become a coach through JTS.

Time Is A Major Issue

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As a staff writer at coaches training blog when we only had two writers, I committed to writing 4 articles a week, so we could have one out every day and some for back-up.  The problem was that each blog post took me 3-4 hours to write.  That’s a lot of hours, and if you are as slow as I was, it doesn’t leave much time to become a coach who actually coaches people!  You can buy articles, but of course they won’t be in your voice.   Not only that, but when you first become a coach you may not have the money to purchase them.  I’m quicker now, usually 1-2 hours each, but it’s still very time consuming, and at the moment I’m not even writing for my own blog.  I don’t have the time!

Finding Keywords Can Be A Challenge

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The other problem I frequently have is finding the right keywords for each blog.  Quite a lot of time goes on this particular aspect of blogging because it’s important for SEO (search engine optimization), and that’s important for people to find the blog.  It can be very frustrating to have a topic I would like to share, and have to struggle to title it in keyword terms and use them throughout the article.

Were these insights from a newbie blogger’s perspective interesting to you?   Let me know.  In another article, I’ll give you more details on the nitty gritty of blog writing.

Dorine G Kramer
JTS Advisors Strategy and Accountability Coach

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If you want clients when you become a coach, daily blogging as part of an internet marketing plan is fast becoming a must.  So what is it like writing a blog?  The journey’s been rough but rewarding so far, definitely a mix of pain and pleasure for me!  Here are some of my musings on the pleasures of the blogging process……

Being On The Blogging Team At JTS Advisors

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The coaches training blog at JTS Advisors has been providing great content for several years, and I joined as a writer a few months ago.  Three of us are contributing right now and it’s our responsibility to have a new post seven days a week.  It’s my first experience with blogging and there are lots of rules for using a blog as an effective marketing tool when you become a coach.  Getting comfortable with blog writing has taken much longer than I expected!

The Pleasures Of Writing A Blog When You Become A Coach

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When you first become a coach, or at least when I first became one, I was  focused on building my coaching skills.  Then I realized that I also need to market my business in order to have clients.  Both coaching and marketing are served by writing a blog, so it seemed like a good idea to learn from a master like Jeff, and start writing.

I noticed early in my blog-writing endeavors that I was paying attention to plays, TV shows, radio shows, etc. through a new filter.  When you become a coach, you start to notice that many people in your life could benefit from coaching.  But with the necessity for finding topics to blog about, I began to tune in to examples of good and bad coaching (in my estimation) everywhere I went.  I often reference films, TV, plays, or operas–all rich sources of inspiration for the blog.  True, it is sometimes an unwelcome distraction from being entertained, but my coach’s hat is always on now.  I jot down quotes in theatre programs and write notes to myself when something inspires me for a blog, and I carry a tiny digital voice recorder in case I think of something or hear something while driving.

Another advantage I’ve found in blogging is that I’ve been forced to pay attention to topics I might not otherwise have focused on.  When you become a coach, you need to think about getting clients and running a business as well as about coaching.  A blog post has to have good, varied content and be well written, so blogging has encouraged me to broaden my focus and organize my thinking on sales, marketing and numerous aspects of coaching that inspire me.

I also enjoy the challenge of the actual writing.  There are numerous opportunities for writing when you become a coach– e-books, print books and blogs, to name some. But blogging is personal.  It has a lot of you in it.  I came into the blogging world with a very pedantic scholarly writing style but I’m learning to be more playful and that is a pleasure for me.  I hope it’s a pleasure for you, too!

Have you ever heard the expression “Life’s short.  Eat dessert first!”?  Well, you’ve had my take on the dessert.  The rest will have to wait for another day.

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Dorine G Kramer
JTS Advisors Strategy and Accountability Coach

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How do you become a coach or become a life coach that conquers your weaknesses?  The first step is to become a life coach that recognizes you have weaknesses.  When you become a coach, you won’t automatically be good at everything.  You will discover that you lack specific knowledge, skill and talents you need to succeed.  What kind of weaknesses are we talking about?

Become a Coach:  What Skills Most Coaches Don’t Have When They Choose to Become a Life Coach

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When you become a life coach, you may find that you are poor at time management or that you don’t have self-discipline.  You may not seem to be able to focus and apply yourself to your most important actions without getting distracted.  When you become a coach, you will likely feel overwhelmed with too much to do and too little time to do it.  You may have weaknesses in financial, marketing or selling skills. You may not know how to advertise effectively and attract clients.  You may not naturally have the ability to delegate to your staff or supervise them well enough to make sure they get their jobs done well.

Become a Coach:  Become a Life Coach That Never Stops Learning New Skills

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The good news when you become a life coach is discovering that these are all skills you can learn.  The starting point of mastering these skills is for you to admit that you need them.  To become a coach that succeeds you must never allow yourself to be held back because you are missing a skill.  Instead, start developing that skill as a goal by getting a mentor, make a plan, and work on the skill every day until you have mastered it.

Kris Thompson

JTS Advisors Strategy Coach

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