Right now, before it's too late, there are 3 life coaching business questions you should ask yourself. These aspects of your mindset will determine whether your business will succeed or fail, and they are completely up to you! Are You Willing To Step Out Of Your Comfort Zone? Defining comfort zones can be tricky when you're looking at your own. You might find that you don't have any trouble prospecting for clients on the internet, but you hate networking. Is it fear, laziness, frustration? Are … [Read more...]
How To Get Coaching Clients Tomorrow: 3 Sure-Fire Strategies
Many coaches struggle with learning how to get coaching clients. But you don’t have to. You can get coaching clients tomorrow, if you like. Or at least by the end of the week. Even if you think you don’t know very many people. How To Get Coaching Clients By Getting On The Court 1. First, make a list of everyone you know. Babysitters, hairdressers, friends, family, neighbors, acquaintances. Then, divide the list into 3 parts. a. People who would never pay you for coaching, because they know you … [Read more...]
The Biggest Danger To Your Life Coaching Business During The Holidays
Most people think that January is the best time of year in the life coaching business. People have made New Years’ resolutions and are ready to make changes in their lives. Unfortunately, most coaches don’t find new business knocking down their doors in January. In fact, many coaches find that their coaching businesses are a bit slow for the first few months of the year. The Top 3 Life Coaching Business Threats 1. ‘Tis the season for certainty. Certainty is one of the four basic survival … [Read more...]
Life Coaching Business Lessons: A Twist On ‘The Tortoise And The Hare’
There are two types of life coaching business owners. One is like the tortoise in the classic children’s story, “The Tortoise and The Hare.” The other like The Tortoise. Both styles have strengths and weaknesses, but what if the two worked together to build a business even greater than they could individually? 3 Keys To A Winning Combination In Your Life Coaching Business 1. Identify your own strengths. Do you tend to plod along slowly and deliberately, planning ahead…or do you wait until the … [Read more...]
3 Life Coach Business Forms You Need For Protection
There are no standard life coach business forms, just as there is no standard life coach training. In most places, you don't actually need any kind of certification or license to have a life coaching business, but that doesn't mean you should just blithely start coaching clients without any kind of paperwork. Obviously you should make sure you know what, if any, requirements exist in your country or your area. But even if there is no requirement beyond what you need to run a business, it's a … [Read more...]
5 Things You Should Expect When Starting A Life Coaching Business
The uncertainty that comes with starting a life coaching business stops many coaches. It’s hard to jump into something when you really can’t test the waters first. Most coaches who take the testing the water approach never really get started, and thus eventually fail. It’s not their fault, but it is preventable. Here are 5 things that you can expect from your coaching business. Life Coaching Business Pitfalls And How To Navigate Them When I started out, I worked hard to get by … [Read more...]
Life Coaching Business Lessons From “The 3 Little Pigs”
There are plenty of life coaching business lessons that can be gleaned from the story of “The 3 Little Pigs.” These little pigs represent three different styles of coaching business owners; one that puts almost no effort at all into his business, one that puts some effort into his business but then leaves to go play, and then the third that has a longer term visions of what he wants to create in his life. The Big Bad Wolf is of course the economic winter that attempts to blow down each of the … [Read more...]
Is Your Life Coach Salary A Casualty Of Sloth?
If you are not busy building your business, you could be sacrificing your life coach salary on the altar of the seventh and last deadly sin of life coaching in my series—the sin of sloth. Sloth isn't a word we use very much nowadays, except to refer to those slow moving, tree-dwelling South American mammals. So let's use some more common words. Let's use laziness, apathy and inactivity. Are you guilty of one or more of those? Let's look at some of the ways they can impact your business. Are … [Read more...]
3 Childhood Keys To Making Your Coaching Practice Fun
When you started your coaching practice, what were you expecting? Did you expect it to be easy? Did you expect to quickly have a great income from coaching? Did you think that clients would be falling all over themselves to beat a path to your door? So how's it been going so far? If you are feeling frustrated, try adopting the playful attitude of a child approaching a new and exciting challenge. Try adopting the 3 keys to finding joy in your coaching practice. Are Your Clients Friend Or … [Read more...]
Life Coach Marketing: Creating Powerful And Enrolling Promotional Materials
Many great coaches get stuck when it comes to life coach marketing. Let’s say you meet someone who wants to help promote your life coach business. Great! Next he or she tells you to just leave some of your marketing materials at the front desk. Then, your heart sinks just a bit because you suddenly realize that you don’t have much in the way of life coach marketing materials. What Your Life Coach Marketing Materials Must Say About You How do you create marketing materials that really let … [Read more...]
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