{"id":2514,"date":"2009-12-03T15:08:30","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T15:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/?p=2514"},"modified":"2016-08-12T10:57:34","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T18:57:34","slug":"building-a-coaching-practice-through-public-speaking-why-you-cant-enroll-new-life-coaching-business-from-the-front-of-the-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/building-a-coaching-practice-through-public-speaking-why-you-cant-enroll-new-life-coaching-business-from-the-front-of-the-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Building a Coaching Practice Through Public Speaking: Why You Can\u2019t Enroll New Life Coaching Business From the Front of the Room"},"content":{"rendered":"

Building a coaching practice<\/a><\/strong> is a lot like buying real estate with no money down.\u00a0 If it\u2019s wrong, you\u2019ll be disappointed and it will look like it\u2019s impossible.\u00a0 Most people either fail to get the loan, or they succeed and go bankrupt.\u00a0 So what can you do about building your life coaching business<\/a><\/strong>?\u00a0 Is building a coaching practice<\/strong> through public speaking a viable option?\u00a0 Just like most people in our society date before they get married, you need to let people get to know you before you get life coaching business<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

If You\u2019re Interesting in Building a Coaching Practice Through Public Speaking Do NOT Coach From the Front of the Room<\/h3>\n

The biggest mistake coaches make when building a coaching practice<\/strong> through public speaking is offering coaching from the front of the room.\u00a0 It will minimize the life coaching business<\/strong> you will get because it\u2019s the most expensive option you have.\u00a0 Even the big gurus don’t do it.\u00a0 How do they do it then?<\/p>\n

Unless You Are Speaking in Front of Paying Clients Who Have Purchased Your Products, You\u2019ll Have to Do More to Increase Your Life Coaching Business<\/h3>\n

If your ultimate outcome is to get life coaching business<\/span>, you\u2019re going to need to add a few steps before you make that offer.\u00a0 For example, a certain guru holds seminars with thousands of people attending.\u00a0 That\u2019s not a big deal for most people to give up a weekend of their time, and the cost is fixed.\u00a0 Perhaps after they attend the seminar people buy some of his products, audios or videos.\u00a0 They may even enroll in another seminar.\u00a0 That\u2019s a lot of time and effort that this guru invests in people even before people consider coaching.\u00a0 If building a coaching practice<\/span> this way was hard for him, it\u2019s going to be impossible for you.\u00a0 Unless you\u2019re speaking in a group of paying clients, who have already been buying your products<\/p>\n

Building a Coaching Practice Becomes Easier and More Enjoyable When You Follow These Steps<\/h3>\n

Before you start thinking that building a coaching practice<\/span> from the front of the room is a waste of time, there are some things you can do to get life coaching business<\/span> even before you become a master.\u00a0 For example, you can offer a free coaching session and pass out lead cards to gather contact information.\u00a0 Another way to get life coaching business is to offer a drawing for a free book, product, or month of coaching.\u00a0 Tell your audience that if they want to be in the running, pop their business card in your basket.\u00a0 And as an aside, let them know that if they want a complementary coaching session with you, they can just write \u2018yes\u2019 on the back of their card.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the simplest way to get people to be interested in coaching and in build a life coaching business.\u00a0 Once you get them alone you can add a ton of value to them through your coaching, and yet you still have the validation because you were a speaker.\u00a0 Building a coaching practice this way may seem like more work, but you will have more success and be able to enjoy the process as well.<\/p>\n

Colette Seymann<\/p>\n

JTS Advisors Designated Accountability Coach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Building a coaching practice is a lot like buying real estate with no money down.\u00a0 If it\u2019s wrong, you\u2019ll be disappointed and it will look like it\u2019s impossible.\u00a0 Most people either fail to get the loan, or they succeed and go bankrupt.\u00a0 So what can you do about building your life coaching business?\u00a0 Is building […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[247,195],"tags":[1026,984],"class_list":["post-2514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-building-a-coaching-practice","category-life-coaching-business","tag-building-a-coaching-practice","tag-life-coaching-business","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2514"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18620,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514\/revisions\/18620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}