{"id":2686,"date":"2010-01-08T05:14:48","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T05:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/?p=2686"},"modified":"2016-08-19T10:08:40","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T18:08:40","slug":"grow-your-life-coaching-business-or-coaching-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/grow-your-life-coaching-business-or-coaching-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask for Help from \u201cPOI\u2019s\u201d in Your Coaching Practice to Grow Your Life Coaching Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most powerful ways to grow your <a title=\"coaching practice\" href=\"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/2009\/12\/coaching-practice-building-public-speaking-dont-go-to-the-front-of-the-room-before-you-get-these-coaching-tips-handled\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>coaching practice<\/strong><\/a> into a successful <a title=\"life coaching business\" href=\"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/2009\/12\/the-greatest-challenge-in-your-life-coaching-business-how-to-increase-your-life-coach-salary-by-making-the-most-of-what-you-have\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>life coaching business<\/strong><\/a> is asking for help. The key in asking for help to grow your <strong>life coaching business<\/strong> is to clearly define what you want. Then ask people to help you get what you want. To build a <strong>coaching practice<\/strong>, you will need people to offer free sessions to. Here is the best strategy you can learn to take your <strong>life coaching business<\/strong> to the next level.<\/p>\n<h3>Use POI\u2019s To Help You Build Your Coaching Practice Into a Booming Life Coaching Business<\/h3>\n<p>The best way to quickly grow your <strong>coaching practice<\/strong> is to get help from \u201cPOI\u2019s\u201d. A \u201cPOI\u201d is a Person Of Influence. The average person knows 250 people, and 25 people just like them. Everyone has a network (list of people who know them), but not everyone is a \u201cPOI\u201d. A \u201cPOI\u201d is a person of influence that has your ideal <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">life coaching business<\/span> prospect in their network.<\/p>\n<h3>Build Your Coaching Practice By Doing What the \u201cBig Boys\u201d Do Outside of the Life Coaching Business Industry<\/h3>\n<p>To get your <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">coaching practice<\/span> to the next level, do what the big boys do. One of the ways big business gets done is large companies share each other\u2019s networks. One example of this is Starbucks and Barnes &amp; Noble. Years ago, Starbucks approached Barnes &amp; Noble with the idea of putting Starbucks inside of several Barnes &amp; Noble stores. The idea was a huge hit and Starbucks got their coffee shop inside 500 Barnes &amp; Noble stores overnight. Starbucks used the \u201cPOI\u201d Strategy. They shared the network of Barnes &amp; Noble. Starbucks has repeated this strategy with several other networks. They have done this strategy with restaurants, hotels, churches, and grocery stores. You can do the same thing in your <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">life coaching business<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how you can do this for your <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">coaching practice<\/span>. Identify \u201cPOI\u2019s\u201d that you can approach to share networks with your life coaching business. Write down as many \u201cPOI\u2019s\u201d as you can think of. Then go to them and ask them if they would be interested in actively supporting each other to grow each other\u2019s businesses. If only 1 or 2 of them work with you, it will easily take your coaching practice to the next level in the big picture of your life coaching business\u2019s overall success.<\/p>\n<p>Kris Thompson<br \/>\nJTS Advisors Strategy Coach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most powerful ways to grow your coaching practice into a successful life coaching business is asking for help. The key in asking for help to grow your life coaching business is to clearly define what you want. Then ask people to help you get what you want. To build a coaching practice, [&hellip;]<\/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":[248,195],"tags":[1027,984],"class_list":["post-2686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-coaching-practice","category-life-coaching-business","tag-coaching-practice","tag-life-coaching-business","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686","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=2686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19137,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686\/revisions\/19137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}