{"id":2835,"date":"2010-02-06T15:38:16","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T15:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/?p=2835"},"modified":"2016-08-11T02:21:35","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T10:21:35","slug":"coaching-success-stories-gain-your-life-coaching-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/coaching-success-stories-gain-your-life-coaching-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Use Coaching Success Stories To Gain Credibility When You Start Your Life Coaching Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fastest way to gain credibility for your <strong><a title=\"life coaching business\" href=\"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/2010\/01\/how-to-get-life-coach-clients-life-coaching-business-tools\/\" target=\"_self\">life coaching business<\/a><\/strong> is to use <strong><a title=\"coaching success stories\" href=\"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/2009\/12\/increase-life-coaching-business-using-coaching-success-stories\/\" target=\"_self\">coaching success stories<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 Many start their <strong>life coaching business<\/strong> by getting certified.\u00a0 That is a great way to get credibility.\u00a0 But what if you don\u2019t have the finances or time to invest into getting certified?\u00a0 There is another way.\u00a0 People don\u2019t hire you to coach them because you\u2019re certified.\u00a0 They hire you because they believe you can help them to get the results they are looking for.<\/p>\n<h3>In Your Life Coaching Business, Ask Your Coaching Success Stories to Put it in Writing<\/h3>\n<p>The most powerful way to enroll someone into your <strong>life coaching business<\/strong>; is a coaching success story.\u00a0 It\u2019s a \u201cthird party endorsement,\u201d and it is why major advertisers pay millions of dollars to celebrities and athletes to endorse their products.\u00a0 Most coaches start their <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">life coaching business<\/span> by coaching people for free.\u00a0 That is fine, as long as you ask them in advance to pay you by writing a testimonial for you.\u00a0 Assure them that you only want them to write a testimonial if they are truly happy with your coaching.\u00a0 Once you have the testimonial, display them on the internet or in a nice binder.<\/p>\n<h3>Life Coaching Business:\u00a0 How do You Get Your Client to Properly Write Their Coaching Success Story?<\/h3>\n<p>An easy way to get <strong>coaching success stories<\/strong> from your <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">life coaching business<\/span> clients is to provide them with questions.\u00a0 Give them a fill-in-the-blank customer survey form. \u00a0After they have shared their results with you, ask them to fill the form out.\u00a0 Then select the best ones and put them on the internet or in your testimonial book.\u00a0 Then start to use the testimonials when you run free sessions to give you credibility.\u00a0 This will also help you enroll more clients into your life coaching business.<\/p>\n<p>Kris Thompson<\/p>\n<p>JTS Advisors Strategy Coach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fastest way to gain credibility for your life coaching business is to use coaching success stories.\u00a0 Many start their life coaching business by getting certified.\u00a0 That is a great way to get credibility.\u00a0 But what if you don\u2019t have the finances or time to invest into getting certified?\u00a0 There is another way.\u00a0 People don\u2019t [&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":[223,195],"tags":[1007,984],"class_list":["post-2835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-coaching-success-stories","category-life-coaching-business","tag-coaching-success-stories","tag-life-coaching-business","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835","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=2835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18121,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835\/revisions\/18121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}