{"id":3139,"date":"2010-04-02T02:21:28","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T02:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/?p=3139"},"modified":"2016-08-11T03:10:11","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T11:10:11","slug":"you-are-robbing-your-life-coaching-clients-free-personal-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/you-are-robbing-your-life-coaching-clients-free-personal-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Why You Are Robbing Your Life Coaching Clients if You Are Not Charging Them for Coaching: How Much Value Can a Free Personal Coach Offer?"},"content":{"rendered":"

You are actually doing a disservice to your life coaching<\/strong><\/a> clients if you continue to offer free personal coach<\/strong><\/a> services. Most people aren\u2019t really committed to life coaching<\/strong> unless they have enrolled. How valuable do they see you as a free personal coach<\/strong> is not the biggest issue. The biggest issue is that you are really dis-empowering your life coaching<\/strong> clients if you don\u2019t get them to commit to the process. When you continue to offer free personal coach<\/strong> services you allow people to straddle the fence between committing to coaching and deciding not to be involved.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s Alright to Be a Free Personal Coach for a Limited Time<\/h3>\n

I\u2019m not suggesting that you never allow yourself to offer free personal coach<\/span> services. There may be the occasional life coaching<\/span> client that simply does not have financial resources to pay you. If that\u2019s the case, one or two free personal coach<\/span> sessions should be adequate to get them to a place where they can afford to pay you something. Even if it\u2019s only $20 per session, they are committing their hard earned money to the process of life coaching<\/span>. Those clients will take your coaching much more seriously the moment they decide to invest in your life coaching services.<\/p>\n

Offering Too Much Free Life Coaching Actually Enables Your Clients to Stay \u2018Stuck\u2019<\/h3>\n

Another reason why you shouldn\u2019t offer free personal coach services for more than a few sessions is that you actually begin to enable those life coaching clients. You buy into their story that they don\u2019t have money, can\u2019t get money, and are thereby \u2018stuck.\u2019 You are helping to maintain their limiting beliefs that they can\u2019t do better.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t Count on the Future for Life Coaching Salary<\/h3>\n

They haven\u2019t committed, yet they have you as their own free personal coach. Why marry the cow when you get your milk for free? I\u2019ve never had a life coaching client spontaneously tell me that he\/she has received a big windfall of money and has decided to pay me retroactively for all that I\u2019ve helped him\/her achieve. If your clients really can\u2019t afford your fees, you can give them options. One is to offer group life coaching at a rate people can afford. Another is to set a baseline rate that they commit to and every month increase that rate by a reasonable amount as they start to get results. What happens if they stumble one month and can\u2019t afford the increase? You have the opportunity to forgive. And that will create more loyalty in your relationships that you will never have by giving away your services as a free personal coach<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Colette Seymann
\nJTS Advisors Bi-Designated Strategy and Accountability Coach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You are actually doing a disservice to your life coaching clients if you continue to offer free personal coach services. Most people aren\u2019t really committed to life coaching unless they have enrolled. How valuable do they see you as a free personal coach is not the biggest issue. The biggest issue is that you are […]<\/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":[290,194],"tags":[1174,983],"class_list":["post-3139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-free-personal-coach","category-life-coaching","tag-free-personal-coach","tag-life-coaching","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139","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=3139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18169,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139\/revisions\/18169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}