Archive for December, 2009

7 Steps to Your Own Coaching Products, Part 3

This series covers seven steps to innovating, designing and launching your own information products:

  1. Tune into Your Niche Market
  2. Leverage Your Product Funnel
  3. Outline Your Coaching Product
  4. Map Out a Project Plan
  5. Create Your Product
  6. Create Your Marketing Campaign
  7. Get Set to Deliver

Part 1 talks about the first three steps. Steps 4 and 5 are covered in Part 2. Here’s the scoop on 6 and 7 (plus a bonus step).


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Positive Thinking to Boost Your Coaching Business

The Law of Attraction gets a lot of airplay in the personal development and coaching industries. But sometimes visualizing what you want doesn’t bring the results you’re looking for. What’s missing?

Whether the Law of Attraction actually “works” is a metaphysical question. But if you’re inclined to believe there’s something to it, as I am, there is a more interesting question to ask:

  • How do you sustain prosperity thinking through the ups and downs that inevitably come with building a coaching business?

A lot of popular abundance media, such as The Secret, tends to gloss over pieces that are essential to true prosperity, such as:

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7 Steps to Your Own Coaching Products, Part 2

In Part 1 of this series, I outlined seven steps to innovating, designing and launching your own information products:

  1. Tune into Your Niche Market
  2. Leverage Your Product Funnel
  3. Outline Your Coaching Product
  4. Map Out a Project Plan
  5. Create Your Product
  6. Create Your Marketing Campaign
  7. Get Set to Deliver

The first three steps are covered in Part 1. Here’s the scoop on steps 4 and 5. I’ll cover steps 6 and 7 in Part 3.


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10 Common Challenges Life Coaches Face and How to Solve Them

Finding true success in coaching presents some significant challenges. All are solved with pinpointed focus on one target market, plus a handful of winning strategies and a bit of patience. No joke. Targeting your attraction energy on one viable market is where leverage begins.

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Real Coaches, Real Results – Kristin’s Success Story

I’ve been saying that coaches can get better results by championing one viable market and offering what their market most wants to buy. I thought some interviews with coaches who have found their success that way would help show how it works. The first Real Coaches, Real Results interview is with Kristin Keffeler.

Kristin Keffeler helps wealth advisors build the courage and capacity to bring their big ideas to life.

Listen to this interview and read the highlights below.


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      • Barbara "Thank you for responding.  Yes, I'm still doing pro bono work. I have not taken this to the level where I'm getting paid.  You make a good point and although there are a vast number of women in this category, it does make me wonder if you're on the mark here. I was told to focus in on..." in response to How to Attract Clients in a More Coach-Like Way
      • Barbara "Wonderful article Rhonda.  I have been a "pro bono" coach for as long as I can remember.  I have gone through a program, hired and worked with a mentor coach, have a company and domain name,  business cards and a Pay Pal account.  Sounds great you might say!  Well, I haven't been able to take it..." in response to How to Attract Clients in a More Coach-Like Way
      • Angela "I truly truly credit you Rhonda with making me realize how incredibly important this is in business.  Now I run around telling everyone how much THEY need to do it!  Still working on my rebranding but it's coming together soon :) ..." in response to How to Attract Clients in a More Coach-Like Way