Archive for March, 2010

Write Your Way to Coaching Business Success

I interviewed Carol Hess (no relation to me) about writing, the best gateway skill for marketing your coaching business and boosting your income. Carol is owner of Tame the Writing Monster where she helps coaches become persuasive and powerful writers on behalf of their businesses. Listen to this interview and read the highlights below. Continue reading [...]

5 Core Skill Sets for Coaching Business Success

Have you ever felt that you need more knowledge, training or credentials to be highly valuable to your coaching clients? While every coach has some areas to develop, don’t make the mistake of discounting the many skills you already bring to the table. That goes for business skills as well. No matter how new you [...]

The Worst Coaching Website Mistake: Not Knowing Why Your Home Page Exists

On Thursday, March 18, I will interview Carma Spence-Pothitt, coach, author and web ace, about her new ebook Home Sweet Home Page: The 5 Deadly Mistakes Authors, Speakers and Coaches Make with Their Website’s Home Page and How to Fix Them! In this guest post, Carma reveals the worst of those five deadly website (and [...]

Where the Coaching Clients Are

Last Thursday I gave a presentation to recent graduates of Coach Training Alliance called Where the Clients Are. I wanted to give new coaches a sure-fire approach to launch a prosperous coaching business, so they can spend less time marketing and more time doing the work they love. I call this talk “Where the Clients Are” [...]

My Biggest Mistake as a Life Coach

What was the single biggest mistake I made as a life coach? That’s easy: It was trying to sell coaching to anyone and everyone. Just thinking about it makes me tired. I didn’t know any better. The advice of the day was to pick a niche I felt passionate about. No one said anything about [...]