Coaching Success – Charge What You’re Worth

February 16, 2009 | View Comments

Sometimes, to get better results in your coaching business, all you really need is a mindset shift. So many life coaches make a less than stellar income, and their mantra: “How do I get more clients?” rolls around in their heads continuously. Eventually, that focus builds more scarcity than prosperity.

Some wise person said: “How we do anything is how we do everything.”

It’s true. And I say:
How we think about anything is how we experience everything.

When you set your coaching fees and tell prospects about them, give yourself the advantage of a powerful mindset as a solid foundation for your success.

Integrate these Four Power Concepts together to charge what you’re worth.


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Life coaching – Will anyone buy it?

February 9, 2009 | View Comments

After coaching professionally for twelve years and helping hundreds of coaches create successful businesses, my answer to this question is surprisingly and unequivocally – NO!

On the other hand, if you’re wondering: “Is coaching a viable business?” Absolutely – YES!

But, here’s the thing… financial success in coaching has little to do with coaching skills and everything to do with setting yourself up for success through best business practices. The result you most want – lots of ideal clients – will come to you by learning the business of coaching.


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Coaching Business Abundance – Consciously Crafting Your Coaching Business

February 3, 2009 | View Comments

Do you remember why you became a life coach? Do you still feel the calling? More than ever, it’s important to believe in your dreams. Slow down. Calm your fears about the future and revive your vision for your coaching business, your life, and the world.

I know that you’ve heard a lot about Law of Attraction principles, but you might have forgotten to use them in the constant drive to get things done and get ahead. All of those high payoff actions you complete around your coaching business will bring a powerful result if your mind is aligned with your vision. Like the current in a river, prosperous thinking allows what you want – more coaching clients, a better income – to flow towards you.

The 5-step manifestation process I’m about to share with you really works! I’ve experienced it for myself and seen its positive effect on others. Make this a part of your daily practice. Then watch how you attract more financial prosperity and feel better.


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Five Jiu Jitsu Moves to Organize Your Coaching Business

January 27, 2009 | View Comments

My computer consultant was at my office last week optimizing my Macbook for my next business trip. Opening up my email, he said: “OMG, your inbox is clean!” Then he looked around my office. “Are you really this organized?” I am. To be successful I have to be.

Stuff is distracting. If your office and inbox are overflowing and you don’t like it any more, keep it clean with these five Jiu Jitsu moves:


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Coaching Website Makeover (Or Startup!)

January 20, 2009 | View Comments

After you’ve poured hard work and dollars into your coaching website, the last thing you want is for your website to sit there collecting cyber-dust. You want your site working for your coaching business all the time – pre-qualifying prospects, developing relationships with new leads, and possibly, selling your products and services.

Is your coaching website doing that for you?

Pull up your website (or if you’re starting on yours now, take note), and run through this checklist to see if your site needs a makeover.

1. Does your home page do these things?

Clearly identify and pre-qualify your target market.

When you address your niche market directly on your website, they feel like they have arrived home. If you’re leaving your website generic, hoping to address everyone, or if you have a broad coaching market, your site will be much less effective as a marketing tool and slow your success.


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Coaching Fees – From Fumbling to Finessing the Money Conversation

January 12, 2009 | View Comments

Have you ever choked when it came time to tell a potential new client your coaching fees? It’s embarrassing. And it could be a factor in why they felt uncomfortable with your fees or didn’t hire you. But don’t worry. You can turn the tide on this problem with just a few shifts in your mindset and approach.

Fear about asking for coaching fees stems from learned beliefs about money and self worth that don’t serve us (or anyone else) even though they hold sway over decisions that involve money and how we value our time. As a coach and business owner, this is a grand opportunity to shift those outmoded beliefs and habits. And, charging what you’re worth allows your ideal clients to invest in your coaching services and to value themselves more highly.

If you want to increase your coaching income, start by learning how to have powerful and effective “money conversations” and begin dissolving scarcity issues related to money for good!

Use these three tips to go from fumbling to finessing the money conversation with coaching clients.
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When Marketing Your Coaching Business Becomes Fun!

January 6, 2009 | View Comments

Have you ever felt that you’re all over the place with your coaching business? Today, you’re speaking at a brown bag corporate meeting about team leadership. Yesterday you gave a talk at your church about relationships. Next week you’ve got a gig at Borders where you’re giving a career choice seminar. You’re versatile, but is that helping you attract enough coaching clients? Probably not.

It feels good to be recognized, so you say ‘yes’ to speaking and training opportunities even if there’s no continuity to the topic or the market. But what are you recognized for… and is it something you can leverage to become financially successful in your coaching business?

If you’re morphing your message, your title and your coaching niche to fit any opportunity or potential client that comes your way, you are actually making more work for yourself! And, if you do the math, you’ll find that most days you’re lucky to be making $25/hr, when you could be making at least 5 – 10 times more if your coaching business had more focus.

When coaches get tired of working hard for little return, they hire me to help them “fix” their coaching business. The fix is simple. I help them get more star coaching clients and make marketing fun by focusing and leveraging their efforts. Here’s how:


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