Niche Marketing for Coaches - Rhonda Hess

Four Roads to Coaching Success

April 14, 2009 | Read 18 comments and join the discussion

There are certain topics you love to coach around, right? Things like transition, life purpose, wellness, legacy building, spirituality, full potential… coaches do love the inner realm.

Those are juicy topics. But they’re a hard sell. People aren’t lining up to buy those things. In this economy, if you’re doing self-actualization coaching, your services are likely to be perceived as a luxury. And you know what that means. You’ll be the first to go when they cut their expenses.

It’s time to make sure your services are seen as essential. Let me help you with that.

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When Marketing Your Coaching Business Becomes Fun!

January 6, 2009 | Share your comment

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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