Do You Need To Be Certified To Be A Life Coach Or Is Coaching Certification A Waste of Time?

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/JpI2F)
Coaching certification is great, but do you need to be certified to be a life coach? What reasons are there for getting a coaching certification? These are great questions to ask if you want to be a life coach. One popular reason to get coaching certification would be to learn coaching techniques. Another reason would be to help your prospects believe you are qualified to coach them. Yet another reason could be that you believe you will get more clients than someone who does not have a certification. All of those reasons seem pretty good, but let’s look at them more closely. Are they really true? Do you need to be certified to be a life coach?

Do You Need To Be Certified To Be A Life Coach? Just Any Coaching Certification Course Will Not Be A Quick Fix

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A lot of people take coaching certification courses because they believe it works just like going to college and getting a career. However, there are some problems with looking at coaching that way. While some people see going to college, getting a degree and then getting a job as a measure of success, in life coaching you would need a lot more than one client to be considered a success. Not only should you take a look at what other life coaches have done to be successful, but also ask yourself what do you need to be a certified life coach who considers himself to be successful.

Do You Need To Be Certified To Be A Life Coach? Only Get A Coaching Certification After Finding Out Which One Paying Clients Expect You To Have

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When I get asked the question, “Do you need to be certified to be a life coach?,” I respond by asking why one feels the need to get certified. Usually, people think it will give them credibility with their prospects. This may be true, but you will want to do some homework before you dive into coaching certification by finding out if there are any particular certifications that your prospects will expect you to have. For example, some financial advisers obtain financial planner certification because it is one certification that prospects recognize. Other certifications may appear as meaningless letters on the end of their name. By learning what certifications your clients will recognize, you will avoid wasting time and money getting a coaching certification that means nothing to your clients.

If you are still hesitant about getting a coaching certification, the best way to start getting clients is to do free coaching sessions. You are applying for the job of being their coach. They need to have a great experience coaching with you. Do you need to be a certified life coach to enroll clients? NO. All you need is the ability to help them get results.

Do you need to be certified to be a life coach? Not before you get started. Over time you should get certified because great coaches are lifelong learners. However, don’t make the mistake of waiting to take certification courses before getting started coaching and making a difference for your clients.

Kris Thompson
JTS Advisors Strategy Coach

[Blog] Do You Need To Be Certified To Be A Life Coach Or Is Coaching Certification A Waste of Ti...: Coaching certification is great, but do you need to be certified to be a life coach? What reasons are there for getting a coaching certification? These are great questions to ask if you want to be a life coach. One popular reason to get coaching certification would be to learn coaching techniques. Another reason would be to help your prospects believe you are qualified to coach them. Yet another reason could be that you believe you will get more clients than someone who does not have a certification. All of those reasons seem pretty good, but let’s look at them more closely. Are they really true? Do you need to be certified to be a life coach?
Do You Need To Be Certified To Be A Life Coach? Just Any Coaching Certification Course Will Not Be A Quick Fix
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A lot of people take coaching certification courses because they believe it works just like going to college and getting a career. However, there are some problems with looking at coaching that way. While some people see going to college, getting a degree and then getting a job as a measure of success, in life coaching you would need a lot more than one client to be considered a success. Not only should you take a look at what other life coaches have done to be successful, but also ask yourself what do you need to be a certified life coach who considers himself to be successful.
Do You Need To Be Certified To Be A Life Coach? Only Get A Coaching Certification After Finding Out Which One Paying Clients Expect You To Have
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When I get asked the question, “Do you need to be certified to be a life coach?,” I respond by asking why one feels the need to get certified. Usually, people think it will give them credibility with their prospects. This may be true, but you will want to do some homework before you dive into coaching certification by finding out if there are any particular certifications that your prospects will expect you to have. For example, some financial advisers obtain financial planner certification because it is one certification that prospects recognize. Other certifications may appear as meaningless letters on the end of their name. By learning what certifications your clients will recognize, you will avoid wasting time and money getting a coaching certification that means nothing to your clients.

If you are still hesitant about getting a coaching certification, the best way to start getting clients is to do free coaching sessions. You are applying for the job of being their coach. They need to have a great experience coaching with you. Do you need to be a certified life coach to enroll clients? NO. All you need is the ability to help them get results.

Do you need to be certified to be a life coach? Not before you get started. Over time you should get certified because great coaches are lifelong learners. However, don’t make the mistake of waiting to take certification courses before getting started coaching and making a difference for your clients.

Kris Thompson
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To Have Success Coaching Your Clients Long Term What Inner Game Coaching Will They Need?

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/WCYUB)
What inner game coaching steps are necessary to have success coaching your clients in the long run?  You will need to keep them emotionally connected to you.  I have success coaching my clients to make more sales.  The inner game coaching I do with them is very important to keep them wanting me to coach them long enough to get results.  Over time we develop such a strong emotional bond and trust between us that they ask me for coaching in all areas of their life.    When we use the term “inner game coaching” we are talking about client’s beliefs, feelings and comfort zones.  There are three things your clients need to get from you to keep them as your client long term.

To Have Success Coaching Clients They Need To Feel You Value Them As an Individual

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The most important thing your clients need to believe about you to have success coaching them is that you personally value them.  You cannot do effective inner game coaching if your clients believe you do not care about them.  It doesn’t matter how much you know because they won’t listen.  One way to make your client feel that you personally value them is to take good notes during your sessions.  Really listen to them and do not be “waiting to talk”.

Praising Your Clients Efforts Must Be Done to Have Success Coaching Them to Get Results

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To have success coaching your clients you need to praise their efforts.  It doesn’t matter how small their actions may seem to them.  To give them inner game coaching that is only focused on what they didn’t do well will discourage them.  If your client gets no encouragement from you they will stop coaching with you.  If you make them feel like they are making progress it will motivate them to keep trying and not give up. 

If you do the first two steps discussed so far you will have success coaching your clients.  You will now need to give your clients inner game coaching on how to view their wins.  A lot of people ignore their wins and focus on their disappointments.  For your client to feel like they are making progress toward their goals you will need to teach them to celebrate their wins.  Celebrate with them over the phone on their coaching session.  Pat them on the back and tell them they did a great job.  If you do these things you will have many clients stay with you for a long time and you will have a satisfying coaching business.

Kris Thompson

JTS Advisors Strategy Coach

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[Blog] To Have Success Coaching Your Clients Long Term What Inner Game Coaching Will They Ne...: What inner game coaching steps are necessary to have success coaching your clients in the long run?  You will need to keep them emotionally connected to you.  I have success coaching my clients to make more sales.  The inner game coaching I do with them is very important to keep them wanting me to coach them long enough to get results.  Over time we develop such a strong emotional bond and trust between us that they ask me for coaching in all areas of their life.    When we use the term “inner game coaching” we are talking about client’s beliefs, feelings and comfort zones.  There are three things your clients need to get from you to keep them as your client long term.
To Have Success Coaching Clients They Need To Feel You Value Them As an Individual
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The most important thing your clients need to believe about you to have success coaching them is that you personally value them.  You cannot do effective inner game coaching if your clients believe you do not care about them.  It doesn’t matter how much you know because they won’t listen.  One way to make your client feel that you personally value them is to take good notes during your sessions.  Really listen to them and do not be “waiting to talk”.
Praising Your Clients Efforts Must Be Done to Have Success Coaching Them to Get Results
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To have success coaching your clients you need to praise their efforts.  It doesn’t matter how small their actions may seem to them.  To give them inner game coaching that is only focused on what they didn’t do well will discourage them.  If your client gets no encouragement from you they will stop coaching with you.  If you make them feel like they are making progress it will motivate them to keep trying and not give up. 

If you do the first two steps discussed so far you will have success coaching your clients.  You will now need to give your clients inner game coaching on how to view their wins.  A lot of people ignore their wins and focus on their disappointments.  For your client to feel like they are making progress toward their goals you will need to teach them to celebrate their wins.  Celebrate with them over the phone on their coaching session.  Pat them on the back and tell them they did a great job.  If you do these things you will have many clients stay with you for a long time and you will have a satisfying coaching business.

Kris Thompson

JTS Advisors Strategy C... http://ping.fm/2NKJN

Why Use Public Speaking To Learn How to Speak With Confidence In Your Life Coaching Business?

(My Original Blog Post: http://coachestrainingblog.com/becomeacoach/2009/11/why-use-public-speaking-to-learn-how-to-speak-with-confidence-in-your-life-coaching-business/)
Learning how to speak with confidence seems like a huge obstacle when you first start your life coaching business.  You may feel like you have to be the perfect coach to speak with confidence in your life coaching business.  Or like many others you may feel like people won’t listen to you if you don’t have success stories yet.   So why use public speaking as a tool to learn how to speak with confidence?

Public Speaking Will Help You Learn How to Speak With Confidence Because Public Speakers are Viewed as Experts

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If you use public speaking to promote your life coaching business you will soon learn how to speak with confidence.  Why?  Because we all are taught that Public Speakers are experts in their field.  If the promoter says you’re an expert then you are an expert in the minds of the audience.  People love to do business with experts and public speakers are experts in their minds

If your audience views you as an expert then you will feed off their energy.  That energy will give you confidence and your audience will respond well.  Your audience is there to hear your message and they want you to succeed.   When you contact them after your speech you will hear respect for you in their voice.  That respect will make it much easier to enroll them as a client in your life coaching business.  Without public speaking your prospects will view you as a salesperson when you call them to offer a free coaching session.

You Will Learn How to Speak With Confidence by Using Public Speaking Because It Puts You Ahead of Your Competition

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Using public speaking consistently to promote your life coaching business will put you in the top of your field.  That is true because 99% of people on the planet are too afraid of speaking in public to even try it.

The other reason you will be at the top of your field is you will have more clients.  You will be offering your free session to many people at once not just to one person at a time.  Knowing how to speak with confidence won’t be a problem for you if you commit to using public speaking to consistently grow your life coaching business.

Kris Thompson

JTS Advisors Strategy Coach

[Blog] Why Use Public Speaking To Learn How to Speak With Confidence In Your Life Coaching Busine...: Learning how to speak with confidence seems like a huge obstacle when you first start your life coaching business.  You may feel like you have to be the perfect coach to speak with confidence in your life coaching business.  Or like many others you may feel like people won’t listen to you if you don’t have success stories yet.   So why use public speaking as a tool to learn how to speak with confidence?
Public Speaking Will Help You Learn How to Speak With Confidence Because Public Speakers are Viewed as Experts
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If you use public speaking to promote your life coaching business you will soon learn how to speak with confidence.  Why?  Because we all are taught that Public Speakers are experts in their field.  If the promoter says you’re an expert then you are an expert in the minds of the audience.  People love to do business with experts and public speakers are experts in their minds

If your audience views you as an expert then you will feed off their energy.  That energy will give you confidence and your audience will respond well.  Your audience is there to hear your message and they want you to succeed.   When you contact them after your speech you will hear respect for you in their voice.  That respect will make it much easier to enroll them as a client in your life coaching business.  Without public speaking your prospects will view you as a salesperson when you call them to offer a free coaching session.
You Will Learn How to Speak With Confidence by Using Public Speaking Because It Puts You Ahead of Your Competition
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Using public speaking consistently to promote your life coaching business will put you in the top of your field.  That is true because 99% of people on the planet are too afraid of speaking in public to even try it.

The other reason you will be at the top of your field is you will have more clients.  You will be offering your free session to many people at once not just to one person at a time.  Knowing how to speak with confidence won’t be a problem for you if you commit to using public speaking to consistently grow your life coaching business.

Kris Thompson

JTS Advisors Strategy C... http://coachestrainingblog.com/becomeacoach/2009/11/why-use-public-speaking-to-learn-how-to-speak-with-confidence-in-your-life-coaching-business/

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Why Mastermind Groups are a Waste of Time in Growing Your Life Coaching Business: How to Avoid this Life Coaching Career Pitfall

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/UgABM)
Mastermind groups are a waste of time in growing your life coaching business?  Sound sacrilegious?  Sure, but they are one of the most common pitfalls people fall into at one point or another during their life coaching career.  Here’s why.  A bunch of coaches sit around, usually on the phone, for an hour or so every week and talk about their life coaching businesses.  They support each other in their life coaching career goals.  And over the course of the year it amounts to over 40 hours of time!

That’s a week of full time work that you could have been using to develop your life coaching business or work toward taking your life coaching career to the next level.  But you may be thinking, mastermind groups talk about how to do that.

Mastermind Groups Can Only Affect Your Life Coaching Business if You Take Action

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There are two reasons why mastermind mind groups won’t help you with your life coaching career or your life coaching business.  The first is that most don’t show up.  Even if they do, they show up passively.  As in ready to take in information, speak their opinion if they feel like it, or they don’t take action after the call.  They expect benefits just by being on a mastermind group.

To Make Use of Mastermind Groups in Your Life Coaching Career You Must be Held Accountable

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The second reason why most people’s don’t see benefits in their life coaching career or life coaching business from mastermind groups is that everyone shows up trying to be supportive.  Which is fine to a point.  But where is the accountability if no one is ready to ask the tough questions?  Is everyone else being ‘polite’ by letting others slide so that they will have the same grace?

If you really want to take your life coaching business to the next level, avoid these common pitfalls.  If you’re already a part of a mastermind group and see this happening, don’t look for a new group.  Step up and become a leader.  Take a stand for the people in your mastermind to make something happen.  It’s only by expanding your comfort zone that there is a chance to take your life coaching career to the next level.

Colette Seymann

JTS Advisors Designated Accountability Coach

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[Blog] Why Mastermind Groups are a Waste of Time in Growing Your Life Coaching Business: How to Avoid this Life Coaching Career Pitf...: Mastermind groups are a waste of time in growing your life coaching business?  Sound sacrilegious?  Sure, but they are one of the most common pitfalls people fall into at one point or another during their life coaching career.  Here’s why.  A bunch of coaches sit around, usually on the phone, for an hour or so every week and talk about their life coaching businesses.  They support each other in their life coaching career goals.  And over the course of the year it amounts to over 40 hours of time!

That’s a week of full time work that you could have been using to develop your life coaching business or work toward taking your life coaching career to the next level.  But you may be thinking, mastermind groups talk about how to do that.
Mastermind Groups Can Only Affect Your Life Coaching Business if You Take Action
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There are two reasons why mastermind mind groups won’t help you with your life coaching career or your life coaching business.  The first is that most don’t show up.  Even if they do, they show up passively.  As in ready to take in information, speak their opinion if they feel like it, or they don’t take action after the call.  They expect benefits just by being on a mastermind group.
To Make Use of Mastermind Groups in Your Life Coaching Career You Must be Held Accountable
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The second reason why most people’s don’t see benefits in their life coaching career or life coaching business from mastermind groups is that everyone shows up trying to be supportive.  Which is fine to a point.  But where is the accountability if no one is ready to ask the tough questions?  Is everyone else being ‘polite’ by letting others slide so that they will have the same grace?

If you really want to take your life coaching business to the next level, avoid these common pitfalls.  If you’re already a part of a mastermind group and see this happening, don’t look for a new group.  Step up and become a leader.  Take a stand for the people in your mastermind to make something happen.  It’s only by expanding your comfort zone that there is a chance to take your life coaching career to the next level.

Colette Seymann

JTS Advisors Designated Accountability C... http://ping.fm/rjsE6

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Coaching Tips: Coaching Strategy That Will Help 90% of Your Clients

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/ONzRM)
Are there any universal coaching tips? Is there one coaching strategy you can use for just about anyone? If you are asking these questions, you are probably looking for some sense of certainty. Certainty is also related to comfort and safety. And you will naturally attract people who are similar to you in some way; probably because they are looking for certainty as well. And let’s face it; most people don’t feel safe enough to make changes until they at least have some sense of certainty. So a solid coaching strategy and a few coaching tips will be able to get most people moving forward toward their goals.

Without a Coaching Strategy, Coaching Tips are Practically Useless

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Why do we need a coaching strategy to help our clients get more certainty? How do you feel when you are hoping that something will happen? What coaching tips are you willing to take? Are you hesitant? Most likely, you are not going to get momentum until you get past that hesitation. I know from my own experience, that as the days get shorter and nights get longer I can become really committed to having more comfort in my own life. And the last few people I’ve enrolled have been very certainty driven. One even admitted that she has always been a “Certainty Kind of Kid.”

Make Certainty Your Coaching Strategy

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The most straightforward coaching strategy to move forward is to change your mind state to that of someone who has total certainty that they will succeed. This can be done by taking your client through a series of coaching tips to get them into a physiological state of being that allows them to literally feel that feeling. All of our memories are stored in our subconscious; right down to details of sight, sound, taste and feel. These memories can be used again and again if we choose.

Alternately, Some Coaching Tips Get Away from Certainty Altogether

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Another coaching strategy is to help clients learn to love time away from certainty. Too much certainty is not going to get people out of bed, let alone to the next level of achievement. Give your clients some coaching tips on how to use that feeling of uncertainty to identify possible obstacles or threats to their success for a limited period of time (a half hour, for example). Then get them to move back to a more empowered state of mind so they know they can handle those obstacles.

And the best coaching strategy to help people gain certainty is to get them enrolled in some type of coaching program so they will have support to move past their fears. All the coaching tips in the world won’t do a bit of good unless they’re applied to a real coaching program.

Colette Seymann
JTS Advisors Designated Accountability Coach

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How to Get Life Coach Clients: Life Coaching Business Strategies That Aren?t as Bad as Pulling Teeth

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/so406)
The secret to how to get life coach clients or start a life coaching business is no different than most things you haven’t done before. There can be that air of apprehension or even fear that keeps you from taking that first step. And let’s be honest, you probably know something about how to get life coach clients. So how many more life coaching business strategies do you need to get started?

Boosting Your Life Coaching Business to the Next Level Takes Courage

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What helped me in learning how to get life coach clients and take my life coaching business to the next level was something I learned from pulling out my daughter’s tooth for the first time. My precious, sweet, little girl who I have protected since she was in the womb. One of her teeth was dangling by a thread, and it hurt her quite a bit. Up until that point, the school nurse pulled her teeth out. But unfortunately today was Friday, and the tooth was not going to last through the weekend. My daughter begged me to end her suffering with the tooth.

How to Get Life Coach Clients by Dealing with the Pain

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What does this have to do with how to get life coach clients? There was enough pain so that I was brave enough to try. Is there enough pain in your life to move you forward, or are you comfortable enough where you are with your life coaching business? Make it clear what will be the cost if you fail to take action. Magnify it like a 6 year old girl.

Your Life Coaching Business Isn’t a One-Shot Opportunity

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What other lessons can you learn about how to get life coach clients from a story about pulling teeth? I only had one chance, failing my daughter would cost me a lot. Thankfully that is rarely the case in your life coaching business. Even if you fall on your face, you can try again with someone else. And chances are you don’t live with them to have them constantly remind you that you really hurt them.

The Short Answer for How to Get Life Coach Clients: Take Action

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And the most important lesson is to take action. It’s the only way how to get life coach clients, take your life coaching business to the next level. In the instant you take the action, you have the opportunity to become a hero. And once you’ve done something, it’s much easier to repeat it. Personally, I am extremely grateful for that.

Colette Seymann
JTS Advisors Designated Accountability Coach

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Accountability Coaching Tips: 3 Steps to Successful Coaching When Your Clients Are Stuck in the Mud

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/NxIDz)
It’s hard to feel that you have a successful coaching practice when you have clients who can’t or won’t follow through on what they commit to. They always seem to have excuses, and usually very good ones. Sometimes even very entertaining stores. And unfortunately most of the coaching tips you’ll hear, won’t help. It’s not about getting tough; it’s not about trying to get your clients to be more afraid of you than what they commit to. For your clients to have a successful coaching experience, you need to get them to move past whatever is holding them back. Here are three coaching tips that will guide you.

Three Coaching Tips for Giving Your Clients Successful Coaching

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The first of these coaching tips is to get your clients to become aware that they broke a commitment. Sometimes people aren’t aware that they are making commitments. For example, how often do we say, “I’ll call you tomorrow afternoon.” At some level our subconscious recognizes this, and when we don’t follow through we start losing power. To have a successful coaching session about accountability, this needs to be clear.

The second of these coaching tips is to help your clients recognize the cost of not following through with their commitments. Really it’s a cost that will affect the rest of their life. How you do one thing, is really how you do everything. Maybe your client didn’t listen to instructions, maybe they “over-committed,” or maybe, “something came up.” Successful coaching helps people really understand the cost from the standpoint of relationships, progress toward goals, and even their self-esteem.

The final of these coaching tips is to provide an empowering alternative. The point is that whatever is really keeping your clients from doing something is under the politically correct excuse. It’s something that they would rather run and hide from than look at and navigate around. If you know there is a big pothole in the road, you can drive around it.

Successful coaching allows clients to see that they have control over what they commit to, and that circumstances don’t control their life.

Successful Coaching Starts with Coaching Tips, and Ends with Accountability

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So forget about the coaching tips you’ve heard about accountability coaching before. Successful coaching is about taking a stand with your clients, when societal rules say let them off the hook and be graceful. What you want to do is to go into your clients’ worlds and find out how you can help them move forward, and by implementing these coaching tips you will be light years ahead of most coaches.

Colette Seymann
JTS Advisors Designated Accountability Coach

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[Blog] Accountability Coaching Tips: 3 Steps to Successful Coaching When Your Clients Are Stuck in the ...: It’s hard to feel that you have a successful coaching practice when you have clients who can’t or won’t follow through on what they commit to. They always seem to have excuses, and usually very good ones. Sometimes even very entertaining stores. And unfortunately most of the coaching tips you’ll hear, won’t help. It’s not about getting tough; it’s not about trying to get your clients to be more afraid of you than what they commit to. For your clients to have a successful coaching experience, you need to get them to move past whatever is holding them back. Here are three coaching tips that will guide you.
Three Coaching Tips for Giving Your Clients Successful Coaching
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The first of these coaching tips is to get your clients to become aware that they broke a commitment. Sometimes people aren’t aware that they are making commitments. For example, how often do we say, “I’ll call you tomorrow afternoon.” At some level our subconscious recognizes this, and when we don’t follow through we start losing power. To have a successful coaching session about accountability, this needs to be clear.

The second of these coaching tips is to help your clients recognize the cost of not following through with their commitments. Really it’s a cost that will affect the rest of their life. How you do one thing, is really how you do everything. Maybe your client didn’t listen to instructions, maybe they “over-committed,” or maybe, “something came up.” Successful coaching helps people really understand the cost from the standpoint of relationships, progress toward goals, and even their self-esteem.

The final of these coaching tips is to provide an empowering alternative. The point is that whatever is really keeping your clients from doing something is under the politically correct excuse. It’s something that they would rather run and hide from than look at and navigate around. If you know there is a big pothole in the road, you can drive around it.

Successful coaching allows clients to see that they have control over what they commit to, and that circumstances don’t control their life.
Successful Coaching Starts with Coaching Tips, and Ends with Accountability
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So forget about the coaching tips you’ve heard about accountability coaching before. Successful coaching is about taking a stand with your clients, when societal rules say let them off the hook and be graceful. What you want to do is to go into your clients’ worlds and find out how you can help them move forward, and by implementing these coaching tips you will be light years ahead of most coaches.

Colette Seymann
JTS Advisors Designated Accountability C... http://ping.fm/Du3MX

Coach Training is Less Important Than Coaching Sales Training to Make Money as A Coach

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/ZDF1W)
In coach training you found your passion as a Coach but chances are you were not given enough coaching sales training to show you how to get clients consistently.  You may not view yourself as a “salesperson”.  Coach training can make you a good coach and that’s great, but it’s not enough.  The reality is that coaching sales training is necessary to show you how to get people to contact so coaching will not be just a hobby for you like it is most coaches.  Instead it will be profitable business.

Coach Training is Not Enough - You Also Need Coaching Sales Training To Get People To Sample Your Coaching

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When taking your coach training you learned how to make powerful changes in your client’s lives.  Now you need coaching sales training to find potential clients and offer a free coaching session.

Treat Your Coaching Sales Training With The Same Importance as Your Coach Training In Your Area of Specialty

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One great way to do this is to go to people that you know and ask them for help.  Let them know that you are growing your coaching business and they could really help you out with some referrals.  Be sure you remember your coaching sales training and follow these steps…

• Educate them about who is a good referral for you.  If you don’t educate them they will send you the wrong person for your coaching.  If that happens, all the coach training you have received will not be well accepted and it will hurt your confidence.


• Next let them know when they think of a good referral to think of friends, family, co-workers, church or any other associations they belong to.


• Finally here is the coaching sales training that will really help you.  Ask them “of everyone you know who is the best referral for me?”  Then be silent for as long as it takes for them to respond.

They are likely to give you a referral because…

• They have a relationship with you.


• They know you went through coach training to be a great coach.


• They want you to be successful.

This is the best way to use coaching sales training to start out your business right.  Generate referrals to offer free sessions to so you can use your coach training to show how you can help them.

Kris Thompson

JTS Advisors Strategy Coach

[Blog] Coach Training is Less Important Than Coaching Sales Training to Make Money as A Co...: In coach training you found your passion as a Coach but chances are you were not given enough coaching sales training to show you how to get clients consistently.  You may not view yourself as a “salesperson”.  Coach training can make you a good coach and that’s great, but it’s not enough.  The reality is that coaching sales training is necessary to show you how to get people to contact so coaching will not be just a hobby for you like it is most coaches.  Instead it will be profitable business.
Coach Training is Not Enough - You Also Need Coaching Sales Training To Get People To Sample Your Coaching
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When taking your coach training you learned how to make powerful changes in your client’s lives.  Now you need coaching sales training to find potential clients and offer a free coaching session.
Treat Your Coaching Sales Training With The Same Importance as Your Coach Training In Your Area of Specialty
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One great way to do this is to go to people that you know and ask them for help.  Let them know that you are growing your coaching business and they could really help you out with some referrals.  Be sure you remember your coaching sales training and follow these steps…

Educate them about who is a good referral for you.  If you don’t educate them they will send you the wrong person for your coaching.  If that happens, all the coach training you have received will not be well accepted and it will hurt your confidence.
Next let them know when they think of a good referral to think of friends, family, co-workers, church or any other associations they belong to.
Finally here is the coaching sales training that will really help you.  Ask them “of everyone you know who is the best referral for me?”  Then be silent for as long as it takes for them to respond.

They are likely to give you a referral because…

They have a relationship with you.
They know you went through coach training to be a great coach.
They want you to be successful.

This is the best way to use coaching sales training to start out your business right.  Generate referrals to offer free sessions to so you can use your coach training to show how you can help them.

Kris Thompson

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Want to Become a Life Coach But Don?t Know How to Start a Life Coaching Business?

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You want to become a life coach but don’t know where or how to start a life coaching business?  Most people who want to become a life coach have a passion for helping people.  They are Givers and may have been asked for advice for as far back as they remember from their friends, family, schoolmates or colleagues.  Desire to help people is a great start, but let’s consider what the foundation should be to start a life coaching business.

Become a Life Coach or Start a Life Coaching Business by Asking What Knowledge or Skill Do You Have That Others Would Pay You For?

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If you want to become a life coach or start a life coaching business you need to understand that people you meet don’t know what a life coach is because the term “life coach” is too vague.    When the average person asks “what do you do” and you say, “I’m a life coach” they don’t know where to save you in their brain.  There is no benefit communicated in the statement “I’m a life coach”.  They don’t know if you help parents, marriages, dating couples, grieving widows, drug addicts or help people create life balance.  If they don’t know the benefits of what you do when you become a life coach, they WILL forget about you.  What knowledge or skill do YOU have that someone would pay you for?

To Become A Life Coach Successfully You Must Communicate Clearly Exactly What Benefits People Get From Working With You

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To become a life coach or start a life coaching business you have to be clear on exactly what area you are going to help people with.  Then you have to be clear on exactly how you will help them get results.  Once you are clear that you help busy professionals to create total life balance you can say something like this for example.  “I help successful professionals create and maintain balance in every area of life that is important to them so they don’t have to choose between money and love and they can live the life they REALLY want.”  If you can communicate that clearly you are going to attract to you people interested in your coaching.  They may even ask you for specific coaching before you even have a chance to offer them a free session with you.

Kris Thompson

JTS Advisors Strategy Coach

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Become a Life Coach or Start a Life Coaching Business by Asking What Knowledge or Skill Do You Have That Others Would Pay You For?


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If you want to become a life coach or start a life coaching business you need to understand that people you meet don’t know what a life coach is because the term “life coach” is too vague.    When the average person asks “what do you do” and you say, “I’m a life coach” they don’t know where to save you in their brain.  There is no benefit communicated in the statement “I’m a life coach”.  They don’t know if you help parents, marriages, dating couples, grieving widows, drug addicts or help people create life balance.  If they don’t know the benefits of what you do when you become a life coach, they WILL forget about you.  What knowledge or skill do YOU have that someone would pay you for?
To Become A Life Coach Successfully You Must Communicate Clearly Exactly What Benefits People Get From Working With You
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To become a life coach or start a life coaching business you have to be clear on exactly what area you are going to help people with.  Then you have to be clear on exactly how you will help them get results.  Once you are clear that you help busy professionals to create total life balance you can say something like this for example.  “I help successful professionals create and maintain balance in every area of life that is important to them so they don’t have to choose between money and love and they can live the life they REALLY want.”  If you can communicate that clearly you are going to attract to you people interested in your coaching.  They may even ask you for specific coaching before you even have a chance to offer them a free session with you.

Kris Thompson

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In Your Life Coaching Business Use Coaching Success Stories to Get More Paying Clients And Change More Lives For The Better

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It is absolutely essential in your life coaching business to use your coaching success stories in your free coaching sessions to get the most clients possible. Coaching success stories influence your prospect’s subconscious mind that they will get similar results as the client in your story. By influencing them at a subconscious level it means that you are making the benefits they will experience by being a client of your life coaching business more real to them and they will not know how you did it.

Use Your Life Coaching Business Coaching Success Stories In Every Free Coaching Session

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Coaching success stories are so powerful because nothing sells like success. Let's say your coaching prospect wants a result.  Don't just TELL your prospect how you will help them!  Most of the time, they simply won't believe you.  You'll be far more effective when you share a Coaching Success Story about how you helped a client just like your prospect get the specific result your prospect wants. This is why you should use two or three life coaching business coaching success stories in every free coaching session that you do.

If you intend to use coaching success stories from your life coaching business in your free coaching sessions you can only use success stories when you keep track and document your life coaching business clients results. The way you document your success stories is to ask you coaching clients to share their successes with you. When your coaching clients have a success ask them to write out their coaching success story for you.

Write Your Life Coaching Business Coaching Success Stories Down And Give Them A Name

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If your life coaching business coaching client is not able to write their coaching success story then you should do it for them. Write the coaching success story out word for word and then give the story a name. When you write the story word for word it will make sure you don’t miss any important details when you share it on future free sessions. When you give the story a name it is easier to organize and remember to use when needed at a moments notice. If you have coaching success stories take action right away to use them in your free coaching sessions and it will make you more money in your life coaching business and give you the chance to help even more people change their lives.

Kris Thompson

JTS Advisors Strategy Coach

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[Blog] Relationship Coach Training: What You Can Learn About How to Become a Dating Coach From the Wizard of...: You Can Learn How to Become a Dating Coach From Watching a Movie?
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What can you possibly learn about how to become a dating coach from the Wizard of Oz? It’s all there, in Technicolor, for those who are willing to learn. And the best part of this relationship coach training is it’s easy to remember. There are five things that keep people from finding the love they want that you can learn from this story.
How to Become a Dating Coach Using Characters as Your Relationship Coach
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How to Become a Dating Coach: Insights from the Scarecrow
It doesn’t take a lot of relationship coach expertise to see where the Scarecrow’s theory falls down. He thinks that if only he had a brain, everything would be okay. He thinks he’s a failure, and it’s not until Dorothy gets him to see that there is hope that he takes action. Eventually the Wizard points out that the action he takes proves that all along he had brains. The message is that most people who say they are looking for a relationship aren’t even taking action because at some level they don’t feel they have what it takes. Enter the relationship coach.

How to Become a Dating Coach: Insights from the Tin Man
He’s rusty, but he does have what it takes to fall in love. He just needs a little oil and he’s on his way. Up until he meets Dorothy, he’s is literally frozen. And while his body was rusted in one position, there really wasn’t any problem with his heart or ability to feel emotions. In some ways, he let what he couldn’t do stop him from doing what he could do. And like the Tin Man, some of your relationship coach clients just need a little strategy to identify ways to get unstuck.

How to Become a Dating Coach: Insights from the Cowardly Lion
The lion must have had a very disempowering peer group before he met Dorothy and the gang, along with some very negative self talk. Once he changed his peer group, he started to make some headway. After the Wizard gave him a more empowering alternative, the Lion completed the rest of the transformation. Note that the wizard was not even a certified relationship coach at that time.

How to Become a Dating Coach: Insights from the Wizard
Here is an example of how trying to be someone you’re not is a bad idea. It wasn’t until the wizard was caught in his lie and forced to play the hand he was dealt that he was able to succeed. As a relationship coach, be ready to call your client out when they’re not being authentic.

How to Become a Dating Coach: What about Dorothy?
As a relationship coach, make sure your clients are not looking for a woman to solve all their problems. The Scarecrow, the Lion, and the Tin Man didn’t really transform until Dorothy was trapped by the witch and needed to be saved. At the moment these guys recognized that they had to do it on their own. They put their excuses down, and stepped up to the plate.

Colette Seymann
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Relationship Coach Training: What You Can Learn About How to Become a Dating Coach From the Wizard of Oz

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You Can Learn How to Become a Dating Coach From Watching a Movie?

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What can you possibly learn about how to become a dating coach from the Wizard of Oz? It’s all there, in Technicolor, for those who are willing to learn. And the best part of this relationship coach training is it’s easy to remember. There are five things that keep people from finding the love they want that you can learn from this story.

How to Become a Dating Coach Using Characters as Your Relationship Coach

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How to Become a Dating Coach: Insights from the Scarecrow
It doesn’t take a lot of relationship coach expertise to see where the Scarecrow’s theory falls down. He thinks that if only he had a brain, everything would be okay. He thinks he’s a failure, and it’s not until Dorothy gets him to see that there is hope that he takes action. Eventually the Wizard points out that the action he takes proves that all along he had brains. The message is that most people who say they are looking for a relationship aren’t even taking action because at some level they don’t feel they have what it takes. Enter the relationship coach.

How to Become a Dating Coach: Insights from the Tin Man
He’s rusty, but he does have what it takes to fall in love. He just needs a little oil and he’s on his way. Up until he meets Dorothy, he’s is literally frozen. And while his body was rusted in one position, there really wasn’t any problem with his heart or ability to feel emotions. In some ways, he let what he couldn’t do stop him from doing what he could do. And like the Tin Man, some of your relationship coach clients just need a little strategy to identify ways to get unstuck.

How to Become a Dating Coach: Insights from the Cowardly Lion
The lion must have had a very disempowering peer group before he met Dorothy and the gang, along with some very negative self talk. Once he changed his peer group, he started to make some headway. After the Wizard gave him a more empowering alternative, the Lion completed the rest of the transformation. Note that the wizard was not even a certified relationship coach at that time.

How to Become a Dating Coach: Insights from the Wizard
Here is an example of how trying to be someone you’re not is a bad idea. It wasn’t until the wizard was caught in his lie and forced to play the hand he was dealt that he was able to succeed. As a relationship coach, be ready to call your client out when they’re not being authentic.

How to Become a Dating Coach: What about Dorothy?
As a relationship coach, make sure your clients are not looking for a woman to solve all their problems. The Scarecrow, the Lion, and the Tin Man didn’t really transform until Dorothy was trapped by the witch and needed to be saved. At the moment these guys recognized that they had to do it on their own. They put their excuses down, and stepped up to the plate.

Colette Seymann
JTS Advisors Designated Accountability Coach

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Health Coaching During the Flu Season: Wellness Coaching Through the Most Dangerous Season

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Health coaching is not for the faint of heart during the flu season. Once everyone has been vaccinated, what’s left to do? Just sit and wait for the inevitable? Wellness coaching is especially valuable during the holiday season. Unfortunately most people aren’t out looking for health coaching right now; they are gearing up for the holidays. But if you start promoting wellness coaching now, you can really help make it a happy new year.

Why Wellness Coaching and Health Coaching Are Somewhat Seasonal

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It’s not coincidental that flu season starts in October, but how can wellness coaching help? It’s a virus, right? Yes, and no. What I learned from my health coaching training is that we have viruses among us all year around. So why do they attack us most aggressively during this time of year?

So much of what most people think about health coaching is telling people what to do, or not to do. But the real source of the flu season is from what I refer to as the “Certainty Season.” This is the time when we are looking for comfort and security. Sipping hot chocolate or hot toddies by the fire and snuggling up in our favorite blanket. It gets darker earlier and we look for comforts in all the wrong places. Like overeating and drinking. Our drive for comfort even keeps us away from the gym. And most people will avoid wellness coaching at this time of year like the plague. But why?

Health Coaching and the Holidays

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The real kickoff to the season starts with Halloween. As my neighbor said once, “My favorite holiday is Halloween. Let’s be honest. No family, no presents to shop for, and no stress. It’s all about the candy!” Then we have Thanksgiving and Christmas which are more about food and family; in that order. And lot’s of stress. Don’t forget Hannukah with its fried potato pancakes and donuts. By the time we get to New Year’s Day, we are firmly committed to never follow THAT pattern again. Now people start looking for wellness coaching, health coaching, and any other type of coaching that will get them out of the rut.

Make Wellness Coaching a Year-Round Affair

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Instead of promoting health coaching to beat people over the head to get them do what they know they should do, why not promote wellness coaching to help people get their needs met for certainty in different ways. When they see how their behaviors really don’t provide certainty and comfort, and in fact might destroy what they are truly going after by making them more susceptible to the flu; they just might start working on their health before it disappears.

Colette Seymann
JTS Advisors Designated Accountability Coach

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Health Coaching Basics: Become a Health Coach Who Sees What Most Coaches Miss

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You can become a health coach just by asking the right questions. I was doing an initial goal setting session with someone this morning and it unexpectedly became a health coaching session. I say unexpectedly because this guy seemed like a fitness guru himself, until I asked some clarifying questions. Truth be known, he only sleeps an average of 3 or 4 hours a night. I don’t specialize in health coaching, but I recognized that pattern of adrenal burnout syndrome; in other words, running on adrenaline after you are exhausted. I was also able to predict his other issue of being addicted to junk food and explain his difficulty with focusing on tasks. Here’s how you can recognize this pattern and help others, whether you decide to become a health coach or not.

Become a Health Coach Who Knows that Health Coaching is Important for Everyone

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What you first need to become a health coach who can help people with this common pattern is to recognize normal sleep cycles. Most people start getting sleepy by 10pm, and for this particular client it was about the same. What happens to him is the same thing we see in children. If they keep going through their natural cycle of sleepiness, they start using adrenaline to keep going. You don’t have to be an expert at health coaching to recognize when children are running around wild long past they should be in bed, not looking the least bit sleepy. They get so hyped up that they have a tough time calming down. Adults do the same.

The second thing to recognize if you want to become a health coach, or do any type of health coaching, is that lack of sleep affects our appetites. Not too long ago I read a n article about a study from the New England Journal of Medicine that talked about hormone regulation with and without sleep deprivation. It turns out that people who have 5 hours or less of sleep show elevated levels of hormones that increase appetite and lower levels of hormones that suppress appetite compared to control groups who slept 7 hours. To paraphrase the results, lack of sleep makes you crave more calories. You really didn’t need to go to all that effort to prove that to me!

Health Coaching Still Involves Clients’ Needs and Desires

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As I mentioned before, I am not a health coaching expert. But I was able to cut through this clients ‘story’ and find out what he was trying to tell me about his apparent lack of focus and motivation just by asking a few clarifying questions. But even when you become a health coach, don’t forget that you still need to uncover how your clients are getting their needs me by their behavior and how that drives their action. Even when I helped this client see what his behavior was costing him in some major areas of his life, he was still not ready to make a change. He was afraid by not driving himself so hard he would not to feel as significant and he might loose out on the love and connection he was getting from his current behavior.

Become a Health Coach Who Can See Beyond Diet and Exercise

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You can start to become a health coach right where you are by caring enough to continue to ask enough questions to get to the real issues. When you can ‘read clients minds’ and predict their other issues based on what recognizing patterns, they will naturally see you as the person who can solve their problems. Whether you are a health coaching guru or not. Just make sure you don’t let anything slide, because what they almost tell you is usually what they need to tell you the most.

Colette Seymann
JTS Advisors Designated Accountability Coach

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Take Your Life Coaching Business to the Next Level: Become One of the Online Coaching Success Stories

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Are You Wondering How to Become one of the Online Coaching Success Stories?  Have You Considered Starting Your Own Life Coaching Business?  Read These Tips Below and Prevent Becoming a Statistic

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What can you do to prevent your life coaching business from becoming a statistic?  Most coaching businesses fail in first two to three months, and only five percent survive the first year.  How can you avoid failure and become one of the coaching success stories?  One of the biggest keys is getting started powerfully.  The difference between an online life coaching business and a more traditional coaching practice is that it takes awhile to gain momentum.  You’re not going to be one of the instant coaching success stories since it can take about six months to start making money.  But if you stick it out for six months or more you’ll find there’s not a lot of competition; you’ll be around when others will quit.  You’re much better off than the dabbler.  Be serious and make a commitment.

Make a Commitment to Your Life Coaching Business: Create a Squeeze Page

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Step 1 to Becoming one of the Online Coaching Success Stories: Create a squeeze page.  The ultimate goal is to set up a page that compels people to give you their email address which will help you grow your life coaching business.  Even when you get a thousand people to your site, 900 will leave.  The strategy is to date them before you try get married.  You don’t go up to your prospect in a bar and say let’s get married.

Coaching Success Stories Are Most Successful When they Implement an Online Database

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Step 2 to Becoming one the of Online Coaching Success Stories:  Create an online database.  You can use tools like AWeber.com for about $20/month or 1ShoppingCart .com.  That way you all the traffic that opts into your squeeze page goes into your database.  A web master should be able to set this up for you for under $50, and investment that will pay off for your life coaching business.

Create a Value Added Blog and Watch Your Life Coaching Business Grow

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Step 3 to Becoming one of the Online Coaching Success Stories:  Create a value added blog.  You can send out emails to anyone who opts in and tell them about your latest post and where to find it in your blog.  When you create valuable content for a specific group of people you’ll find that these people are very attracted to work with you.

The Bottom Line:  Be Committed and Utilize the Internet in Ways that Will Help You Become one of the Online Coaching Success Stories

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If put one foot in front of the other and just get started on creating an online life coaching business, you will find that you will be ahead of most people.  Others will probably see you as lucky, but you’ll know the truth.  Using the Internet is a simple way to position yourself to be one of coaching success stories that encourages others.

Colette Seymann

JTS Advisors Designated Accountability Coach

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What can you do to prevent your life coaching business from becoming a statistic?  Most coaching businesses fail in first two to three months, and only five percent survive the first year.  How can you avoid failure and become one of the coaching success stories?  One of the biggest keys is getting started powerfully.  The difference between an online life coaching business and a more traditional coaching practice is that it takes awhile to gain momentum.  You’re not going to be one of the instant coaching success stories since it can take about six months to start making money.  But if you stick it out for six months or more you’ll find there’s not a lot of competition; you’ll be around when others will quit.  You’re much better off than the dabbler.  Be serious and make a commitment.
Make a Commitment to Your Life Coaching Business: Create a Squeeze Page
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Step 1 to Becoming one of the Online Coaching Success Stories: Create a squeeze page.  The ultimate goal is to set up a page that compels people to give you their email address which will help you grow your life coaching business.  Even when you get a thousand people to your site, 900 will leave.  The strategy is to date them before you try get married.  You don’t go up to your prospect in a bar and say let’s get married.
Coaching Success Stories Are Most Successful When they Implement an Online Database
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Step 2 to Becoming one the of Online Coaching Success Stories:  Create an online database.  You can use tools like AWeber.com for about $20/month or 1ShoppingCart .com.  That way you all the traffic that opts into your squeeze page goes into your database.  A web master should be able to set this up for you for under $50, and investment that will pay off for your life coaching business.
Create a Value Added Blog and Watch Your Life Coaching Business Grow
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Step 3 to Becoming one of the Online Coaching Success Stories:  Create a value added blog.  You can send out emails to anyone who opts in and tell them about your latest post and where to find it in your blog.  When you create valuable content for a specific group of people you’ll find that these people are very attracted to work with you.
The Bottom Line:  Be Committed and Utilize the Internet in Ways that Will Help You Become one of the Online Coaching Success Stories
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If put one foot in front of the other and just get started on creating an online life coaching business, you will find that you will be ahead of most people.  Others will probably see you as lucky, but you’ll know the truth.  Using the Internet is a simple way to position yourself to be one of coaching success stories that encourages others.

Colette Seymann

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How to Get Life Coaching Clients: What You Must Do to Avoid Loosing 50% of Your Life Coaching Business

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Are You Wondering How to Get Life Coaching Clients?  Read On to Find Out How to Make the Most of Free Sessions

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Many coaches use free sessions to get more life coaching business, and most of them are frustrated and feel that it is a waste of their time.  But the key to how to get life coaching clients who want to enroll after your free coaching session remains a mystery for most coaches.  Here are four important steps you must include if you want to maximize your enrollment success.

Increase Your Life Coaching Business by Implementing These Coaching Tips

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How to Get Life Coaching Clients: Tip #1

The first thing you must do is to gain rapport with your client.  Most coaches have been taught a checklist of things to do.  But they don’t get into the minds of their clients.  The way to get more life coaching business is to give people a chance to say whatever is on their mind.  Let them know you’re working as a partner with them.  The sooner you accomplish this, the better.

How to Get Life Coaching Clients: Tip #2

The next way to get more life coaching business is to offer value.  Give them so much value that you change their life and want more.  Sure you might run the risk of having them say they have all they need to reach their goals after your session.  But if you don’t give them value, it’s less likely that they will enroll in coaching with you.

How to Get Life Coaching Clients: Tip #3

One of the toughest things for coaches to do is to ask for life coaching business.  You must make a clear request for coaching after you have given great value.  If can be as simple as, “Do you feel that you would like to do ongoing coaching with me?”  Then deal with whether they want to do this or not.  Another helpful hint is to get them to say yes to ‘I want to’ before trying to get them to say they will.

How to Get Life Coaching Clients: Tip #4

Make sure your life coaching business offers compelling programs.  It’s hard to sell when all you have to offer is a few calls. Show you have put thought and energy into what they want to purchase.  It’s more challenging if it’s just you.  Add other materials to offer value such as intake materials and other bonuses in addition to your coaching.

These Four Tips are Key When You Are Wondering How to Get Life Coaching Clients

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Short, sweet, and to the point.  That’s how to get life coaching clients to enroll from a free session.  If you take the time to master these tips, your life coaching business will double.

Colette Seymann

JTS Advisors Designated Accountability Coach

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Many coaches use free sessions to get more life coaching business, and most of them are frustrated and feel that it is a waste of their time.  But the key to how to get life coaching clients who want to enroll after your free coaching session remains a mystery for most coaches.  Here are four important steps you must include if you want to maximize your enrollment success.
Increase Your Life Coaching Business by Implementing These Coaching Tips
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How to Get Life Coaching Clients: Tip #1

The first thing you must do is to gain rapport with your client.  Most coaches have been taught a checklist of things to do.  But they don’t get into the minds of their clients.  The way to get more life coaching business is to give people a chance to say whatever is on their mind.  Let them know you’re working as a partner with them.  The sooner you accomplish this, the better.

How to Get Life Coaching Clients: Tip #2

The next way to get more life coaching business is to offer value.  Give them so much value that you change their life and want more.  Sure you might run the risk of having them say they have all they need to reach their goals after your session.  But if you don’t give them value, it’s less likely that they will enroll in coaching with you.

How to Get Life Coaching Clients: Tip #3

One of the toughest things for coaches to do is to ask for life coaching business.  You must make a clear request for coaching after you have given great value.  If can be as simple as, “Do you feel that you would like to do ongoing coaching with me?”  Then deal with whether they want to do this or not.  Another helpful hint is to get them to say yes to ‘I want to’ before trying to get them to say they will.

How to Get Life Coaching Clients: Tip #4

Make sure your life coaching business offers compelling programs.  It’s hard to sell when all you have to offer is a few calls. Show you have put thought and energy into what they want to purchase.  It’s more challenging if it’s just you.  Add other materials to offer value such as intake materials and other bonuses in addition to your coaching.
These Four Tips are Key When You Are Wondering How to Get Life Coaching Clients
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Short, sweet, and to the point.  That’s how to get life coaching clients to enroll from a free session.  If you take the time to master these tips, your life coaching business will double.

Colette Seymann

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You are in a room with two doors - one leads to heaven and the other to hell. Each door is protected by a single guard. One of the guards always lies and one of them always tells the truth.

What is the one question you can ask to ensure you will know which door goes to heaven?

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Relationship Coach Tips To Get Dramatic Results: How to Become a Relationship Expert

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Getting to the Root of the Problem is Key for Any Relationship Coach

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The key to how to become a relationship expert is to understand that people will do anything to get their needs met.  Sometimes in a healthy and positive way, and other times it’s destructive to everything around them and affects their closest relationships.  If you want to become a relationship coach who gets to the root of the problem and really transforms lives, just follow this five-step process.

When You Think About How to Become a Relationship Expert Think About this Five-Step Process

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How to Become a Relationship Expert Step 1:  Diagnosis

The first step as a relationship coach is to understand the whole picture in terms of where people are getting their basic needs met.  These basic needs are Certainty or Safety, Significance, Love & Connection, and Variety.  Whatever people are doing, they are doing it because they are getting their needs met.  For example, a rage-oholic gets his or her needs met for significance.  People around them get their own needs for certainty met by walking on eggshells around the rage-oholic.  People who are always angry with their spouse are getting their needs met for significance, but probably aren’t getting their needs met at a very high level for love and connection.  They key to finding the diagnosis is to identify which of which of your clients’ needs are not getting met by their current behavior.

How to Become a Relationship Expert Step 2:  Leverage

The next step as a relationship coach is to help your clients’ associate massive pain if they don’t change and massive pleasure if you do.  Make the decision to change an obvious solution.  You can also find out what leverage they’ve used in the past to make other life changes.  Find out what they did, how they felt, and what they said to themselves to help make that change and use that information to help move them forward again.

How to Become a Relationship Expert Step 3:  Conditioning

The next step is to recondition your clients’ old beliefs.  Use your relationship coach tools and give them affirmations, strategies, and different experiences to shift their beliefs, language patterns, and even the posture and physiology of their bodies.

How to Become a Relationship Expert Step 4:  Empowering Alternative

The next step as a relationship coach is to offer an alternative way of getting their four basic survival needs met at a higher level, more often, and in a way that benefits others.  They may find that instead of getting angry they can get their needs met for love and connection by talking to their spouse instead of demanding significance.

How to Become a Relationship Expert  Step 5:  Peer Group

The final step that is often overlooked by the average relationship coach is to change the peer group.  If your client is hanging out with friends who complain about their spouses, it will be hard to make lasting changes.  We are really the average of our five closest friends.

By Implementing this Five-Step Process You Will See Your Relationship Coach Clients Make Great Strides Improving Their Relationships

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With these five steps you can transform yourself from an ordinary relationship coach to someone who knows how to become a relationship expert.  And while it might look complicated, once you get the diagnosis the rest will fall into place.

Colette Seymann

JTS Advisors Designated Accountability Coach

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The key to how to become a relationship expert is to understand that people will do anything to get their needs met.  Sometimes in a healthy and positive way, and other times it’s destructive to everything around them and affects their closest relationships.  If you want to become a relationship coach who gets to the root of the problem and really transforms lives, just follow this five-step process.
When You Think About How to Become a Relationship Expert Think About this Five-Step Process
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How to Become a Relationship Expert Step 1:  Diagnosis

The first step as a relationship coach is to understand the whole picture in terms of where people are getting their basic needs met.  These basic needs are Certainty or Safety, Significance, Love & Connection, and Variety.  Whatever people are doing, they are doing it because they are getting their needs met.  For example, a rage-oholic gets his or her needs met for significance.  People around them get their own needs for certainty met by walking on eggshells around the rage-oholic.  People who are always angry with their spouse are getting their needs met for significance, but probably aren’t getting their needs met at a very high level for love and connection.  They key to finding the diagnosis is to identify which of which of your clients’ needs are not getting met by their current behavior.

How to Become a Relationship Expert Step 2:  Leverage

The next step as a relationship coach is to help your clients’ associate massive pain if they don’t change and massive pleasure if you do.  Make the decision to change an obvious solution.  You can also find out what leverage they’ve used in the past to make other life changes.  Find out what they did, how they felt, and what they said to themselves to help make that change and use that information to help move them forward again.

How to Become a Relationship Expert Step 3:  Conditioning

The next step is to recondition your clients’ old beliefs.  Use your relationship coach tools and give them affirmations, strategies, and different experiences to shift their beliefs, language patterns, and even the posture and physiology of their bodies.

How to Become a Relationship Expert Step 4:  Empowering Alternative

The next step as a relationship coach is to offer an alternative way of getting their four basic survival needs met at a higher level, more often, and in a way that benefits others.  They may find that instead of getting angry they can get their needs met for love and connection by talking to their spouse instead of demanding significance.

How to Become a Relationship Expert  Step 5:  Peer Group

The final step that is often overlooked by the average relationship coach is to change the peer group.  If your client is hanging out with friends who complain about their spouses, it will be hard to make lasting changes.  We are really the average of our five closest friends.
By Implementing this Five-Step Process You Will See Your Relationship Coach Clients Make Great Strides Improving Their Relationships
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With these five steps you can transform yourself from an ordinary relationship coach to someone who knows how to become a relationship expert.  And while it might look complicated, once you get the diagnosis the rest will fall into place.

Colette Seymann

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Become a Life Coach Who Is Not Afraid to Take On the Big Challenges: Become a Parent Coach

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Become a Life Coach Who Specializes in Parenting

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There are many niches to consider once you decide to become a life coach. And in fact, the more you specialize, the more valuable you become as a coach. And one needed niche is coaches who are willing to become a parent coach. And even those coaches who decide to become a parent coach may decide they want to specialize even more. Parents of teenage girls will have different needs than parents of toddlers, lower school children, and even teenage boys. Here are some tools to use if you want to become a life coach who can take them all on.

When You Become a Life Coach, You Learn the Value of Positive Reinforcement

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While Karen Pryor has not yet written a book on how to become a life coach, she has written a book describing the merits of positive reinforcement versus negative reinforcement. In her book, Don’t Shoot the Dog! she describes in detail the rationale behind her belief that punishment, negative reinforcement, and extinction (ignoring a behavior will eventually cause it go away) is ineffective. And of course you won’t become a parent coach with much of a reputation if you advocate, ‘shooting the dog’ or somehow getting rid of the child. But here are a couple of tips you can use:

Some Tips for Those Who Want to Become a Parent Coach

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Become a Parent Coach Who Encourages Their Clients to Use Distraction: This was one of my dad’s favorites when my sister and I were not getting along well in the back seat of the car. One day we were driving through a very rural area and he suddenly yelled, “Hey guys! Look at the tomatoes!” There was such enthusiasm in his voice that we looked, and then started laughing. The tomato plants were so small that we were basically looking at a field of sticks that would eventually support the plants. The behavior of quarreling was incompatible with the new stimulus. He could have become a life coach with that one phrase, because any time we began quarreling he would use the same phrase and get the same result. With or without tomato plants.

Become a Parent Coach Who Teaches Their Clients to Change the Motivation: This one takes some understanding and planning, but is very effective. When I am driving in the car with my children, I can gauge how tired, hungry, or bored they are by their behavior. Become a life coach who helps point out that children may be hungry and tired on the way home from an after school activity, and encourage parents prepare a healthy snack for them. For longer car trips kids might need to stop at a ‘rest stop’ and run around for a few minutes to manage the pent up energy.

You Can Use Your Life Coach Skills on Your Way to Become a Parent Coach

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You can see that the skills you learned to become a life coach are valuable if you decide to become a parent coach. Once you understand how people’s behaviors are driven by their needs, you can encourage empowering alternatives and find ways your clients (and their children) can get their needs met at a higher level.

Colette Seymann
JTS Advisors Designated Accountability Coach

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There are many niches to consider once you decide to become a life coach. And in fact, the more you specialize, the more valuable you become as a coach. And one needed niche is coaches who are willing to become a parent coach. And even those coaches who decide to become a parent coach may decide they want to specialize even more. Parents of teenage girls will have different needs than parents of toddlers, lower school children, and even teenage boys. Here are some tools to use if you want to become a life coach who can take them all on.
When You Become a Life Coach, You Learn the Value of Positive Reinforcement
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While Karen Pryor has not yet written a book on how to become a life coach, she has written a book describing the merits of positive reinforcement versus negative reinforcement. In her book, Don’t Shoot the Dog! she describes in detail the rationale behind her belief that punishment, negative reinforcement, and extinction (ignoring a behavior will eventually cause it go away) is ineffective. And of course you won’t become a parent coach with much of a reputation if you advocate, ‘shooting the dog’ or somehow getting rid of the child. But here are a couple of tips you can use:
Some Tips for Those Who Want to Become a Parent Coach
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Become a Parent Coach Who Encourages Their Clients to Use Distraction: This was one of my dad’s favorites when my sister and I were not getting along well in the back seat of the car. One day we were driving through a very rural area and he suddenly yelled, “Hey guys! Look at the tomatoes!” There was such enthusiasm in his voice that we looked, and then started laughing. The tomato plants were so small that we were basically looking at a field of sticks that would eventually support the plants. The behavior of quarreling was incompatible with the new stimulus. He could have become a life coach with that one phrase, because any time we began quarreling he would use the same phrase and get the same result. With or without tomato plants.

Become a Parent Coach Who Teaches Their Clients to Change the Motivation: This one takes some understanding and planning, but is very effective. When I am driving in the car with my children, I can gauge how tired, hungry, or bored they are by their behavior. Become a life coach who helps point out that children may be hungry and tired on the way home from an after school activity, and encourage parents prepare a healthy snack for them. For longer car trips kids might need to stop at a ‘rest stop’ and run around for a few minutes to manage the pent up energy.
You Can Use Your Life Coach Skills on Your Way to Become a Parent Coach
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You can see that the skills you learned to become a life coach are valuable if you decide to become a parent coach. Once you understand how people’s behaviors are driven by their needs, you can encourage empowering alternatives and find ways your clients (and their children) can get their needs met at a higher level.

Colette Seymann
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In Your Face Life Coach Training: A Free Coach Training Session From An Unlikely Source

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Life Coach Training Can Happen Anywhere

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A friend of mine sent me some free coach training at the end of an email. It simply stated, “Don’t let what you cant’ do prevent you from doing what you can!” This life coach training came from my friend Annie, who is an amputee. She lost both legs above the knees and most and her fingers due to a severe illness that almost took her life. She is someone who really lives this message, so coming from her it is a life coach training in itself. Her free coach training lessons started a few years ago when I was nervous about doing something outside my comfort zone. Annie was also doing something outside of her comfort zone, and I said something to the effect that she could handle it. To this she retorted, “What makes you think my challenges are less of a challenge than yours?”

Sometimes Free Coach Training Doesn’t Need Words

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This life coach training hit me like a ton of bricks. How could I have devalued the challenges that she had? The challenges Annie has gone through to be able to walk again with only a single cane, the joy at being able to walk through a buffet line and put food on her own plate, even go up a flight of stairs on her own. But the real miracle in all this is not that she is able to walk again, but who she has become in the process and what she has really accomplished in her life. How she is able to encourage other women in a very big way, without drawing attention to herself. Her life is valuable life coach training.

Free Coach Training Comes in Every Shape and Size

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So what’s the life coach training to be learned? The first free coach training lesson is that wherever we are, if we are growing we will have challenges. It’s not the size of the challenges we face, but how we decide to take them on. Brian Tracey wrote a book called, “Eat That Frog.” If we are faced with a big, ugly frog, we should eat it first. Even if it’s going to take several bites.

Some Free Coach Training You Have to Earn

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And the second life coach training to be learned from this is that we all have excuses for not taking on the next challenge. We can wallow in a “Pity Party” or we can choose to be great. Annie was “comfortable” being confined to a wheelchair, and struggled when someone came up with a solution that would allow her to walk again. The solution was definitely disguised in overalls, and took almost a year of sweat and tears to accomplish. It was really not “free coach training” for her. She earned it.

There’s No Such Thing as Free Coach Training

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What will you take home from this life coach training? What are the challenges you face? No clients? No time? No money? If you do what you can when you can do it, eventually you will find yourself closer to your goals. My father always said, “There’s no such thing as a free lunch.” And there really is no such a thing as “free coaching training.” Something is always required of you. The question is, will you be ready to step up to the plate and take action?

Colette Seymann
JTS Advisors Designated Accountability Coach

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Online Coaching Strategies to Get More Clients: Maximizing Your Online Coaching Certification

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/rGu3w)
Why are there so many coaches out there, who have online coaching certification but no clients? Are these online coaching programs failing to provide coaches with marketable skills? Or are these online coaching programs failing to provide marketing skills? You can get online coaching certification, but it isn’t going to help you start your life coaching business. And it’s not anyone’s fault. Most coach training companies simply do that, they train coaches. They don’t have to worry about how to market a coaching practice. But take heart; here are some strategies that will help you know what to give away to get clients.

One Of Your Best Marketing Tools: Use Your Online Coaching Certification and Give Away your Best Stuff

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Online Coaching Strategy #1: Give away your best stuff for free.

I repeat; your BEST stuff. Don’t be stingy. Movie trailers don’t show you the boring stuff. They show the best parts, sometimes too much so, but they know that in order to entice you to want more they have one chance. Use whatever the most valuable tool or technique you learned in the process of getting your online coaching certification to show what is possible.

Don’t Give Away the Whole Product, Use this Online Coaching Strategy to Keep Clients Coming Back For More

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Online Coaching Strategy #2: Give the WHAT, but not the HOW.

People will go and use some of the information you give them, have some success, and then come back for more details about how to implement it. Chances are, that’s what got you to sign up for your online coaching certification in the first place. You learned some valuable techniques, and went back to get more in depth training.

Streamlined Information and Fast Results are Key When Implementing Your Online Coaching Certification

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Online Coaching Strategy #3: Give them quick tips and instant results.

Chances are you have one shot at making a difference for these people. Keep things simple enough for them to implement the information right away. Remember you are the guru, you are the one with the online coaching certification. What is the “Magic Bullet” for your client?

Have Fun with Different Formats and Watch Your Online Coaching Soar

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Bonus Online Coaching Strategy: Give them the information in their highest valued format.

Take what ever information you are going to give them from your online coaching certification and repackage it into a way that your client will value. Some people value video because it’s entertaining, while others like to see information in print, while others prefer audio. Speak to them in the format they value most, and they will perceive your information as more valuable. Again make sure you focus on providing a solution to their greatest fears, hopes, and desires. Don’t be afraid to take advantage of whatever shock or entertainment value you can offer. Make a difference and a lasting impression.

Colette Seymann

JTS Advisors Designated Accountability Coach

[Blog] Online Coaching Strategies to Get More Clients: Maximizing Your Online Coaching Certificat...: Why are there so many coaches out there, who have online coaching certification but no clients? Are these online coaching programs failing to provide coaches with marketable skills? Or are these online coaching programs failing to provide marketing skills? You can get online coaching certification, but it isn’t going to help you start your life coaching business. And it’s not anyone’s fault. Most coach training companies simply do that, they train coaches. They don’t have to worry about how to market a coaching practice. But take heart; here are some strategies that will help you know what to give away to get clients.
One Of Your Best Marketing Tools: Use Your Online Coaching Certification and Give Away your Best Stuff
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Online Coaching Strategy #1: Give away your best stuff for free.

I repeat; your BEST stuff. Don’t be stingy. Movie trailers don’t show you the boring stuff. They show the best parts, sometimes too much so, but they know that in order to entice you to want more they have one chance. Use whatever the most valuable tool or technique you learned in the process of getting your online coaching certification to show what is possible.
Don’t Give Away the Whole Product, Use this Online Coaching Strategy to Keep Clients Coming Back For More
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Online Coaching Strategy #2: Give the WHAT, but not the HOW.

People will go and use some of the information you give them, have some success, and then come back for more details about how to implement it. Chances are, that’s what got you to sign up for your online coaching certification in the first place. You learned some valuable techniques, and went back to get more in depth training.
Streamlined Information and Fast Results are Key When Implementing Your Online Coaching Certification
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Online Coaching Strategy #3: Give them quick tips and instant results.

Chances are you have one shot at making a difference for these people. Keep things simple enough for them to implement the information right away. Remember you are the guru, you are the one with the online coaching certification. What is the “Magic Bullet” for your client?
Have Fun with Different Formats and Watch Your Online Coaching Soar
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Bonus Online Coaching Strategy: Give them the information in their highest valued format.

Take what ever information you are going to give them from your online coaching certification and repackage it into a way that your client will value. Some people value video because it’s entertaining, while others like to see information in print, while others prefer audio. Speak to them in the format they value most, and they will perceive your information as more valuable. Again make sure you focus on providing a solution to their greatest fears, hopes, and desires. Don’t be afraid to take advantage of whatever shock or entertainment value you can offer. Make a difference and a lasting impression.

Colette Seymann

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Increase Sales in Your Life Coaching Business: 5 Things You Can Do to Increase Your Pay for Life Coach Products and Services

(My Original Blog Post: http://coachestrainingblog.com/becomeacoach/2009/11/increase-sales-in-your-life-coaching-business-increase-your-pay-for-life-coach-services/)
One of the great things about having your own life coaching business is that you get to decide your pay for life coach activities. Unfortunately this doesn’t work out as well as it sounds for most coaches because they want to be nice and help people. Here are 5 things you can do to increase your pay for life coach work, and perhaps even pass along to your clients even if they are not in the life coaching business.

1st Way to Increase Your Pay for Life Coach Products and Services: Charge more. Sounds a bit sacrilegious to many coaches, I know. But you don’t help people get rich by being poor, and you don’t help people who are poor by being poor yourself. You have to transform the money side of your life coaching business instead of helping them. So don’t be afraid to charge for what your time is worth. Most coaches can increase their fees by 20 to 50%. And let’s face it; to some extent the more you charge people, the more they value your products and services.

2nd Way to Increase Your Pay for Life Coach Products and Services: Set up payment programs. Instead of having people pay the entire amount up from, allow them to make payments over 3 months. It’s easy to do, and that way your life coaching business will be able to reach people who might not otherwise be able to get your help.

3rd Way to Increase Your Pay for Life Coach Products and Services: Add more value. You can add bonuses, offer better programs, and create new products. Think of ways your life coaching business can make a difference for others.

4th Way to Increase Your Pay for Life Coach Products and Services: Create exclusivity. When something is exclusive, it is perceived as more valuable. My grandfather used to put a ‘sold’ sign on one of the cash registers he had for sale. Inevitably someone would come into the store and want to buy that one. I’m not advocating to do that in your life coaching business, but if you only have 20 spots open people value it more. And if they’re one of the few, they feel special too.

5th Way to Increase Your Pay for Life Coach Products and Services: Create a ‘Platinum Level’ or more expensive options. There will always be that 10% of your life coaching business that comes from people who want to buy the most expensive thing. Just make sure you add more value when you do it. Really do everything you can to take care of these clients.

Really the basis behind all these ways to increase your pay for life coach products and services is to value what you provide, and give your best. Especially in a life coaching business, you want to be constantly striving for ways to improve to make a greater difference in the lives of your clients.

Colette Seymann
JTS Advisors Designated Accountability Coach

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How do you get more life coaching business?  It would be great to know how to get coaching clients to call you, and maybe even pursue you in earnest to obtain your product or service.  It sounds like a dream, because most potential customers come with their arms crossed, as if to say, “I’m just looking and I don’t want to buy anything.”  Then we set out on hot pursuit by phoning them right back, or emailing them within ten minutes, trying to entice prospects to buy.  We end up seeming too eager or desperate.  But what if there was a way to play ‘hard to get’ with our life coaching business.  Clients might let their guard down, changing the whole dynamic.  Here are three ways that demonstrate how to get coaching clients, without chasing them:
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Tip #1:  How to Get Coaching Clients to Contact You Before It’s Too Late

Creating time limits on offers help people take action.  Even when your life coaching business is slower than you would like, you create urgency in your scripting.  For example you might say, “I’ve only got a few open slots this month, if you want to take advantage of this offer make sure you contact me by the 15th.”  There is nothing more valuable than a commodity that’s about to expire.

Tip #2:  How to Get Coaching Clients to Contact You Before There Isn’t Any Left

Similar to the first tip, another way to promote your life coaching business without chasing your clients is to offer a limited supply.  “I have 5 free session slots available, and they will be scheduled on a first come basis” or “I only coaching 20 people per month, and I have 3 openings left.  Do you want to be one of the 3?”

Tip #3:  How to Get Coaching Clients to Contact You So They Have a Chance at Prize

Another way to increase “buzz” around your life coaching business is to create a competition, jackpot or drawing.  Some people are more excited about the prospect of winning than they are about the actual prize.
Use the Tips Above and Stop Wondering How to Get Coaching Clients, Instead Have Them Knocking at Your Door
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They key to successfully increasing traffic for your life coaching business using these tips on how to get coaching clients to contact you, is to make sure prospective clients see the warnings.  Most people won’t read your entire message or hear every word you say, so it’s essential to repeat the offer several times so people don’t end up feeling jilted.  But when you don’t come across as desperate and prospects wonder whether they will be able to take advantage of your offer, it helps them think of your product as more valuable.  And in doing this, you will be in a better position to offer your client the services they need.

Colette Seymann

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[Blog] When is the Best Time To Start Your Life Coaching Business? How to Know With Absolute Certainty That You are Ready to Begin Your Coaching Car...: How can you tell if you are ready to begin your coaching career? Where are you going to find life coaching business? These questions reflect on two of the top reasons why some coaches never begin their coaching career. But really what is at stake here is that if you don’t start, you will never be ready. In order to prepare for having a life coaching business, you need to get on the court and start coaching.
Your Coaching Career Starts with Practice
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Starting a life coaching business is a lot like anything else. You won’t know what you really need to know until you get on the court. Michael Jordan is a legend because he did what most people don’t do. He got on the court on a daily basis and practiced on his own. And he kept on practicing until he was successful. What are the free throws to practice in your coaching career? The free session.

The reason why many people groan at the concept of the free session is that is doesn’t usually produce life coaching business in the beginning. So after awhile you start wondering what else you could be doing with that time. You think doing anything would be more productive than working for free. But at least you are on the court, and that is how to start your coaching career. Because most coaches don’t even make it this far.

And after your first 20 free sessions, you will realize that you have actually enrolled on or two clients into your life coaching business. And from here, there are two types of coaches. The ones who celebrate their win, and those who quit their life coaching career because they feel it is a waste of time? Which one will you be?
Perseverance Is the Name of the Game in the Life Coaching Business
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Are you decided enough to your own dream of having a successful life coaching business that you are willing to perseverance long enough to build up the skills you’ll need? What would have happened if Michael Jordan hung up his basketball shoes and decided to work at a fast food place, just because he didn’t make his high school basketball team? Is having a coaching career something that sounds fun and easy, and you think that if you hang up your “Life Coach for Hire” sign people will come to you. Is that web page really going to get you paying clients?

There is no certainty in having a life coaching business except your own determination to succeed. You will never really be ready to launch your coaching career if you wait until you have all the skills you need. The only certainty is to get on the court, refine your skills, and make sure if this is what you really want; you don’t quit.

Colette Seymann
JTS Advisors Designated Accountability C... http://ping.fm/8HxGZ

[Blog] When is the Best Time To Start Your Life Coaching Business? How to Know With Absolute Certainty That You are Ready to Begin Your Coaching Car...: How can you tell if you are ready to begin your coaching career? Where are you going to find life coaching business? These questions reflect on two of the top reasons why some coaches never begin their coaching career. But really what is at stake here is that if you don’t start, you will never be ready. In order to prepare for having a life coaching business, you need to get on the court and start coaching.
Your Coaching Career Starts with Practice
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Starting a life coaching business is a lot like anything else. You won’t know what you really need to know until you get on the court. Michael Jordan is a legend because he did what most people don’t do. He got on the court on a daily basis and practiced on his own. And he kept on practicing until he was successful. What are the free throws to practice in your coaching career? The free session.

The reason why many people groan at the concept of the free session is that is doesn’t usually produce life coaching business in the beginning. So after awhile you start wondering what else you could be doing with that time. You think doing anything would be more productive than working for free. But at least you are on the court, and that is how to start your coaching career. Because most coaches don’t even make it this far.

And after your first 20 free sessions, you will realize that you have actually enrolled on or two clients into your life coaching business. And from here, there are two types of coaches. The ones who celebrate their win, and those who quit their life coaching career because they feel it is a waste of time? Which one will you be?
Perseverance Is the Name of the Game in the Life Coaching Business
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Are you decided enough to your own dream of having a successful life coaching business that you are willing to perseverance long enough to build up the skills you’ll need? What would have happened if Michael Jordan hung up his basketball shoes and decided to work at a fast food place, just because he didn’t make his high school basketball team? Is having a coaching career something that sounds fun and easy, and you think that if you hang up your “Life Coach for Hire” sign people will come to you. Is that web page really going to get you paying clients?

There is no certainty in having a life coaching business except your own determination to succeed. You will never really be ready to launch your coaching career if you wait until you have all the skills you need. The only certainty is to get on the court, refine your skills, and make sure if this is what you really want; you don’t quit.

Colette Seymann
JTS Advisors Designated Accountability C... http://ping.fm/Luf5r