2012 - Inner Firewalking

What is Coaching?

The following is an excerpt from the CoachStart Manual.

“Coaching involves holding out a possibility in front of others while coaching them to move to the next level with relentless compassion.” (Hargrove, 2000)

“Coaching people to unleash their aspirations, move beyond what they already think and know, and maximise their results is one of the highest aspirations of what it is to be a human.” (Hargrove, 2000)

“There seems to be more to this whole living thing than meets the eye” (Anonymous)

Why Have a Newsletter?

The following is taken from Get Paid University.

Now, why do we have a newsletter? Billy Mae is saying that Bryan is a mentor of his. Right on, Billy. So why have a newsletter? I was asked to speak at Harv Eker’s Never Work Again conference. He’s the one who wrote a book called The Millionaire Mindset and I initially said no. I mean, yeah, why would I want to go and speak at there for? They said, “We want you to speak about newsletters. We understand you have one.” I was like, “Yeah? Who doesn’t?” But I realized that newsletters were the fundamental lynchpin of my business, like everythingrevolved around that because I kept giving away free information in the terms of valuable articles and building a relationship with people. I built my newsletter for three years before I had a product. Now fortunately, you guys have got me so you’re not going to wait that long. But I didn’t know any better and I just built it for three years and I was trying to sell my coaching and then when I did release a product, I can’t remember the exact amount – I think it was somewhere around $3,000 to $5,000 I brought in which was amazing to me for my first product launch.

Ginger Cockerham on Practice Building

The following is taken from David’s interview with Ginger Cockerham in 10 Super Coaches.

What was most disheartening for you while building your practice?

Why give up a lucrative business before I am sure I can be a successful coach? Giving up a business that was successful but stressful and transitioning to coaching full time was a HUGE decision for me. If felt like jumping off a cliff and hoping the parachute would open. It was necessary to make that choice to have the time and commitment to coaching – but it was very scary.

One morning I got up and spent the entire day coaching – doing what I loved and being on my life mission and I realized that it was worth stepping through the fear. In addition, I have had fabulous senior mentor coaches in the 8 ½ years I have been coaching. It was with the support and encouragement of a coach who was ahead of me on the journey that gave me that courage – I was not stepping out alone.

The second block was the plateauing. In the first two years, I built my client base to 10 or 12 clients consistently but I could not get past that number. It was then I read the anonymous quote – “If you can do it yourself, it’s not a big enough dream” – so I started building and increasing my network so that referrals come regularly from clients, from networking groups, for alliances, from other coaches, etc.

Referrals

The following is taken from Get Paid University.

How come it’s hard for the people to refer if you don’t give them something to refer. If you give them a business card, maybe they’ll carry it around long enough to hand it to somebody. But if you send them an email with something valuable, how easy is it for them to forward it to their friends? Or they’re going to post a link to it on Facebook or Twitter. I’m getting… on my blog, I’ll put up a blog article and I found a plug-in that puts a Twitter button and a Facebook button and I’m noticing I’m showing up on Twitter with people saying check out this article. I didn’t even know that was going to happen.

Who Will You Help?

The following is an excerpt from the CoachStart Manual.

So whom would you like to help? Someone wanting to switch careers? People wanting to begin treating their bodies well? Or children dealing with puberty? 30-35 year old women looking for a partner? Bachelors over 50 wanting to organize their life?

If you focused on a particular client type, what are three possibilities? Who would you really like to contribute to or do you feel a connection with? (Small business owners? Women? Kids? Artists? Butchers? 50-60 years old?)

If you concentrated on three coaching areas, what would they be? What are three things you might like to help these groups with? (Switch careers? Get over divorce? Clean their cupboards?)

Time Freedom

The following is taken from Get Paid University.

You can’t serve everyone with your time. You just can’t. You don’t have enough time. By having a newsletter, you can reach people and they can be circulating it around the world and you’re serving more people. It’s almost free to send an electronic newsletter. If you use mailchimp.com, that’s mailchimp.com – Sarah, maybe you can put that in the chatroom? – then for the first 500 people, they’ll let you use it for free. Now as you start getting up, I recommend you start with professional card solutions and you can find that, I’ll put that in here; getpaidforwhoyouare.com/pcs. Getpaidforwhoyouare.com/pcs, you can go to them directly as well. I became an affiliate for them so I do get extra revenue when people sign up which is one of the things that you can do as well as creating your own product is you’ll other services that you want to promote and you’re going to promote those and share in the revenue. This is the best that I found is the one that I use at getpaidforwhoyouare.com/pcs.

Archive

Yearly Archive for 2012

What is Coaching?

Ginger Cockerham on Practice Building

Referrals

Who Will You Help?

Time Freedom