{"id":1251,"date":"2013-01-29T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T18:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/?p=1251"},"modified":"2012-03-15T07:39:28","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T13:39:28","slug":"mike-turner-on-finding-initial-clients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/mike-turner-on-finding-initial-clients\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Turner on Finding Initial Clients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is taken from David&#8217;s interview with Mike Turner in\u00a0<a title=\"10 Super Coaches\" href=\"http:\/\/www.10supercoaches.com\" target=\"_blank\">10 Super Coaches<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What method did you find most effective in getting your initial clients?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Getting work through my existing network.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, I took every opportunity to try and sell my coaching services whenever the opportunity presented itself. After I had been doing this for a couple of years, I reviewed where the work I was doing had come from. What I found, to my surprise, was that none of it had come directly from the people to whom I had been trying to sell it \u2013 instead it had all come from unexpected directions.<\/p>\n<p>But what I also realized was that it was important that I was putting myself about rather than just sitting around at home waiting for work to show up. The principle here seems to be that, if I put out my energy for coaching into the world (by talking about what I do, by writing about it, and by taking any opportunity to demonstrate coaching), this energy comes back in the form of work \u2013 but by a circuitous and indirect route.<\/p>\n<p>And when I realized this, I stopped trying so hard to sell coaching to the people I met and instead focused more on promoting coaching \u2013 which in turn makes the energy flow more easily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is taken from David&#8217;s interview with Mike Turner in\u00a010 Super Coaches. What method did you find most effective in getting your initial clients? Getting work through my existing network. Initially, I took every opportunity to try and sell my coaching services whenever the opportunity presented itself. After I had been doing this for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[123],"tags":[122,349,142,169,137],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1251"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2010,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions\/2010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}