{"id":1254,"date":"2012-03-16T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T18:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/?p=1254"},"modified":"2012-02-01T15:35:20","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T21:35:20","slug":"robert-cornish-on-building-a-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/robert-cornish-on-building-a-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Cornish on Building a Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is taken from David&#8217;s interview with Robert Cornish in\u00a0<a title=\"10 Super Coaches\" href=\"http:\/\/www.10supercoaches.com\" target=\"_blank\">10 Super Coaches<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What was most disheartening for you while building your practice?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I spent a lot of money learning that print advertising is ineffective to market coaching services, and that THE way was personal contact with people in a way that they can experience what you are like.<\/p>\n<p>Public speaking is a good way to do this, and so my block was overcoming for good my fear of public speaking. 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