{"id":1317,"date":"2012-04-10T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T18:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/?p=1317"},"modified":"2012-02-01T20:06:08","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T02:06:08","slug":"get-clients-via-public-speaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/get-clients-via-public-speaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Clients Via Public Speaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is an excerpt from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.coachstart.com\/\">CoachStart Manual<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Public speaking is a great way to get clients.\u00a0 You speak to local clubs or organisations (usually for free, or you get a nice pen) and give their members a 30-minute talk at their regular meeting.\u00a0 You help them with a particular issue they might be facing, you\u2019re positioned as an expert, and they get a strong sense of who you are.<\/p>\n<p>If you make it easy for them to give you their information, you can follow up and build a relationship; e.g., through your ezine.<\/p>\n<p>Some in the audience will want to have you speak at their club or company, and it may not be long before you\u2019re starting to charge a fee.<\/p>\n<p>And, when you have a great talk, you can record it and sell it on CD!<\/p>\n<p>I gained several long-term clients, and my first paid corporate speeches, out of free speaking on the local club circuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is an excerpt from the\u00a0CoachStart Manual. Public speaking is a great way to get clients.\u00a0 You speak to local clubs or organisations (usually for free, or you get a nice pen) and give their members a 30-minute talk at their regular meeting.\u00a0 You help them with a particular issue they might be facing, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[156],"tags":[353,169,118,160],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317"}],"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=1317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1318,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions\/1318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}