{"id":1330,"date":"2012-04-16T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T18:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/?p=1330"},"modified":"2012-02-01T20:50:49","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T02:50:49","slug":"judy-feld-on-building-a-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/judy-feld-on-building-a-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Judy Feld on Building a Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is taken from David&#8217;s interview with Judy Feld in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.10supercoaches.com\/\">10 Super Coaches<\/a>.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What was perhaps the biggest mistake you made in practice building?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Not exactly practice building mistakes, but here are some \u201cdon\u2019ts\u201d based on experience:<\/p>\n<p>When closing a deal, don\u2019t put yourself in a position of \u2018negotiating with yourself\u2019. Don\u2019t do work on speculation. Don\u2019t create long responses to complex RFPs. Don\u2019t spend a lot of time \u201cauditioning\u201d. Coaches are different from consultants, and coaches get paid in advance. For career coaching: Don\u2019t let a client assure that the first \u201cexit package\u201d offer received from their company is the best offer they can expect. You can always do better, and a coach can help you see how.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is taken from David&#8217;s interview with Judy Feld in\u00a010 Super Coaches.\u00a0 What was perhaps the biggest mistake you made in practice building? Not exactly practice building mistakes, but here are some \u201cdon\u2019ts\u201d based on experience: When closing a deal, don\u2019t put yourself in a position of \u2018negotiating with yourself\u2019. Don\u2019t do work on [&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":[125,59,137],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330"}],"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=1330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1331,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions\/1331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}