{"id":1349,"date":"2012-04-25T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T18:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/?p=1349"},"modified":"2012-02-01T23:12:16","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T05:12:16","slug":"bob-davies-on-start-up-coaching-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/bob-davies-on-start-up-coaching-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Davies on Start Up Coaching Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is taken from David&#8217;s interview with Bob Davies in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.10supercoaches.com\/\">10 Super Coaches<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Roughly how much capital\/money did you spend in the first 6-12 months, and on what?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Spent several thousand dollars in my certification program and other education, but most of my capital is geared towards marketing for the paid speaking engagements.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did you charge your initial clients?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now you\u2019re bringing back memories. My first fee was $300 per month for four 30-minute calls plus an intake call of 90 minutes for an additional $300. Now my fee is $3,000 for the first month of coaching including the intake call followed by a fee of $1,500 per month for three 45-minute calls per month (non negotiable).<\/p>\n<p><strong>When did you first increase your fee, to what did you increase it, and why?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My fee increases all were linked to exposure and demands on my schedule. I first went from $300 to $350, then $450, then the big jump to my current fees over a period of about three years. I have the attitude that I want to be near the top of fees for coaching and that I never need a client but always want one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is taken from David&#8217;s interview with Bob Davies in\u00a010 Super Coaches. Roughly how much capital\/money did you spend in the first 6-12 months, and on what? Spent several thousand dollars in my certification program and other education, but most of my capital is geared towards marketing for the paid speaking engagements. What did [&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":[170,166,167,122,140,137],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349"}],"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=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1350,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions\/1350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}