{"id":1419,"date":"2012-05-28T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T18:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/?p=1419"},"modified":"2012-02-02T23:53:55","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T05:53:55","slug":"rachel-pryor-on-finding-initial-clients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/rachel-pryor-on-finding-initial-clients\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Pryor on Finding Initial Clients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is taken from David&#8217;s interview with Rachel Pryor in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.10supercoaches.com\/\">10 Super Coaches<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What top three methods, in order, did you use to get your clients in the first 2 years?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the first 2 years, I committed to never getting a client through my network \u2013 I wanted to start again. So I attracted media attention, and clients came through articles. It took around 3 years to have a totally self-sufficient, referral-based practice.<\/p>\n<p>However, coaching is no longer \u2018news\u2019 so I would recommend that coaches get clients through doing what they enjoy \u2013 if it is speaking, writing (internet-based publications are always looking for new material), or finding more original ways to enjoy themselves and become known.<\/p>\n<p>I also mentored other coaches for 5 years or so, though I made sure that I never had more than 1\/3 of my practice made up of coaches, because I felt that would become unreal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is taken from David&#8217;s interview with Rachel Pryor in\u00a010 Super Coaches. What top three methods, in order, did you use to get your clients in the first 2 years? In the first 2 years, I committed to never getting a client through my network \u2013 I wanted to start again. So I attracted [&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":[122,169,214,137],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419"}],"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=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1420,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions\/1420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}