{"id":1421,"date":"2012-05-29T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T18:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/?p=1421"},"modified":"2012-02-02T23:56:19","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T05:56:19","slug":"your-coaching-service-the-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/your-coaching-service-the-details\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Coaching Service &#8211; The Details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is an excerpt from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.coachstart.com\/\">CoachStart Manual<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Remember that most people have never worked with a coach before.\u00a0 In fact a coaching \u2018structure\u2019 is probably new to them (and you!).<\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t have a coaching service they can buy, until you have the details.\u00a0 You need something they can get their mind around \u2013 wrap their arms around \u2013 so they can buy it or commit to it.<\/p>\n<p>Is there a minimum commitment?\u00a0 How long are the sessions? Face-to-face or via phone?\u00a0 Is e-mail support provided?\u00a0 Are results guaranteed? What will be expected of me?\u00a0 What can I count on the coach for?\u00a0 What are your coaching hours?\u00a0 Are there any bonuses you provide?\u00a0 Are you available in between sessions?\u00a0 Do I have to pay in advance?\u00a0 What forms of payment do you accept? What if I want to stop half way?\u00a0 What if I want to miss or postpone a session?<\/p>\n<p>Once you have answers to these questions, you have a coaching service.\u00a0 At this point you will have something your potential clients can say YES to, when you invite them at the end of an Exploratory Session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is an excerpt from the\u00a0CoachStart Manual. Remember that most people have never worked with a coach before.\u00a0 In fact a coaching \u2018structure\u2019 is probably new to them (and you!). You don\u2019t have a coaching service they can buy, until you have the details.\u00a0 You need something they can get their mind around \u2013 [&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":[232,353,233,143],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421"}],"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=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1422,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions\/1422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}