{"id":1500,"date":"2012-07-07T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T18:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/?p=1500"},"modified":"2012-02-03T14:32:32","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T20:32:32","slug":"jim-earley-on-finding-initial-clients-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/jim-earley-on-finding-initial-clients-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Earley on Finding Initial Clients"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The following is taken from David&#8217;s interview with Jim Earley in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.10supercoaches.com\/\">10 Super Coaches<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>What method did you find most effective in getting your initial clients?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My initial method involved a lot of stumbling around, occasionally getting in front of people, and being of service. What worked was facing my fear, meeting people, and being of service (although I didn\u2019t understand that was what I was doing).<\/p>\n<p>I think it\u2019s more important that you find out if you have the courage to keep going than it is to know the best and easiest way to find business. If you don\u2019t overcome your fears and limitations, what good will you be as a coach?<\/p>\n<p>If I could give my younger self my best advice it would be this: When you meet with people, worry less about what you hope to get, don\u2019t think at all about how desperate you are for a new client. Just serve them. Keep honing your understanding of how you best serve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is taken from David&#8217;s interview with Jim Earley in\u00a010 Super Coaches. What method did you find most effective in getting your initial clients? My initial method involved a lot of stumbling around, occasionally getting in front of people, and being of service. What worked was facing my fear, meeting people, and being of [&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":[353,257,122,127],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500"}],"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=1500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1501,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions\/1501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}