{"id":1528,"date":"2012-07-21T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T18:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/?p=1528"},"modified":"2012-02-03T17:41:45","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T23:41:45","slug":"marcia-reynolds-on-finding-initial-clients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/marcia-reynolds-on-finding-initial-clients\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcia Reynolds on Finding Initial Clients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is taken from David&#8217;s interview with Marcia Reynolds 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>Public speaking: I worked hard to develop my skills and this part of my business so I would be hired as a keynot speaker for big conferences. This helps me to attract many possible clients at once. I have worked with speaking coaches, attended acting workshops, joined the National Speakers Association (where I get to see great speakers and learn marketing techniques) and began speaking everywhere I could to practice. I now coach people in public speaking as I think it is vital to success in most businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Writing: I write articles, audio programs and books. People read or hear my ideas and contact me. Some of my products are in bookstores. Others are self-published. I sell them on the Internet and at my seminars and speeches. I give books away to potential clients\u2026this works better than a brochure. My book is only 60 pages\u2026a quick read that teaches as well as tells people about my outlook on personal and professional development.<\/p>\n<p>Publicity: I learned how to attract reporters through emails pitches and press releases. This is how I received my first client that was not a referral from a friend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is taken from David&#8217;s interview with Marcia Reynolds in\u00a010 Super Coaches. What top three methods, in order, did you use to get your clients in the first 2 years? Public speaking: I worked hard to develop my skills and this part of my business so I would be hired as a keynot speaker [&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":[349,249,169,137],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528"}],"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=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1529,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions\/1529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}