{"id":1806,"date":"2012-11-15T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T18:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/?p=1806"},"modified":"2012-02-08T10:15:29","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T16:15:29","slug":"michael-o-cooper-on-finding-clients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/michael-o-cooper-on-finding-clients\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael O. Cooper on Finding Clients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is taken from David&#8217;s interview with Michael O. Cooper in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.10supercoaches.com\/\">10 Super Coaches<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What method did you find most effective in getting your initial clients?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I asked friends and colleagues at my employer to try it out. I didn\u2019t have a structure to master the complimentary session then, so it often turned out that the client was uncoachable or just doing me a favor. I did attract a few clients this way, but with a structure, I would have spent less time working too hard for little return.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did you coach your friends and colleagues? If so, what invitation did you use that worked best and felt good for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have coached friends and I\u2019ve had incredible experiences \u2013 both good and bad. My recommendation is to refer your friends to other coaches you trust. Even though I had a few positive experiences, the relationship changed in a way that I was not prepared to accept at times. I also did not establish sufficient boundaries when working with a few friend clients \u2013 they would call me at all hours for coaching \u2013 one even asked me to coach him through a situation at a party while he was intoxicated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is taken from David&#8217;s interview with Michael O. Cooper in\u00a010 Super Coaches. What method did you find most effective in getting your initial clients? I asked friends and colleagues at my employer to try it out. I didn\u2019t have a structure to master the complimentary session then, so it often turned out that [&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":[122,171,169,137],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806"}],"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=1806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1807,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions\/1807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}