{"id":1823,"date":"2012-11-22T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T18:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/?p=1823"},"modified":"2012-02-08T11:39:32","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T17:39:32","slug":"jim-earley-on-coaching-start-up-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/jim-earley-on-coaching-start-up-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Earley on Coaching Start Up Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<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<p><strong>Roughly how much capital\/money did you spend in the first 6-12 months, and on what?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I already had a computer. I would have purchased my time and billing software ($200), and initial business cards ($30). My ongoing expenses would have included, paper, envelopes and postage, membership dues, meals, and automobile expenses.<\/p>\n<p>After a year or so, I spent the best money ever on a high quality business card with a particularly evocative label. I bartered the design, and spent $400 on the cards. They were cool. Made a statement. Got noticed every time I used them. Bolstered my confidence, big time.<\/p>\n<p>Some time later, I had a brochure printed. My attitude towards brochures is that they might be an important process to experience, but they\u2019re probably not an important tool to have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is taken from David&#8217;s interview with Jim Earley in\u00a010 Super Coaches. Roughly how much capital\/money did you spend in the first 6-12 months, and on what? I already had a computer. I would have purchased my time and billing software ($200), and initial business cards ($30). My ongoing expenses would have included, paper, [&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":[122,127,328,137],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823"}],"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=1823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1824,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions\/1824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}