{"id":1931,"date":"2013-01-08T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T18:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/?p=1931"},"modified":"2012-02-08T16:07:47","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T22:07:47","slug":"anna-dargitzs-methods-for-finding-clients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/anna-dargitzs-methods-for-finding-clients\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Dargitz&#8217;s Methods For Finding Clients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is taken from David&#8217;s interview with Anna Dargitz 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>Your question implies that I had lots of clients my first 2 years. I did not. I had about 5-6 per month generally, though they stayed with me for years.<\/p>\n<p>My top method, at first, was asking friends and family because I didn\u2019t have a ready-made network and position at my disposal. It wasn\u2019t pretty. I felt needy and desperate with an overlay of optimism. And of course, it was all quite unconscious. What I was aware of was that I was a new coach in a new coaching industry. I had to do a lot of educating.<\/p>\n<p>My second method was to attend networking events, especially Chamber of Commerce. This too felt dry. I was a fish out of water. I did my best to live up to some measure of success defined as \u201cnumber of paying clients\u201d and felt miserable about my lack of success.<\/p>\n<p>My third method was asking for referrals, handing out brochures and business cards, public speaking and building a website on a shoe string budget, all with little success. Everything I read, everything I was told indicated that this was how it was done. I thought, \u201cthere must be something wrong with me\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is taken from David&#8217;s interview with Anna Dargitz in\u00a010 Super Coaches. What top three methods, in order, did you use to get your clients in the first 2 years? Your question implies that I had lots of clients my first 2 years. I did not. I had about 5-6 per month generally, though [&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":[244,122,169,137],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931"}],"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=1931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1932,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions\/1932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}