Spencer Institute Coach Certification & Business Training
The Association for Entrepreneurial Trainers & Coaches
Do you consider yourself to be bold and confident enough to play a major role in the lives of other people? Or do you think you have a passion for teaching or helping people to succeed by guiding them towards their short or long term goals?
If so, you probably might be considering the kind of career you can venture into with these abilities. I believe you should actually start thinking about taking up a career as a professional trainer/coach. [Read more…]
A good coach will not only have necessary or required degrees and certifications from reputable organizations, but they will also have great references and testimonials.
You can expect your clients to interview you extensively about your background. [Read more…]
Coaches communicate in a variety of ways. What we say, what we write, what we do, how well we listen, and how close we are to those with whom we are communicating are among the most obvious mechanisms for communication.
With young athletes, it’s best to be happy, cheerful, positive, and encouraging. This defines and reflects the whole environment. In times of stress, be calm and gentle – despite how challenging it seems in the moment. When giving instruction, be concise and brief, as the attention span for most youth participants can be very short. Provide “constructive instruction”; build up rather than tear down; use lots of how-tos and minimize the don’t-dos. [Read more…]
So, you have now graduated as a certified coach or trainer, and you are probably all stressed out wondering, how do I get my first clients? Don’t worry, and it is normal that by ending your formation you find yourself lost in a sea of doubts. Finding your first clients can be a little scary at first. What if you don’t find enough clients?
For all your doubts and fears to go away, today we want to teach you the strategies that will help you find your first coaching customers.
Before starting, there are four things you need to have ready before beginning to sell:
By understanding different clients’ needs and wants, one is able to ensure they assist their clients to achieve their dreams by clearly defining their goals and objectives. In turn, by getting more coaching and training clients, it is impossible to target everyone in any business, thus exclusively defining the target market is of utmost importance.
Coaching and training clients involve interacting with the clients, identifying and understanding the problems and being able to provide them with solutions so as to help clients set and achieve their goals. Clients have different dreams that they set out to achieve be it individually or in organizations. Solutions that coaches offer to the clients vary too. These include seeking assistance on various problems such as a client may need help in the management of their time, developing business portfolios and PR management. [Read more…]
Most consultants and coaches usually get stuck trying to get clients and unfortunately, it is because they end up spending their money on the wrong things when starting out in their businesses.
Some of these things may not bring them, clients, directly, but they may be things they think that they have to do.
Some consultants and clients might spend hundreds of thousands of dollars establishing their businesses and coaching but they may still find themselves without any clients for months or even years. [Read more…]
Business is buzzing these days for coaches and consultants, as more and more people start to realize the advantages of having a professional to help them improve their mindset to achieve their personal and professional goals. Establishing a coaching or a consulting practice from the ground up is no easy task. You need to present a unique selling proposition, smart marketing, and sales strategies, networking skills, social proof, and much more.
Still, as with any start-up, knowing exactly how to get clients as a coach or consultant isn’t as simple as putting up your sign and expecting them to come running in. To succeed, you’re going to have to learn how to find and enroll new clients. However, you don’t want to accept just any type; you want the types of clients that you are best skilled to help and the ones who will benefit most from your services. What can you do engage them to your new business?
To help you with this, we will explore some trusted and proven methods that will help build your client portfolio with success: [Read more…]
Making a business profitable and successful requires a great deal of promotion, which is why there are so many different marketing strategies that have been developed throughout the years in order to make it happen.
This is no different for coaches and consultants; their businesses require a lot of exposure to get to their target audiences and that is why digital marketing has become such a helpful tool: it can provide the kind of promotion and exposure that any type of business requires in order to be successful without having to spend as much money as you would do through conventional mediums. [Read more…]
The life coaching industry has witnessed a significant influx in recent years. It is currently a very lucrative industry with annual returns amounting to billions. It may seem like a lucrative deal and hence a good career path to choose but the query remains.
Can anyone become a life coach?
Well, the answer is both yes and no.
1. Settle yourself in the right placePeople tend to identify themselves as polyvalent coaches or consultants aiming to reach out to more clients. Unfortunately, this strategy has a counter-effect. In fact, when facing a problem, people and companies look for an expert in the field of their work. That’s the reason why you should choose the perfect niche for you according to your skills. This way, your marketing efforts won’t be wasted on people that are not interested in your service and you will be reaching your potential clients. [Read more…]