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The coaching and consulting industry is booming across a range of different business sectors. This rise can make it difficult for a new or aspiring coach to break through the crowd. [Read more…]
We all have a personal coaching brand that identifies us and a series of values that differentiates us from the rest of the coaching and training professionals. In the world of professional coaches and trainers, working on a successful personal coaching brand is a very important aspect to create audiences and position themselves as excellent coaches with the aim of attracting clients and excelling in an increasingly competitive labor market.
A personal coaching brand consists of the management of perceptions, memories, and expectations that we want to generate in those around us; it is the footprint that we leave in the minds of others. With personal branding the qualities and characteristics of the person as a professional are highlighted and their name becomes a preferred brand for the clients. [Read more…]
For professional coaches, building a personal brand is an important aspect. With the availability of the internet, anyone willing to be a coach has the capacity to build n audiences and position themselves s excellent coaches with the aim of attracting customers. In addition, freelancers can use the available technology to be coaches with the aim of doing business after building a personal brand.
A study by Upwork indicated that freelance workers are growing at a fast rate in the United States of America and it is expected that by 2027, they will be the majority of the workforce. When this happens, there will be stiff competition and as such, it will be required that coaches have personal brands as marketing strategies to differentiate them from other similar business. [Read more…]
If you are running a coaching business you are likely aware of how difficult it can sometimes be to acquire new clients.
Can you run any business without acquiring clients? Is it possible for you to implement your great strategies without having any client? Word of mouth is a great way of growing, but it’s a long process, again, for that too you need to have some clients first.
There has to be a way for coaches to get clients consistently.
In short, you need a solid marketing strategy to grow new clients and keep old ones. [Read more…]
At some point, you’ve probably heard that coaching is growing up really fast and that every day there are more and more coaches out there.
These days, distances are short as you can do everything with just a click, and this makes the competition to be bigger because you don’t only have competitor close to you, but also have hundreds, and even thousands of them, miles away.
Therefore, it is so important you make yourself visible online, to use good marketing to reach the clients that need you before your competition does.
In this article I’m going to share with you marketing ideas for coaches, just don’t try to use them all at once, start by what you haven’t implemented yet in your coaching business or those that can adapt better to you, and then when you have mastered these, keep introducing the rest. [Read more…]
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…]
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…]