Roz’s Coaching Business Card

October 12, 2010

Here’s a great example of how you can design your own business card online. Roz Neilson used a business card template from Vistaprint to make her own business cards. Her card features a full-color photo along with her business contact information. She also choose to have a useful calendar printed on the back of the [...]

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How To Coach a Client When Nothing Seems to Help

October 11, 2010

Of all the coaching materials that Thomas Leonard produced in his lifetime, the How To Coach Anyone (HTCA) series of 68 lessons is my very favorite. In fact, I’d venture to say that much of what I know about coaching was learned from those lessons. The first lesson that Thomas wrote was on how to [...]

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Fantastic Results for First Workshop

October 9, 2010

One of the pilot program coaches reports: I did my first free call yesterday and was pleasantly surprised 8 or 10 people called in. No clients, but it was fun, informative and inspiring. This is fantastic results for a first workshop. Not only did the coach get a great turn-out, she enjoyed herself. What she [...]

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Networking Tips for Introverts

October 8, 2010

Do you find networking difficult because of your introverted nature? What’s that you say…glad handing at a social event not your thing? Nancy Ancowitz, a coach, consultant and speaker based in New York, provides these tips on how introverts can become comfortable with self-promotion (full article at Vault.com ). You don’t need to brag to [...]

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Feedback From a Pilot Program Coach

October 6, 2010

This thoughtful email from a pilot program participant, with my remarks in bold and italic.Hi Barbra,Monday’s class was enlightening and your email afterwards much appreciated.  Lots of thinking and too much to write, so have kept it relatively short and can send more if you would like. Speed – could it be unrealistic for those [...]

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Perfectionism and Blogging

October 5, 2010

One of the pilot program coaches sent me a desperate email today. My responses are in bold and italic below: Hi Barbra. I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed with  regards to blogging and need your guidance here .. 1.       How often does one need to update … daily?  Weekly? it’s entirely up to you. give yourself [...]

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I Made a Classic Coaching Mistake Today

October 4, 2010

We had our Monday morning pilot program coaching call today. After I got off the call, I checked in with myself about my tone during parts of the call. I realized that I sounded frustrated at times. Everything provides a learning opportunity, right? Here is my “self-coaching” about my frustrated tone: COACH: frustration usually happens [...]

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Rejection Has a Silver Lining (If You Are Open to It)

September 30, 2010

Today Coach Edna shares some of the ups and downs of her coaching business marketing efforts. In particular, notice how she handled the rejection after someone criticized her business card, and what happened next: An opportunity came from the one person who rejected my business card! When I first handed my business card to her, [...]

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Coaching Business: First Page in Google Already

September 30, 2010

Today I searched for “habit change coach” in Google, and guess whose web site  came up on the first page for Canada and the USA? Habit Change Pilot Program Coach Ebbie’s site SmartHabitChange.com. And when I search for “habit change coach” in Google UK? Jacqui’s site HabitChangeCoach.co.uk. Take a look: To say I’m thrilled is [...]

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How to view your subscriber list in MailChimp

September 24, 2010

I’ve talked about the importance of having a mailing list for your coaching business. In the ReadyMade Coaching Program we set up a mailing list along with a free report for you, so you don’t have to do a thing. The program we use for the mailing list and autoresponder is called MailChimp. However, sometimes [...]

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