coaching

Why Would a Therapist Want to Become a Life Coach?

December 5, 2011

Guest article by Melissa Quiter, MA Why would a therapist want to be a life coach, and vice versa? Here’s my personal story. I started out as a coach and then decided to become a psychotherapist. I remember often wondering why so many coaches were ex-counselors? I learned quickly it is because the counseling world [...]

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Shelving “ReadyToGo Coaching Business” Program

January 13, 2011

As Kenny Rogers sang, “you gotta know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em”.  It’s clear that with regards to the “ReadyToGo Coaching Business” program, it’s time to fold ‘em. Last week I wrote this post asking for feedback on my proposed program to give coaches a brand new website along with the [...]

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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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Why is a Mailing List Important?

September 24, 2010

Habit Change Pilot Program coach Jacqui reports that after only two weeks of having her website operational, ten people have signed up for her free report. I’ve been looking at Mailchimp – rather exciting – ten people have signed up for the newsletter and some are complete strangers, so habitchangecoach.co.uk is reaching into HongKong and [...]

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Can I Really Provide Coaches With a ReadyMade Coaching Business?

September 8, 2010

  Can I really provide coaches with a ReadyMade Coaching Business for under $2000? That’s the question sparked by yesterday’s post, where I wrote about my doubts. In short, I’m beginning to question whether I can achieve my goal of providing coaches with “everything they need to hit the ground running” at a price that [...]

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Pilot Program Diary: Coaching Business Without Tears

August 25, 2010

When I was in university struggling through upper-level statistics courses, there was a little handbook called Statistics Without Tears. Boy, did I relate to that title! I was reminded of that book today when I received an encouraging email from one of the pilot program coaches. She was referring to how frustrating and time-consuming it [...]

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Tips for a Complimentary Coaching Session

August 20, 2010

One of the pilot program coaches sent me this email today: I am corresponding with a new potential client. Do you have any good advice on handling complimentary coaching sessions and getting them to buy? Please let me know. Thanks! Here’s the reply I sent to her: Don’t try to accomplish too much Don’t give [...]

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Top Ten Reasons to Become a Certified Coach

August 17, 2010

Julia Stewart is a coach, coach trainer and seminar leader who uses her creativity and humor to expand people’s thinking and inspire them to work brilliantly. She’s President of School of Coaching Mastery and has been helping coaches pass difficult certifications since 2003. Is there really any good reason for a business or life coach [...]

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Vote for Your Favorite Habit Change Tagline

August 15, 2010

I’m working on developing a list of website taglines for the coaches in the Readymade Coaching Business – Habit Change Coaching program. Which of these do you like / dislike and why? Learn From a Habit Change Expert Change your habits now…so you won’t have to later. Better living through better habits Making healthy habits [...]

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Typical Questions Coaches Have When Starting a Coaching Business

August 13, 2010

As you know if you’ve been following my  Habit Change Coaching pilot program diary, I’ve got six coaches undertaking a pilot program to determine whether my Readymade Coaching Business concept actually works. A week ago I notified the six participants of their acceptance into the pilot program. They all sound keen and excited :) I [...]

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