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So, we decided to do what Marie just suggested, which is to give it away for free! Hi Rachel, I agree with Marie to a point. At first it may be a great relationship, but the interest wears out because it is taken for granted. I am also in that buildup phase of my marketing coaching biz and I have to keep telling myself to take small steps each day to get where I need to be.
I too have taken new clients for a low fee and feel this is a win win situation for both of us. With coaching it is sometimes a tough sell, but the proof is in the pudding. Be mentored and work for someone else. Anyone can do that. Do the work and it will take a while. Quit drinking the kool-aid and get real, with heart!
Aslana I really agree with you. Integrity is the keyword, both in moral and ethical principles for you and in respect of your clients. I have though tried free coaching twice, with new-educated coaches whom had no life-experience and that was waste of time — but it might have helped themselves.
Who is the client going to hire: We also proudly and openly share that lasting success takes sustained effort over a long period. That being said, every pro was once an amateur. Marie and Aslana, thank you so much as I learn a lot from your conversation. Each of you have a very own way of view, both have brought me new insights. Thank you so much for encouraging us. From bottom of my heart.
That simple but it is the key to open good things people want in life. If people want to achieve something, they must do something at first. That is things you said above. Hi Marie, I pondered on this for many years and let my fear define my success. Well, I have been a child advocate for many years in dependency court system. But, given advise to other advocates, and this morning my thoughts and ideas got me churning that I can become a coach and create an online course.
Thanks for opening up my mind and spirit. Instead, I took a part-time job as a nutritionist, started my own blog fortheloveofkale. That will come in time. Thanks for your weekly videos, mamasita. Heather, I love your blog! I checked it out because I am a nutritionist too and just think you are adorable. I was especially inspired by the fact that you have incorporated another obvious passion of yours, fashion, into your site. I hope to do the same thing too one day with my passion for decorating. So inspiring to see you going for your dreams.
She is my ideal customer avatar and exactly the kind of person I know I can help and want to work with-health conscious, works out all the time, yet feels an underlying self-loathing about her body. I told her that I could help her and we did a health history together. They must show up. Love love loved this video, it is great when you need insight it shows up in your inbox. Thanks for the great advice. I started my business when I was 20, and I think one of the reasons I had the confidence to just dive in and start doing what I wanted to do was because I was working for a fresh-out-of-law-school lawyer and he had no experience, either.
I started just as you recommend, Marie, approaching a bunch of business owners asking if I could help them improve their ezines for free. One small suggestion—as you start racking up paid real world experience, start pulling the old case studies out of your marketing materials. I did have clients that got results and they wanted to continue working with me. They pay me now AND send me referrals. How cool is that?
I switched careers about 8 years ago when I found out about an opening for a rookie reporter at a local newspaper writing is my passion. Working for free or at a really low rate is okay in the beginning when experience is more important than the moolah. I will only work with a coach who has been their, done that and has the shirt to show it but I LOVE your suggestion about free coaching. Of course when you offer something for free you run the risk of having someone who does not value your time or work.
I must be honest, I got a bit confused half way through. From my personal experience….. This is a good one Marie, and I bet there are lots of coaches out there listening in. Marie, you talked about getting experience through offering free services, but I also wonder if there are any coaching training programs you recommend? Good luck to all of you new coaches! There are TONS of coaching programs out there now. I think free or low paying clients are absolutely the best way to get started. I also designed other web sites throughout my college years.
When I jumped into the raw food coaching world, I was totally self taught, and I felt like I was missing credentials. I was at a crossroads where I was either going to attend IIN or leave health coaching behind to return to my passion for technology. For me returning to technology was the most natural thing that worked out really well. I had also learned a ton about running a business in the process.
That should be your litmus test! Marie provides really solid advice. You do need the experience to back up the expertise but how you get the experience is totally up to you. The first step, in my opinion, is to figure out what you want master what niche do you want to work with? Who do you most want to help? What are you willing to spend a solid years mastering? It took me quite a while to figure out that my coaching niche lies in helping women breadwinners redesign their relationships.
You do that one client at a time for however long it takes to become an expert. Sometimes the universe puts you in the right place at the right time. You inspired me to start my own business. I so relate to this question, except I just turned 46 and have been unemployed for 18 months. For the last 10 years, after being diagnosed with an autoimmune disease, I have immersed myself in reading anything and everything about losing weight and using food to heal the body. It is not just a hobby it is truly my passion.
So, I am currently putting my way of eating into an e-book. I will start by offering it for free on Amazon then I will sell it. Hopefully, I will raise the funds needed to attend IIN. I am also starting an informational website that I hope to have up my Jan. Visit my this page on my website to learn about them and hopefully I can help save some money: Thanks Marie, This episode is exactly what I needed to hear.
I am going to start teaching yoga soon and I thought it would be good to do life coaching with it. I definitly feel I have something to teach with everything i have gone through in my own life. And I figure my education and work experience, my own life experiences alone are enough to quilfy me to do it. Thank you for pointing it out, Lisa! We caught it and took it down right away.
Thank you for the question and the post. I deal with the same dilemna with my site. My goal in my business to help women feel good about themselves right where they are today, regardless of size. I have a lot of experience in this area being a large woman who never allowed it to get in her way. Many people suggested I coach women and I felt the credentials were crucial if I were talking about things like nutrition and weight loss.
It was suggested that coaching without training can be done, but its just a harder journey to take. The training allows you a plan, a way to target problems for people based on proven methods. But, my real world experience, pushing past the fear of self-image, and fulfilling my dreams and stretching my experiences I have great experience in, and I have helped others do just that. I began a blog, sharing my story, which is my source of real world experience. I am a large woman, dealing with it every day. I do believe that building a list of clients you have helped is important. Perhaps a reduced price?
I am in Marketing and so many times I have given free advice that people have made great money on without getting credit for my ideas. Whether you do it for free or at a reduced rate, I would suggest you are clear with your expected outcome. If you want a testimony, make sure you are clear in your expectations. Marie, Thanks as always for the great advice and inspiration. Even if you have zero experience. Your conviction is just as important as what you know. I think this is an interesting subject. Even a person with just a degree will have more real world experience from school projects than someone who just read up on the subject.
My advice would be to get a job, work up the ranks, become a specialist and then start charging to help others achieve success in your specialised field. Otherwise, there are crucial steps being skipped. Yes, it takes longer, but it will be worth their patience and time. Marie, and friends, I am battling with this question right now.
Almost anyone has life experiences failures, successes, strengths, consequences that can be of value to others, and almost everyone wishes they had a helping hand at various points of our lives. The trick is matching them up.
I simply love vegetables, eat them in many forms, know about real food production including a lot about meat that is so important , and love to inspire others to eat food that will add to their vibrant health. Who did they work with? I see folks certifying other folks for lots of money because they decided to.
This is America the land of opportunity. If you have an idea for a business, I say go for it! How did the first life and business coaches get started? I loved to write and decided to be a writer. I started calling myself a freelance writer. That self-belief did more for me than any class I ever took. Go for it … Life goes by to fast to wait for permission from someone else. You will learn as you go along …. Marie is saying wait to charge, but if this girl wants to charge, she can. If it is worth it to you in the end, you stick out the suffering, the bad reputation, etc. But it is not necessary!
Not everything has to be a rough and bumpy ride. There are such things as smooth, logical transitions. I am not 20 anymore… yikes! I am 36 with three kids. I have had my own graphic design company for 12 years, but want to change my focus! During this journey, of having three kids, being a working mom, and focusing a lot on food and nutrition in my spare time, I have a lot of insights on how to make motherhood nourishing, fulfilling, etc, but no coaching experience! So I am coming from the opposite direction… Lots of hands on experience, but no degrees or certifications on the topic….
I am thinking the same plan holds in my case, though…. I teach them how to share love and be ready to receive it Silvia. Thank you so much for this video, It was so helpful! What a tricky situation! But I have learned that although I may not know first hand yet, through my website and conversations I can totally share what others know and help people that way. Next step, just getting out there and sharing my wisdom for free. Do I get my life coaching degree? Do I train myself by researching the crap out of life coaching and take on clients for free?
Brittany, when it comes to speaking, you can do it now. Also, Marie has suggested that you video every event you speak at and also interview audience members for testimonials. Good point… have you researched Life Coach certification programs? I too have been inspiring people, especially co-workers, for free for many years now. It has really been in the past few years that people have taken action on that inspiration and done something with it and now seek me out for more guidance and want me to write a book! Great Advice for the young and ambitious!
You will get there!!!! Hi Marie, Great advice this morning! I am new to your website. This video is VERY timely for me too. I have been searching for a way to share my passion with others. I am not a life coach and I am not in my twenties, but have had a passion for animals, their rights and the way they are treated…well, forever! I have been a teacher and am not a full time mom, and my seven year old daughter shares my passion for animals and animal rights. She is right there beside me in all the fundraisers we do!! I have been involved, and am well informed, on what is going on in the sad and horrendous world of animal abuse.
My goal is to speak to children, starting at a young age, about animals and the way they should be treated. Maybe even do a video too. I guess my question is-how do I approach the principle of a school where I would like to speak. Animals rights is a very controversial concept for some. This is not about making money. Any money that I might make in the future, would be donated to a local rescue. In my heart, I know this is my passion, and feel that we need to educated children on this topic. Thanks for your comment.
The one thing they ALL say is that if you have a message and passion to speak, do it. Choose a location, a time and a topic and share it with everyone you know. The rest of the path will open up once you begin! I loved this post, I started doing internal coaching in my previous organization and then did my coaching course. Its been now 4 weeks where I quit my job and working on it full time.
I have had to revamp my simple template to making sure that it showcased my credibility and places i have been featured etc. Hi Marie, Thanks for your video. I coached at least a couple of dozen of people before I started charging. That took me about a year of work without getting paid, but I was loving every second of it! I also gave many talks and workshops on my subject for free in different parts of the world, to gain experience and get my name out there. Nowadays I charge, but I would never change those years of getting my skills sharpened through doing free work.
I accomplished all of this before I even realized that I could c. It took me 13 years of, school, hard earned life lessons and work from a Variety of business models before I was able to open my doors and thrive as a business. So get out there! Get some experience and then give it away for Free before you start charging! Sending Marie and Team all of my love and gratitude! I would not be here today if it were not for your wonderful videos!
In times past, I tried to share my knowledge base with people. I found that people did not want my advice or comment. So, I have learned to comment when asked or when people want to hear from me on a topic. As for becoming a consultant, I never really gave it any thought. I feel very strongly that people should not be coaches until they have accomplished something in that field. While it is true that many great coaches in sports have not been top athletes themselves, they were at one time athletes out there playing the game long before they became coaches. You simply cannot charge people as a business coach if you are broke and have never run a business yourself.
Many people do so and claim to have had far more success, exaggerate their business success, in order to get their first clients. Marie personally would never hire this girl. Marie suggests that we hire people who have actually achieved success in that field. So… just find that interesting. Who knows what this woman will go on to be with some experience under her belt?
She may very well be a business coaching powerhouse. Everyone has to start somewhere. Marie, this subject really hit close to home for me because it is exactly the approach I took when I realized I wanted to coach others on marketing technology. Outside of my marketing degree, I knew I needed REAL experience and results, and I have spent a little over a year and a half doing all the work I could for free.
With several case studied under my belt, I am on the verge of launching my website now, jonesfordesign. There are a lot of people in the world who sell products to teach people how to coach or consult that say, just charge a lot, your clients will think your experienced based on that. Yet others indicate that the way become an expert is to study then go do, but never indicate doing it at no cost to gain experience and credibility. So when I came up with an idea of creating a course this Autumn for women who want to start their own business and need a safe group to test their ideas I solved the problem of me not being an expert in the business field by hooking up with a friend who has had her own business for 5 years.
But I could still share a lot of nuggets on money, marketing, selling, communication and so on that I have educated myself in these past years. But always being honest about the fact that I at the starting point of the course, did indeed not have a business of my own. But that I wanted to start one. And then actually did that. I started the same way — By training my friends for free. They got a free personal trainer, I got free experience. It worked really well for all parties involved! Thanks for your note. Thank you so so much, this and all the comments have helped me immensely.
I have really cured myself of sugar addiction and want to share the love with the enthusiasm and skill set I have. My friends are changing and people in my network are starting to text me random questions about sugar. I really do feel like I could help people and I am going to go out and try to do that for free. Fingers crossed, this really is my dream. I think if people knew how little experience most people had they would be shocked. But I also believe they will figure that our for themselves. For me when I was featured on Yahoo! I had a ton of women asking how I did that. So that is how I wrote my book to answer all those questions.
So for me that was helpful. But I love your suggestion to those just getting started to coach for free that is a great idea. I did have a colleague in the life coaching industry that started out much like you explain. No experience, but lots of heart and hope. She took on 20 clients and gave them 3 free sessions each. At the end, she offered a package and all 20 signed up.
To this day, almost all still remain her clients plus many more. Such a relevant video today! Now in my 30s, I am starting down a path that involves helping others. I used to have bad acne, and through diet, exercise and educating myself about products and ingredients — I now have better skin than I did in my 20s. I became so interested in how it all works, I created my own natural skin care line, became an esthetician, and am currently working on becoming a certified personal trainer and nutrition consultant.
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I want to share this approach to skin care holistic — from the inside out as well as outside in with others who struggle with their skin. I think another good way to get your feet wet is to start a blog on the subject. Long before I started my skin care business or was an esthetician, I had a blog that offered skin care tips.
All I was going on were the things I taught myself. I just shared what I learned with others. Every time I put some thought into a new article, then write it down, I just feel, well — kinda smart, and that helps. I cringed when I read the title and your response was kindly diplomatic. Thanks for a great video! I have considered offering the programme for free but I now think I will offer it at a low price and then I can gradually increase the price as my experience grows and I get the results and testimonials from existing participants. I agree with everything Marie said on this video for getting a coaching business started.
I am embarking on a mission to help single women over 40 deal with the social pressure to be married and be happy anyway. I have lots of real world experience to share. Anyone else have this problem? That is how I started my business unofficially, by mentoring other massage therapists, friends that had small businesses in the wellness field and offering advice that worked for me. This came at a great time thank you Marie! When I started out as a copywriter I offered free services to 3 business owners who I knew needed help.
I worked as though they were paying me a gazillion dollars. Their existing consultant has far more many clients in this sector than I do and have been Consulting for longer than I have — further, they also have higher Academic qualifications. Despite the dozens of web companies this established Client of mine have come across, they tell me no one has given them the advice or insight that I have. Lastly though, in addition to my rant above, I guess key to bring value to the person you coach is: You totally read my mind.
So I sent out an email just yesterday to my list and got a few clients to work with.: Why are you offering yourself for free? Then consider how to make that proposition almost risk free for them without being entirely free yourself. Paypal offer a simple button whereby, you can be engaged for a free trial period and then the payment steps up as of month x the Client can cancel prior. I was extremely hesitant and still feels a little odd now truthfully.
What changed for me: I experience no problem at all getting Clients to engage monthly up front over spread terms from 3 to 12months — the Clients never ever find that odd, as I always take time to underpin value in my proposition. If you can make money whilst you make your journey you should feel more comfortable spending the time a project often deserves. Would be interesting to here Marie get his response to this effect. SO… At the very least: To my surprise, they said yes.
Fergus, Just wanted to say that I love your experience. What a great question to ask yourself! Very insightful and powerful. I heard a few months back from a great online source forget which , that, UK businesses think much smaller than US businesses. I work as an intuitive life coach, specifically with dreams and Tarot. When I started out, I would help people understand their dreams and offer readings for free to have the experience of working with different types of people with different dream material and situations being looked at with the Tarot. When I taught a weekly dream class years ago, I did that, too, for free, to have the experience of teaching the material to others.
Those experiences gave me the cred, which was all through word of mouth. It also gave me the confidence, when the work became a business, to charge my clients for the services I provide. But anyone can get Betas just by reaching out to their mailing lists. Love this one and so grateful for it. I have a great deal more life experience being older and that has been to my advantage, but I so appreciate that you advocate getting experience working for free. Furthermore, from a Karmic perspective, the practice of giving and in turn getting so much just from the experience, is quite empowering.
This is how I got started with doing professional Tarot reading and life coaching — giving free readings to family, friends, co-workers and friends of friends. I think its a good idea to ask for a little something in return as well — like honest feedback about their experience or something like that. One thing I learned by doing this is that the clients I did readings for never translated into paying clients although they often asked for free readings!
Great advice in your video. I so appreciate your thoughts and those from the many commenters about experience, credentials and credibility. I definitely have the credentials and credibility with an MS in exercise science and 15 years of experience and authorship in academic research in fibromyalgia. Even though I have worked one-on-one with chronic pain patients to help them become more active, it has been from a research perspective, primarily.
I need to get my hands dirtier from a direct client perspective. I watched your episode a few weeks back on Turning Pro. The whole time listening and watching it I kept thinking…. I knew exactly what I needed to change. Then you asked us to name it and claim it. I am a night owl. I committed to make a change. I can stay up as late as I want to, but my alarm is going off at 8 AM regardless. I committed to start the morning after I watched your episode. My productivity is through the roof!!! It gave me the inspiration to revamp my living situation.
Where before I had my computers in my bedroom, my art studio inside the spare bedroom a total mess! I now have a fully functioning office in the spare room, a working glass studio in my basement and a bedroom that is solely a bedroom!!! You are a bundle of energy and I love your giving and passionate spirit! Thank you for all that you do!!!!
This is a great topic, Marie. I am not a coach but have been pitched a lot by different coaches. I think too many coaches out there have only started 1 business in their life, which is the business they are currently building. They are facing the same challenges as the client is. A grandmother or a parent who has already raised several children would be able to. Being an employee working for someone else is NOT the same as being in business for yourself. Not saying that all corporate executives cannot be business coaches, but often, they can only effectively teach tactical subjects like marketing or operations whatever their field of expertise was as an employee.
I loved this video!! Depending on what type of coaching someone is going to work in, there are certain areas of knowledge you can not truly learn from a book. I am not a college graduate, I am a law firm administrator.
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I have worked as an insurance agent for the largest national insurance company in the US for eight years, worked my way up from a receptionist to agent in less than two years , then worked as a Judicial Assistant for a superior court judge, before working in private practice. No matter how you get it, you need it. I like the idea of getting a few clients in the beginning and taking the time to work with them, building up your confidence, experience and your case studies. That being said, I have never had luck with providing any service for free because I have found that those who have taken it for free keep demanding more and more and more.
They have unrealistic expectations and often start requesting things that are far beyond what they would receive even if they were receiving full price. Many see this as an opportunity to totally exploit a person. I have also found that those who do not pay enough money not only do not value the service, but they often do not put in the work necessary to achieve the results that they want … as someone else mentioned, they just take it all for granted.
This was true when I was in my 20s and now that I am in my 40s, I am crystal clear that clients need to pay and they need to pay enough that it invests them in doing the work necessary to reach the goals they have. To walk the path, we must become the path. I took a year-long intensive training before putting myself out there as a Success Coach.
Then, I coached people for not much money, and drove my friends crazy trying to coach them. Now that I have a successful practice that has been strengthened by both training AND experience, I charge a competitive rate and give my friends the breathing room they were missing. I am a lawyer who took time to stay home with my kids after law school and then started my own practice a few years later.
It was great because I was able to figure out my process and not feel bad about my process being awkward at first. Now, whenever I am interested in a particular area of law, I enter into it by first doing a free case before I make it a part of my practice that I charge money for. Another option is to trade for services. When I moved into doing affordable websites for small businesses I did a limited number of trades in order to build my portfolio as well as experience of working with clients. I think the same could work for a new coach. I would advise though setting a limit as trades, like pro bono, can become taxing.
And then move into a discounted rate that scales up with each new client. I agree with you Marie. You have to give your services for free for the first while you are in business. Grab some amazing testimonials from these clients and always ask for referrals. I did free home organizing for years before I decided to turn it into a business.
It really helps set boundaries when people call for a free event. If I have already done one this month they get put on next months schedule. I never wrote stories. So, I posted my stories on my website. There are college professors who teach business and marketing…yet have never owned a business.
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There are professional coaches in the NFL particularly who are overweight and out of shape— yet are seen on the sidelines coaching elite athletes. It just depends on your confidence in your skills as a coach. Start where you feel comfortable. In her question she mentioned that she is broke and that she has never successfully run her own business. I am curious if other people think that personal problems should prevent you from being a coach. I just graduated from college in May, with a bachelors degree in marketing.
I already have two paying clients and am waiting for a signed contract from a third. I set up my billing monthly and only accept one client from each business sector only one bike shop, one swimsuit store, one paperclip company, etc. Before I work with any client I give them a list of deliverables they can expect and a time line for completion.
Make sure to deliver above and beyond so that they keep coming back for future work. Confidence as well as honesty about your skill set is key. Great episode setting off some interesting discussion! It may also reassure you this is what you want to be doing. Love your show Marie…as always you inspire me! For me the question arises…what does it mean to be an experienced coach?
Is it coaching a certain number of people for a set period of time? It is based on the results we help others to achieve? Is it being committed to achieving results in our own lives? Is it the certificate that says we are qualified? Some great…some not so great and what distinguishes one from the other, for me, is their personal commitment to growth.
Business is a skill…success is an attitude. This was so on time and in line with some things I was just thinking! I am 23 right now and have just gotten started getting my blog together and content up in helping younger people mainly women feel comfortable with themselves in following their dreams.
I am working full time and doing everything on the side. But we both know that building our careers takes time. I wish you all the best! Thanks so much Ngoc! Sending you the best. But if one is considering of giving financial advices and there is a chance that someone might lose their savings because of one, then one should reconsider. This episode was so spot on for me. Has had me thinking all day. My background is in education, and when I first started teaching- even though I was qualified with an undergraduate degree and a Masters degree, there was nothing quite like actually getting in the classroom.
Even now if I hire teachers, their credentials are important, but even more important is their classroom experience and the results they can get for their students. So experience really is the key! Leah Thank you so much for asking this question, it has def. I am 32 and after 3 kids I realized I wanted to do never realized how much you think, when staying at home nursing, and caring for toddlers lol.
I have slowly been breaking the barrier of not having a degree but have continued to move towards my goal. This month if my first Life coach session for free!!!!! Marie, Thank you for your advice and work. I have been blessed to use my gifts in 3 successful businesses over the past 15 years. I started out as a freelance makeup artist to pay my way through college I have since retired my brushes , a songwriter in a music production company that I co-own with my husband we had our first top 10 record on billboard this year , and now as mentor in my brand new empowerment firm I am currently a paid speaker and workshop host—preparing for an official launch in May of Yes, I agree, getting a little experience under your belt is a big plus.
And I strongly feel that experience is education unto itself. And on some level they know you have a natural talent in what you do. Thanks for speaking on this topic as it is definitely relevant to more than just coaching. In the past I had a blog giving advice about internet marketing because it was the popular thing to do as a network marketer in order to get leads.
I am fairly new to your site and have been really enjoying the information I receive here.
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I really loved this post Marie, I feel like it was perfect timing and validation. I recently, after finishing B-School, made the leap out of the coop and became a part-time worker bee so I could dedicate some time and love to my real passion. I attempted this leap when I was 22, fresh out of college with a 1year old daughter in toe. However, I did make it a point to be a freelancer and eventually an employee in the field I was interested in becoming an expert.
Marketing for small business owners — specifically This was a blessing and a curse I gained tons of field experience in various aspects of the business but I also became a slave to the paycheck and security of not having to go-it-my-own and make a name for myself. My attempt is to over-deliver valuable proven experience in marketing techniques and design and sprinkle these with my real passion — advising and coaching independent business owners on how to get the life They want to live while doing the work they love.
The cost of these services is currently solely based on the years of visual marketing experience. Had to think about this one a bit…. With the advent of all the social media platforms and blogs…everyone is now an expert. Plus the coaching industry is not really regulated so it can be hit or miss. Keep in mind that many of these young souls coming to the planet are more attuned and tapped into their gifts and intuitive abilities.
Getting involved in these types of initiatives is a FANTASTIC way to get an array of experience working directly with a range of biz owners emerging, startup, existing, mature, large- small, figures, multimillion dollars ……that would lend to the experience of becoming a business coach. Many of the organizations may also give a volunteer access to free or low cost skills and professional development training opportunities as a result of the person being a dedicated volunteer.
EvieB, I find your recommendations very interesting, especially the one about writing a biz plan and entering it into a biz plan competition. Marie, thanks for this QaA! As I sometimes sad: Thanks for your special gift, that only you have. Maria, Thanks for the recent video. I have found that everytime I watch an episode it provides the answer that I have been seeking all week as to what my next step should be in building my Financial LIfe Coaching Business.
Your site is a great resource and a ton of fun. The timing is so right for this episode. Again thank you Marie and thank all of you, the wonderful women who have commented above, because you guys inspire me a lot…. I am impressed by the amazing advices, I already finished a website exactly following her advices, and it is extremely succesfull as you can see by clicking up. I have so many clients who want to be coaches, and they are petrified with fear because they say they have no idea what to do with clients.
I have put a ton of time and B-School love into making it successful and now it is!! I totally agree with you on this ; I think a lot of people are afraid to start up a business because they think they need to be an expert of some sort before they can start off.
Rome was not built in a day and practice makes perfect. Perhaps Marie, or one of her commenters, can help me. So, in the last year or so, I finally decided to try to turn it into a business. When I tell someone who contacts me that I charge a fee, I almost never hear from them again. And then I worry and worry — will that cat get the help she needs? And even when the person agrees to the fee up front, when I send an invoice, they never pay it.
They just ignore it. They ignore multiple invoices. I write back immediately, offering my initial comments and advice, along with whatever practical tips and recommendations seem immediately useful, and explaining my fees. A few people say the fee is fine, and we work together, sometimes with several follow-ups. But I have never gotten any one of these people to pay my invoices.
Adult cats with behavior problems who are surrendered to shelters as many of them are have a very poor prognosis. But I would still like to do this behavior consulting as a business and make some money. I must be doing something wrong, but I am at a loss to understand exactly what. Can anyone enlighten me? Meanwhile, I keep responding to everyone who contacts me, and trying to help as best as I can. Wendy I get it. You most likely are giving too much ahead of time. If you do a consultation to find out what is happening without giving advice to solve it you may be in a better spot.
You want to take a credit card up front or payment before you work with people. Create your policies and hold to it. Also, as much as you want to help the cats you are here to also serve the owner so see what you may be doing that is making it turn out this way. One thing I found was that all of your experience even at 20 is useful especially when you see what you have used to get from one place to another. If you already have clients doing other work and want to coach this helps to do some research and see if they would be a fit for your coaching. First off, what an awesome comments section!
All of you have wonderful things to share! I started a virtual assistance service a couple of years ago and have been amazed at how much I enjoy what I do and how wonderful my clients are. What else I have found is that more often than not, I end up giving extensive advice to the small businesses I work with. Doing so has become my favorite aspect of working with my clients and I have decided that I would like to continue on that path, eventually adding business consulting to my list of services.
I envision myself handling the consulting while my team of amazing ladies managed the virtual assistance side of things. In pursuit of this goal, I have been going to school in an effort to back my experience up with a formal education. I am halfway through my general education requirements and am trying to determine what major is best suited for my ambitions. Economics, on the other hand, seems to offer a more balanced course offering with accounting, sociology and politics all mixed together.
Perhaps I am completely off and another option might suit my needs better? I am currently in the aesthetic industry of medical sales. My job really involves business consultation and teaching physicians how to grow a thriving medical aesthetics practice. The most valuable information I offer that businesses seem to appreciative the most is marketing and how to sell and market themselves. Have you considered looking into a business degree in sales and marketing? I know a lot of business schools are starting to add this major to their curriculum.
I have helped businesses the most by helping them understand what makes them unique and how to capitalize on their uniqueness in a very tough and competitive market. Great practical advice, Marie. When I aspired to do life coaching and business consulting, I had real world experience but not much professional experience in helping others get results. I took an unpaid intern position and gobbled up all the training I could.
A few months later they hired me because…. I was getting the company results. Through the experience of working for the company, I got paid to learn hell yeah! I guess I kinda wanted to bypass that part and get straight to the having-a-reputation part, which I now see is dumb. I just assume that, even if I coached for free, nobody would be interested in what I have to say! Thanks for the insight, and thanks for RHH! I wish I could re-live it again because it blew my mind. After all, this is why we invest in our formal education to earn the right to a level of income.
Do your best to have objective ways to measure the value of your services. In many cases, there are online salary calculators that let you input your title, experience, location, etc. It seems that our most important qualification is in processing, not necessarily in content. If we trust that people are expert in their life, and in their field, then we know that they only need support and challenges. Creating that people feel understood is the first step to create a trusting relationship with our clients. What give me confidence to ask my clients my service worth? The knowledge that I am very well equipped with powerful communication tools and skills.
With those tools I know I can help any one unfold their potential in any areas of their choice. With transformative communication they transform their paradigm, step out of the conditioning that was keeping them stuck, and move to their next step and toward what is dear to them. On top of that they reach higher level of self-awareness and empowerment. It took me just a few months to master those skills and it was worth the sacrifice.
Thanks for a great episode! Keep up the great work! I graduated from college in with a Communication Degree and I had absolutely no idea what I wanted to actually do. Luckily, I was offered a position with a publishing company in Cleveland as their Marketing Manager. Fast forward to a year in a half later and multiple ups and downs with the company, I decided to quit. My gut was just telling me loud and clear that I needed to get out of there or I was going to get stuck. My entire life my dream or secret passion is motivational speaking and life coaching. There is just something in my heart that is calling me and drawing me to those things but I have absolutely no idea where to begin with it.
So if anyone has any insight or guidance please I would be extremely grateful and appreciative. Thank you for your post. My sense is that you are successful and at the same time you are not feeling that you are contributing in the unique way you are supposed to. You are a natural coach however you do not feel confident yet, or clear enough to move forward with a coaching practice or motivational speech engagements.
I like your vision of what you would do for people. You want to connect them with their potential, show them alternate perspective. You want to be a transformative coach. It seems that you naturally are that type of coach and as such I encourage you to take yourself seriously and invest your time and energy to get trained and built up your confidence, skills and tools to help increase people self-awareness about their potential and possibilities.
I encourage you to read the following http: I always wondered this same question. Its challenging for sure to get the cred you want! Thanks for another great vid Marie! The rate might simply be different due to the novice experience. I had little experience with life coaching, but I spent almost two years reading and researching as much as I could.
I gave myself a strict budget that I would spend towards my non-traditional education. After a year of tinkering, I created the Apollo Planner for myself to make my days as productive as possible. Eventually I showed it to my clients, and they loved it. I found a designer to make the website and now people from all over the world can improve their lives with my planner. Life has a way of rewarding those who are persistent. Recently I created a motivational blog and in , I was given the chance to talk at a local university and I did it for….