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This blog assists new and established coaches and those wanting to embrace life coaching as a career with independent information, coaching tips and practice growing strategies.

Using the BE DO Have Model in Coaching

Are you familiar with The Be Do Have model for coaching?

It’s a great tool for helping your clients achieve their goals.

It can also be one of the most confusing and misunderstood processes.

My blog post simplifies and explains this with some examples. I hope you find it useful and would love to hear your thoughts.

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More To Achieving Goals Than "You Can Do It"

I’m not a fan of the Ra Ra You Can Do I regardless approach to goal setting and achievement. It’s often a much more subtle and holistic approach that gets results.

Goals are not set in stone, they can be fluid and flexible and their success depends on so many factors.

These case studies from my coaching demonstrate this and might give you some good distinctions when working with your clients around their the goals and outcomes they want to achieve.

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Finding The Right Life Coach Association for YOU!

One of the best things you can do for yourself as a new coach is to join an independent life coaching association.

You’ll be part of a community and also have membership benefits that could really be useful to your careers.

I’ve just updated my very out of date page on why you should belong to one and added some more of the coaching associations you can check out before you join.

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Life Coaching Resources To Help You and Your Clients

Are you looking for life coaching materials and processes to use in your coaching.

I’ve just updated the resources page on my website Life Coaching Professionally and you’l find lots there to help you with your coaching and growing your practice, much of it free

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How To Fire A Client

Have you ever found you just don't want to continue coaching a particular client.

Despite your initial confidence that they were a good match, these clients turn out to be uncoachable (at least by you at this time). You come to dread session time with them and your confidence suffers.

There can be many reasons for the coaching not working but the problem is you don’t know how to stop working with them cleanly and elegantly.

So let's look at some of the reasons you may want to fire a client and how to do it and a couple of my own experiences.

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How NOT To Get Coaching Clients

It seems a life coach only has to murmur “I need some help to get coaching clients” and they are inundated with offers of marketing help – at a high price. Here is some information to help you steer safely through the minefield of getting the right coach marketing help by asking six powerful questions.

This article has come about because of the sad tales I hear from coaches, who realise too late that they have spent a fortune on engaging a “coach marketing strategist” to teach them how to get coaching clients.   But they are not getting the results they have been promised.

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Make Your Business Cards "Work" For You To Attract Clients

Even in these days of social media networking you need a business card. These seven creative and cool business card ideas will make sure your business card really does the job of marketing your life coaching and making sure you are memorable to everyone you hand one out to.

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Speak Up And The Clients Will Come

It's a real plus as a life coach to also become a motivational speaker and use your presentations as a tool to grow your practice.

Read These 10 tips on getting started as a speaker (even if you are scared), including how to avoid “death by powerpoint, and six ways to ensure a trouble-free presentation.

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Find The Best Life Coach Marketing Plan For YOU!

One size doesn't fit all when it comes to your life coach marketing plan. So choose a way to market your coaching that will give you results without stress.

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Your website as a magnet for coaching clients

Frustrated with trying to build a coaching website and actually getting people to view it? Frustrated with finding that “free” website is not really free but involves lots of extras if you want it to work for you?

Then check out Solo Built It a complete package with a once off annual fee that includes design, content advice, SEO help , an easy to follow action guide, a hosting and mail out system and a forum where you get prompt understandable answers to you questions just to name a few.

And if you already have a Wordpress site, have a look at SBI! for Wordpress for help in turning it into an online business building tool for your coaching.

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How Do You Want to Meet with Your Clients

Do you think face to face is the best way or do you want to explore the benefits of phone, Skype, Zoom or some other platform.

In this online world it’s good to be able to offer more than one way of getting together. Read on for a run-down on the pros and cons of each possibility.

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How Not To Go About Building Your Website

This is an actual sad case study from one of my client that shows what an happen if you dive into commissioning a website that you want to attract clients without due research into what it takes to build an online business . Unfortunately this quite common tale for coaches so do read and learn how to avoid the traps and having you project end in tears.

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How To Make Sure Your Life Coaching Website Is Found By New Clients

Secrets to creating a Life Coaching Website that look good and works as an online Business. Content that attracts clients. Security. Mobile requirements. Easy navigation. Video and pop up box etiquette.

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A Real Life Website Development Disaster To Learn From

This unfortunate website development disaster is a powerful case study that highlights the costly mistakes to avoid, wasting your money - poor design, weak content, no SEO, confusing navigation.

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The Benefits Of Guest Blogging And Online Commenting For Life Coaches

Turn the benefits of guest blogging and commenting from hit and miss to hit hit. Where and where not to guest blog, what and what not to write and how to make sure your guests do the right thing on your blog.

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Applying For Life Coaching Jobs And The Importance Of Standing Out

Competing for Life Coaching Jobs to fill in-house mentor and training vacancies requires quality qualifications and personal branding. Here's my specialist guide that will help you stand out.

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11 Goal Setting Secrets

Learn The Goal Setting Secrets Of Life Coaches In "Be Your Own Goals Coach".

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Are you a new coach needing some hand holding

Q. How many life coaches does it take to change a person's life? A. None, only the person can change their life, but the life coach helps make it possible. Are you a new life coach who needs a little guidance to make it work better? Why not book an obligation free Discovery Session with me to see if I can help.

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How To Become A Career Coach

They come to you for help because they are not happy at work, but don't know why or what to do about it.You coach them to discover what is really going on and give them clarity to move forward to success and harmony. It's a fantastic coaching niche and here's how career coaching works.

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A Free Template to Help You Brand Your Coaching

Do you want to attract you ideal prospective clients? This free template from Marketing From Within will help get to the heart of your personal brand and help you develop a message that really hits the spot. And be sure to join their newsletter for lots of other free stuff.

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To Niche Or Not To Niche

you fit as a life coach? How do you find the authentic and profitable niche that works for you. And do you need to have a niche at all? Stop wondering and read on....

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Is Your Website Secure, Up To Date And Engaging?

Are you sure? Security has changed,and lots of new rules with Google. And is your site mobile friendly. Better check it out with these tips so it still does the job you want it to do.

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Get back to a good back

Investing in an adjustable desk that allows you to choose between standing up or sitting down to work with you clients has a lot going for it..

My Varidesk has done wonders for my back problems and research has shown that, sitting problems aside, standing up to work some of the time rather than sitting at a desk is a healthier option.

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27 Questions to Boost Your Clients Confidence

Boosting confidence is one of the keys to successful coaching. Cherrypick from these 27 confidence building questions to ask your clients from the Coaching Tools Company, plus loads of other free stuff to grow your coaching business .

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Great website but little traffic. Some easy solutions

Do you have a really great website but no traffic? Are you about to build a website but a bit scared of going down the wrong path?

These tips could be the difference that makes the difference without costing you a fortune.

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Speak Up To Get New Clients

Scared of giving presentations about what you do, but know you really need to be brave and just do it. Here are 10 tips on getting started as a speaker and a fabulous checklist to ensure a trouble-free presentation.

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Help Your Clients Spring Clean Their Lives

Spring Clean or Autumn Clean, depending on where you are in the world, using this fabulous Spring Clean Program or Workshop from The Coaching Tools Company with your clients will help you and your clients renew and re-motivate. It's absolutely packed with useful coaching tools so do check it out.

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The easy way to find executive coaching jobs.

Heres all you All about coaching service providers. How they work: Finding the best ones: how to get coaching work from them: how to get the best deal: questions to ask and traps to watch out for. .

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Life Coaching Fees How And What To Charge

How to structure your life coaching fees.

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Writing a life coaching book as a marketing tool

Do you have a really great website but no traffic. Are you about to build or commission a website but scared of making the wrong choice? These10 tips could be the difference that makes the difference without costing you a fortune.

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