Coaching Qualifications Don’t Come With A Client List

Coaching Qualifications Don’t Come With A Client List

Most of us finish our coach training on a pathway to a credential, with a genuine belief in what coaching can do for people, and very little idea of what comes next. Some of us know from before we graduate that finding clients is going to be a challenge. Others expect...
Why You’re Invisible To Clients

Why You’re Invisible To Clients

Many of us who struggle to find clients eventually arrive at the same conclusion – the market is too crowded, too competitive, or too full to build a viable business in. It’s an understandable conclusion, and it also happens to be completely wrong. The...
Selling To Coaches Is NOT The Same As Selling Coaching

Selling To Coaches Is NOT The Same As Selling Coaching

Most of us, when we qualified as coaches, have no idea how to find paying clients. So we go looking for help, and we can find plenty of people offering to teach us how to market a coaching business. The problem is that many of those people have only ever marketed one...
Credentials Don’t Bring Clients

Credentials Don’t Bring Clients

There’s a belief in our profession that goes something like this – once I reach a certain milestone, clients will start coming. The milestone might be 75 coaching hours, or ACC, or PCC, but the belief is the same. We invest our time, money and energy into...
‘Be Visible and Share Your Story’ Isn’t Ethical Guidance

‘Be Visible and Share Your Story’ Isn’t Ethical Guidance

At some point during or after our coach training, most of us received some version of this advice: be visible and share your story because that’s how clients will find you. It sounds reasonable, even inspiring. The problem is that it’s useless advice, and...