by Sarah Short | Feb 25, 2026 | Business Development, How To Sell Coaching, Marketing For Coaches, Self-Employed Marketing, The Business Of Coaching, The Coaching Revolution
Many of us have convinced ourselves that staying quiet is the ethical choice. We tell ourselves that we don’t want to be pushy or salesy, that good coaching should speak for itself, that if we just wait, the right clients will find us. It sounds noble, but I...
by Sarah Short | Feb 24, 2026 | Business Development, How To Sell Coaching, Marketing For Coaches, Self-Employed Marketing, The Business Of Coaching, The Coaching Revolution
Coaches are a huge market, and we’re notoriously poor at finding clients. This makes us a target, and there are charlatans who have noticed. I get between 15 and 20 people every week who oil themselves up and slide, uninvited, into my DMs offering to find me...
by Sarah Short | Sep 26, 2025 | Coaching Client Acquisition, Ethics, Marketing For Coaches, Online Business, Self-Employed Marketing, The Business Of Coaching, The Coaching Revolution
Something very uncomfortable came my way this morning and I’ve sat with it for a couple of hours. I decided that I’ll write this article, mostly because I want to share it with the coach in question. I received an univited DM this morning, from a coach. This is what...
by Sarah Short | Jan 19, 2025 | Coaching Client Acquisition, How To Get Coaching Clients, How To Sell Coaching, Marketing For Coaches, Nail Your Niche, The Business Of Coaching, The Coaching Revolution
“My integrity goes beyond marketing I’m afraid” A coach just said this to me in a DM, and I’m blown away. We were conversing because he had asked me about a judgement he perceived in something I said in a comment on a coach’s post. There was no judgment. It was simply...
by Sarah Short | Aug 31, 2024 | Business Development, Challenge for Coaches, Ethics, ICF, Marketing For Coaches, Nail Your Niche, Self-Employed Marketing, The Business Of Coaching, The Coaching Revolution
I saw a fantastic question about ethical marketing and had to expand on it… How is it possible to describe the benefits of coaching without having an agenda of your own? There’s an ICF group that I belong to and someone asked this question (I’m...
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