This guide will walk you through the blogging basics focused on crafting a successful blog that stands out in today’s crowded digital space... Exploring 7 elements of what makes a blog stand out in 2024 and shedding light on the tried-and-true blogging strategies that pave the way for enduring succe
The most common and effective income streams for health coaches and wellness professionals to incorporate in your wellness business.
WHAT DO I PUT IN MY COACHING PACKAGES? LIFE COACH TRAINING// Crafting coaching packages that sell is both an art and science. So, if you’re at the point in your online coaching business where you’re wondering how to create coaching packages and how to sell coaching then this is the video for you!
Learning to structure a signature coaching program for your coaching business can be overwhelming. There are experts who swear that 5-figure masterminds are the best business model, some who recommend in-depth courses, and many who have become successful with a simple 1-on-1 model. In this blog post, we’ll cover how…
Explore why selling a coaching workbook as a digital product is an excellent idea for coaches like you, looking to build a passive income.
Want to start a life coaching business? Here's the definitive guide on how to become a life coach (and the one thing you must know about standing out!).
Learn the proven, 7-step strategy for how to get clients as a personal stylist - using Pinterest. (for personal stylists and style coaches)
Are you a coach who loves reading? Get the 18 best coaching books to grow your coaching skills and help make you a better coach!
If you're a health coach and have no idea how to start an online business, this academy is for you. Learn proven strategies to create a 6-figure business.
Ready to start a coaching business? These powerful tips will help you cut through overwhelm and fear so you can get started TODAY.
Try this simple life coaching session flow to structure your calls better and deliver maximum results to clients.
Are you a coach who loves reading? Get the 18 best coaching books to grow your coaching skills and help make you a better coach!
Entrepreneurship Tips For Online Business Owners - If you want to learn how to get leads for your business in order to run a successful then this article is for you. Learn the importance of creating a community around the business and get tips and tools for creating your online business community. Click through for the full article! #BusinessTips #MarketingTips #OnlineBusiness
Découvrez 8 plantes qui vous aideront à harmoniser et donner une belle énergie à votre espace de travail ! Voici 8 plantes idéales pour une entrepreneuse !
How do you become a nutrition coach? This guide shows you how to start a nutrition coaching business and the top certifications.
50 Ways to Use Your Health Coach Certification on Elizabeth Rider - Modern Healthy Living
5 Ways To Use The Wheel of Life Assessment In Your Coaching Business One of the most useful coaching tools is called the Wheel of Life exercise is one of the most useful coaching tools. Its effectiveness lies in its simplicity and you may have learned of it in your original coach training. If you’ve never heard of this coaching tool and technique before let me give you a brief description of how it works. I’ve included the standard method commonly used in this blog post and I’ve added 4 more creative ways you can use this tool to help you deliver great coaching sessions. I've created a free Wheel of Life resource complete with workbook and free printable templates to support you in your coaching sessions. >>> DOWNLOAD IT HERE <<< 1. The Wheel of Life Using this wheel is a great way for life coaches to start with a new client because it gives them a birdseye view into their life. They might be feeling dissatisfied, stuck or disgruntled, but they can’t put their finger on exactly why. They don’t know what’s not working for them and they don’t know what to do next. This coaching technique helps clients understand their life balance and gain clarity so they can begin removing their blocks and moving forward. I always include this assessment tool in my welcome pack and use it to start the coaching process. Have a look at the diagram below. You will see a circle that is divided into eight equal sections. Each section has a separate label. Family and Friends Romance and Significant Other Finances Physical Geography Health Personal Development Career Fun and Recreation The centre of the circle is zero and the outer edge is rated at a 10. Where zero is as bad as it can be – it couldn’t possibly be any worse and 10 is the ultimate in awesome. Your role is to ask the same question for each section of the circle: On a scale of 0 – 10, how satisfied are you right now in this area of your life? Tell them they are only rating their satisfaction right now, not last week or 6 months from now. Also tell them there is no perfect answer, encourage them to not get all left brain logical. If they start to waffle, ask them what’s the number that popped into your head? Next, they connect the dots and make a shape inside the circle. This shape represents their level of satisfaction right now. The next step is to have them look at the physical shape that they’ve drawn. And ask them: -What do you notice about the shape? -What’s it like driving your life on a wheel like this? -Is this a surprise? -What are you learning? What do you, the coach notice about their completed Wheel of Life? Are they living a tiny squished boring life with very little satisfaction? Are they very satisfied in one area and dissatisfied in many others? Is there balance in their life or is it bumpy? Ask them to keep a copy of this Wheel of Life template so they can look back at it from time to time. Your client will learn a lot about their life by looking at this birdseye view. It will also help them to pinpoint what area of their life they want to focus on, any areas they want to begin finding balance, and this will help them to set meaningful goals. 2. The Wheel of Progress The second use for the Wheel of Life is to help them see how far they’ve come. Re-do the exact same process that I just described after they’ve been coaching with you for a few sessions or when they’ve at a reached a goal. It’s interesting to see how their life has evolved and how they are spending time. You can overlay those two and get a really great concrete sense for exactly what has shifted in their life and give them even more motivation. 3. The Meaningful Goals Wheel Use the Wheel of Life in goal setting to help your clients choose which of their goals are more meaningful. Begin with the first step. Have them assess how they are in their life right now Next, have them project their level of satisfaction in each area of their life when they’ve achieved a goal they are considering. For example, maybe one goal is to change careers. Project into the future, ask them to complete the Wheel of Life for all pieces of their life by rating the level of satisfaction they anticipate they will have. If they change careers to something more satisfying, the level of satisfaction in the career area will be higher, are the other areas of their life improved too? Or is there a downside? Perhaps they might make less money so they will have a lower rating in Finances or they know they will need to devote more hours so their Friends and Family section may be impacted. They are going to find out quickly whether this goal is going to increase her overall fulfilment or if it’s just a whim that sounds good at this moment. 4. The Deep Dive Wheel A fourth way to use the Wheel of Life is a tool to have a deeper look at one big area life For example, it could be the Wheel of Business for an entrepreneur. Label each piece of the wheel with all the parts of your business. Marketing Customer Relations Finances Operations and Systems Creativity Team Personal Development and Education Location Now do an assessment for the state of each area of their business. This wheel of business will give your client a practical representation of the state of their business and point them to any weak areas that need to be improved. 5. The Wheel of Big Goals You could make a Wheel of Life to represent the planning and strategy needed to tackle a big goal. For example, maybe the person has a goal to do solo travel for three months. What do they need to consider, plan and act on to make the sabbatical happen? Then you can jot down related actions or considerations in that section. Some ideas for this example of solo travel for three months. Work Arrange to take an extended time off work. What is my company’s policy? When do I need to speak to my boss? Finances How much do I need to save? Do I need a foreign bank account? What is my travel budget? Home Do I need to find a house sitter? Rent my home out on Airbnb? What happens with my bills and mail? Health Do I have any health concerns I need to consider when planning what countries to visit? Medications? Vaccinations? Where do I buy medical insurance? I’m curious what other ways you can think of to use the Wheel of Life exercise? I’ve created a freebie that you can download. It’s called Ways To Use The Wheel Of Life in Your Coaching Practice Today. It contains a workbook and printable templates you can use to bring more variety to your coaching calls. Grab your Wheel of Life PDF Template, including a blank Wheel of Life and other free coaching tools.
Picking a name for your wellness business is a big deal. It’s something you’ll have to repeat over and over, something you’ll see every day and that needs to encompass your whole brand and ethos. It will become how people will know you, so you want to get it right. Read on to discover the things you need to consider when it comes to naming your wellness business.
Spiritual Business Ideas For 2023. Spiritual Business Ideas For Healers, Therapists, Coaches, Lightworkers who want to be more spiritually aligned5
If you're a health coach and have no idea how to start an online business, this academy is for you. Learn proven strategies to create a 6-figure business.
How do you become a grief coach? Here are the steps to take to start your grief coaching business right away.
With goal-setting activities underway, you need to start coming up with ways to show results and that you are trying to achieve your goals. When it comes to growing your business and ensuring the right blend of the market, there 4 Things you need to be doing Weekly (if possible, Daily) to continue to grow […]
History and Benefits of Neuro-Linguistic Programming Infographic Neuro-Linguistic Programming (also known as NLP) has two main components to the change or “programming” that it tries to bring about. First is the neuro or the brain component and the second is the language component, which not only involves speech but also involves the five senses, gut […]
Want to become an online fitness coach but don't know how to get started? Check out our ultimate guide to help you start your online business.
How often have you tried to create something that goes viral?
I used to think that the top salespeople knew something that the rest of us didn’t. Maybe they had a secret script or strategy that I just had to get my hands on. Well, after generating millions of dollars of sales in both my own coaching and course business and my clients’ businesses, I now know better. The “secret” to selling coaching actually lies in these 5 essential selling secrets…. If you want to know how to sell high-ticket coaching services, read on. Selling Tip #1: Get potential clients on a call! Wondering how to sell yourself as a coach? The first tip I have for you today is basic but incredibly important, especially if you're just starting out. And that is to get your potential clients on a call. Way too many entrepreneurs try to sell directly from a social media post or an email when they’re new in business. Don’t get me wrong -- that has its time and place when selling coaching, especially as you scale out your business. But when you're starting out, nothing is more effective than getting someone on a call with you. (Personal relationships never go out of style.) It's much easier to connect with someone on a call. For example, research shows that smiling builds trust. And it's much easier to convey a smile on a call than in writing. It is more work, but I promise it's so worth it. Not only are you going to make more sales, but you're also going to learn so much about your audience, your clients, and what they're connecting with and not connecting with in your content. And that knowledge is going to pay off for the life of your business. Related: If you don't know how to get clients onto calls with you, make sure you check out my tutorial on how to do that using social media. What do you do once they’re on that call with you? Read on to find out... Selling Tip #2: Lead with emotion, close with logic This tip is really important. Maybe you've heard before that people buy on emotion. (And if you haven't, now you definitely have.) But that's not the whole picture. People buy on emotion but they justify that purchase with facts. (This is backed by neuroscience.) The first time I realized this, it was such a huge aha moment for me, because up until then I'd been guilty either of focusing too much on the facts or too much on the emotion. Once you realize how these two fit together though, that's how you're going to make the most sales. Selling with emotion really is the most effective way to sell coaching and consulting services. Share this blog post by pinning the image below. How do you lead with emotion? So what does that mean in terms of tangible action items? What that means is that when you're creating a new promotional campaign, or the next time you’re on a sales call with a potential client, your number one goal is to uncover what emotion is driving that person. Why is someone coming to you for help on whatever it is you helped them with? What's really driving them? What's the pain, what's the desire, what's that emotional hot button? And you want to really dig deep and understand. If someone's coming to you for health coaching for example, they're not coming to you just to lose weight. There's some deep internal reason. Maybe they just have gotten to a point where they feel so bad and out of control with their eating. Or maybe they really want to revitalize their relationship with their partner. Or they really want to lose 20 pounds to refind the confidence and energy that they used to have. Whatever that hot button is, both the pain, and the dream, you really need to speak to that in your sales conversation. (Or your sales page, it's the same process.) That’s not all though. Want to Build a 6-Figure Coaching Business So You Can Achieve More Freedom? Get Instant Access To My FREE Ultimate Guide Below! GET INSTANT ACCESS When you sign up, you’ll also receive regular updates on building a successful online business. How do you close with logic? Once someone is excited and ready to buy, you have to be able to help them justify the purchase with the facts. What does that look like? You’ve got to share the value and the outcome of your offer, and help your potential client relate it to the value of the investment. How do you do that? By showing them that the investment is way less than the value of the outcome. For example... What would it mean for someone to be able to get the raise that they want and maintain that for the rest of their career? What's the actual number of dollars that translates into over the rest of their life? What does it mean for someone to be able to save this much time every single week so that they don't have to cook their own food? What's the cost of that compared to the value of your investment? There are lots of different ways to do this and think about this and those are just two examples. That’s still not all. How do you make it a total no-brainer? What you also want to do is to justify what they get in return for the investment. So for example, if someone is ready and excited to purchase, that's when you let them know: “Not only do you get this amazing outcome, but in the value of what you're getting from my coaching or my course itself, here's what else you're also going to get. Here's the bonuses, here's the value of the course, the community, the coaching, the bonuses, everything. And the support that you're going to get so that you can realize this in of itself factually is also an incredible value.” That's how you balance both the emotional driver that's going to drive someone to be excited about and want to and be ready to purchase as well as the features and facts that are going to help them justify making that decision. Now, if you're wondering how to sell coaching packages, the next tip is incredibly important. Selling Tip #3: Have a conversation! The third selling coaching tip I have for you today is to make sure that when you are having that sales conversation, whether it's on a sales call, or you're writing a sales email, or you're writing a sales page, that you're not just following a script. You’ve actually having a conversation. Something I see this way too often with new entrepreneurs is that, once they’ve found a sales script, they follow it to the letter. For example, with some of my coaching clients, I'll listen to recordings of their sales conversations, and hear that it sounds exactly like they're reading the script...which they are! Because of that, they don’t sound like themselves, and they’re so focused on following the script to the letter that they miss out on the key takeaways of the conversation. Here’s what you want to do instead... How to make your sales calls so good, you will get a ‘yes’ on the spot For any sort of sales conversation - a sales call, a sales email, a sales page - you start with drawing in your reader / your listener, and you do that by understanding what they're struggling with. What is that emotional pain that's driving them? Then, you lead into what that emotional dream, their goal is. What do they want out of all of this? What is their goal, their hope, for overcoming it? And then, once you understand that, you can present how your offer really addresses both the pain they want to overcome and the dream that they want to accomplish. As you can imagine, there's no one set of questions that applies to every single person and every single industry. So you really have to understand the core concepts of that, which I just shared with you, to be able to have that a sales conversation that is effective for your audience and your business. The ONE thing you need to do to close the sale That also allows you to customize the conversation and take it wherever it needs to go to be able to close that sale. For example, most of the sales calls I listen to start in the same way. By asking, "Hey, what's going on with your problem and why is that, why is that, okay what's the dream that you want for that problem." Instead, how can you customize that for your audience? So for example, one of my clients that I helped with this recently helps people build their Pinterest accounts so that they're driving a lot of organic traffic. And what we did was we worked on customizing that script so she now asks them: "Hey, what's going on with your problems with driving traffic," because that's why they come to her. "What are you doing right now to drive traffic? What do you not like about it? Is it even working? How well is it working? If it's not working, why don't you think it's working? What had you be interested in Pinterest in the first place?" Next, she asks... “What is ultimately your goal for Pinterest, how does that fit into your business goals for the long term, what does that mean for your business and your long term business and life goals?” As you can see, it's basically the exact same script, except that we've modified it for that specific client of mine so that it becomes a conversation that's much more aligned with what she offers and what her audience is coming to her for. Take a second and think about how you can do that for YOUR sales conversations. Then, move on to the next tip, which is one of the most important selling tips… Selling Tip #4: Talk about the money with confidence That is a reminder to, when it's time to talk about the price, state your price with confidence. What's more, when you hear the money objection of, "Ooo that's more than I thought it was gonna be," or "I don't know if I can afford it," hold that place of confidence for you and your potential client. Related: Not feeling confident about the price you charge? Read this now. Don’t do this - it will kill the sale! So often when I listen to sales call recordings of my new coaching clients, I hear them having these amazing conversations...until it's time to get to the price. All of a sudden, their energy on the call plummets. And you can hear that they’re trying to get “the money” part over with as quickly as possible. They say something like... "Here's the investment, I would love to work with you." And then, when someone talks through the money objections like, "Oh I don't know if I can afford that," they just stop. They’ll say something like, "Oh okay, I get it, thanks for having this call with me." (Does this sound familiar?) I want to make it very clear -- I'm not talking about being pushy or salesy. But if someone has raised their hand, has gotten on a call with you, and has expressed their interest in wanting your help, then there's a reason that they did that. And so often when they raise their money objection, it's not so much that they truly can't afford it as there's some fear coming up. Now, I do want to caveat, if someone is having trouble paying their bills, you need to get clear if that is truly the case, and if so they need to go and focus on that. But most people have the self awareness and the survival skills to not be hopping on sales calls with people when they're struggling with that. Why confidence is one of the most important selling techniques And so where confidence comes in is in being confident not only in your price, but in your ability to help someone get the results that they're coming to you for, and in understanding that the value of that result that they're going to get is going to be so much higher than the actual cost of the investment with you. Once you really, truly believe that and are confident in that yourself, what that allows you to do is stand in confidence to have that money conversation. It can be as simple as asking someone, “Hey, would you be willing to talk about this a little bit more?” If they say yes (which most of the time, they will), you can ask... “I'd love to talk about why it's coming up that you think you can't afford this.” Listen to their answer because understanding that opens the door for you to have an actual conversation with them about their money thoughts and beliefs and what they're really struggling with. Want to Build a 6-Figure Coaching Business So You Can Achieve More Freedom? Get Instant Access To My FREE Ultimate Guide Below! GET INSTANT ACCESS When you sign up, you’ll also receive regular updates on building a successful online business. How I use this in my sales calls I'll tell you, so often I've had clients come to me with that issue and it often turns out that it's just because they're scared, or they've been burned before by other bad business coaches or courses. And so we talk through that. We talk through their fears about that. We talk through the possibility of, "Let's look at what would happen if you weren't burned this time? Because I've been doing this for a long time. I'm the real deal. You know, you can Google me, you can look at my results." “What would that look like? And is it truly about not being able to afford it, or is it really just about being scared about making the investment?” As you can see, it's really up to you to stand in that place of confidence, of knowing, "Hey I can get help you get results, I know the results are going to be more valuable to you than the investment, and so with that foundation, I'm gonna help you really talk through if it really is about not being able to afford it or being scared to make the investment." Keep in mind: Those are two completely different things. You can coach someone through the fear of the investment. That's actually your job if someone's coming to you interested in what you have to offer them. The truth behind why people say “I can’t afford it” Also, you have to remember, people love to buy. I can't tell you how many times when I was starting out in my business I would believe someone when they said, "I can't afford this." And I would feel like I was doing them a really great service by saying, "Okay. Thanks for the call. Thanks, that's it." Then, a few days later, I would see them talking about this amazing vacation they'd been on or this new coach they just hired who probably, I didn't realize at the time, but I do now, was able to stand firm in that place of confidence and walk them through their fear of investing, to feel good about making the investment. I know that this can be hard to absorb because we all want to just help people and do the right thing, but trust me. Try this a few times and you're going to be amazed at the results that you're going to see. Pin me for later! And this might help even more… How to get past your fear of talking through this objection once and for all Think of three people who you've spoken with in the past who told you they couldn't afford you. Go and check out their social media profiles and see what they've been up to. Chances are pretty darn high that they've gone out there and made a significant investment that's at the same level or higher than what they were thinking about investing with you. And they've loved it. That's going to help you truly absorb that belief that when someone says they can't afford it, it's not always that they can't afford it. Often, it's simply that they're afraid of making the investment, and that's YOUR job to walk them through it. Which brings us to the last of today’s selling tips…. Selling Tip #5: Make sure you’re painting “The Vision” The final tip I've got for you today is to make sure that in your conversations, you're not just laying out the benefits and the features and the dreams, but you are also truly painting a picture for someone. Why? Because storytelling increases sales conversions, as research shows. Let me give you an example of how this works... How my client learned how to sell by painting the vision One of my past students used to be an Olympic athlete. That's pretty darn cool, right? Through her Olympic workouts, she realized a way to help people get fit doing a specific type of workout that anyone can do. So she started a health coaching business to help busy people lose weight and get fit with these workouts that she'd created. Now when someone comes on a sales call with her, we talked about not just saying, "Hey, what are you struggling with in terms of your health, what do you need help with, and here's what your life is gonna look like once we get that going for you." She painted a very strategic picture based on the details that that person shared. And how she did that was, again, having a conversation just like we talked about earlier. Understanding exactly what their struggles with, and then sharing with them, "Hey, here's how I'm gonna help you." So she might say, "Hey, tell me a little bit about what's going on with your life where you don't have the time to work out and you feel just not great with your body." That person might say, "You know what, I'm busy at work all the time and I sit, I don't know, 18 hours a day. And then I come home and then I eat unhealthily and then I go to sleep. And then I do it all again the next day." Then my client might ask, "Tell me how your weekends look." And that potential client might say, "Well I like to spend time with friends but we're always just going out and having drinks, and that makes me feel unhealthy as well." And so, with those small details, we talked about her doing is when she's painting the emotional outcome, she doesn't just say, "You're gonna lose weight." Instead, she maps out specifically how she's going to help her. So she says for example, “Based on what you just told me, we're going to fit your workouts into what you just shared. And what that's going to look like is I'm going to walk you through how to fit these small workouts that I've created into your time while you're sitting at your desk. I'm gonna show you these sit down workouts that you can literally do and not have anyone notice you so it doesn't look weird. Then what we're gonna do is create a really customized easy meal plan that you can use immediately after you get home, that's not gonna take you a ton of work to cook, but it's gonna be a no brainer for you to eat so that you can instantly become healthy. And finally, what we're gonna work on is on the weekends, we're gonna come up with fun things for you and your girlfriends to do that don't necessarily involve having a lot of drinks and eating, overeating." And so as you can see, what that does is it helps that potential client really ground into how their life is gonna change and how doable and possible it is for them. Paint an irresistible picture… And close your next client Now, I want to caveat something here. I’m not talking about coaching them during the actual sales conversation. That's not the point. You do not want to be doing that. What you're doing is painting a picture for how you're gonna help them, so that it's customized for them and they understand, okay this is how it's gonna change, I can see how it's possible. Armed with these selling tips, you’ll see your sales rates skyrocket even if you don’t think you’re a “good salesperson.” That's it, now you know how to sell coaching services online. Selling coaching doesn't have to be hard... It comes down to implementing these steps consistently. But to build a profitable and sustainable coaching business, you need the right strategy. Want to know what it is? Get my free blueprint that shows you the exact steps to building a six-figure coaching business: Want to Build a 6-Figure Coaching Business So You Can Achieve More Freedom? Get Instant Access To My FREE Ultimate Guide Below! GET INSTANT ACCESS When you sign up, you’ll also receive regular updates on building a successful online business.
Learn how to create an attractive and compelling sales page that converts! Here’s the anatomy of a money-making life coaching sales page.
Shame spirals happen when an event triggers feelings of shame. This causes us to spiral down into negative and unhelpful thinking.
Are you thinking about a career in holistic nutrition? Have you researched different options for certification, and wonder which one is right for you? Institute of Integrative Nutrition vs. Nutritional Therapy Association vs. Bauman vs.Precision Nutrition? It's a lot of inf
“I wish I had a mentor or someone I could trust, with experience to help me succeed in my first year of business!” As a new business owner, I wished I had someone on my side who could shine a light on my path, give me good advice, and help me avoid all the pitfalls I kept falling into! I didn’t h
If you want to start an online business, you need a website! In this post, I'll show you how to build a business website for FREE. You won't believe how....
Emotions exist in the body- but how? This printable emotion sensation feeling wheel helps individuals match common emotions with the physical sensations that most often match those feelings.
There are many website builders available on the market today. From Wordpress to Squarespace to Shopify to Showit to Wix: Which one should you choose? Find out here!
Are you passionate about helping people to live healthy lives and want to serve more people through your wellness business? It can be overwhelming for many health pros to spend years studying and perfecting your practice, skills, and offering to realize that not only do you need to be good at what
Want to become a parenting coach? Starting a parenting coaching business can be incredibly fulfilling. And today, you learn the exact steps to take to become a successful parent coach. Want to learn more? Read on! What is a parenting coach? A parenting coach is someone who helps families in different areas of parenting, including: Baby sleep coaching Potty training coaching Communication coaching Nutrition coaching Coaching is all about supporting people to get the results they want. That’s why, to qualify as a parenting coach, you need to have helped others (or yourself) get past the parenting challenges you help your clients with. For instance, you might have had a baby with sleep problems and you developed your own sleep methodology to get your baby to sleep. Maybe your friends started using your strategies – that’s a great way to show your future clients that you can help them, too. Or you're a child therapist. That work experience translates directly into coaching. Get the Ultimate Guide for building a 6-Figure Coaching Business so you can achieve more freedom! Get Instant Access A few examples of parenting coaching niches include… Baby sleep coaching Breastfeeding coaching Potty training coaching Birth coaching Communication coaching Relationship coaching for parents Divorce coaching Grief coaching ADHD coaching Stress coaching Happiness coaching Nutrition coaching Spiritual coaching Coaching for foster parents Coaching for kinship parents Co-parenting coaching And here are two real-life parenting coaching businesses: GoDiaperFree.com is a coaching and course business that helps parents potty train their children. Mealmentor.com is a vegan meal planning service that helps people, including parents, plan and prep their food. Now you know what parenting coaching is. But how do you build a business around it? How do parenting coaches make money? How do you make money as a coach? There are three different pricing models you can use: Per session. If you charge per session, your clients pay you for every session. I don’t recommend this pricing option, though, because it trains your clients to believe that the value in your coaching lies in the time that you put in with them. Per month. This is a retainer contract, which means that your clients pay you every month. I’m not a fan of this pricing model because it makes it harder for you to establish boundaries and the focus isn’t as much on the results. Per package (my favorite). If you charge per package, your clients pay for a specific package, such as a 3-month coaching commitment. I’m a big fan of pricing per package because you position your coaching and pricing based on the results you’ll help your clients get. The average coaching salary is, according to the ICF Global Coaching Study, $62,500. That said, as an online coach, you can build your coaching business to six figures and beyond, just like many of my clients have done. How? Let’s reverse engineer. If you charge $3,000/coaching package, you need to sell 3 packages/month to get to six figures/year. That’s completely doable. That said, a good starting point for new coaches is to charge $1,500 for a 3-month package. As your coaching develops and you help your clients get better results, you can increase your prices. Learn more about coaching packages in this short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw2iDEYrPvc&t=237s But how do you become a parenting coach? That’s what we’ll look at next. What do you need to become a parenting coach? Do you need a bachelor’s degree in social work or child development to become a parent coach? Or a parenting coaching certification? The answer is simple - no, you don’t. Education isn’t what determines your value as a coach. Instead, what matters is the transformation you help your clients achieve. Here’s what you need to know. How do you become a certified parenting coach? What are the best parenting coaching certification programs? And do you even need a certification? The thing is: you don’t. Coaching is not the same as therapy or counseling (which require education and training). Yes, you help your clients but coaching is no substitute for therapy (just like therapy isn’t coaching). Instead, look at the results you’re able to help people get. That’s what your clients care about -- not whether you are certified or not. And if you’re worried about your lack of experience if you don’t get a certification, don’t worry. You gain experience as you’re coaching paying clients (but you charge less early on so that you can develop your coaching skills one client at a time). Get the Ultimate Guide for building a 6-Figure Coaching Business so you can achieve more freedom! Get Instant Access That said, there are some coaching niches that require a certification. Typically, they’re in the health or mental health niches, so if you’re planning on helping parents on these or related topics, you should be extra careful when researching whether your coaching niche requires a certification. If you do decide to get a parenting coach certification online, make sure that you choose a good certification program. Too often, these certification programs aren’t recognized in any way, while they can cost $1,000-$3,000 or more. Going through one of these programs won’t help you at all or give you any credibility whatsoever. One program that is a recognized certification program? The International Coach Federation. But while you don’t need a coaching certification to become a parenting coach, you DO need coaching clients. Here’s how to find them. Where do you get parenting coaching clients? You might be thinking, “Why would someone want to buy from ME? There’s nothing special about me. What if I'm not good enough?” At least, that’s what a lot of my students tell me. But if you have results in some shape or form (your own results and/or you’ve helped someone else get results), you are ready to take on paying clients. And building your own online coaching business can be surprisingly simple if you let it be. You don’t need much more than these strategies for getting coaching clients (pick one and roll with it): Asking people who you’ve helped before (family and friends) if they want to work with you as a coach Pitching podcasts and guest posts Being active in online or offline groups where your target audience hangs out (such as online mommy groups or local parenting groups) That’s how I got my first few clients as a career coach, by asking friends to whom I had previously given career advice if they wanted more of my help. And these are strategies several of my students have used to quickly grow their coaching businesses. If you want more steps to find your first clients, take a look at this short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el05EoPAUfM&t=279s But once you have your first client, how do you coach them? That’s what we’ll look at next. How do you coach parents? Here’s the thing: Coaching is a skill you learn. So don’t worry if you don’t feel like you’re an amazing coach right now. The more clients you work with, the better your coaching skills are going to get. And because you charge a lower rate early on, your first few clients get a sweet deal, too. They get to work with you for less, while you’re developing your skills as a coach. When you’ve earned your stripes and you have a few testimonials to share with new clients, you’re ready to raise your rates. Here are a few ways you can develop your skills as a coach. Become a great coach The word “coaching” is actually a bit misleading. I like to talk about coaching as “coach-sulting.” You see, while coaching used to be based on Socratic questioning (asking probing questions such as, “how do you feel about that?”), coaching these days is more and more a mix between coaching and consulting. You as the coach don’t only help your clients find the answer themselves (=”traditional” coaching), but you sometimes also give them the answer and help them figure it out faster. For instance, if your client is struggling to get their baby to sleep full nights and you know what they could try to get the baby to sleep better, you’d give them the alternatives rather than leave it to your client to find the answer. Now that you know what coaching looks like, how do you hold a parenting coaching session? Let’s take a look. Hold a coaching session I remember my first coaching session. I was so nervous that I ended up prepping for hours and writing down word-for-word what I would say. But for every client I worked with, coaching got easier and easier. I learned what questions would come up, how to structure my calls, what material I needed to create, and so on. Ultimately, I could just hop on coaching calls without needing to prep beforehand. Before your first call That’s why you don’t need anything before your first coaching calls -- no website, PDFs, or other material. Instead, send a welcome questionnaire to your coaching client so that you understand what they’re struggling with (you can use Google Drive to share the document). Be thorough; I keep my questionnaire to about 30 questions. During your calls You can hold your calls using Zoom, Google Meet, or Skype. And Calendly makes it easy to schedule your coaching sessions. Every coaching call should have a goal that supports your client’s overall goal. For example, if their goal is to help their baby to sleep better, one session might focus on a specific sleeping strategy as a subgoal. And the next focuses on another strategy, and so on. Every coaching call supports that month’s goal, which in turn supports your coaching package’s overall goal. You can break down the months like this: Month #1: Getting the foundations in place for better sleep (nutrition, routine…) Month #2: Test proven sleep strategies to see which ones work for your baby Month #3: Bringing it all together with a baby that sleeps full nights After your calls Your coaching is so much more than just the coaching sessions. In between, your client works on the things you discussed on your previous call. I always send a recording of the call so that my students can revisit them if they need to. Coaching is also all about checking in with your clients between calls and answering their questions. Maybe you do a quick tutorial, share some extra material… Whatever helps your client achieve their goal. Get the Ultimate Guide for building a 6-Figure Coaching Business so you can achieve more freedom! Get Instant Access Over to you! There you have it! Now you know how to become a parenting coach. Parenting coaching is all about helping parents succeed and what it comes down to is that you build a sustainable business based on your clients’ testimonials. Are you ready to launch your parent coaching business? Let me know in the comments below!
Tania owns a business called Geometric Illusion Ceramics . She reached out to me after reading my article: How to Develop a Product Line Using the 3 – 5 Strategy She knew she needed to reign in her product line but didn’t know how to get started. Tania agreed to let me use her Etsy shop...
Often times people think branding is a color palette and logo– and it is, but it’s also so much more. Branding is the heart, soul, and spirit of a business in visual form. It invites viewers into a story and allows them to feel something they can connect with. While branding can be complicated, I w
»» Sign up for the next #DesignInTech briefing. I had a great morning convo with my Automattic Design colleague Mike Shelton that took me down the rabbit hole of successive Google image searches for design thinking and design sprinting diagrams: Uhhhhh ... I kind of regret it now. It's like…
Everyone can learn to write effective copy! Get 3 easy to follow exercises to help you become a successful copywriter. Refine your skills and learn a fun copywriting game you can play anywhere!
This guide will look at the history of NLP, as well as its core concept and strategies. You’ll also be able to understand more about the benefits NLP.
Negotiation is the highest ROI skill. Learn from the best colleges in the world: 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦. 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘨𝘦𝘵… | 380 comments on LinkedIn
