Helping Hands For Coaches

YouTube.com is a great way to promote your coaching business: it’s great for search engine optimization, a way to connect to your clients, and a way to connect with future clients. It doesn’t take much to start your YouTube channel: a hand-held digital camera – such as a Flip or a Kodak Zi6 (my personal favorite) – an idea of what you’re going to say, and a computer to upload with. In fact, if you have a smart phone, such as a Blackberry or iPhone you don’t even need a computer – you can upload right from your phone! We talk about this, and more, during last week’s call: Starting Your YouTube Channel.

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We had a great class today, the launch of a new season of Helping Hands for Coaches! Today we discussed how life and business coaches can utilize an automated drip-campaign system to retain current clients, and have more past clients coming back. Be sure to listen to today’s class if you want to know how-to: “Increasing Your Relationship Quotient: an easy system to strengthen your coaching relationships”.

If you’ve answered “Yes” to any of these questions, you need to listen to this class!

=>Have you found that you’ve lost touch with some of your most treasured clients?
=>Are you remembering your friends, your family on those special occasions?
=>Or are you buried with too much work to do?

ICF-OC had it’s 4th annual “Accredited Coach Training Program” event last night, and what a great event it was. I met many wonderful coaches, as well as the representatives of 5 ICF Accredited Coaching Schools:

Coach for Life
Phyliss Francis, MA, CLC, PCC
www.coachforlife.com

Newfield Network
Carol Courcy, MCC
www.newfieldnetwork.com

iPEC (Institute for Professional Empowerment Coaching)
Keith Miller, CEC
www.iPECcoaching.com

David Darst, CPCC, PCC
Coaches Training Institute
www.thecoaches.com

Christopher McAuliffe
Accomplishment Coaching
www.accomplishmentcoaching.com

What I found interesting with some of the schools, was that they have started to offer business support – such as providing contracts, accounting, and even websites. This is great! I proves that websites are an important part of starting a new coaching business, but I would add to it the website: such as a blog so that prospects get to know you as a coach and a person (remember, people buy from people they know, like and trust), and an eNewsletter with their own brand so that coaches can market directly with prospects and current clients.

But remember, if you’re a new coach, don’t start off too big and become overwhelmed with the website project. Start small, with just a few pages. You can always add to what you’ve got – a website is not a printed product, so it can change and grow as you do. Just take our new launch, http://powerfulmindcoaching.com/ – she was making changes the day we launched – and she can do it easily with the online management software that we developed. She can quickly add pages, change content, and add PayPal buttons – all without contacting us. So, are you ready to get started quickly? Remember, Indra Successful Coach Marketing is here for you!

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So, you’ve thought-up your niche that will go well with your blog that relates back to your life or business coaching services, and you’ve started a blog. Perhaps you’ve even added some posts with interesting, keyword rich content, and now you’re ready to let your visitors subscribe to your blog using RSS Feeds! Not only that, but you want to know who is visiting your life or business blog. This kind of information and functionality will help you know when it’s best to add new content, and how your efforts Internet Marketing efforts are producing. This video will teach Blogger account users how to use www.feedburner.com to add RSS Feeds, Stat Counter code, and Email Subscription code.

I will be holding a class with Michelle Schubnel of Coach & Grow R.I.C.H. tomorrow! This is the 2nd class in a series on Blogger. Information below:

FREE for C&GR Virtual University Members

So, once your blog is up, how do you get people to it?

Good question! In this class you learn:

• How to add affiliate links to earn advertising income.
• How to add the ability to track visitors and subscribers.
• How to promote your blog so that you get known.

Don’t worry about ‘Geek Speak’
We use language you can understand and offer simple, easy to follow instructions.

To be ready for the class:
You need a Blogger Account. You can get one for free at blogger.com.

What You Get:

• Enrollment in the 60 minute teleclass.
• MP3 recording of the teleclass, that is yours to keep.
• Written notes (delivered electronically).

Date: Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm Eastern Standard Time (New York) To Register, click HERE!