Helping Hands For Coaches

Have you wondered how coaches are successfully using Facebook? How often are they on Facebook to really see a difference in the business? Can they actually track who comes from Facebook? We’re going to learn that and more from our coaching panelists!

Our Panelists:

Kelly Thorne is the Founder & President of iBloom. iBloom is quickly becoming the go-to place for Christian life coaching for women. Kelly and her iBloom team have a mission to inspire and empower every woman in the world to cultivate an intimate relationship with God, discover her unique God-given design, and live intentionally – so she can have a significant impact with her life.

In her spare time, Kelly loves to spend quality time with family and friends, travel, read, and journal. She is passionate about living a joyful, thriving life. Kelly resides in Lexington, KY with her two dogs, Hope & Max.

Facebook – www.ibloom.us/facebook
Website – www.ibloom.us

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John Allen Mollenhauer (aka “John Allen” or “JAM”) is the co-author of the book The Curse of the Capable, (Fall 2009) by Harvard Psychology Instructor Arthur P Ciaramicoli, PhD. He is a leading Performance Lifestyle Trainer and Coach, with a specialty in personal energy management.
As founder of www.PerformanceLifestyle.com and the Lifestyle Coaching Center.com in Livingston, NJ he works primarily with achievers (business owners, professionals and entrepreneurs) who want to get free of the hidden challenges to a balanced, healthy high achieving life, restore and live the lifestyle for sustainable success.

“Most people have it backwards, you don’t achieve success to the improve your lifestyle, you improve your lifestyle to achieve and sustain success”

John Allen Mollenhauer “JAM”.

Follow me at
www.twitter.com/JohnAllenJAM
www.Facebook.com/John.Allen.Mollenhauer

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Terri Brooks is the President of A Virtual Business Solution, an Online Business Management company offering entrepreneur’s solutions for their Online Business Success!

Terri’s an Online Branding and Social Networking Trainer and Consultant with certifications in Internet Marketing and Social Media Marketing. She has more than 35 years of administrative and management experience. She trains and manages the steps to establish and explode you’re business using social media, as well as maximizing your online exposure through blogging, and electronic newsletters/ezines.

She is a member of eWomenNetwork – Knoxville Chapter Leadership Team and the developer and administrator of the Official eWomenNetwork Facebook Fan Page. She’s also a member of Big Fish Nation, and SelfGrowth.com’s – Social Media University Faculty.

FabulousFacebookFanPages.com
AVirtualBiz.com
http://twitter.com/avirtualbiz

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On Tuesday, Facebook reached 300 million users, and is in the black! Yes Facebook, the number one social network for number of users, is actually making money.

What does this mean for coaches?

Well, for all business owners, we know that one (or three?) main factors to success is “Location, location, location” – and with foot traffic of 300 million users, Facebook is the place for a life or business coach to be. Go where the people go! Where else are you going to find such a diverse culture of people? Even if you connect to a very small percentage of those users, you still have a huge potential of doing business. However, with so many users, perhaps you may feel the need to ’shout!’ to be heard, but this is not true. If you start small, and are genuinely are interested in people – listen, interact, share – then your network will expand naturally. As Chris Brogan stated, “Don’t make your efforts on places like Twitter and Facebook solely about driving people to your home base, but instead, be helpful, participatory, and a good citizen of the social space you’re occupying. When you have some really interesting or helpful information, consider pointing people to your post for more information.”

When you first join Facebook, become friends with people you admire – check out your bookshelf or your RSS feeds for who that could be. People that follow those individuals might be like minded to you, and thus potential ‘friends’. As you grow your network, remember to interact with them as you would in ‘real life’ – such as a networking function. Ask questions, read their profile, get to know them. I’ve noticed that if I keep-up with my network a little everyday vs. a lot once a month, I’m much more likely to gain more out of it – both personally and professionally.

By the way, we’re having a Facebook Success Forum next Friday, September 25th. If you want to learn more about how successful coaches use Facebook, sign-up for the free 1 hour class.

Don’t think your target market is on Twitter? Think again!

I just received a great email regarding a coach that works with women in career transition – is Twitter a marketing tool for her? Where are her prospects and clients? Well, let’s take a look at a quick Twitter search and see if some might be hiding there: Looking for a Job & Career Transition. While I wrote that sentence, 5 more people tweeted they’re looking for a job. Wow – that’s a lot of potential clients for a career transition coach!

As the job market becomes full with more and more people looking for work, job seekers may see Twitter as a way to network and connect with possible employers – one that is not being fully utilized yet. Sure, LinkedIn, eCademy, and even Facebook are being utilized by people looking for a new career – but Twitter can also be used in this way. Why? Because it’s a way to have a real conversation, just like you would in a networking meeting.

Why else should you use Twitter: Search Engines. It’s completely indexed by Google – so any keywords you put into your twitter posts could have a pretty high ranking in Google and other search engines. This is great for those ‘long tail keywords’ that might be hard to fit in your website.

You don’t have to spend all your time on Twitter, you can spend just a few minutes each day checking-in with new followers, joining a conversation, making useful connections – and then log-off – so it doesn’t eat away at your time.

Time is precious – and can easily be taken away by New Media Marketing, such as Facebook and Twitter. But, if you go on with a purpose and goal, a time limit, search keywords, and a sense of wanting to connect with others authentically, it can be very rewarding.

By the way – in the 15 minutes it took to write and edit this post, 21 more people tweeted that they are looking for a job. Even if you’re not a career transition coach, go and give some encouragement to these people – they need it.

The ‘Pied Piper’ of Facebook joined us this Friday and gave our coaching communitee some great pointers on how to use Facebook, as well as FriendFeed, Ping.fm, Twitter, and even your website! If you were not able to join us for the call, you can listen to the podcast below, and download the PowerPoint Presentation to follow long.

If you feel a little left-out when we talked about RSS feeds, or using Twitter, don’t worry – we’ll be going over that very soon!

Enjoy!

Also available, the Facebook series by Mari Smith.

Mari Smith, the “Pied Piper of Facebook” (so-called by Fast Company Magazine), will be speaking at Helping Hands for Coaches next Friday!

Perhaps you’re:
=>Wondering how Facebook differs from other social networking platforms such as MySpace or LinkedIN?
=>Not sure how to market your business on Facebook?
=>Not sure what’s the right and a wrong way to use social networking sites for business purposes?
=>Not sure how to get started?

I’ve been on Facebook for a while, but I don’t get the results I’m looking for – especially considering the amount of time I’m on it! Do you feel the same way? Or are you just getting started, and are excited about all the games and applications – but don’t see how it all fits with your business? Then don’t miss the class: “Facebook Fortunes for Coaches: How To Attract Your Perfect Top Paying Clients Using the #1 Social Network” Click HERE to register!

What a great class today! We went over the Basics of setting-up and editing your profile, creating a group, creating an event, and how to quickly grow your ‘Friends’ list on Facebook. Facebook is a great way for you to promote coaching groups, teleclasses, and your coaching business! Listen in on this Facinating, content rich class, on how Facebook can grow your Coaching Business!

Links we used:
http://www.facebook.com
http://www.shrinkpictures.com
http://share.yuuguu.com/ (we used this software during the class so that you could follow along live – it’s a free screen share software!)

Part 1 of Facebook for Coaches:

Part 2 of Facebook for Coaches:

I am so excited about my up-coming Facebook class next week! If you’ve been reading the magazines or papers lately then you’ve heard about Facebook – it’s the 2nd largest social (and business) networking website out there. But, what you may not know is how great it is for your coaching business! Why?

-Grow your contacts list
-Get more website visitors
-Continue the connection you have after a networking meeting
-Easily let people know of up coming classes and teleclasses

 Be sure to sign-up for this class now as it will be very popular – and for good reason! All these articles I’ve been reading have been saying, “You need to be on Facebook” – but don’t show you how! I will be guiding you step-by-step on how to set-up your profile, add applications, start your business page, and grow your list of contacts quickly! So, sign-up today before we run out of spaces! SIGN UP HERE