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Prime Coaching Domains To Public?

Posted by David Wood

Hi guys,

If there’s enough interest, I’ll put my coaching domain collection up for auction. Which of the domains below might you
be tempted to place a bid on?

(Note: all domains are URL only (no web pages), except the first three )

*becomeacoach.com (includes web pages)
*life-coaching-resource.com (includes web pages)
*coaching-life.co.uk (includes web pages)
becomealifecoach.com
bestjobintheworld.com
bestjobonearth.org
coachbusiness.com
coachcorporation.com
coachescoach.com
coachquiz.com
coachvideo.com
coachvideos.com
discoveryourgoals.com
extrovertedhermit.com
findyourgoals.com
freedomlifestyle.com
financial-coaching.com
freecoaching.org
howtosurviveyourlife.com
instantwebsystem.com
lifeupsidedown.com
monetiseyourthoughts.com
myfreedomquiz.com
mylifemygame.com
parttheclouds.com
presencetation.com
relationship-coaching.com
saywhatyourescaredtosay
scaryconversations.com
secretcoachingvideo.com
smallbusinesscoaching.com
small-business-coaching.com
smarthusband.com
surviveyourlife.com
spiritualfirewalking.com
thecareermovie.com
thefemininefire.com
thefreedomquiz.com
themoneyvideo.com
theprofessionalcoach.com
trainyourman.com
transformationalparty.com
turnpassionintoprofit.com
virtualpracticebuilding.com
wealthygypsy.com
yourlastlife.com

Cheers,

David
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Mike Turner on Finding Initial Clients

Posted by David Wood

The following is taken from David’s interview with Mike Turner in 10 Super Coaches.

What method did you find most effective in getting your initial clients?

Getting work through my existing network.

Initially, I took every opportunity to try and sell my coaching services whenever the opportunity presented itself. After I had been doing this for a couple of years, I reviewed where the work I was doing had come from. What I found, to my surprise, was that none of it had come directly from the people to whom I had been trying to sell it – instead it had all come from unexpected directions.

But what I also realized was that it was important that I was putting myself about rather than just sitting around at home waiting for work to show up. The principle here seems to be that, if I put out my energy for coaching into the world (by talking about what I do, by writing about it, and by taking any opportunity to demonstrate coaching), this energy comes back in the form of work – but by a circuitous and indirect route.

And when I realized this, I stopped trying so hard to sell coaching to the people I met and instead focused more on promoting coaching – which in turn makes the energy flow more easily.

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You Can Start a Home Business

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The following is an excerpt of one of David’s coaching sessions in Top Coaching Techniques.

David: Great. Yeah. Not just one. Now with technology – because we’re not talking 20 years ago, we’re talking now – do you think it’s possible that you could develop a medium or a way of delivering that service or product without you having to be in a particular physical location? Do you think you’d actually do it from home, and then use the technology we have available today to deliver some kind of service or product?

Client: Yes.

David: Okay, so are we done on that one?

Client: Yeah. (Laughs). Okay. Yeah, touché.

David: Okay.

Client: Okay. All right. Yes.

David: Yes. I get the question all the time when I help coaches. They say, ‘Look, would people pay me to coach them?’ I find it similar to your question, which is basically, ‘Would people pay me to do something from home, or that I can do living in a nice location?’ I say that the answers are the same to both of those questions. It’s not so much about would people pay you, it’s a question of what would people pay you for.

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Business is Like a Dance

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The following is an excerpt of one of David’s coaching sessions in Top Coaching Techniques.

David: I’d love to see you test market a video. Show lots of people. What’s the demand; what do they want? If you need 10 or 15 grand to get a really good one done, okay. Then you go look for some capital to get a video done. But, that’s one project. Then you might look at something else. I mean, it’s a fun thing to look at and to think about. Maybe it’s just that I haven’t had experience with a lot of getting a whole bunch of capital and going out great guns, but I really thought you’d do that when you want speed to market.

Client: I agree. I see what you’re saying. I think that’s how it usually ends up falling, but I just think about all the other businesses. You’ve got my mind rolling. I’m looking back saying, ‘Okay, when I started this business, how did it really get started? How did it become successful?’ It was a ramping up.

David: I’m a huge believer in that.

Client: That’s a good point. That’s very true. You’re right on that.

David: So it’s like a dance. You get to grow totally in tune with your market, and responding to your market, instead of coming up with this plan of what you think the market will take – instead of going out there and hoping. Okay. So have some fun with that. There’s a good point to it, to feel out the market. It’s responding to what you feel, rather than trying to tell it what it should be.

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Know Your Clients

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The following is a transcription taken from Explode Your Practice.

It seems to be split about 50-50 between folks who are career people and they are salaried employees, so they make a good living and all that. And then there seem to be a fair number, almost 50-50, of folks who are actually committed to creative life. Maybe artists, photographer, etc. So they are running their own business. I seem to get both. I get kind of the straight-laced salary folks who believe there is more to be had in relationship and the creative folks who seem out there to satisfy more of a creative need.

David: All right. Got it. So what I suggest you do for homework is flesh this part of it out. So in your target market really write down every characteristic you can find. Are they hip and happening? Are they straight-laced? What kind of income level? Where do they live? You are going to market different for relationship coaching in Wisconsin. Is it international? List everything you can. And then list things like, where do these people hang out. Like what do they read, what associations they belong to? Things like that. Just so you can get into their shoes a bit. Of who these people are that actually are going to pay you for your services

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Relationship Roller Coaster

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The following is an excerpt of one of David’s coaching sessions in Top Coaching Techniques.

David: Yeah, but what I can see is the possibility that like as you’re going through your roller coaster, she’s got her own version that she’s trying to move through and deal with it all, so I can totally get that if you called her – see, look at how confused you’ve been, right, and you’ve got me to help you through it. She’s on her own. Who’s going to help her through it? Her man? She’s probably not talking to him about it. So she’s dealing with that, and each time, if you do go back to her to try and get your need met, you can be turning her life upside down a little bit. So just something to bear in mind.

Client: Yeah, exactly. I was just thinking whether that’s actually selfish of me to actually do that.

David: Yeah. So the coaching is to stay present, stay aware in each moment, to check in with her as to what she wants and what would support her. If what would support her is not hearing your voice, then yeah, she’s made it pretty clear and you can decide if you want to do that, or if it’s more important to you to get your need met, which I suspect it isn’t, from what I’ve heard from you today.

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