4 Mistakes to Avoid When Coaching Online

-


If you want to be an online coach, you are going to want to get as good as you can at your job before you start taking on clients. That means learning everything you can about coaching, developing a game plan for helping clients and being able to bounce back when someone isn’t working properly. It also means making mistakes. Making mistakes is a vital growing part of any new endeavor and while you can’t avoid all of them, there are four mistakes that you should avoid making as a new online coach, because it will kill your business before you even get started.

Doing Everything: People that do ‘everything’ actually get very little done. If you are a writer, a coach, a YouTuber, a web developer and internet marketer and a wife and mother (or husband and father) you are going to find that all of your endeavors will suffer because you are trying to do too much. Just concentrate on a few things, and do them well. 

Having a Crappy Website: Unfortunately, one of the other major problems that new coaches suffer from is a terrible website; many coaches seem to want to make the website themselves to save money but they end up with an amateur-looking site that is not going to attract a single person. Make sure that you spend some time and money making your website shine, because it is your face to the online world. 

Concentrating Too Much on Training & Certification: Some coaches start their businesses and have enough money to invest and grow their coaching practice, but they end up spending everything they have on training and then wonder why they can’t get anyone to sign up; that’s not to say that training isn’t important – it definitely it – but you want to do just enough training to get you started and invest in your website, equipment, tools and promoting your coaching business. 

Not Having Money to Start & Grow Their Business: Finally, many coaches go into the business without any sort of nest egg to build their business with. You’ll want some money to invest into your business, because the old ad age is right: you have to spend money to make money. You’re going to want to have a little bit saved to build your coaching business as well as money saved to live on if you have decided to it full time. 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

How to Optimize Your Videos with SEO Keywords

-
Image
As well as optimizing your channel, you can also optimize your videos themselves in a number of ways which will help them to get discovered more easily. The first thing to do here is just to ensure that your videos are HD and that they have thumbnails. Try to avoid shaky cameras, or stolen content. Doing this will ensure your videos are seen as high quality by YouTube and that in turn will mean they get promoted more readily. At the same time though, you should also think a little about SEO… An Introduction to YouTube SEO SEO is ‘Search Engine Optimization’ and essentially it means designing a web content in a way that makes it ‘Google friendly’ or in this case ‘YouTube friendly’. The main way most people find new content on YouTube is by searching for it and in this sense, YouTube is very similar to Google. In fact, the search engine is built by Google and is actually the second biggest search tool on the net in terms of the number of queries it receives! So what can you
Read more

Tips to Help You Choose a Great Niche Market

-
Image
First things first…what is a niche market? Unless you have been hiding in a cave somewhere for the last ten years then for sure, you have heard about the term, “niche market” before. Essentially, it is a division of a mainstream market; it is a small market that addresses that needs of a specific group of people. One good example of a mainstream market would be cars. It is an overwhelmingly huge market, and there are dozens of auto companies selling many different car types and models in the US alone. But there are people who are only looking for SUVs, and if you create a website about SUVs then you are likely to get more buyers than if you built a site about cars in general. 3 Tips to Keep in Mind When Choosing a Niche Market Now that you already have an idea of what a niche market is and why it is better to tap one, the next step is for you to find a great niche market. Many people would probably tell you to choose a niche that you are passionate about, one that yo
Read more

How to win customers and influence people

-
Image
Have you checked out your website visitor figures lately? Is your SERPs something to be proud of or are you still languishing in P-Nowhere on page 11 of Google? Unless you re on that front page of every search, you re missing out on a huge amount of potential business. More than 90% of searchers click on the first page listings. The further down the rankings you are, the less likely you are to get a slice of that particular pie. SEO copywriting has a vital role to play in getting visitors to click on your site, but if there s nothing to grab them once they've clicked, they ll quickly bounce and never return. So there s an aspect of web copywriting that has to play a primary role in keeping your visitors coming back for more, and it s called 'Conversion Optimization . What is conversion optimization? Conversion optimization is a method of creating content that converts visitors into customers. It s vital that your message inspires not just the search engine 'bots
Read more