subject: How To Find Coaching Clients [print this page] These are the current best practices for creating clients in your coaching practice. They have been taken from some of the most successful coaches in the world and will provide you with an extraordinary system for creating clients more effectively.
1. Ezinearticles: Submit your monthly newsletter articles and you'll reach a very broad audience of directly interested viewers.
2. Donate! Donate your services (an hour, a half hour, a product) to silent auctions, charity events, etc. It will help you get exposure and another person who can start a referral chain
3. Brand yourself EVERYWHERE! Clients have even come from Dating Sites because of branding your name with "Coach YOURNAME"
4. Cold Calling from Yellow Pages
5. Talk to your local bankers, they know who is getting divorced and setting up separate accounts. They hear the stories and are grateful to be able to pass your card to their clients.
6. Talk to your local Starbucks or coffee houses and ask them to do a "customer appreciation coffee cure" on a busy morning. Combine that with your complimentary time where clients can chat with you for a few minutes over their latte. Some will want to continue working with you moving forward.
7. Teach Adult/Continuing Education classes at;the local high schools, community colleges or ;adult learning centers.. Just being in the catalog;is free advertising if they include a bio.
8. Life coaches can find new clients through the happier website practitioner directory. Over 20,000 users of happier's website receive newsletters and view video and posts on the blog, join facebook and LinkedIn groups and converse on twitter.
9. Strike up conversations with people on airplanes, or at the nail salon, or even at the beach on vacation in Mexico!
Do free tele-seminars to promote a methodology you do with your clients.
Contributors:
Katie Mattson, ACC : MOMENTUM COACH
Andrew Poretz Certified Professional Coach
Sherry Sexton, President and CEO, Imagine Coaching, LLC
Ronnie Ann Ryan, MBA, CCC, Marketing Coaching and Writing,
Andrew J. Rosenthal vp: marketing and business development,
Suzanne Blake, PCC, President, Blake Coaching and Consulting
