You don’t have to be a graduated, certified coach to officially hang up your shingle and start your coaching business. In fact we advise our coaching students to start coaching and earning revenue as soon as they can. With so many affordable online tools available to business owners these days your business can change and develop as you do. Your business, your logo, your website of today don/t have to be the same as tomorrow.
To help you start experimenting and exploring who you are as a coach we have put together this nifty list of our favourite tools and resources.
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Things You can Do While You Develop and Refine Your Business
Businesses are not built over night. They are not the result of one intense strategic planning session. They take time, experimentation, reflection, testing and constant re-imagining. They grow and change as you do. It is a process we encourage our coaching students to star as soon as they enrol, and a process they continue with while building their coaching skills and knowledge.
However – this doesnt mean you can’t GET STARTED. In this post we summarise the things you can do right now to get yourself up and running. And remember – the idea here is to just get something up. Don’t be too significant, or worry too much about whether it is “right” The best way to work that out is to do it, and get it out there. Get real clients, start coaching and take it from there.
And if you want some help along the way, join our Business Express course and come to a weekly bLab to get hands on advice and support.
Step 1 Develop Your Coaching Business Identity
Step 2 Develop Your Coach Starter Pack
Your Coach Starter Pack includes all the backend things you need to have a coaching business. These include setting up a business email address
Step 3 Set-up Your Business Systems
Business systems are all the things you need to be able to communicate with leads and clients from start to finish. Your business systems would include:
Step 4 Create Your Online Presence
Most coaches have a website which includes a blog. You can do it yourself or get a professional to make it for you. Regardless of how you go about creating the website, one thing that you and you alone can do is write the content of your site. Think about your target audience, what problem you are solving and why you are the best person to help solve that problem.
Update your linkedin profile with the following:
Step 5 Tell The World
You are now ready to tell the world about your coaching practice.
So there you go, getting your coaching business up in 5 main steps. At International Coach Academy we help you and support you through this process in the Business Express Course which includes “how to” videos, checklists and live weekly Q&A calls. Click here to find out more…