Here, in this short article I am laying out just a few of the simple and straightforward steps that all coaches  and student coaches need to engage in if they want to start building a coaching practice that will attract the right type of clients for them.

The way to attract great life coaching clients is the same as used to attract clients in any other similar  service industry, whether it be Reiki, NLP, Hypnotherapy, or Emotional Freedom Technique. By using local marketing techniques, creating a website, offering free public lectures, writing articles, and setting up radio interviews and teleseminars you will quickly be able to start earning a good and increasing  income from your life coaching business.

Use Local Marketing Techniques

Although many coaches would like to build a national and of course an international client base we often make the mistake of forgetting to market on our own doorstep.

It is possible to do a large amount of local marketing by going to networking events, handing out business cards, using posters in public places, putting up notices in local libraries, shops, cafes etc and making cold calls. In fact most of these activities are completely free and start to get you very well know in your local area rather quickly .

Actually, it’s silly not to engage in all of these .

Create A Website

One of the better ways of stimulating a practice is to take full advantage of the Internet. Getting clients can be fun and profitable online. What’s more, you can easily start earning a great income from online clients because you can offer digital products as part of backend sales, as well of generating affiliate commissions from products you recommend.

However rather than a typical or traditional website I would recommend a blog site using WordPress. In my humble experience it is more effective, usable, search engine friendly and overall easier to change. You don’t need any IT experts to help you .

Offer Free Public Lectures

Public speaking may be one of the fastest ways of getting people to know, like, and trust you. By offering your local community, institutions, and organizations free speaking services, you will be able to quickly launch a successful coaching business. Churches, for example, would welcome someone who is going to give an interesting talk about self-improvement. Once people attend your events, give them your website address, so that they can continue to interact with you. Make sure that you offer even more free stuff on your website so that they feel motivated to go home and download your free digital offers.
Marketing can be as simple as going around to various groups and asking them if they would like to have some free lectures on a self-improvement topic. You can select from a huge variety of topics that people find fascinating: how to set goals, how to quit procrastinating, how to have great relationships, how to earn more money, or how to be highly motivated and successful in following your passions.

There are numerous ways to find these groups, ranging from visiting churches and community centres to using newspapers, magazines, and directories to locate them.

Since you are offering your services free, it will not be difficult to get a number of speaking engagements. If you are unsure about your speaking skills, then begin by taking a class on public speaking or joining a public speaking club. Toastmasters for example  is highly thought of.

Write Articles

One of the next best way of getting clients is to write articles. You should write articles for local magazines and newspapers as well as articles for article directories on the Internet. By writing articles for local sources, people who seldom use the Internet will get to know about your life coaching practice. By writing articles for the Internet, and registering on some of the many FREE article marketing sites you will drive a stream of targeted traffic to your website (blog site). In addition, the search engines will rank you higher in their index pages because you will have more backlinks pointing to your website.
Again, offer to do this for free. At the bottom of your article, you will get a small author’s resource box. This is where you can mention your contact information and how you are able to assist people to achieve a higher quality of life.

Radio Shows and Teleseminar

You can get a radio engagement by calling around local radio stations and finding out if they are willing to do an interview with you about how people can improve their lives. Again, you should not directly pitch your coaching services, but instead  try to educate people about some aspect of self-improvement. For instance, you can tell the radio host that you want to talk about how people can set impossible goals and hit them every time. Mention how you have a series of strategies to make people goal achieving wizards and you want to share it with the world.

Teleseminars or Webinars are even easier to set up. Decide on your topic and arrange the time with a conference calling service. If you have less than 99 callers, you may even be able to get the service free. Use your website ( blogsite) to advertise the teleseminar. If you have a list of subscribers, then email them the date and time.

I hope this has been useful as a simple overview of very cost effective and easy to implement strategies.

Warmest,

Gerard

Here, in this blog I am laying out just a few of the simple and straightforward steps that all coaches  and student coaches need to engage in if they want to start building a coaching practice that will attract the right type of clients for them.

Public Speaking

The way to attract great life coaching clients is the same as used to attract clients in any other similar  service industry, whether it be Reiki, NLP,Hypnotherapy, or Emotional Freedom Technique. By using local marketing techniques, creating a website, offering free public lectures, writing articles, and setting up radio interviews and teleseminars you will quickly be able to start earning a good and increasing  income from your life coaching business.

Use Local Marketing Techniques

Although many coaches would like to build a national and of course an international client base we often make the mistake of forgetting to market on our own doorstep.

It is possible to do a large amount of local marketing by going to networking events, handing out business cards, using posters in public places, putting up notices in local libraries, shops, cafes etc and making cold calls. In fact most of these activities are completely free and start to get you very well know in your local area rather quickly .

Actually, it’s silly not to engage in all of these .

Create A Website

One of the better ways of stimulating a practice is to take full advantage of the Internet. Getting clients can be fun and profitable online. What’s more, you can easily start earning a great income from online clients because you can offer digital products as part of backend sales, as well of generating affiliate commissions from products you recommend.

However rather than a typical or traditional website I would recommend a blog site using WordPress. In my humble experience it is more effective, usable, search engine friendly and overall easier to change .you don’t need any IT experts to help you .

Offer Free Public Lectures

Public speaking may be one of the fastest ways of getting people to know, like, and trust you. By offering your local community, institutions, and organizations free speaking services, you will be able to quickly launch a successful coaching business. Churches, for example, would welcome someone who is going to give an interesting talk about self-improvement. Once people attend your events, give them your website address, so that they can continue to interact with you. Make sure that you offer even more free stuff on your website so that they feel motivated to go home and download your free digital offers.
Marketing can be as simple as going around to various groups and asking them if they would like to have some free lectures on a self-improvement topic. You can select from a huge variety of topics that people find fascinating: how to set goals, how to quit procrastinating, how to have great relationships, how to earn more money, or how to be highly motivated and successful in following your passions.

There are numerous ways to find these groups, ranging from visiting churches and community centres to using newspapers, magazines, and directories to locate them.

Since you are offering your services free, it will not be difficult to get a number of speaking engagements. If you are unsure about your speaking skills, then begin by taking a class on public speaking or joining a public speaking club. Toastmasters for example  is highly thought of.

Write Articles

The next best way of getting clients is to write articles. You should write articles for local magazines and newspapers as well as articles for article directories on the Internet. By writing articles for local sources, people who seldom use the Internet will get to know about your life coaching practice. By writing articles for the Internet, you will drive a stream of targeted traffic to your website (blog site). In addition, the search engines will rank you higher in their index pages because you will have more backlinks pointing to your website.
Again, offer to do this for free. At the bottom of your article, you will get a small author’s resource box. This is where you can mention your contact information and how you are able to assist people to achieve a higher quality of life.

Radio Shows and Teleseminar

You can get a radio engagement by calling around local radio stations and finding out if they are willing to do an interview with you about how people can improve their lives. Again, you should not directly pitch your coaching services, but instead  try to educate people about some aspect of self-improvement. For instance, you can tell the radio host that you want to talk about how people can set impossible goals and hit them every time. Mention how you have a series of strategies to make people goal achieving wizards and you want to share it with the world.

Teleseminars are even easier to set up. Decide on your topic and arrange the time with a conference calling service. If you have less than 99 callers, you may even be able to get the service free. Use your website ( blogsite) to advertise the teleseminar. If you have a list of subscribers, then email them the date and time.

I hope this has been useful as a simple overview of very cost effective and easy to implement strategies.

Warmest

Gerard

Noble Press Release

Noble Manhattan the leaders in life coaching and mind shift therapy have launched their operations in Canada on July 4, 2009. A full fledged office was opened in the town of Windsor in Southern Ontario.  Speaking on the launch of the new office, Mr. Gerard O’Donovan the founder and C.E.O. said that Canada offers a unique opportunity to launch specialized programmes in coach training and personal development. He also announced Allan Wilson as Noble Manhattan’s new licensed distributor in Canada.  Allan will be responsible for making the Noble’s coaching programmes popular across different parts of Canada and North America and also managing the operations. The first “Introduction to Coaching” seminar was formally launched to a full house, marking the start of operations. Many questions from aspiring coaches were answered by Mr. O’Donovan who is a leading figure in the field of Executive Coaching and life development.

The Canada office will be staffed by experienced coaches, having many years of experience. Coaches from Noble Manhattan’s UK office will be frequently visiting the new center to share knowledge on the latest programmes. New Executive coaching programmes will also be developed out of the Canadian office.  All the coaches who have joined Noble Manhattan’s operations in Canada are trained as per the company’s training programme for coaches. Mr. O’Donovan has taken personal interest to ensure that all the coaches who operate out of Canada adhere to the highest standards of coaching practices. The first batches of students have already started with their coaching sessions which are being delivered by experienced coaches from UK as well as Canadian coaches.

After the launch in Windsor, Introduction events and Training will be held in different parts of Canada on a monthly basis. The schedule of these trainings will be published in advance. Soon after the launch of operations, there has been a flood of queries from many aspiring coaches across the country. Mr. O’Donovan expressed confidence that executive coaching and life development programmes will have a new definition for the Canadian people. Noble Manhattan as one of the leading coaching organizations continuously researches on developing new programmes which benefit thousands of people across the globe. Investment will be made for improving infrastructure, coach training and in developing high quality coaching programmes. It will help to establish the Noble Manhattan brand in Canada.

Before launching the Canadian operations, a fair amount of research been done to find out the kind of coaching requirements that are most suitable in the country. The programmes being launched are aligned to these requirements but adhering to the high standards of Noble Manhattan. Feedback from coaches and students will also be taken into consideration while launching new programmes.  Certified coaches will be extended all support to launch their independent coaching business. Mr. O’Donovan said that helping coaches start with their own coaching business is one of Noble Manhattan’s milestones.

For more information please contact Noble Manhattan at info@noble-manhattan.com or on 0800 19 10 100

Get Coaching Leads

Noble Manhattan, the recognized leader in life and Executive coach training in the  United Kingdom and Europe has launched a new initiative to help qualified coaches to improve their business.

Gerard O’Donovan the C.E.O. and founder of Noble Manhattan while announcing this new initiative said that not all good coaches can become successful in developing their coaching business.  The initiative taken by Noble Manhattan is a step towards helping trained life and Executive coaches to develop their coaching business.

A key part of this successful programme is a new website, http://www.getcoachingleads.com which will enable people interested in being coached or improving their lives in any way to access 4 incredible reports which help them to understand the power of Coaching.  The reports have a combined value of over $1000.

While downloading the reports they only need to share their contact details and answer few simple questions which will help the Noble Manhattan staff to understand their coaching requirements. This information is shared with the trained coaches who can align themselves to one or more interested people and further discuss coaching requirements.   http://www.getcoachingleads.com has been designed to generate genuine enquiries for trained life coaches. A successful pilot run for the last 1 year has generated over 3700 enquiries from all over the world.

Mr. O’Donovan has also personally trained a team of 12 selected coaches over the past 2 months to help them understand the techniques used to generate these qualified leads.  They have now gone on to achieve a very high level of success using these unique cutting edge techniques.

The lead generation strategy adopted by Noble Manhattan through the new website is not a generic exercise targeting a mass audience.  The campaign has been specifically targeted towards people who are genuinely interested in personal life improvement. They can be people from any profession or industry. What is common among the group is the desire to improve their lives by taking help from professional experienced life coaches who are trained in NLP and many other coaching techniques.

The new initiative was a much publicized affair during which Mr. O’Donovan reiterated his commitment to help trained coaches develop a successful and profitable coaching business.

It is a dual strategy to inform people about the benefits of life coaching and also getting them connected to life coaches. He said that the downloadable life coaching reports are on subjects like “How Coaching Improves Lives”, “How executives use coaching to improve performance”, “The Positive impact of coaching in the corporate world” and “How coaching can be a force for good”.  These comprehensive reports have been developed by experts who have spent many years in the coaching business.

Anyone who downloads and reads these reports will understand the true benefits of life coaching. They can further have a coffee over telephone with a trained life coach or a free 30 minute Coaching session without any obligation to take it further.

This approach to generating leads will focus on a limited group of people. It will help coaches to quickly connect with the group and get their coaching business started very quickly. Mr. O’Donovan said that this program is a win-win proposition for coaches as well as people who are interested in self improvement and building a better life  but were not getting the support to start. He expressed hope that tangible benefits of this initiative will be visible within a short time with many life coaches setting up their own successful life coaching practice.

For more information please contact Noble Manhattan at info@noble-manhattan.com or on 0800 19 10 100

Here’s How Mindfulness Can Help

Have you ever sat down to watch TV with a bowl of popcorn on your lap, then suddenly realized twenty minutes later the bowl was empty? Have you ever driven somewhere and arrived safely, only to realize you didn’t really remember the trip?

These kinds of experiences happen to everyone. Today, many of us refer to this mindless activity as “being on autopilot”. Many daily habits can be completed without our full attention. It seems our minds are constantly running ahead to the next activity to be completed, the next phone call, or meeting, or place we need to be.

All of this multi-tasking, however, is taking its toll on our lives. A bit of inattention now and then is not necessarily a bad thing. But sleepwalking through life, always rushing off to the next thing and never truly living “in the moment”, can come at a high cost. Relationships with family, friends, and coworkers eventually suffer. We miss out on the special moments that happen every day. We ignore important messages about our health, our well-being and our life. Our bodies and minds remain in a perpetual state of stress and self-criticism for not being “better, doing “more” and being “more successful.”If multi-tasking is the disease, then mindfulness is the cure. Mindfulness is the practice of paying more attention to ourselves and the world around us; achieving an awareness of what is going on inside our minds and bodies, and outside, at the very moment. We all have the ability to practice mindfulness. It is a simple matter of establishing a new habit of paying attention, not to what you have to do tomorrow or ten minutes from now, but right now, in this minute. Or, as some describe it, to simply be “here” as life unfolds before us.

Once you are able to understand and grasp the spirit of mindfulness, it is the “doing” that helps one to become more informed, responsive and healthier in body, mind and soul. Every minute of every day takes on new meaning, and your ability to embrace life and find much-needed emotional and physical balance becomes effortless. While mindfulness can force us to face painful issues long buried, most people are happy to remove old burdens and embrace the future with a renewed zeal for life after learning how to apply mindfulness in their everyday life.

Of course, achieving this state of relaxed, aware mindfulness takes some practice. And that is exactly what will occur when you accept this special invitation from the U.K’s leading professional coaching company, Noble-Manhattan, LLC. Join founder Gerard O’Donovan and Scott Milway, a highly-respected trainer from the Deepak Chopra organization, on the two-week mindfulness expedition known as Noble Quest. This spiritual journey visits the exotic destinations of Vietnam and Cambodia during October 19th -31, 2009, where a select group of only twenty-five men and women will experience the adventure of a lifetime; a unique, life-transforming expedition incorporating adventure, fitness, and a special kind of spirituality that will reveal the true benefits of living a life of mindfulness.

During your mindfulness adventure, you will learn the full Primordial Sound Meditation Course and join in daily meditations as you spend time with the locals and come to know and understand the peoples and cultures of Vietnam and Cambodia. You will climb the highest mountain in Vietnam and in IndoChina, Mount Fan Si Pan. The group will visit famous destinations, such as Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom and the truly impressive monastic complex, Preah Khan, as well as Neak Pean, a Himalayan-style lake and sanctuary, and East Mebon, a temple-mountain. Simply put, Noble Quest will take you on a journey that will soon become a revelation, and a new reason to celebrate life.

When you’ve completed your journey, you’ll receive full certification and a qualification from the Deepak Chopra Centre. The quest raises money for a charitable business, The Noble Foundation, dedicated to helping men and women become self-sufficient through micro-financing.

If you are ready to stop sleepwalking through your own life and make the kind of commitment that benefits yourself, your loved ones and the entire planet, please visit http://www.noble-quest.com to learn more and reserve your special reservation.

Gerard

Gerard O’ Donovan is the founder of Noble Manhattan coaching Ltd, one of Europe’s longest established coach training companies. He is also CEO of the European Coaching Institute, one of the world wide governing bodies from the profession of coaching. Gerard is one of the most highly sought-after executive coaches in Europe.

Contact Gerard at gerard@noble-manhattan.com. To know more about Gerard coaching expertise, visit http://gerardodonovan.com. Gerard shares his rich coaching experience freely with you, which can be accessed at http://www.coaching-reports.com.

Had a quick panic earlier.Our Goldmine CRM crashed, no one could get into it.  This is the main database and customer relationship management software that we use for everyone in the company.  During the one-hour when we were all unable to access our databases, calendar, to do list etc

I took myself off and had a cappuccino on Weymouth seafront.Seemed like the obvious thing to do.!!

All fixed now. Thanks to Oliver, our IT coordinator. scary how we rely so much on technology

Just uploaded four more comprehensive reports to “Business for Coaches”

1. coaching, a force for good
2. corporate coaching, a positive impact
3. how coaching can improve your life
4. how executive use coaching to improve

Happy Reading.