People love to hire people that: 1) They know 2) They respect 3) Seem credible and trustworthy 4) Have something important and relevant to offer You know what checks all four boxes the fastest? Public speaking! (You guessed, I know. Did the title give it away? :)). ANYway, if you want to get paying clients […]
Hey Coach Ponyling! As we begin the long slide into the eating holidays (break out the cookies!), I wanted to give you some food for thought… …pun intended! 🙂 Okay, I really do have a food-based story that relates to you getting more paying clients. Ready? A couple weeks ago my husband and I went […]
Hey – welcome to Coach Pony, a website devoted to making your life coaching  business a happy reality :). Have you ever wondered how to become a career coach? Maybe you are like I used to be, someone who has a corporate background and who LOVES helping people excel at their work. Or maybe you […]
Do you ever overthink a decision? Agonize about it, going back and forth while you anxiously chew your nails or think about eating more chocolate? Me too! 🙂 My latest business decision involves what I like to call “Annoying Uncle Matthew” (i.e., a relative we can’t get rid of even though we desperately do not […]
Here’s a question: What’s the first thing people think about when they land in your website? Got your answer? Good! Did you say “Who are you and how can you help me?” You get a gold star! (And YOU get a gold star. And YOU get a gold star! I’m pretending to be Oprah!). Anyway, […]
Have you ever thought about marketing, and been instantly exhausted? Or overwhelmed? A lot of new life coaches have marketing myopia, in this case meaning that they are either: 1) Focused on being EVERYWHERE! ALL AT ONCE!! to the exclusion of everything else or, 2) Totally overwhelmed by marketing, and therefore figuratively hiding under a […]
Are you quietly worried about what to name your coaching business? Do you find yourself debating between your own name (you like it, it’s you!), or some sort of other, more descriptive name that is more in tune with your coaching niche? John Smith Coaching. Or… Inner Heart Date Coaching. Which do you choose! ARGHHHHHHHHHH!!! […]
So, there are SO MANY TOOLS and plugins and fun things you can do with your business. You can spend literally 50,000 hours just playing around and getting overwhelmed by all of the different types. Doesn’t sound like much fun, does it? So let’s make your life simple. It’s my job to try things out […]
Hey PonyNation! I was mooching around recently misting my orchids (there’s a sentence I never thought I’d write), when the phone rang and it was one of my BARB students, who won a bonus call with me. She was stressed. She’d spent the last month putting herself out there as a coach, and she was […]