Self Employed Success

The Business of Coaching is Changing. Will You Change With It?

The emergence of the coaching profession over the past 10 years has allowed a growing community of inspired, like-minded individuals to deliver their transformational gift throughout the world. Coaches now support thousands of clients and organizations in all walks of life, making a living out of their passion and making a difference with their daily work.

Yet many coaches are not achieving the true success that they desire or deserve, financially or in service. With a business to build (and a difficult economy to contend with!) many practices would benefit from new, improved models and techniques that are more in line with the collective sense of success both personally and professionally.

In a changing world, it seems inevitable that the business of coaching will change too.

The good news is it’s moving in an empowered, community-centered direction and successful industry experts are ready to share how and why with you. Help (and inspiration) is on the way!

This June, Coaches Care is presenting an Inaugural Event: The Coaches Care Success Summit, a 5-day teleconference series with strategic business education targeting individual and organizational coaching practices around the world. From June 22-26, 2009, 15 leaders in the industry will present powerful, timely insight on the latest coaching models, powerful marketing, social responsibility and much more.

Participate by telephone from the comfort of your home or office AND get access to all five days of Summit recordings for later listening at your convenience. You don’t need to attend live to receive all the benefits.

The Summit will seek to expose the valuable opportunities coaches have to achieve greater levels of success while simultaneously serving the global community. It is a strong commitment to service that places the coaching profession prominently in the vanguard of the human potential movement.

Our goal is to help you build and sustain your business and deliver broad, community-based support to coaching non-profit organizations.

Help us further the long-term sustainability and growth of coaching: an innate human capacity, a developed form of art and a catalyst for positive social change.

Join us for this groundbreaking event!

June 22-26, 2009  1pm EST daily

(I will be speaking at the Coaches Care Summit on June 25 on the topic of Growing Your Business with Teams and Technology)

Go to www.CoachesCare.org to register today

Sometimes people will say a phrase, out of the blue, and I’ll think, “Oh, man, that says it ALL!”

Let me tell you a little story…

This past weekend my husband and I were going hiking in the woods and decided to search for our water bottle holders with straps. We hadn’t used them in over a year…but they had to be around the house somewhere.

Opening the hall closet (risky at the best of times), my husband realized it was too dark in the closet to find anything. So he hauls out a maximum-power flashlight that could send signals to the moon, and shines it in the closet in hopes of locating the hidden water bottle holders. After a few minutes of fruitless searching he calls out, “I don’t see them in here!”

I trudge over to the closet, grab the flashlight, and use it to point right to the water bottle holders.

My husband shrugs and says, “Too much light…but not enough vision.”

That says it all.

So many times we try to find a solution to something and the very act of analyzing it stops us from really SEEING things right in front of our noses. Ever had that happen to you?

Marketing to Women class

What’s more important?

1. Learning about how women buy
2. The product or service you are selling

(Hint: the answer is #1.)

In order to grow your business, you must understand women’s lifestyles and what are their specific wants, needs and desires.

Click here for more class details and to register.

This three-week teleclass begins:

June 9, 2009
1:00 – 2:00 PM eastern

Class will be recorded, so if you miss a session, registered participants will be able to download the audio recording of the live class and listen to it later.

Spam.  Those annoying, time-consuming emails that clog your Inbox and ruin your day.  You wonder: How did it ever get so bad?  While it’s not possible to completely eliminate spam, there are quite a few things you CAN do about the problem to reduce your burden.

Spam is defined as an unsolicited email trying to get you to buy something.  In addition, it’s email that tries to get you to give up something: your credit card number, social security number, login ID, etc., by pretending to be a legitimate email.  Here are ten tips for stopping the current spam you’re getting, and avoiding getting on new spam lists.

1. Maintain two email addresses: a Personal Email Address (that you give to family, friends and business associates), and a Safe Email Address (one you use whenever you’re ordering something online, signing up for an email newsletter, or creating a profile on a website).  For instance, I use a Hotmail account for my Safe Email Address.  If a spammer were to get a hold of that address, fine.  All the spam will go into my Hotmail account, which I only look at once a week.  Hotmail has a great anti-spam filter built in, so it’s easy to see what’s spam and what’s not.  This practice leaves my personal email account relatively spam-free (maybe I get two spam emails a day to my personal account).  Some free email services include Hotmail, Yahoo and GMail (Google’s new email service).

2. Use your Safe Email Address to send emails to companies who might be harvesting email addresses from incoming emails. For example, say you want to write to a company to ask them about their products.  Some companies will harvest your email address from the email you send to them, and put you on their mailing list.  By using your Safe Email Address, you can avoid seeing messages from these companies come to your personal email address.

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Need some motivation and affirmations as a small biz owner?

I created this 2-minute movie to help recharge your spirit, your motivation, and your passion for your business.

(If I missed any important affirmations, just click on the “comments” link below and let me know!)

Small Business Affirmation Movie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GCaEZscfvA

Teleclasses are a great way to teach! But how can you teach when people can’t see you?

In this teleclass, you will learn techniques that boost your teaching skills in a teleclass environment, overcoming the visual barriers and creating interactive and supportive environments for your students.

In this three-week teleseminar, you will learn about:

• Handling the first few minutes of your teleclass, the springboard to any successful teleclass
• Teleclass leading skills for interactivity and learning
• Creating rapport with students over the phone
• The common mistakes the teleclass leaders make
• Techniques for keeping momentum while also allowing for student discussion
• Dealing with student situations that can undermine your teleclass success
• Handling the technology of using a teleconference line
• Create telephone-based learning environments that keep students coming back for more!

What Students Say…

For more class details and to register:

http://www.passionforbusinesslearning.com/tlt/

This three-session teleclass begins May 18, 2009

May 18
June 1
June 8

All teleclasses are 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM eastern

Classes will be recorded, so if you miss a session, you will be able to download the audio recording of the live class and listen to it at your leisure.

Registration:  $110

For more class details and to register:

http://www.passionforbusinesslearning.com/tlt/

Over the years, and especially this year with the economy so precarious, small business owners have asked me all sorts of questions about growing their business. In fact, they’ve asked so many questions that I can’t answer them all!

So I thought this month it was especially important to have a call where you can ask me anything about growing and running your business — for free!

Here are some questions I’ve received in the past:

• “What are the best marketing techniques for 2009?”
• “How do you choose which articles you submit to the article announcement sites versus the ones you want to sell to a magazine?”
• “Where can I get some inexpensive photos or graphics for my website?”
• “You spoke about a list of questions that you ask prospective clients to answer before they come to your free session. Can you tell me what those questions are?”

I can’t wait to discuss the answers to these questions, along with many more!

This FREE one-hour teleclass is scheduled for
June 11, 2008
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM eastern

The teleclass will be recorded, so if you miss a session, you will be able to download the audio recording of the live class and listen to it at your leisure.

To register:

http://www.passionforbusiness.com/calendar.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su2UuP3aqZg

Watch the videos in this series:  #1 of 3 and #2 of 3 and #3 of 3.

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Do you spend too much time on writing your newsletter each month?

Do your readers actually read it, or is it too long?

These days people are time-constrained. There’s always too much to do, too many appointments, too many tasks. Finding time to read your newsletter may be asking too much.

Enter the “6o-Second Newsletter” concept. When writing your newsletter, ask yourself, “How can I make this article or notice something people can read in 60-seconds or less?” Here are some ideas:

1. Use bullet points

2. Create a quick-list of resources

3. Give them just one tip

4. Use audio (podcast) instead of a written newsletter

Click here to read the full article>>>

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