Case Study: The Power of Blogging and Podcasting for Life Coaches Everywhere

Yesterday I had the great pleasure to interview Paul Bailey and Gina Baksa from www.ActionPodcast.com, about the huge impact that blogging and podcasting has had on their coaching careers.

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www.ActionPodcast.com

Paul and Gina are two of a group of four life coaches that regularly contribute to the blog and podcast at ActionPodcast.com. Although they only started their new podcast in December 2008, they’ve just celebrated their 5000th download this week, some four months or so later. Furthermore, their audience is actually growing at the fantastic rate of 100% every 2/3 weeks!

During our interview they revealed just how the use of technology has helped transform their businesses as coaches, both in the way they are able to attract new clients, as well as actually carry out their coaching sessions in a relxed and flexible way – to the benefit of both coach and client.

Paul also shares some great tips for any coach who is interested in starting either their own blog or podcast, and Gina talks about how easy it was for someone with a non-technical background to be able to publish her own articles on her blog site – all absolutely free!

Towards the end of the call Gina and Paul actually reveal how blogging and podcasting has changed their perspective on many things, even going so far as to say that the experience has ‘changed their lives’.

If you’d like to learn more about Paul and Gina’s experiences, this podcast episode contains the full 30-minute interview with them both – so enjoy!

If you’d like to check out the ActionPodcast.com blog and podcast you can do so at www.actionpodcast.com

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Why the Flip Mino HD Is Every Marketer’s New Best Friend

Thanks to my brand new Flip Mino HD video camera this brief clip was filmed on location in London yesterday, while I was attending an event for 30+ internet marketers interested in building their business both online and offline.

I manage pretty-well to resist gadgets that aren’t genuinely useful, but this is one tool that has already become essential for my need to create and share easy-to-produce, valuable content for this blog and elsewhere.

If you’re a coach or consultant then just think how this could apply to you. You could interview other people, or get other people to interview you about your subject of expertise, ready to share with the world and immediately increase your perceived authority and status.

The software that comes with the camera makes it incredibly easy to both edit and add captions to your movie, then upload it instantly to YouTube.

Embed the video onto your blog and there you have it. High, quality engaging content that will only help build trust and rapport with your audience.

So, guys… what are you waiting for?

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What’s The One Thing Every Coach Should Do To Build Their Business?

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My thanks to social media expert Dwayne Kerr for revealing the one strategy any coach can employ to grow their business and get more clients by using the power of online social networking.

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How To Find Your Coaching Niche

Find you're coaching niche

Find your coaching niche if you want more clients

Do you find it difficult to get clients that are willing to pay you what you’re worth for the advice and help you can offer?

Then you need to read this article from start to finish

Recently I received a message from a coach wanting advice about how to develop her website to promote her coaching services. She wanted to know what I suggest she should do next.

So, what was my answer?

To forget about websites until you have chosen your niche!

You see, coaches who do not focus on helping specific people with specific problems will always struggle to find clients. Nobody wants coaching, they only want solutions to their problems.

So the most important thing to do if you’re a generic coach or life coach is to decide on your very own area of  specialism!

You know you have a niche when you can answer the question ‘who is the person’ and ‘what is their problem’ I will help them solve? For example, helping mothers lose weight, or helping career women deal with stress at work. Niches are very specific.

When you have a niche it is much easier to find your ideal client. Plus, when you become a ‘specialist’ in one area, people are much more interested in having you help them. People always prefer specialists to generalists. They want to be reassured that this person is an expert in helping them with their specific problem.

So if you don’t yet know your niche, this is really where you need to make your first decision. Just what is your niche going to be? Only once you know your focus should you start learning about how to sell your services via websites etc.

How to find your coaching niche… and a special offer

The good news is that there is an opportunity coming very soon to help you take a huge shortcut in finding your niche and learning how to market your coaching services. It is the Coaches and Consultants Top Gun Superconference on April 25/26/27 in London.

I will be speaking at this event about how to create simple, easy-to-edit websites that will bring you clients and earn you money. However, there will also be a dozen or so other speakers from all around the world including Jairek Robbins – Tony’s son – who will be giving phenomenal advice about all the areas of developing a hugely successful coaching business.

Not only is the ticket price heavily reduced, but if you know of another coach who would benefit from attending then you can take them with you for free as your guest, effectively halving the ticket price for you both! Plus, if you really feel that the event hasn’t massively helped you, Dan Bradbury will even give you 100% of your money back. So really you have nothing to lose!

Just come along to the event and meet all the very successful coaches who’ll be there in person. Discover the secrets to their success… and lay the foundations of your own.

Special Bonus

Because I know how valuable this event will be, I’m even prepared to offer a highly valuable bonus of my very own to anyone who signs up via my affiliate link.

If you sign-up via this link then I will give you a 1:1 private consultation at the event, worth £147, absolutely free! Just contact me via this website and let me know that you’ve placed your order and you’d like to reserve your consultation.

As I’ll be speaking at the event my time will be limited so I can only offer this bonus to the first 5 people who sign up and get in touch.

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Are you struggling to get clients? Then you need to read this!

Do you find it difficult to get clients that are willing to pay you what you’re worth for the advice and help you can offer?

Then you need to read this article from start to finish

Find you're coaching niche

Find your coaching niche if you want more clients

Recently I received a message from a coach wanting advice about how to develop her website to promote her coaching services. She wanted to know what I suggest she should do next.

So, what was my answer?

To forget about websites until you have chosen your niche!

You see, coaches who do not focus on helping specific people with specific problems will always struggle to find clients. Nobody wants coaching, they only want solutions to their problems.

So the most important thing to do if you’re a generic coach or life coach is to decide on your very own area of  specialism!

You know you have a niche when you can answer the question ‘who is the person’ and ‘what is their problem’ I will help them solve? For example, helping mothers lose weight, or helping career women deal with stress at work. Niches are very specific.

When you have a niche it is much easier to find your ideal client. Plus, when you become a ‘specialist’ in one area, people are much more interested in having you help them. People always prefer specialists to generalists. They want to be reassured that this person is an expert in helping them with their specific problem.

So if you don’t yet know your niche, this is really where you need to make your first decision. Just what is your niche going to be? Only once you know your focus should you start learning about how to sell your services via websites etc.

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