Life Coaching Blog

by James Komosinski (Guest Author)

Most coaches might agree that helping people through periods of growth and or transition is truly a calling. As honorable a path as this may be, life coaching is also a business and requesting payment for assisting someone can often feel less than transparent. Using the powers of abundance by having multiple payment options available, including credit cards and or electronic checks, insures you will have maximum attraction in your practice.

The Money Conversation
Automating your coaching practice’s billing using credit cards is a smart and invaluable system that allows you to get the ‘money conversation’ out of the way early and effortlessly. The ability to have an authorization form completed with a client’s credit card and or check information gives you the freedom to address with a potential client your fee structure upfront without the need to repeatedly request payment.

No More "Chasing the Check"
This allows you to be secure in the business aspect of your practice, without garnering resentment or anxiety over missed or skipped payments. I can assure you the last role you want to play with your clients is that of being a bill collector. It’s been our experience in eight years of serving thousands of individual life coaches that the most successful coaches systemize the money issue early and give their full energy to marketing and building relationships with clients.

James Komosinski is the president and founder of Practice Pay Solutions. Learn more about credit cards, electronic check acceptance, and receiving instant payments for your coaching.

The reason most of us get into life coaching is to coach. Few of us -if any- get into this business to promote ourselves (and wouldn't it be great if we didn't have to). The sad fact is, we do.

Here's why:
Unless people know about you they can't hire you. It's easy to think that others who enthusiastically market themselves are, in some way, "fly-by-night hucksters." In some cases this may even be true. The fact is, if you don't promote yourself your potential clients may end up hiring those less qualified individuals instead of you. You've given them no choice because you haven't promoted yourself to them as an option.

If you think about it you have an obligation to promote yourself so that the clients that really need to work with you have a way to reach you (and not someone else). The good news is this doesn't have to be an obnoxious task.

Here's how:
The professionals that are successful at selling their life coaching services aren't really selling at all. They are promoting themselves in subtle, yet convincing ways. They are allowing their prospects to get to know them. They are building rapport and trust. In a nutshell, they are just being themselves.

If you put yourself in situations where you allow people to experience you, you will have your pick of clients. And they'll be the best clients for you! Feel good about promoting yourself by recognizing that marketing your professional services is nothing more than relationship building. And chances are, if you're a life coach, you're already fantastic at this.

There is a multimedia course exclusively dedicated to this topic. Fill Your Coaching Practice is a self-paced, self-study program of personal marketing tips, strategies and secrets that are comfortable, effective, and non-intrusive. Just one good idea makes this program worth a look.

Mainstream sales and advertising has given the marketing of professional services a bad rap. When self-promotion is done right, it's fun and rewarding, PLUS you can feel good about it. Go out and be yourself with as many people as possible. The ones who are attracted to you will work the hardest for themselves. They will also be the most fun for you to have as clients.