Insights for coaches building thriving practices
The ICF's advice on simplifying an online coaching business cuts straight to the point: "Create a mini sales page that outlines at least your understanding of t...
The ICF puts it plainly: "Maintain, store, and dispose of any records, including electronic files and communications, in a manner that promotes confidentiality,...
A coach on Reddit described the associate model in the clearest possible terms: "I do the coaching and they take a percentage of the fee. It seems like it would...
Confidentiality becomes more complex in a group setting where participants may know each other or work in the same organization. In one-to-one coaching, the bou...
Practice.do shut down. Satori closed. Nudge Coach wound down. Profi disappeared. Four coaching CRMs gone in roughly two years. Every time, coaches lost the same...
Your coaching CRM shut down, or it is about to. You have a plan for exporting your data. But have you thought about what your clients will actually experience d...
When your coaching CRM announces it is shutting down, everything you built inside it has an expiration date: client records, session packages, booking links, in...
The short answer: between $500 and $1,500 to start lean, or $3,000 to $17,000 if you include a coaching certification. Monthly overhead runs $29 to $159 dependi...
A new coach in r/lifecoaching said what most coaches think but rarely say out loud: "I just want to be able to schedule a client weekly at the same time and hav...
A coach in r/lifecoaching asked the question that every coach with an online practice eventually hits: "I am in the US, and I have my first potential client in...
The ICF's executive coaching blueprint puts it directly: "Alignment between your coachee and their organization is crucial." The recommended structure is three...
The ICF puts it plainly in a blog post on the importance of boundaries in coaching: "If you consistently exceed the allotted coaching session time, for whatever...
Everything looked good on paper. The discovery call went well. The first session had energy. Then somewhere around session three, something shifted. The client...
A thread in r/personaltraining laid out the onboarding question most coaches eventually land on: "Automate the onboarding of new clients. I.e letting your syste...
Someone in r/personaltraining asked the question most online coaches eventually face: "Do you have any system for spotting which clients are about to cancel? Or...
A thread in r/lifecoaching asked a question most coaches recognise: how do you handle all the support that happens outside the actual session? The replies lande...
A coach on r/lifecoaching asked the question every growing practice eventually faces: at what point does scaling start to ruin the quality of your coaching? The...
A coaching membership pause policy answers the question every coach with recurring clients eventually faces. A thread in r/personaltraining asked: "Do you charg...
A thread in r/lifecoaching asked the question most new coaches eventually hit: should the first conversation with a potential client be a free discovery call or...
A thread in r/lifecoaching asked the question most coaching business owners think about too late: what software pain showed up first when you added a second coa...
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