thanks for sharing!

Thanks so much for posting my article on confidence and fees and business growth, and especially thanks for giving me full credit and a link back to my site. I’ve had many visitors as a result of your generosity. You clearly practice what you teach.

I love all the comments this post and your offerings have generated. I am reading your Manifesto right now and it’s a great piece. All the best, Kathleen

Thanks so much for this very timely article. After struggling for over 4 years as a Spiritual Life Coach, and coming very close to throwing in the towel, I am in the process with the help of my VA of restructuring my entire “practice” into a “business”, and I mean from the ground up. We are overhauling everything, from the website, to pricing, to target market, etc.

I was fortunate to be able to work closely with you for a year in your “Inner Circle” and have tons of notes, etc. from that time, which I simply never implemented because I was still in a “practice” mode and needed to be in a “business” mode. I had just graduated from Coach Training Alliance and couldn’t wait to get going, but what I realized after a short time working in your “Inner Circle” was that coaching schools often spend too little time on the business end of things and most of the time on the “practice” end of things. The result is that you end up with a very small business/practice, in which you work your butt off for very little compensation.

There’s an easier way and you have been the champion of that easier way for a long time now.

I am once again fired up about coaching and building a business and have you to thank for that. I look forward to every email I receive from you because I never know what “golden nuggets” it might contain.

I also dream of the day when I will once again be flush enough to afford working more closely with you in whatever you are now calling your “Inner Circle”.

Thank you for everything and I miss speaking with you and hearing your challenging suggestions for building a rock solid business.

By the way, I had the chance to attend a free teleseminar hosted by Rhonda Hess recently touting her program, “How to Choose and Champion Your Ideal Coaching Market”. It was a good 90 minute session with lots of questions and answers, but it was mostly review for me, and I couldn’t help but think, “Milana went over this with me years ago!” Nonetheless, I wasn’t in the “space” to really “hear” you at the time and Rhonda’s session got me fired up again and reminded me that I already have all the tools I need “to choose and champion” my “ideal coaching market”, and I got them all from YOU!

All this is to say, that I may not have had “ears to hear” during the time I worked with you, but it was very valuable time nonetheless because of what I took away from our time in the “Inner Circle”, and I consider you my Mentor Coach on every level. I look forward to implementing those things I took away from our sessions in my new coaching BUSINESS!

Look for many new things to be coming from me in the months and years ahead. The “hawk” is preparing to soar! Thank you again and I wish you, as always, many blessings. I look forward to keeping in touch with you. Peace,

Gavin

So many think

The program serves as a “one-stop-shop” for helping people create their online business by coaching them through each step of the process, including planning and creating their web site, ebooks, courses, video, membership sites, publishing a book, and anything else they want to offer.

By bringing together my experiences as an online business coach, life coach, and computer teacher for the past 10 years, I’m able to offer a unique virtual program that, through the magic of “screen sharing,” the client can simply watch, listen, and share as we put the pieces of their business together right there on the spot, in real time, from anywhere in the world.

I have found that this is the easiest, fastest, and most effective way to help coaches, teachers, writers, artists, and others transform their passion into an online business that creates multiple streams of income. It also brings a strong sense of play to the process as the client simply watches and listens while their project comes to life in real time!

Thanks for letting me share
Carl

One thought I would add is that I have interacted with hundreds of coaches over the last 2 years and I have found that a coach’s fees are in direct proportion to the confidence they have around their ability to produce a specific result with their clients. When my partner Kim and I started coaching we charged a nominal rate; once we started seeing results with our clients, our confidence in ourselves grew and our fees increased accordingly. At the end of the day, when can assist a person to transform their business, or help them to be peaceful and happy, that’s HUGE. And you deserve to get compensated for it. I would invite coaches to ask themselves, how confident am I in my ability to produce over the top results for my clients? You’ll know the answer immediately, and your price point will be easier to establish.

Best advice I got early on. I first looked at it that I charged way too little, but after a while I realized that I wouldn’t have gotten that base set of clients if I charged more, so it all worked out.

That being said, I still raised them more, realizing I had to put a premium on one-to-one time and keep the older rate for group sessions.

“You can’t charge more than you can comfortably ask because your discomfort will show through and hurt your credibility”

This took me a while to get to. I used to cringe/avoid/hesitate talking about price, which is crazy when I look back at it.

Great thoughts, thanks Milana

As employees, we sell our time to someone who, in essence, packages our labor into something greater that is priced to the market based on VALUE not cost. This is equally true for the $75 per hour senior copywriter and the $5 per day worker in a sneaker-making factory. To break the cycle, we need to truly “employ” ourselves and think of our labor in that way, as an ingredient not our whole business. To succeed, we must find something of value that uses our labor but is worth much more to our customers than any standard rate for our occupation.