{"id":3404,"date":"2012-05-21T06:03:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T06:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/centerforcoachingcertification.com\/coachingblog\/?p=3404"},"modified":"2012-05-18T23:34:36","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T23:34:36","slug":"developing-a-coaching-client-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/developing-a-coaching-client-base\/","title":{"rendered":"Developing a Coaching Client Base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.CoachCert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/linked-in.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3405\" title=\"linked in\" src=\"https:\/\/www.CoachCert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/linked-in-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"linked in\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>One of the biggest challenges when building a coaching practice is developing a client base.\u00a0 At the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centerforcoachingcertification.com\/\">Center for Coaching Certification<\/a> we offer a number of resources and tools to support this process including our free webinar on Marketing Yourself as a Coach, Boot Camp for Coaches, and the online marketing dashboard, so the information in this blog series is a review of some of the effective ideas.<\/p>\n<p>As a coach, having a website and an online presence is essential for demonstrating professionalism, creating an opportunity for prospective clients to learn about you, and simply to get found.\u00a0 One of the top places for an online presence is on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/groups?home=&amp;gid=3013346&amp;trk=anet_ug_hm\">LinkedIn<\/a>.\u00a0 The facts about LinkedIn use are amazing and a good presence within this professional network will reap rewards.<\/p>\n<p>A few basics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use a picture \u2013 it is interesting that some people don\u2019t use a picture \u2013 when people are looking for a coach or connecting with you online, they want and expect to see your picture.<\/li>\n<li>Complete your profile \u2013 when your profile is only partial it says something about you \u2013 take the time to finish all of it.<\/li>\n<li>Connect with people \u2013 if you only have a few connections people that do not know you are more hesitant to connect so find the people you know and build your contacts.<\/li>\n<li>Join and participate in discussion groups \u2013 join groups that are for coaches such as the Center for Coaching Certification group and join groups where your prospective clients join, then participate in discussions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>LinkedIn is one place people <a href=\"http:\/\/www.findacertifiedcoach.com\/\">find a coach<\/a>, it is a place recruiters look, and it is an excellent online networking opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>How can you maximize the benefits of LinkedIn?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest challenges when building a coaching practice is developing a client base.\u00a0 At the Center for Coaching Certification we offer a number &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[52,59,69,77,48,71,50,54,62,55,81,57],"class_list":["post-3404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-build","tag-business-2","tag-business-development","tag-client","tag-coach","tag-coach-marketing-strategies","tag-coaching","tag-coaching-business","tag-coaching-client-base","tag-coaching-services","tag-coaching-success","tag-part-or-full-time-coaching-business","latest_post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3406,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404\/revisions\/3406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}