This is 16 in a series of 24 blog posts on Business and Marketing.<\/p>\n
As a coach, one possibility for developing new clients is offering a brown bag lunch series either at a large company or for a professional organization<\/a>.\u00a0 A brown bag lunch is when participants come with their own lunch.\u00a0 Formats for brown bag lunches vary from defining topics, including training, or simply facilitating a discussion.\u00a0 Bottom line, a brown bag lunch series creates an opportunity for potential coaching clients to connect with you, develop a relationship, and then consider coaching<\/a> services.<\/p>\n Start by exploring companies or organizations whose employees or members are your target clients.\u00a0 Consider their specific interests and areas of focus.\u00a0 Plan topic options, decide if you will include mini-training, and outline your format.\u00a0 Next, decide your approach for offering the series.\u00a0 As with speaking or training, it often involves simply contacting the right person, letting them know what you offer, and discussing schedule options.\u00a0 Coordinate publicizing the series so that the attendance is strong.<\/p>\n When you host the brown bag lunches get feedback from participants on their interests and what format they prefer to either adjust in the moment or for use developing future programs.\u00a0 Provide a quality experience in terms of focus and information.\u00a0 Each time you have a brown bag lunch, you may have different people.\u00a0 That means planning different materials as an easy-decision offer makes sense.\u00a0 Consider options for making it easy for participants to explore coaching services such as a quick sign-in where they simply check if they want to talk privately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is 16 in a series of 24 blog posts on Business and Marketing. As a coach, one possibility for developing new clients is offering … <\/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":[70,52,59,69,71,54,67,72,73,63,103],"class_list":["post-3768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-achieve-and-sustain-excellence","tag-build","tag-business-2","tag-business-development","tag-coach-marketing-strategies","tag-coaching-business","tag-coaching-niche","tag-coaching-presentations","tag-marketing-strategies","tag-niche","tag-opportunities","latest_post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768","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=3768"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10782,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768\/revisions\/10782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}