The best and most effective way to turn your business coaching practice into a legitimate enterprise that can run with or without you is to recruit associate coaches into your firm. A business coaching firm is no different from a law or accounting firm, in that you're creating an organization in which accomplished professionals provide important...

Being a business coach is kind of like being Iron Man. (Or, for our female business coaches, Ironheart.) No, seriously! As a business coach, you're a superhero. You fly in and rescue people from their struggling businesses with super cool business growth technology, profit-maximizing tools, and advanced knowledge. But just because you're a...

Contemplation can birth incredible ideas and deep insights into business success.  However, when it comes to thinking vs. doing, MOTION defeats contemplation every day of the week and twice on Friday nights. Want success as a coach? Turn a 'should' for your coaching company into a 'MUST' and you will be on your way... at the very least you won’t...

Have you noticed? The economy is growing--which means the way you approach your business coaching practice should shift as well. But in what ways? As we kick off the New Year, here's how current economic trends will impact business coaches in 2018. First of all, remember that it's vital for business coaches to stay current on economic trends and...

Lately I've been hearing more and more about "social selling"--a sales technique that involves social networking, emailing, and researching...while fastidiously avoiding the phone. And it made me wonder: is social selling a waste of time for business coaches? While I never recommend that coaches should cold call, I firmly believe that the...