Dear Coach,
Would you like a regular paycheck?
For being a coach/doing coaching?
A paycheck that you didn't have to market yourself to earn?
Oh, you would have to work for sure; you would have to retain the client and create results for them, generating word of mouth referral business that way...not a whiff of a question about that.
But if you could hang up your entrepreneurial hat, and stop the 'hunt' awhile...would you?
Because in a funny twist of the road, if you say 'yes' to the above, or believe you know coaches who would, you may be interested in some new developments occurring here.
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Last week while sick with a protracted cold, I made a decision. I'm ready to reopen my consulting business.
While talking with one of my mentors, I realized, AGAIN, how much business I'd been turning down by saying 'no' to consulting work to do coaching and web work. (A shocking dollar amount.)
As someone who talks a lot (face it, I talk a LOT on this topic) about invisible pockets of income, and listening to your market, I had a serious mind bend.
How about saying 'yes' to the income that is looking for me?
Instead of pushing string uphill in an area that I'd like to think is cool.
As you do more online relationship building you'll get invited to help support other people's efforts. That's fun.
But sometimes you'll think you can support someone but it turns out it really isn't a fit. How to get out of this awkward situation?
Well...first...do stick to your guns. If you can't wholeheartedly support the product or service, best that you don't.
Here's an example of an email I wrote to a respected colleague...
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A brief invitation to a communal opportunity.
An important new book has recently come out by the author of the book 'Free Agent Nation' a groundbreaking book that has defined our times.
Dan Pink's new book with bright Orange cover is particularly important to coaches when you read just a tiny excerpt:
>From 'A Whole New Mind' by Dan Pink
'We are entering a new age. It is an age animated by a different form of thinking and a new approach to life—one that prizes aptitudes that I call “high concept” and “high touch.”
High concept involves the capacity to detect patterns and opportunities, to create artistic and emotional beauty, to craft a satisfying narrative, and to combine seemingly unrelated ideas into something new.