Wow. As the rime goes, "water, water" was indeed "everywhere" this month in Calgary. Thousands of people were evacuated from their homes, hundreds of roads and parks were shut, dozens of cars drowned and mandatory water restrictions imposed on everyone...for the first time in memory for many of us, and certainly me.
| "Andrea...you have given me permission to succeed as a coach while I waitress at...you guessed it, Quincy's.
Well, Ken Wilber washed dishes, right? And I am waitressing. I don't know how long I'll be, but what better way to infiltrate the real world with a bright turquoise vibration! Even as I laugh and think I am the only waitress on the entire island who has an intricate understanding of spiral dynamics and how to interact with 'oranges'...I know I am doing the right thing and I hope you get the word out and start the Coaching Refugee project..." - a Coach-U Trained Coach in British Columbia, Canada |
It will take me a while to nurse my hurts at the feelings and looks from other people, of failure. But I know in my heart I am changing things for the good...vibrating as I am spiritually with every interaction...every positive turn of phrase...every time I open the possibility in someone's mind, that they are great...if I may say, I think both customers and staff are different now. [....]Speaking of Day Jobs, we thought it would be appropriately tongue-in-cheek to recommend a punch clock tool for online tracking.
Because whether you are looking for a day job or not, while you build a coaching business, it can be useful to see where your time goes. We use it internally to help track our many consulting projects, determine ROI, and tweak workload when needed. An excellent tool especially if you are managing a team virtually.
In February 2005, over 150 coaches came together in San Mateo, CA to share their creativity and energy with a diverse panel of speakers and fellow coaches.
If you missed the live show, don't worry - you can listen to some samples we've extracted for you here.
excerpted from the book "Multiple Streams of Coaching Income" by Andrea J. Lee.
What do I mean by a ‘Coaching Day Job?’
I have a pet theory about why bad things happen to good people. Or more specifically why tough times fall on coaches.
You know how they say you can't be a good writer if you haven't had some kind of angst in your life? Or how it's one of those 'sad but true' things that comedians generally lead miserable lives and most of them smoke?
Three Thursdays, July 7, 14 & 21, 2005, from Noon to 1pm Eastern Time. (While you are encouraged to come to all calls, it is not mandatory. Please come to one or more as suits you.)
Led by Andrea Lee and guest collaborators.
This 3-class series is R&D in nature, and will tackle the language, concepts, tools and resources around the topic of how to work in a 'traditional' day job and continue to serve as a coach by embodying what you believe to be the essence of what coaching is, from '9 to 5.'
As business owners, we talk and think long and often about how to inspire outragoeous loyalty from our clients.
Well, okay, the ones of us who care about doing meaningful work do. (If anyone reading this is here only and all about the 'money' side of the equation, now's the time to move onto another post, or probably a whole other blog actually...)
As usual, the secret/magic bullet to creating something worth raving about is...that there is no secret. No magic.
It takes creativity and authenticity, and a full-hearted committed to your vision. Of course, it takes having a vision in the first place.
What do pizza, grass and sidewalks, and bubble baths have to do with creating new revenue streams for your business?
I rarely seem to manage a talk about the high-falutin topic of business without a few everyday analogies. While we didn't talk about ice cream this time, we did cover a few over food groups, and we had a couple great questions that elicited real examples of how coaches can make meaningful money in ways other than 1-1 coaching.
Patsi Krakoff and Denise Wakeman, pictured at right, of Conversations with Experts invited me as a guest to their series of calls about blogging, marketing and general business building. Thanks Patsi and Denise for a lively call.
To catch the recording, http://nextlevelpartner.typepad.com/bbab/2005/06/andrea_j_lee_bu.html">just visit this link.
Those of you who are familiar with the 'Great Marketing Reframe' chapter in the Multiple Streams of Coaching Income book will especially find this amusing.
In that chapter I lay out the premise that everything in fact, is marketing. Everything.
And...in classes on this topic, I like to juxtapose that with the question:
If you think marketing is bad, and you want to be good, how are you, a business person, going to ever get good at marketing?
Which question often marks the beginning of a mindset shift around marketing.
This last week, I had this point brought home by a specific example, which I like to share whenever possible, to concretize some of these wonderful, albeit a tad nebulous, concepts.
The example came from my dear friend and colleague Tina Forsyth...and goes something like this, in an email I'll copy here for you to read verbatim...
One Thursday, June 9, 2005, from 2-3pm Eastern/NY.
Led by Coach Candye Hinton
Are you searching for renewed energy around building a Multiple Streams Coaching business? Join Candye for this teleseminar, geared towards showing you how quitting the one on one coaching approach can be a great way to create Multiple Streams of Coaching Income.
One Thursday, June 23, 2005 from 2-3pm Eastern/NY.
Led by Coach Candye Hinton
Most coaches spend the majority of their effort trading time for money, leaving them unnecessarily frustrated. This class will show you a product funnel model based on real-world success, NOT theory.
These are the most commonly requested icons that have been in use at one of our eCourses, called 39 tried and true Internet Marketing Lessons with a Coaching Approach.
You are welcome to make use of them to enhance your own websites.
Position Title: Online Business Manager for a well-established six-to-seven figure Online Coach Training Organization.
In Brief: 100% Virtual position can be based anywhere in the world. Base salary plus upside potential.
Rigorous interview process will be conducted by Online Business Manager/MSOCI and includes hands on scenario-based testing.
The position is especially ideal for the lifelong learner who has a genuine heart for the planet and is dedicated to strengthening the future of the coaching profession, albeit not as a 1-1 coach.
...excerpted from the book "Multiple Streams of Coaching Income" by Andrea J. Lee
Along the path from where you are now to millions in revenue, thousands in readers, tens of thousands of prospects, or hundreds of clients -- whatever criteria you use to define success for your coaching...there us is one key speedbump which isn't talked about very often.
That is capacity.
This is especially true as you are building your revenues up to six figures. From there, the challenges only complexify as you set your sights on building a seven-figure legacy business with a global impact.
How do you get your head around this problem? What secrets will ease your way through the growing pains?
Is Pink the New Green? Do You Have 'A Whole New Mind?'
If you had 20 Million dollars OR discovered you have 10 years to live, what would you do? And what are you doing now?
Dan Pink, author of "A Whole New Mind," posed this question to 140 participants during an exclusive phone interview on May 20, 2005.
Would it benefit you as a coach to learn how and why this best-selling author uses this timeless coaching question?
My husband isn't an internet marketer so I explained it like this.
"Corey Rudl (pictured at left) died yesterday." I said.
"Who's Corey Rudl?" he asked.
"Well, he was like a Steven Spielberg of the Internet World.
He did a lot of innovative things like bring new technology to the mainstream and was one of the very first to have a real office in downtown Vancouver where he ran multiple internet businesses.
When so many of us worked from home and people had to phone us before they could fax anything, Corey gave the profession of internet marketing a lot of credibility."
(Mike's a budding film director so I figured I'd use an 'is like' or example from close to home.)
"Yikes."
Some of you dear readers may know that the Multiple Streams of Coaching Income membership was originally built using one of Corey's latest products called the Desktop Marketer.
The first time I met Corey was when he asked to interview me because of the success we had using the Desktop Marketing tool.