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Coaching Practice Building Resources

Want more coaching clients? We've culled through what's out there to bring you what we feel are the best practice-building resources for coaches. And the best thing is, just one new client would pay for any of the resources on this page. Why not get going today?

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The Practice Building Library
Three of our top books for building your coaching business
Coaching Web Sites from WCS
The fastest way to get your practice on-line, for as little as $17/month
The Business and Practice of Coaching
Our choice as the best of the practice-building and niche creation books.

businessandpractice.jpg The Business and Practice of Coaching
Price: $33.95
Finding Your Niche, Making Money, and Attracting Ideal Clients
by Lynn Grodzki & Wendy Allen

300 pages, hardcover
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If you want one book to show you the ropes on how to start a coaching practice, choose this one! Lynn Grodzki and Wendy Allen are veteran business coaches who understand how to strategically approach the business and the practice of coaching as well as how to mentor new coaches entering the profession. The Business and Practice of Coaching is the first text to combine a coaching approach (step-by-step exercises, direct suggestions, insider's tips, and motivational plans) with solid business information and ideas in order to give you exactly what you need to prosper as a coach.

The Business and Practice of Coaching is based on real research about what helps coaches succeed in business. It's solid, helpful information on everything from basic entrepreneurship to creating a business plan, setting up your company, identifying your niche and attracting the right kind of clients.

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graphics/library-practicebuildingthumb.jpg The Practice Building Library
Price: $93.85 - $84.47 On Sale!
Includes the three top-rated titles we most recommend to help you launch a successful coaching practice, bundled together at a discount price.

The Practice Building Library includes these must-read resources:

* The Business and Practice of Coaching
* Get Clients Now!
* The Coaching Starter Kit

The Business and Practice of Coaching is the one book to show you how to start a coaching practice. It combines exercises and tips on how to set up a profitable coaching business with solid research on building a practice, so you'll know exactly what you need to do to succeed as a coach.

Get Clients Now! takes you a step further, with a 28 day marketing plan designed to help you generate prospects and turn them into clients. This is the point where most new coaches get stuck; so this book provides all the handholds you need to go out and develop a solid clientele.

Finally, The Coaching Starter Kit provides a plethora of forms, contracts, evaluations, tools and other business basics every coach needs. It will save you hours of time on getting the paperwork in place you need to get your business off the ground.

So purchase these three essential titles together in The Practice Building Library, and save!

Price: $93.85 - $84.47 On Sale!    Qnty:  

getclientsnow.jpg Get Clients Now!
Price: $19.95
A 28-Day Marketing Program for Professionals and Consultants
by C. J. Hayden

224 pages
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Want to get your coaching practice off the ground, or ramp up the number of clients you serve? Contained within the covers of this deceptively simple paperback book is a complete marketing and sales system for coaches, consultants, and anyone who needs to market a service business.

Get Clients Now! is packed with great client-attracting tools that will help readers inject their marketing efforts with energy and enthusiasm, design an effective plan of action, and increase their client base in just 28 days. Using the author’s reader-friendly approach, straightforward tips, and specific techniques, readers will:

• overcome "analysis paralysis" and determine exactly what they need to do first—and every step of the way
• make their voices heard and their services stand out in a crowd
• create customized, affordable, reusable, and realistic marketing plans.

If you are ready to stop sitting in your home office wondering if you'll succeed and start coaching, this book is a great place to start.

Price: $19.95    Qnty:  

coachingstarterkitthumb.jpg The Coaching Starter Kit
Price: $39.95
Everything You Need to Launch and Expand Your Practice
by Coachville

350 pages
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The Coaching Starter Kit is a comprehensive all-in-one toolkit to help you get started in the business of coaching. Culled from the extensive resources of CoachVille.com, this book includes over 150 practical forms, lists and outlines to help you succeed in your coaching business. The material runs the gamut of the nuts and bolts of creating a coaching practice: the coaching process, practice design, attracting clients, session agendas and discussion topics, sample client data sheets and agreements, client questionnaires, coaching niches, marketing and PR tips, and more, as well as a wide collection of goal-oriented and issue-specific client worksheets you can photocopy or modify to suit your own practice.

The Coaching Starter Kit is a complete toolkit of coaching basics and advice that will equip you well as you enter the coaching field.

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mappingyourtimelinethumb.jpg Mapping Your Calling Timeline | Presenter's Package
Price: $49.99 - $19.99 On Sale!
by Tony Stoltzfus
Complete Presenter's Package with PowerPoints--Electronic Download

This interactive destiny workshop, built around the book The Calling Journey, is a perfect tool for coaches who want to offer life purpose courses to their church or organization. Each participant builds a personalized calling timeline that unlocks incredible insights into how God is at work in their lives and how to lean into his agenda for them.

This Presenter's Package includes:

  • Complete Presenter's Outlines with explanatory comments, keyed to the book
  • A 50-slide PowerPoint presentation
  • A customizable, color e-brochure

The Open Source format (Electronic Download) means you can offer the course royalty free and customize it to suit your needs. Please note: this is not a self-study course, but a set of resources for offering a course to others.

Price: $49.99 - $19.99 On Sale!    Qnty:  

essentialwebmarketingthumb.gif Essential Web Marketing
Price: $19.95
by Beth Cole
E-book, 150 pages (2 mb)
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Preview this Book!

Your website is one of the most important links in the marketing chain for a generation that Googles someone before doing business. Essential Web Marketing by Beth Cole will help you get clear about your target market and lead you through a step-by-step process to connect with your ideal clients and stand out from the competition on the web.

Here are five great reasons you may need this book:

  1. You have a website but nobody finds it or uses it to contact you.
  2. You are embarrassed to send anyone to your website.
  3. You need help deciding whether you need a website, facebook page, or other web prescence to grow your business.
  4. You want to learn to use social media like Facebook to build your business
  5. You hate technology but you want to reach people outside of your local market.

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Five Quick Ways to Jump Start Your Practice


Are you just graduating from a coach training program and wondering how to get your coaching business off the ground? Here are five great, low-cost ways to create some movement:

1. Grab a buddy from your class and coach each other. If you are going be a coach, you need to be coached. A peer coach is the easiest (and cheapest!) way to make sure you have someone walking with you to help you succeed. And if your buddy is also building a business, you can feed off each other's energy and learnings.

2. Buy a practice building book. You need a guide...
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