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

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!

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.

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.

Speak and Grow Rich
Price: $17.00
by Dottie and Lilly Walters
268 pages
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One of the key ways coaches generate clientele is through public speaking. If you can get beyond the title (hopefully we're not just in this to get rich!), Speak and Grow Rich is an excellent guide to building a public speaking business or adding speaking as another revenue stream for your coaching practice.

Covering everything from speaker's fees, how to run a profitable book table, developing products to sell when you speak, and even selecting marketable topics, this book is a great guide to the business of speaking.