Coach Resources

Coaching Website Resources

Various resources to grow your coaching practice. Below is a list of business and marketing resources for growing your coaching practice including web design, web marketing, other professionals, handy software, books/ebooks, coaching organizations and more.

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Product/Software

• Robert Middleton's Marketing Materials My personal take on RM's InfoGuru Marketing Manual, Website Toolkit, and Marketing Action Plan - excellent tools for getting coaching clients.
• GoDaddy - low cost domain names, transfers, web hosting, email accounts, SSL certificates. I like using their services mainly because of low cost, good up-time and good customer support. GoDaddy also continually improves their services for my benefit.
• AWeber - An established email list provider. I like them because they make sure your emails get through. I also feel they are on top of their business and are always looking to make things better for me. Their customer service is responsive and knowledgeable.
• CoachToolsToGo - is The Ultimate Resource Center For Nutrition, Health And Wellness Coaches And Counselors! Don't forget to receive your FR.EE ECOURSE "7 Insider Secrets To Explode Your Wellness Coaching Practice TODAY
• Coaches Console - The best client relationship management system for coaches, manages your entire Coaching Practice - Client intakes, scheduling, accounting, all in one simplified solution, created, tested and refined by Coaches.
• Merchant Account at Practice Pay Solutions - A merchant account lets you take credit cards whether by phone or through your shopping cart. Get this first. It's straight forward to setup, many coaches and professionals use it including my clients, responsive customer service, competitive rates, and an easy to use terminal for processing credit cards. 
• Shopping Cart at Practice Pay Solutions - A shopping cart is the online software that lets people go through the steps of buying (ex. take credit card info on a form).  
• ActiveWords - This is a windows based tool that helps you quickly and easily make time-saving shortcuts for tasks that you do repeatedly. There is a short ramp up period, but in the long run, you will save time. For example, logging into a website can be as easy as hitting a few keys. This resource is recommended for computer/productive geek kinds.
• Google Analytics - Google took over Urchin, a big player in the website statistics game and now provides this service free to people who hold Google accounts.
• TinyURL - A fantastic tool to turn big long URLs into short ones. This is especially good for emails because many times the longer email URLs get cut off onto multiple lines and then don't work anymore. (tip: when you click the "make tiny" button, the new tiny URL is copied into memory. All you have to do at that point is a CTRL-V, i.e. paste, wherever you want)
• Free Conference Calls - This is another popular resource among professionals. I haven't personally used this service yet.
• Free Conferencing - This free conferencing service is simple and easy to use, requiring only a name and email address to receive an instant account.

More Resources

• Market Your Coaching Business - Marketing help for coaches. Market Your Coaching Business offers a user-friendly success model that makes marketing fun & easy, utilizes your strengths, fits into your budget, easily attracts your ideal clients, and makes you love to market your business.
• Peter Vogopoulos - The Real Results Guy™, Founder of Marketing for Real Results helps coaches attract more clients, make bigger profits and succeed with your small business. Get his free workbook, "The 14 Marketing Mistakes Every Business is Making and How to Avoid Them.
• All Things Coaching - All Things Coaching: resources for Professional Coaches to improve coaching skills, get clients, optimize business, increase peak coach performance.
• BizTipsforCoaches Blog - The tools to grow your coaching business no matter what stage you are in - with Janet Slack.
• Kristen Beireis – Coaches’ Marketing Source - A Marketing Implementation Team helping Coaches work less and change more lives. Get the fast-reading and FREE report Social Networking for Coaches: The Basics.
• ActionPlan Marketing - Excellent marketing resources including a FREE marketing planner, marketing manual, and more tools for independent professionals including coaches.
  
• Coaches Console - The best client relationship management system for coaches, manages your entire Coaching Practice - Client intakes, scheduling, accounting, all in one simplified solution, created, tested and refined by Coaches!
  
• Peer Resources - A global leader in peer assistance, mentorship and coaching.
  
• Coaching Niche Articles on the Web - These are coaching niche articles I've discovered on the Web and share with clients. brainstorming, discovering, choosing, testing and developing your coaching niche. 
  
• Choice Magazine - Dedicated to leading the most important conversation in coaching. Choice, the magazine of professional coaching, provides and promotes development, growth, education, and success for those professionally involved in coaching.
  
• Terri Levine.com - Terri is a Master Certified Coach, CEO of Comprehensive Coaching U, President of The Coaching Institute, best selling author, renowned speaker, and an expert in starting up home based businesses. She coaches entrepreneurs to make six to seven figures in less than 12 months using her proven systems. Terri Levine made the transition from senior executive to become one of the top professional coaches in the industry, founded 2 leading coach training programs and developed the world renowned home study coaching kit.
  
• Coaching Toys - the BEST place on the web for creativity, play and spirit in personal growth and professional development.
  
• Life Coach Resources - How to start your own life coaching, or business coaching business. Also tips from a certified life coach on improving your life and business.
• Coach Meg - Coach Margaret Moore is an entrepreneur and 17-year veteran of the biotech industry in the UK, Canada, France, and the US; she led two biotech startups. In 2000, Coach Meg shifted focus from the high tech side of medicine to prevention and well-being. I founded Wellcoaches Corporation (strategic partner of the American College of Sports Medicine) to establish coach professions in health and wellness as the best possible intervention to help people master well-being.
• Wellcoaches - Wellcoaches Corporation is setting the standard for professional coaches in healthcare and building the professions of health coach, fitness coach, and wellness coach, in strategic partnership with the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM).
• Coach Dee Yoh - Services the Mid-Atlantic Division through the Certified Coaches Federation. Dee provides coaching possibilities as well as her services as a certified master coach, trainer, facilitator, and mediator.
• WorldatWork - A global human resources association focused on compensation, benefits, work-life and integrated total rewards to attract, motivate and retain a talented workforce. Founded in 1955, WorldatWork provides a network of more than 30,000 members and professionals in 75 countries with training, certification, research, conferences and community.
• Newfield Network - Newfield is one of the world’s leading transformational learning organizations.  They teach in-person and on-line programs that show you how to generate results consistent with what you care about and what you value most. They challenge your thinking and support you to take action aligned with what matters—for yourself, for your organization, for the planet.

Books / Ebooks

• Tested Advertising Methods (Prentice Hall Business Classics) As you promote your business you will need to titled things, such as your articles, reports, and talks. This is a great book for getting the gist of coming up with good titles. I've been using these techniques in my newsletter for years and my open rates have significantly increased.
  
• Working Websites for Coaches Working Websites for Coaches
  This 4-part ebook guides you through every aspect of web content development. From how to set up an on-line identity, to crafting your essential marketing message and what to include on your website. The Step-by-Step Planner tells you where to begin, and how to finish up with a working website that will help you accumulate a loyal network, build credibility, and pre-qualify ideal clients.
  
• Four Steps To Building A Profitable
  Coaching Practice: A Complete Marketing
  Resource Guide For Coaches
  
• Don't Make Me Think - by Steve Krug
  This is a fantastic and simple book on website usability. A must read if you aren't working with an expert web designer. (If your web designer read this book, that's a positive sign)
  
• Copywriting Course - This is a good ebook that guides you through writing good copy for your website or other materials. It's been a while since I went through this book. I remember it being helpful.
  
• Getting Things Done - by David Allen
  If you feel like your work is all over the place, missing appointments, got post-its growing like weeds on your desk, then your brain is probably doing a lot more work than it needs to be. Use David's principles to get your obligations under control and free up your mind for stress-free productivity.

Coaching Organizations

• New Coach Connection - is a virtual community comprised of new and experienced professional coaches who are seeking ways to collaborate, connect, and create awesome experiences.
• The Coaching Institute - At the Coaching Institute we teach Life Coaching skills that work, whether they are old or new, spiritual, practical, subjective, objective, creative or traditional. Not only will you learn techniques to improve your own life, you will also learn how to teach those techniques to others, and how to launch a promising career as a personal Life Coach.
• Prosperous Coach - Prosperous Coach is an online membership subscription resource supporting coaches to attain prosperity in their lives and businesses. Once you're a member, you have access to our Wisdom Vault full of the keys to business success created by powerful mindsets and high pay off actions.
  
• Career Coach SIG (Special Interest Group) - Our purpose is to help coaches to build greater value to their clients and to grow and sustain a fulfilling career coaching services practice.
  
• New York Midtown Coaching Center (NYCMCC) - A New York based coaching organization whose mission is to make coaching more successful for coaches and clients.
  
• CoachTalk-L - An independently owned general email discussion list related to personal/life/business coaching. COACHTALK-L's mission is to serve, free of affiliative constraints, the worldwide community of coaches and those interested in the subject.
  
• Career Coach Institute - Your Premier Source for Career Coach Training and Certification.
  
• Coach Training Alliance - Coach Training Alliance provides coaching certification to become a life coach, business coach and mentor.
• Minnesota Coaches Association - The Minnesota Coaches Association elevates and communicates the value of the coaching profession.
• Southern California Coaches Alliance - An educative resource vehicle for Leaders and a groundbreaking transformation for pioneers  for change. Their impact acts towards Paradigm Shifters, Leadership, Environment, World  Economy, Relationships, Values,  Beliefs, Universal  Integrity.  Overall, this website provides heart-centered information and entertainment through Publishing, Lectures, Events, Workshops & TV Programming.
• Silicon Valley Coach Federation - The Silicon Valley Coach Federation is both an autonomous networking and professional organization for personal and business Coaches and an official chapter of the International Coach Federation.
• Puget Sound Coaches Association - PSCA provides this space for information regarding best tools and best practices to develop your business. While it is intended for our peer coaches, other small business entrepreneurs may find this information useful as well. It is our intention to save you research time by providing information about cell phone plans, best head sets, book lists, facility rental or any other resource that will help you grow your business.
• NY ICF Chapter The ICF-NYC is one of the largest in a network of 132 ICF chapters worldwide who build, support and preserve the integrity of the coaching profession. Craig Jennings works with small businesses and entrepreneurs.
• New York Midtown Coaching Center with Craig Jennings
  The mission of NYCMCC is to make coaching more effective and rewarding for our coaches and for clients!
• Life Coaching Group - A Call to Action with Andrew Poretz
  Our Meetup welcomes all interested in life and business coaching, whether you are interested in receiving coaching, are yourself a coach, or someone who would like to explore the practice of professional coaching. Andrew Poretz is a life/strategy coach for entrepreneurs and creative people.

Business/Marketing Articles for Coaches

• How to Think Like an Entrepreneur - Janet Slack - There are very specific thinking patterns in the mind of an entrepreneur.  The entrepreneurial mind is the source of creativity, possibility, and growth in business. The success of the business is ...