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How To Start An Online Coaching Business

How To Start An Online Coaching BusinessIf you have decided to become a coach, can you do it online? Yes, you absolutely can. In this “How to start an online coaching business” I take you through the steps you need to follow to get coaching – online!

1. What Is Your Niche?

Choosing a niche will make it much easier to bring new clients to your online coaching business.

Your niche may come from sectors that you worked in, such as accounting, financial, legal or other niche sectors.

Alternatively, your niche can come from your unique skills, such as how to win sales easily, how to grow your business using Easy Life Client Attraction (mine), how to cure your anxiety, how to regain your fitness, simply anything that you have expertise in.

The reason a niche is so crucial for any coaching business, but especially online is:

  • It allows you to be very clear on your message to your prospects, so that when you talk about your topic they can say “I really want that help right now”. If you talk generically about life or business it is very unlikely your prospects are going to get excited about what you have to offer.
  • It allows you to get great results for your clients. By honing in on a niche, whether that be a business sector or a specific skill, your expertise rises and your results for your clients become phenomenal.
  • It allows you to charge more. Experts charge more for their services than run of the mill coaches.

So a niche is well worth focusing on.

2. What Is Your Online Coaching Buisiness Going To Be Called?

Next, you need to come up with a name for your coaching business. My consulting business was easy to choose. It had to be my name because people are buying my expertise.

I know a lot of coaches that shy away from using their name, but in my experience of working with hundreds of coaches, consultants and mentors, your name is as good as if not better than most other options.

If you want to look at all the options, however, check out my Naming Your Coaching Business guide.

3. Who Are You Going To Sell Your Coaching To?

This part is quite important, no?

Indeed it is, so download my Get Coaching Clients guide to discover the most effective forms of marketing for coaches:

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4. How Much Do You Want To Earn Each Month?

This is really important.

You are starting a coaching business no doubt to replace an income, so at best set your target to do just that, replace your income with online coaching income.

Once you know that, the next part becomes a bit easier.

5. How Much Are You Going To Charge?

Now you know how much you want to earn every month, how many new clients will you need to hit that income if you charge these amounts for your services:

  • £100 per month
  • £250 per month
  • £500 per month
  • £750 per month

For example, if your income goal is to hit £5,000, selling your services at only £100 per month means that you need 50 clients, which would be very hard to attract and more importantly almost impossible to deliver a high quality service.

However, when if you sell your service at £500 per month, you only need 10 new clients, a much easier sell!

If you think you will not be able to deliver value at that price, you need to get really clear on the value that you will provide for your clients.

You need to spell out your value to yourself, but you also need to ensure that your client spells out the value to them, their life or their business.

For example, someone suffering from crippliing anxiety may not be able to complete mundane tasks or even their job. Fixing that, allowing them to retain their income, is definitely worth £500 a month to them.

If you can show someone how to close sales easily as a sales coach, ask them how much they sell their service for, then you can give them real numbers.

“So Nick, if you close one more sale a month because of my coaching at the value you mentioned of £1,000 per client per month, my services are paid for from month one and because you sell a recurring service, I am cost free every month thereafter.”

Once you start thinking about the value you add to your clients, it is easy to get your free to £500, £750 and beyond.

I know from mentoring many business start ups that they soon increase their fees once they spell out the value that they are addding to their clients’ businesses or lives.

4. How Will You Structure Your Online Meetings?

We have sorted your name, your fees and your marketing, but how will you run your online coaching meetings?

Have a process for each meeting, which could be as simple as:

  • Brief catch up
  • Deal with their one biggest challenge for the call
  • Summarise the action that they are going to take
  • Add a deadline for that action

Simplicity is often the best answer, so achieving one thing for every session can make a big difference to their business or life.

5. Which Software Will You Use To Run Your Meetings?

Now you have a meeting format, what are you going to use to run each meeting?

I have used Gotomeeting, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, and they are all fine.

However, my preference for ease of use and consistency (vital in any mentoring or coaching business) is Zoom.

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6. Which Hardware Will You Use To Run Your Meetings?

I have tried a range of headsets over the years, from Apple Airpods Pro to the Blue Snowball Ice microphone, but for comfort, lack of ruffling of my abundant hair (not), I now use this After Shokx Noise Cancelling Induction headset. I particularly like the fact that they have a microphone boom, so my speach is clear, and because they induct the sound through your cheekbones (totally works) you can still hear background noise in the room you are working in.

7. What Support Will You Offer Inbetween Meetings?

Finally, as an online coach you will be judged purely on your results, and from someone who has done this since 2003, what you do inbetween your online business coaching matters as much as what happens on the call, because this is where the action is taken.

It might be checking in by email, sending them a whatsapp voicemail to encourage them to keep going, or you might have an online mentoring and coaching portal where they can ask you questions discreetly and you reply personally, like I do for my More Clients Academy – I use Kleq which is really good at this.

Keeping the dialogue going in between your sessions is vital, so ensure that you do have some way of keeping in touch.

This is good to get you started, but for a more complete guide and ongoing coaching business tips to grow your coaching business fast, click the button below:

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  • I focus on marketing that brings clients to you when they are ready to buy your services (easy life client attraction I like to call it).
  • I ensure that every penny you spend on marketing creates a return on investment for you. Vanity marketing does not pay your bills, so I won’t let you do it.
  • I have been marketing service businesses since 1991.

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“Before we started working with Nick, we had no clear idea of our paid traffic strategy.

We knew there were people looking for what we offer, but we just weren’t getting them landing on our website, and when they did, they weren’t converting in the way we wanted them to.

That’s when we enlisted Nick’s help, and it’s made a profound difference both to the number of leads coming into the business, but the quality too.

He’s helped us bring in several very high-quality leads, which will be worth many hundreds of thousands of pounds, as well as helping our website become better and more conversion-focused too.

I couldn’t recommend Nick more highly – if you’re looking for more leads and more sales, it’s a no-brainer to have a conversation.

Elliott Myatt, Play Area Hygiene Services, Kingsbridge.

“I run an HR business dealing with the nasty bits of HR (disciplinaries, grievances, terminations, etc). I have been working with Nick for 12 months now and it has really changed the quality of leads I am getting. My website is now attracting the right type of clients and brings in a lot more quality, and easy to convert, leads. Nick is clear in what the marketing priorities are to get me the results I want. Very easy to work with and cuts to the heart of the matter – no excuses!”

Carolyne Wahlen, GAP HR Services, Goring

“After working with Nick on our Google My Business strategy we are now ranking in the “Google 3 pack” and generating leads purely from our ranking!Nick also carried out a fee review resulting in a fee increase of 40% and no detrimental effect to volume. Double whammy with increased leads and increased income. Well worth taking the time to talk to Nick and definitely worth working with him going forward, it’s a no brainer!”

David Aggiss, Three Sixty Mortgages, Plymouth.

“Nick’s advice and guidance has been excellent. He cuts through all the noise and brings clarity. His focus is on what is effective and what will achieve the objective. He knows what works and what doesn’t and shows you the best way to approach a strategy.

One particular aspect of marketing was hard to get my head around but Nick made everything so clear and easy to understand. When you speak to him you will see, he knows his stuff!

Thanks Nick.”

Shan Phoenix, Geneva Wealth, Harpenden

Before meeting Nick, I was wasting money with Google, I had a high price per click and a trickle of leads. Now, having worked with Nick for 3 months my Google business page is optimised, my price per click is greatly reduced, customers are finding me and quality leads are flowing! Which means, my Google Ads spend is now profitable with a 3:1 return!

That is why I would strongly recommend working with Nick if you want consistent leads and a greater return on your investment – thanks Nick”.

Richard Linden, The Rent Guarantee Company, Harlow.

“Through Nick’s advice and on going encouragement I have almost doubled my client base and am now looking to take on members of staff to deal with the increase in demand for my services. My success has been in no small way facilitated by my business coaching with Nick. I would, and I do, recommend him to anyone who wants to grow their business.”

Ben Winter, Bristol Wellness Personal Training, Bristol.

“I’m new to google Ads, Nick is managing my ad campaigns and doing a great job, I’m receiving a steady flow of leads with a low cost per click meaning my marketing is paying for itself. Would recommend.”

Wendy Clarke

“Nick’s professional advice, expert knowledge and constant encouragement have proved invaluable this past year. He has helped my business from the outset, offering me support and guidance every step of the way. His services come highly recommended.”

Charlotte Laken – Copywriter

“Nick is an excellent marketing consultant. His knowledge of Google PPC is unparalled. Well worth a chat.Every time I use him my results improve and I make money. Do the sensible thing and pick up the phone to him as you won’t regret it.”

Phil O’Connor, Whitewell Financial Planning, Bolton.

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