What a New Life Coach Needs to Know Before Building a Website

If you have recently finished a coach training program and gotten your certification, you are ready to roll up your sleeves and start coaching. Oops. First you need some clients!

One of the most effective ways to begin marketing your nascent coaching practice is by posting a website. But before you hire a web designer and lay out thousands of dollars, take stock of the situation.

When you take on a new coaching client, you probably ask them to begin with the end in mind. Where do you want to go, what is the goal? I suggest taking the same approach with your web marketing. What can you accomplish?

First, acknowledge that it is unlikely anyone is going to hire you simply because of your website. Prospective clients can find you online and check out your credentials, but they will want to talk to you before they decide. You are not going to "close the deal" over the Internet.

It is also unlikely you will sell anything directly over the Internet, at least at the beginning of your practice. The web gurus who promise instant millions from your website are blowing smoke. You are going to make an income from your coaching by coaching, by selling your hours and programs.

Your pragmatic goal for your marketing website must be to motivate people to pick the phone up and call you and ultimately to hire you. All of your web decisions should focus on achieving that goal.

With that realistic goal in mind, you can right-size your website. You need a good enough website and it does not have to cost thousands. Consider using a straightforward content management system that lets you do it yourself. Using a professional template will let you have a polished-looking site with all the appropriate elements: a home page, services, biography, FAQs and contact information. You can collect email addresses of visitors, watch the traffic, optimize your site for search. And you can get a website up this week. Yes, this week.

Since your business is new, one of the most empowering things about having a content-management system you can control yourself is that as your business evolves (and it will!) your website can keep up. Your website will not get out of date because you will be able to change it with a few Internet clicks.

Internet marketing should be part of your new client acquisition program, just keep in mind what it can achieve.

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