You’ve been following your business plan yet your business is flat. What is missing? Most coaching business plans are composed of activities that are actually tools for keeping an already-built market engaged until they are ready (if ever) to purchase your service or commodity. They miss the first and most essential step: describing, finding, and building a list of people …

There are many approaches to getting new clients as a coach, but most of the coach training programs out there don’t do a great job of preparing coaches to succeed in the marketplace. Whether you’re a life coach, business coach, or executive coach, you’ll likely need a process that allows you to build, grow, and keep your coaching practice or …

The question I’m asked by coaches all over the world, which is “How do I get more clients?” And more specifically, “How do I make it easy and comfortable to consistently get more clients?” In February 2013, my team launched the Seal the Deal Success Kit to answer that question. Ten years later it is still relevant! If you aren’t …

As you explore how you currently go about organizing your time as it pertains to business development, don’t concern yourself with recommended percentages or the right way of doing it

The following article was contributed by: http://sealthedealsuccesskit.com/ This article includes a chart that shows you how to distinguish between networking, marketing and sales, the key terms of business development. ©2005. Suzi Pomerantz, Innovative Leadership International LLC. All rights reserved. Excerpted from Seal the Deal: The Essential Mindsets for Growing Your Professional Services Business People often misuse the term Marketing to …

The following article was contributed by: http://sealthedealsuccesskit.com/ It’s frustrating to call your prospects and hear all their smokescreens and reasons for why they can’t become a client now. This article lists strategies for handling objections. ©Suzi Pomerantz. All rights reserved.  Excerpted from Seal the Deal: The Essential Mindsets for Growing Your Professional Services Business The Beginning of the Chess Match …

The following article was contributed by: http://sealthedealsuccesskit.com/ Use this checklist to align your mindsets for ultimate success in business development. It’s not just about the actions you’re taking…you can be taking all the right actions for growing your business, but if you have limiting beliefs or counter-productive mindsets, your results will be less than optimal. Excerpted from Seal the Deal. …

Excerpted from Seal the Deal Use these worksheets to map out your own, personalized action plan for how you will integrate networking, marketing and sales to surpass your business development goals. Click or right click red button below to download the worksheets!

The following article was contributed by: http://sealthedealsuccesskit.com/ This marketing tool is a brainstorm kick-start, listing ideas you can try in the business development domains of Visioning, Networking, Marketing, and Sales. One way to write down what you want for your business is in a Personal Strategic Business Development Action Plan in three distinct domains: Networking, Marketing, and Sales.  Excerpted from …

The following article was contributed by: http://sealthedealsuccesskit.com/ Are you creating the opportunities you want?  Explore ten keys to tweak your business development efforts to get what you want for your business and for yourself. Networking: The Speed of Business ”Business moves at the speed of relationships”[1] is a great networking strategy. If you constantly manage your relationship assets, your business …