Brain-based Business Building: How Brainalignment™ can bring you more clients, more money AND more joy By Sylvia Becker-Hill, MA, PCC Originally published in v11n2 and reproduced with the permission of choice, the magazine for professional coaching When it comes to the business of coaching there are two kinds of coaches on the market, distinguished by their past which predicts a very different future around the success of their business in …

How do successful coaches and consultants make money and make a difference? You have to be good at networking, marketing and sales. That’s why Seal the Deal belongs on any new or experienced professional’s desk. It will help you avoid pitfalls made in all three of these key areas and increase your effectiveness. In this unique book, you’ll follow the …

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 …

Have you ever noticed that the coach training schools and programs do a great job of teaching us how to be excellent coaches, but not such a great job of teaching how to get more coaching clients or run your business most effectively?  You may have read some of the articles in this library from bestselling author and executive coach, …

Most organizations leave cold calling to the least experienced members of the team. However, the initial contact is when you can have the greatest impact on how you shape your value going forward. Junior salespeople should do the lead qualification, and hand the qualified opportunities to superhero sales veterans, right? Some might call the superheroes “sharks.” Go to any large …

It’s no new news that we are in a difficult business climate that requires making connections and building relationships more important than ever. We buy from people we know, like and trust.

Think of impeccability as an expression of the highest levels of propriety. To achieve it, determine a non-negotiable standard for what you consider to be respectable behavior, adhere to it, and commit to never compromise that standard.

Here are four basic sales steps for the sales person in all of us, and they apply whether you’re concerned with “internal, informal” sales or “external, professional” selling.

Sector: Software Development Assignment: Identification of Core Values, Common Core Purpose, & Vision & application to Sales & Marketing Period: 2008-2010 Background A well-established specialist software company with a global sales footprint wished to review its market positioning, degree of product differentiation & pricing in preparation for a major sales strategy. Assignment • To assess the organisation’s core values • …