Why Coaches & Therapists Don’t Have More Clients
Dave, thanks for your kind comments on the previous post - glad you liked the exercise! 
Baya, responding to your comment too about being unwilling to spend "that much money" on your business. I’m not so much concerned about you spending money or not, but in the general mindset indicated by your comment. It goes into a piece of "wrong thinking" that coaches and therapists tend to have internalized that GREATLY hinders their success. And I speak from experience, having been there myself many years ago…
If you have a business, a passion and are doing something that is WORTH DOING IN THE WORLD…then no amount of money is "too much to spend" on getting that business as successful and profitable for you as it can be. Would you say the same about a needed hospital procedure ("sorry, I don’t think that kidney looks like it’s worth $25,000, even if I do need it…"), or an absolutely imperative need in your child’s life ("looks like math tutoring will cost too much, even if you are flunking out of school")?
Value your business like a child, for it is. Whether you have flesh and blood children or not, your business is the one thing you can parent and completely shape the growth of. The one vehicle that will absolutely express your unique values and Mission in the world.
Would you spend $399 to make $3,999,999? Of course you would! That’s called making an investment. It’s a fact that you have to spend money to make money (and if you don’t know this yet, ask your financial advisor or banker - they’ll tell you the same). Investing in your business is one of the thing you absolutely cannot NOT do if you want to be successful.
Go look at some of the other programs most therapists ahd coaches invest in that you could be taking: gmarketing.com ($2500), bookyourselfsolid.com ($2800), getclientsnow.com ($1900) and so on. This is the "starter level", and each and every one is an excellent business development and marketing program. I know, I’ve taken them.
It’s a fair bet if you’re not choosing to take these courses, that like many just starting out, you’re not made of money…BUT YOU CAN BE. Really. (oh yeah, a whole LOTTA tapping here…)
You are going to get out of your business exactly what you put into it. If you don’t care enough to invest in its ultimate profitability, that, according to the Law of Attraction, is energy you are also sending out to potential clients. It says you don’t care enough to make your business tight and solid, so why should they trust you to help them get their act together? It basically says "stay away" - which is a BIG reason you’re not seeing the kind of clients or numbers of clients that you want.
It’s just a little shift to make, from Poverty consciousness to Abundance (the fantastic Kim George will be teaching us about that in the TKC Program) but it’s one that is Absolutely Imperative - or your business will sink as if mired in quicksand.
Whether with us or with someone else - please get the kind of marketing training that your business needs and DESERVES to make it an astounding success. It can be, I am certain of it.
You also asked if this forum would continue to be open to ask questions. While I do indeed welcome dialogue, my blog isn’t a forum in that sense. My expertise like yours, is a product that I sell. I’d be a poor teacher indeed, if I gave away any more of it than I already have in the free "7 Mistakes" ecourse, intro teleclass and articles here!
If you appreciate the value you’ve gotten and want to access further expertise in this area, you will need to pay for the product, just as you’d ask your clients to pay you. That’s the way a profitable business works. There are many programs out there for you to access, ours is just one.
We’d absolutely love to have you join us if you decide our program is right for you. You can still enroll here at: http://taokaching.com
Warm Blessings,
Maryam
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