The biggest problem I see is the lack of expertise.
I don't mean coaching expertise either, I just mean the lack of "walking to walk".
For all we know you're a couch potato trying to give fitness advice.
Or a poor person teaching others to be rich.
There's just no compelling "draw" to attract people to you right now.
Especially not for a fee of any sort.
IMHO the best coaches transition from experts in their field to expert coaches in their field.
Look at it this way - if you wanted to get your shit together, which would you pick?
1. The guy with the masters in organizational psychology and a 6-month leadership coaching certification.
OR
2. The guy who is successful who has coached others to be successful in the past?
I'd take #2 every day because there's tangible evidence of success. I know you have what I want and you've given what I want to others in the past.
#1 tells me nothing other than you know how to pass tests. I would seek you out about questions regarding leadership programs and psychology degrees but that's about it.
I realize everyone needs to start "somewhere" but IMHO jumping into coaching without a compelling history is always the wrong place to start.
If you want to teach selling on amazon, I'd like to see the numbers on your prior amazon business first.
If you want to teach facebook ads, I'd like to see the numbers behind your previous ad campaigns.
If you want to teach weight loss, I'd really love to see your before/after.
But if you want to teach coaching.... well I'd really want to see who you've coached in the past, what they have to say, and what they've gone on to do.
It's true some coaches are just really good teachers and very poor "do-ers" but that always leaves a bad taste in my mouth. If it works, then it's hard to really get too upset, because there's value there, but it doesn't sit right with me. Much like the folks who teach budgeting who don't use a budget themselves - it helps people, and it works, but it just feels disingenuous.
My recommendation would be to explain what you've done in the past, where you are right now, and then give free coaching to a few folks who aren't as advanced as you are. Coach them, track their progress, record the results, and then use that as a basis to charge for your services. Then you can say "I helped 4 people and all 4 went from x-box addicts to making their first $1,000 online" (or whatever).
I don't think OP should go into coaching at all. Not yet anyway.
I understand what he feels. I learn something and I immediately want to teach others how to do it too. It's a combined desire to share knowledge while at the same time show my expertise (which is very little, by the way).
This past year I learned 2 languages (not even fluently, just 'enough' lol), and I just wrote a gigantic article (yet to be released) on how to learn a language effectively. Last year I launched a single successful test FB campaign and I wanted to teach others how to do it, too. Year before that, I learned how to build a funnel with Clickfunnels and test it, and I wanted to teach others how to do it, too. I even got paying clients for these things, but most of them failed. (Some succeeded which is a HUGE ego boost, oh man, but they probably would have succeeded without me and I know it).
I feel that it is more prudent to wait until a few people come to YOU for advice. Then use them as case studies. Leading people to failure just leaves a bad taste in my mouth, and if OP isn't careful, he'll do exactly that.
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