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Hello, I'm Hannah McNamara, coach and author of 'Niche Marketing For Coaches'. If you're a Life Coach, Executive/Corporate Coach, Business Coach, or NLP Practitioner, you'll find Marketing advice here to help you to grow your practice.

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Masters Club Q&A - Thurs 19th August 1 hour Marketing Masterclass for Masters Club members. . . . keep reading Marketing Masterclass - How to Accept Payments Online - Thurs 5th August Being able to take payments online opens your business up to more opportunities. Often clients prefer to pay by credit card, but may coaches do not have the facility to take online payment and lose the business. Today... . . . keep reading

Masters Club Q&A - Thurs 19th August 1 hour Marketing Masterclass for Masters Club members. . . . keep reading Marketing Masterclass - How to Accept Payments Online - Thurs 5th August Being able to take payments online opens your business up to more opportunities. Often clients prefer to pay by credit card, but may coaches do not have the facility to take online payment and lose the business. Today... . . . keep reading Click to read more articles on marketing and building your practice

Create A Winning Article Marketing Strategy Bonnie Jo Davis Make the most out of your time and efforts by creating a submission strategy for your article marketing. Both beginners and experts can and should use a submission strategy that will evolve over time . . . keep reading VIDEO TIP: Get Out! In this video Hannah McNamara explains why coaches, consultants, speakers and authors need to 'get out' if they want to really understand their market and the customers and clients they are targeting and improve the marketing of their services. . . . keep reading VIDEO: How to upload your videos to YouTube Having your videos on YouTube instantly gives your coaching practice exposure to a worldwide audience, plus it gives you a way of embedding videos in your own website quickly and cheaply. In this video you will be taken through the steps to getting your video onto YouTube within a matter of minutes. . . . keep reading VIDEO: How to Edit Video and Add Captions Hannah McNamara This video explains how to use Windows Movie Maker to edit your own videos and how to add captions and titles to your videos. You'll be shown step-by-step exactly what to do so that you can easily include your website URL or any promotional messages in your videos. . . . keep reading Should I use video on my website? Hannah McNamara With the growth of sites like YouTube, more and more businesses have started to include video clips on their websites. Could this approach work for your own business and how complicated is it? Over the past few months I've been playing around with video on my various websites to see whether it REALLY makes any difference. I've been using audio clips for years and so I was interested to see if it would have any impact. I'll be honest, I procrastinated around . . . keep reading VIDEO: How to use the Member Forums This video shows you how to access the member forums, search, set up a profile, send private messages to other members and make networking connections. . . . keep reading Personal Safety with Personal Coaching Clients Hannah McNamara Coaching is generally a very safe profession but as with any situation where you are working with strangers, it is always worth considering your personal safety - especially if you are meeting clients at your own home or you go to networking meetings in the evenings or in risky areas. Think through how you would handle . . . keep reading VIDEO: How to download files from the Download Library This video shows you how to make the most of your membership by downloading the audio recordings, checklists, 'how to' guides and other resources from the members only area which will help you get more coaching clients. . . . keep reading Your First Year as a Coach - what to expect So you've decided to become a professional coach - CONGRATULATIONS! As a coach you have joined a growing group of individuals who are making a difference in the world. You have the potential to earn a living doing something fantastic, but how long will that take? There are lots of people entering the coaching profession right now. For every person who goes on to make a success of their practice, there are several who . . . keep reading What to put in your business plan Your business plan is a document showing details of how you are going to develop your coaching practice, the timescales involved, whether you will be working with anyone else, e.g. associates or freelancers, and how you will look after your finances. Your plan should include: . . . keep reading The 4 P's of Marketing Marketing a coaching practice involves more than just promotion or spreading the word. If you have studied business at college or university, you may already be familiar with the concept of the 4 P's of marketing. This article explains more about the 4 P's and what to think about when promoting yourself and your coaching practice. . . . keep reading Professional Insurance - what do I need? Getting the right insurance is essential for you when you start and develop your coaching practice. If you are planning to do business within the public sector, you will almost certainly be asked to provide evidence of your insurance. You are legally required to have some types of cover - such as . . . keep reading Financing Your New Business Setting up a coaching practice does not require a huge investment. That said, it is advisable to start your business with some financial backing. This article shows you how to raise the money you need and shows you possible sources of funding and grants for your new business. . . . keep reading (UK) What is VAT and should I be VAT-registered? VAT or Value-Added Tax is the tax which is charged by VAT-registered companies in the UK. Outside the UK would be referred to as 'sales tax' or another similar term. This article focuses on VAT in the UK. Registered companies charge VAT whenever something is sold to a customer or clients, regardless of whether they are VAT-registered or not. As a consumer you . . . keep reading How to outsource to freelancers Time to get help with your coaching business? Using freelancers or outsourcing is the way to go if you don't want to employ staff. In last week's tip I talked about finding people who you could he . . . keep reading Are you overloading yourself (and secretly feeling like a failure)? Hannah McNamara They say that 'no man is an island'. The chances are that if you coach people around work or business issues that the subject of delegation comes up from time to time. In other words you may encou . . . keep reading Automating Your Marketing Activities Hannah McNamara Most coaches I speak to admit that they can have a fairly inconsistent approach to marketing. It gets done when they have time or when sales are down. This creates a feast or famine situation - you're either doing well or scratching around for business. . . . keep reading Generating Leads from your "Author's Resource Box" Hannah McNamara You have probably heard that a lot of coaches write articles as a way of promoting their coaching practice.  You may even have written articles yourself. What are the best ways to get your articles published and in the public eye? . . . keep reading Ways to create other income streams Hannah McNamara Caught in the "time for money trap" as some people refer to it? If you stopped running one-to-one coaching sessions, how long would it be before all your income dried up? . . . keep reading Twitter and social networking Hannah McNamara The whole world's a-Twitter or so it would seem. Every day there's a news story in the paper about a celebrity who uses it or about how twitterers have spread the news about an event. How can you use Twitter to boost your profile online? . . . keep reading Click to read more Members Only articles on Marketing...