Marketing Yourself as a Coach

If you decide you want to become a coach, one of the things you’ll have to think about after the decision is how to get clients or how to let people know you are available as a coach.

I attend a monthly networking meeting where I go so the people there can refer business to me and I can do the same for them. One of the activities at each meeting is a 30-second “elevator speech” or, as they call it in this meeting, a “round robin”. I was lamenting to my son that people need to get to know me if they want to consider either hiring me or referring me and that 30 seconds doesn’t really allow for that. So he offered to write my round robin for me. It is as follows:

There’s a subject I’d really like to broach.
30 seconds isn’t much time for a coach.
My job is to give suggestions, advice and tips
In the realm of life and relationships.
But here I can’t say much, just give a dose.
I need more time, though I’m not verbose.
While I’m not perfect and I’m no messiah.
I help people plenty and my name is Maia.
I’d like to end my little rhyme.
Saying lets get together when we have more time.

It takes me 30 seconds to say and always gets a smile. And, he, my son, Magic Matt, has a website full of little poems about each of the products he sells.

Oh. I forgot to say I never got a new client this way but I don like to experiment with whatever is suggested to me.