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Every once in a while there will be activities like seminars for life coaches. As someone who is just starting out in this career path, joining these activities will be greatly beneficial.

You can meet other life coaches who have been on the job for years and have had accumulated valuable experience. You can ask them for some tips or pieces of advice regarding your current situation.

Marketing Tips For Your Online Life Coach

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So you finally have your life coaching certification and are ready to start helping others and receiving profits for your services. The best way of course to gain a customer base is by creating a website for your life coach practice. Once you have a website up and going with a list of your services, your next step is to of course get your website recognized so that you start getting clients signing up for your services. There are many different ways that you can drive potential clients to your site. Let’s go over some of the top methods to getting potential customers driven to your site.

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Article Marketing – this is one of the easiest, well known, and most used tactics to get potential clients’ eyes on your website. In this tactic you take articles related to your website and service and disburse them throughout article directories. The key to getting people directed back to your site is by placing your advertisement for you website at the bottom of your article in what many people call an author’s box. This way when potential clients read your article, find interest in what you have to say, and want to embark on your services they simply click the link at the bottom of your article.

Creating a Blog – this is another handy tactic that will have potential clients soaring to your services. You can create your own blog or you can go through many blog creation services that will guide you step by step till the finish of your blog. You want to keep constant related content on your blog and always provide links to your website within your blog. After each new post has been placed on your blog you need to ping your blog with one of the many blog pinging directories. This is a quick way for you to reach thousands of bloggers and to let them know that you have new content on your site. The more new content you have on your site the more you will see visitors and potential clients headed to your life coaching services website.

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) – this tactic is much like article marketing and used to rank your website when a particular keyword is typed into a search engine. The key to SEO is by using keywords that

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are related to your niche. You can easily check to see what the most popular keywords are for your particular website. You want to make sure that you use these particular keywords so that Google and other search engines can recognize your website and it can help them to rank your website. The more keyword rich words you use on your website and content on your website the more you will see visitors soaring to your site.

Social Networking Sites – this has become a very popular traffic tactic because you are incorporating the popular social network sites such as Facebook and Twitter. As we all know many people nowadays use these social networks frequently, so creating your business it’s very own Facebook or Twitter account is a great way to get eyes on your services and also boost your customer relations. You can also incorrupt video as well to drive visitors to your services. Many business owners have found this tactic to be very beneficial in receiving new clients and this includes life coaching businesses.

There are many different types of traffic tactics you can use to increase the popularity and traffic that is being driven to your services.

Remember that the more people you have looking at your website the more you will see potential clients paying for your life coaching services. So if you want to see the success form your life coaching business make sure that you incorporate these helpful traffic tactics to

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ensure you get a significant amount of eyes heading your way and purchasing your coaching services.

Faith: The Invisible Life Coach

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs

There are times when we are at our lowest and become desperately in need of all the right answers. Even how much we try to think straight, we are just so overwhelmed by our troubles that we allow it to just fade us away from our capability of being a thinking being. We succumb to the woes of despair when we have nothing supporting us.

We lose belief in ourselves. We need someone or something to bring us out of the dark, lest we yield to death. When all else fail, we are held by one last effort to preserve our sanity. An entity we can not even see or touch or hear, we call it faith – the invisible life coach.

We are dependent on many things in order to live peacefully and in harmony of ourselves and with others. According to Maslow, a theorist during the 2nd World War stated that there are levels of motivation which drives a man to be productive and positive.

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Humans start with the basic Physiological needs like food and shelter, then seeks safety with socialization, then seeks love and belonging from the social group, then proceeds with self esteem security from the outcome of the previous three items, then reaches the pinnacle of harmonious human thinking which is self-actualization, being able to integrate all the areas of needs into the self.

It is true that man has a way to gather these needs and actually make it his basis for self contentment, but one major flaw in this is the possibility of a deficiency in getting all these which results to a breakdown of the whole hierarchy of needs and puts the person back in the shadows of gloom.

Though the first five needs are ever present for the individual to gather and integrate, it needs a binding base and a holding top layer.

Whenever the hierarchical needs crumble, the person can still hold on to a thin but durable layer to work his way back up, and when he is able to reconstruct until self-actualization, he is able to hold it in place with the same layer.

This is where faith comes in. A sturdy belief in the unseen and believing that it will keep sanity in place is something more than self-actualization as it goes beyond normal human thinking and tangible comprehension.

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The souls alternate type of fuel

We have learned to rise above the ashes time and time again. Others may have failed and allowed themselves to be destroyed totally. Yet until we are breathing, we have the capability to turn things around and hurl ourselves back into wellness.

We are given a mind to think of what to do, a heart to keep us strong against pessimistic events, and a body to perform the necessary actions. The soul is the collective being of our mind, body, and heart.

It can still exist with a lack of the other, and is seated in the mind.

This altered existing entity no one sees drives each one of us to simply exist. We do not see, hear, hold, or comprehend it, but we know it is there. We know that each of our souls need its own motivation, and it needs a fuel which is ethereal to suit the ethereal life of our spirits.

Faith, among all others is the belief that we could hang on to when the material world fails us. Faith is the food to our soul to keep our most basic existence in place, may it be with something, a deity, or any other unseen object. It participates in our day to day living just like a life coach, only this time; it is invisible, yet stronger than any other life coach that we may encounter.

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How To Look For A Life Coach

The term life coach has become a household name. People have started to accept the importance of life coaches in their lives.

All of us will experience difficulties and hardships at least a few times in our lifetime. And when these events happen, a person can either succumb to the difficulties and bury himself or herself in it or overcome these difficulties and rise above them. A life coach can make that difference.

But with the number of life coaches growing everyday, how do find the right life coach for you? In this article, you will given the basics of how to look for a life coach.