Who’s to Blame?
If you’re like so many practitioners I’ve worked with, in the beginning, you probably did what I did: I got more training. As often as
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You Can’t Download Confidence
Over decades of training, mentoring, and coaching colleagues, I’ve heard too many practitioners say they lacked the confidence needed to begin. Get the free course that shows you how to build confidence so you can build a practice.
How Do You Rank Yourself as a Practitioner?
It’s not a stretch to say that if you lack confidence in your ability to help people make a difference in their lives,
If You’re Good Enough, Clients Will Come–True or False?
Here’s a myth that can destroy your ability to build a practice: If you’re good enough, clients will come.
How to Avoid Common Mistakes Holistic Practitioners Make with Email Marketing
Email marketing is alive and well—in fact, it’s one of the best low-cost advertising options you have. But if you’re like most holistic practitioners I
What to Do When Somebody Pops Your Balloon
Here’s how to respond when someone ruins your presentation, asks for a refund, or does anything that makes you want to curl into a ball or leave your body.
10 Tips on Ethical Bribes, Bonuses and Pricing Your Offer
Ethical bribes, smart pricing and bonuses can help you grow your list and make more sales. But there are pitfalls. Here are 10 tips from a company that fell into 10 pits.
Is Your Website Headed in the Right Direction?
Before you build a website, know where it’s going so you don’t spend time, money and energy creating a site that doesn’t work for your business.
5 Obstacles Between You and Your Successful Practice
Practitioners often get stuck because they think they shouldn’t need help to get clients or build a business. Or they can’t afford it or don’t have time for it.
Your Brain on Accidental Self-Employment
For practitioners, a good deal of stress has to do with wanting to do the work you love with people who need it, and ending up accidentally self-employed. This video explores the effect on your brain and how intentional action helps.
XYZ: Promises You Feel Good About Making to Your Clients
Clients expect something from your work— otherwise, why commit? This easy formula lets you promise concrete results without feeling out of integrity.
Think Before You Act. Learn Before You Think.
We are living in a time of incredible challenges and change and those are inextricably linked to our roles as transformational leaders. To be credible, you have to keep learning and evolving… get started here.
Keeping Your Practice Afloat in Crisis
In the middle of a pandemic, you can’t do business as usual. To keep your transformational holistic practice afloat, you have to become the transformational leader your clients need. Here’s the door to my free course, Teaching Online!
How Claiming Your Authority Helps Your Clients
Many holistic practitioners have difficulty claiming their authority because they associate it with telling their clients what to do, or what they should feel. In reality, your clients benefit when you step into transformational leadership and claim your rightful authority.
Can You Ever Have Too Much Choice?
If your practice is about creating more and more choice for your clients, you need to think about when more choice actually gets in the way of making progress, how to know when enough is enough and how limiting choice in your business helps it grow.
Your FAT Habits Can Change Your Practice
We all have habits of feeling, acting and thinking. I call them “FAT habits” and like pretty much every habit, their function is to limit choice. When habits affect your ability to build a sustainable business and lead to helping only a fraction of the people you’re here to serve, it pays to see where they’re hiding.
You’ll Always Beat The Big Guys At This
True, you don’t have the money a big business has for promotion, but when it comes to giving your clients what they yearn for, you’ve got them beat—hands down! Here’s how to maximize your advantage.
How To Be a Hero When You Feel Like a Wallflower
If you feel like a wallflower in social settings, you could be missing the chance to connect with people who would see you as a hero–if only you felt like you could talk to them! Here’s how to make that happen.
The Importance of Being Connected
We know that social connections are beneficial to health–but if you’re used to working quietly with one person at a time you might have to make an intentional effort to create and maintain them.
Ever Wonder What to Talk About?
When you don’t engage with the people on your email list often enough, sending a note to them becomes a chore that just doesn’t find its way to the top of your list very often.
Who Owns Your Business Assets?
Learn to see what your business assets are and how to protect them. Be careful about what you accept for “free” because it’s really important to stay in control of your content and your message.
These Are Not April Fool’s Jokes About Your Business
Why it’s important to build your business so that it reflects you, and 3 quick things you need to know about what it takes to be successful.
Nobody Wants To Be Talked Into Needing Your Help
Convincing people they have a problem you can solve is really tough and most of the time, it doesn’t work. That doesn’t mean you’re never going to figure out how to get new clients, though… the key lies in doing something different than what you’re used to!
3 Ways To Stop Money Drama From Taking You Down
Most hands-on practitioners aren’t “in it” to make a fortune. But because we’re conflicted about it, we tend to push money away at the same time we’re trying to build a practice. That’s not good for you, or for your clients. Here are 3 ways you might see it in your practice, and how to change things for the better.
Do You Really Need An Ideal Client?
You and I both know you aren’t an internet marketer. But they seem to be the ones telling everybody what they need to do online to attract clients. As a hands-on practitioner, you CAN do it your own way–you just need to get past the hype and the idea that demographics are the be-all-end-all of client attraction–and understand what you need to do instead.