Monday, June 8, 2009

If You Want To Start A Coaching Business Use Articles To Market It

By Stephen Beck

For anyone looking to start a coaching business you know one of the main challenges is client acquisition. By writing articles and including in them a hyperlink directed to your website, this is one strategy to overcome this challenge. The link should be included in what is known as a resource box as this is how you promote your business in articles. Ideally, you want to have the link display as a keyword or phrase for your coaching business. Like this:

?John Smith is a certified life coach who has helped hundreds of clients maximize their potential. If you would like to schedule a 30 minute complementary personal coaching consultation, click here.?

(?Personal coaching? would be a hyperlink that the reader can click on to visit your website as it would be one of the keywords that you may want to target)

After clicking on your website link, the next step is to get the prospect to become a potential coaching client. Most people that start a coaching business provide complementary consulting sessions to give the prospect a taste of what they have to offer. You can do the same and when they sign up for their session, you can also offer any products that you might sell to them.

Once you have some articles to work with, the next step is to submit them to article directories and ezine directories on the web. This is a very effective strategy. The reason why is because it allows you to leverage other websites to get traffic to your site. Website owners post articles written by other people on their website, blog or ezine with a link back to the author. This link is the payment you receive for writing the article because it equates to traffic from the website as well as better positioning in the search engines.

So here is how the strategy works as a review. Once you start a coaching business you get clients by writing articles and promote those articles through the various directories. The directories as well as the webmasters that use your article will link back to your website. The resource box you created along with the article promotes your coaching business. Every website that you submit your article to, along with the websites that use your article provides a link. So if you get 200 websites to use your article, you get 200 links from those websites to your website.

Always remember article marketing is a powerful technique for bringing more website visitors to you. Article marketing also creates one way links to your website based on your keywords. These two benefits will help you to build up your clients as you start a coaching business.

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