5 Blogging Content Ideas for Coaches

Posted When I tell coaches that their business could really benefit from a blog, I always get this look that says “Who has time for that and what would I write about?!”. Below are 5 ideas for content and believe me, it really doesn’t take that much time! If you need a reminder about the benefits of a blog, read my earlier post “Why Every Coach Should be Blogging”   5...
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5 Mistakes Coaches Make With Their Newsletters

Posted If you are a Coach or other solo-preneur who has an e-mail list and sends out newsletters, tap yourself on the back. You are doing one thing right already ! Despite all the Social Media hype, E-Mail Marketing is still a very important marketing channel. There are a few mistakes that I see regularly in newsletters though, so I thought I’d write them down:   5 Common Mistakes Coaches...
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Remove Contacts from Your LinkedIn Network

Posted Normally you want to add connections to your LinkedIn network, not remove them. But it has happened to me before, that I thought: I wish I could remove this person from my network. Usually it was users who had their Twitter linked to their LinkedIn account, and my newsfeed was filled with their tweets. I can’t repeat it enough: big No No ! Each Social Media tool has it’s own audience, and...
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Why Every Coach Should Be Blogging

Posted If you are a coach, or any other type of “heart-based entrepreneur” you have to wear a lot of hats: the coaching hat, the accounting hat, the sales hat, the marketing hat and I really recommend you also wear the blogging hat.   In a way, blogging is marketing. It’s the new way of marketing. When you blog, you don’t sell, you share your knowledge with others.   6 Reasons Why...
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Main Benefits of Joining a LinkedIn Group

Posted When I teach people how to use LinkedIn, LinkedIn Groups take an important part in my course. It is one thing to have an optimized LinkedIn Profile (get my LinkedIn B2B e-book that teaches you how), but LinkedIn is not just an online CV. With 150 Mio users it really deserves it’s bronze medal of the 3 Top Social Networks (after Facebook and Twitter, as you might have guessed).   So...
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How Coaches Can Use Online Video

Posted Take a guess which is the world’s largest internet search engine? Easy, of course it’s Google. Now guess which one is the 2nd most popular one ? No, not Bing. It’s Youtube ! YouTube gets 4,000,000,000 page views a day, has 800,000,000 users (about the same as Facebook) who watch 3,000,000,000 hours of video a month. Impressed ? You should be! And if you aren’t already,...
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