Comments on: Putting Money in Coaches’ Pockets | Part 2

By: Isabella

Isabella — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 20:08:11 +0000

I am just starting out my coaching practice to help people transition into healthier eating lifestyles. My program that I am putting together is specific and will appeal only to a certain type of person with a certain amount of readiness. I think things will get clearer as I begin going from the planning stages into the actual doing stages.

By: Joanne

Joanne — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:55:11 +0000

Although I have narrowed my niche over the last year, which made it my best year ever, my commitment is to narrow it further in 2011. I will only take on clients who are fully committed to their careers, no more people who just want their next job and THINK they are committed to their careers. So I will be further developing the people who are sending me my target clients, so that they send more; I’ll also be better educating my other referral sources so that they get better at sending me the right people. The first test for me will be that prospect who I will be turning down. That’s when I’ll know I’m REALLY carrying through on this goal.

By: David

David — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 18:48:26 +0000

Your questions and the focus of multiple income streams from coaching have made me pause and reflect. While clearing up the leaves in the garden yesterday, I had a sudden eureka moment as all the disparate thoughts and ideas I’ve been having over the last year coalesced into one BIG idea, pulling all the loose strands into a coherent whole. I told my wife to remember this date.

By: Norman Shrewsbury

Norman Shrewsbury — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:49:38 +0000

I agree to help the segment of people I’m uniquely sent to serve. Healers and artists who are small business owners who need the basic business skiils of accounting, client development marketing, time management and VA’s.

By: Lin S

Lin S — Sat, 22 May 2010 12:18:15 +0000

Thank you so much for this amazing gift! I was thinking about narrowing my skills into more special market already a month! You reminded me WHY I decided to be a COACH by asking a simple and a very laser-pointed question: What has happen in my life that I can share with others and what gifts I have to focus on the niche with a similar problem that only me can help to solve it. Tremendous insight! Thank you!

By: Nancy

Nancy — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:28:15 +0000

When clients say, “you just point out stuff that makes me think and helps me make needed changes,” I know I am niche coaching. Now to identify what it is that these people have in common? I guess that are generally willing to be challenged, don’t fit the status quo, like to take risks, are front-runners, but even this is too broad a niche. Most of the clients I connect with want to make a contribution utilizing some special talent they have.

By: Sherrie

Sherrie — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 22:23:36 +0000

This one hurts a little. Like ripping off the band-aid. I have longed struggled with this whole “say no to distractions” thing. A while back, I had all these ideas for making money – multiple streams of income! — but I gave it all up as distractions from the practice of law. And then, the practice of law was taken from me due to health issues (and then there was the small matter of me hating being a lawyer but … I digress). So now the distractions have become the all-consuming passion. But yet I still find myself allowing myself to become distracted by any number of interests or even non-interests.

Right now, I have identified two groups I’m uniquely poised to help: lawyers and women in mid-life who want to reinvent themselves. Should I only focus on one? Can I do both? I’m going to try to do both, but what will happen? Who knows. If I have to adjust, I will. I’ve proven I can, right? After all, I put all the distractions aside to focus on my (in retrospect, short-lived) legal career.

By: ngregg

ngregg — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:58:31 +0000

My business partner and I have a saying called Stay in Your Lane! We said this as a joke but we are very serious about not doing the tasks that we are not gifted to perform.
It is so important that you serve the market that you are passionate about serving and do not try to save the world. Focused thought and energy will have a laser effect on your success. In order to become the expert you must specialize in a niche in order to become excellent. You must position yourself for excellence! Excellence is intentional!

By: Veronica V Price

Veronica V Price — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 14:02:17 +0000

Confirmation, confirmation, confirmation!!!

No, Veronica – you can’t help ALL – sigh!!!!

By: Doreen Agostino

Doreen Agostino — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:53:52 +0000

Unique Group: I suggest the emerging, fully-conscious human is going where none have gone before. There is no blueprint for humanity beyond 2012. We create the future with every now thought. Is targeting a specific segment of the population a limitation; as we learn to master energy and step into our magnificence?

By: leona

leona — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:34:55 +0000

This is a really useful question. When I look at my website I really it is very much product focused and it gives me thought to make some more specific mention of my niche…which is really about helping people find their “authentic inner voice” and learning to trust themselves. So usually this is usually people experiencing conflict in their lives (or are conflict avoidant) and are finding this is not creating the kind of life they want. So, my niche is helping people create the kinds of communications they want in their lives and with themselves. This often occurs in times of transition or challenge.

By: Lucinda French

Lucinda French — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:23:09 +0000

I have been in a very specific area of medicine for 20+ years. Just the thought of a niche makes me feel almost ill. I don’t want to be so tied down as I was. However, looking a this from the view of;
“There are people in the world who can only hear the message you have, from you. They’re waiting.”
truly makes sense to me. And there are people who don’t want to hear,or simply can’t hear and or can’t hear from me. Another may be able to do that,so I need to not bother with them.
Thanks,

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:13:24 +0000

I really love working with leaders in human services such as social workers who are promoted to supervisor and higher positions. At the same time, I have set my e-zine up to target a broader group of leaders and am conflicted about targeting only this subset of social work leaders even though I have the contacts, due to their scarcity mindset and not having as much money to invest in coaching. As I write this, I’m thinking, GO FOR IT anyway!

By: Corry

Corry — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:13:30 +0000

I have a niche. I teach leadership to young executives and new managers in the healthcare industry and the high tech industry. I know this is my niche because of the powerful intuitive hits that I receive when working. I lose all track of time and am fully in the moment. I laugh when I look at my watch to see that my time is up and two hours has passed! During this time, everything else falls away. I have no other work, no chores, no errands, no traffic, no to do list, aches or pains. It all just disapears and I am at one with the source and my purpose. I also feel myself connecting with my participants and clients. When they experience the joy and power of an a-ha moment, I feel it too! I often cry with my participants, laugh with them and feel a jolt of power in myself when I see that they have connected with their own sense of motivation and are ready to change and grow.

By: Johanna Lyman

Johanna Lyman — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:13:42 +0000

Very timely message, clearly the Universe giving me another gentle nudge in the direction of clarifying my niche. I start with my marketing coach on Monday–yay!!
Blessings for a peace-filled Thanksgiving day.
Love, Johanna