Here’s how you can avoid working with pain-in-the-butt clients
When coaches are in need of money to pay the bills, they lower their standards for clients. This means they take on "pain-in-the-butt" ones they'd rather not be dealing with. And in extreme cases, these are ones that make them break out in hives at the thought of...
About “Short Burst” joint ventures
The nice thing about running your own online business is you can do things the way you want to do them. It's your business, your rules. For example: Most of my joint ventures are seven day campaigns. I like the one week format since it gives me plenty of time to...
The importance of having criteria for your joint ventures
When choosing your joint venture partners, it's important to have criteria to use. For me, I have three simple ones: 1) Their offer must be relevant for coaches, since those are my people. 2) Their offer has to be valuable and give the results that they claim (since...
John Lennon and the power of collaboration
Today marks the 40th anniversary of the death of John Lennon, so let's talk about him. Lennon is a great example of someone who benefited from partnering with the right people, namely Paul McCartney. Before The Beatles, Lennon was the leader of a band called The...
(Podcast) Leadership Coaching 101
A new episode of Natural Born Coaches just dropped, and my guest today is Kirby Ingles. Kirby is a leadership coach who helps his clients in seven areas of their life: professional, finance, relationships, intellectual, health and wellness, spiritual, and social. In...
A “Triple W” partnership
If done properly, a joint venture is what I call a "Triple W" partnership. I don't mean "www", as in web domains! I means it's a win for you, a win for your partner, and a win for your community. Using my flat fee JV model, you win because you're guaranteed to be...
A quick note about flat fee joint ventures
This week I've been talking a lot about my new Flat Fee JV program, and here's an important thing to say about it: My program is for joint ventures where you are promoting a partner to your audience … NOT vice-versa, where someone is promoting you to their community....
Read this if you don’t know what to offer
Earlier this year I sent out an email about the importance of making offers consistently: ===== Are you “open for business”? All of the social media posts, blog posts, videos, podcast interviews and calls in the world aren’t going to make a difference if you aren’t...
How to save yourself hundreds of hours every year
Back in the old days, I wasted a lot of time on calls with people I shouldn't have been talking to. These folks (usually strangers, or casual social media acquaintances) reached out to ask me for: a "getting-to-know-you" calla "virtual coffee"a call to see what I was...
How to avoid the dreaded joint venture “goose egg”
Have you ever done a joint venture where you've gotten a "goose egg" from it? (A goose egg means $0 earned) It's ok if you have, it's not that uncommon. Unfortunately, the way traditional joint ventures are done this happens far too often. If you've been stung by this...