I once got in trouble for something that I wrote in an ebook of mine, about “Zombie Coaches”.
Here’s the offending passage:
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“A ‘Zombie Coach’ is a term that I coined for someone that looks like they have a real, live coaching business, but in reality they don’t.
This person has all the things that make it look like they’re a living, breathing business on the outside. They have a website, maybe a Facebook fan page and a Twitter account, they put out some content and they do the odd discovery call (very rarely). They tell people they’re a coach, but deep down they feel like a fraud since they don’t have any clients.
One might might; “Wait Marc! I have five clients!” … but if those people are paying you peanuts, or aren’t paying you anything, they’re not clients.
You deserve to be paid what you’re worth as a coach.
Someone took exception to what she read, and said it was rude of me to equate some coaches with the walkers in “The Walking Dead”.
Ok, maybe it was a little harsh. But I stand by my point.
If you don’t have paying clients, you don’t have a business.
Everyone pussyfoots around this, but if more people would shine a light on this then maybe it wouldn’t happen as much.
I hate to see coaches banging their heads against the wall and spending time and energy but not being compensated for it.
So if I have to, I’ll play the role of Sheriff Rick Grimes and do my best to rid the world of Zombie Coaches by turning them into live ones.
(Fun fact: I was Sheriff Rick for Halloween back in 2014).
If you’re a coach who’s tired of not being paid, check out my upcoming “Construct Your Dream Coaching Business” program.
We start in September, and there’s still room:
