Episode 8

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Published on:

24th Apr 2024

Mastering Follow-Up: The Key to Creating Coaching Income

Mastering Follow-Up in Your Coaching Business

In this episode, John & Angie discuss the importance of follow-up in business, particularly within the coaching industry. They address common pitfalls such as poor or lack of follow-up, which many coaches suffer from due to fears and doubts, including imposter syndrome and the discomfort of sales conversations.

Explore the root causes of these challenges, such as overthinking and fear of rejection, and how these fears can hinder business growth. Our hosts share their own struggles with follow-up and sales, emphasizing the shift in mindset required to overcome these issues. They suggest viewing sales not as a dreaded task but as providing opportunities and solutions to clients.

John and Angie delve into practical solutions like adopting a business identity, utilizing Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tools for effective follow-up strategies, and the significance of consistent client outreach programs. They stress the importance of aligning one's identity with being a business owner, setting clear business goals, and the pivotal role of self-discipline in ensuring success.

Both hosts advocate for understanding one's worth and charging accordingly, treating the coaching practice as a legitimate business rather than a hobby. The conversation concludes with a call to action for coaches to implement systems and processes for follow-up, ensuring they don't miss out on potential business opportunities due to inadequate client communication.

00:00 Opening Banter: The Fortune's Location

01:06 The Importance of Follow-Up in Business

02:04 Overcoming Imposter Syndrome and Fear of Sales

05:36 The Journey to Charging What You're Worth

07:09 Embracing a Business Mindset and Identity Shift

17:33 The Power of CRM Systems for Effective Follow-Up

21:42 Choosing the Right CRM and Making It Work for You

25:34 Conclusion: The Game Changer for Coaches

Transcript
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John,

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John: Angie?

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Angie: if I said to you, where's

the fortune, what would you say?

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John: I'd say, where is it Angie?

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Let me at it!

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Let me at it!

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Angie: John, it's an expression, John.

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The fortune is in Fill in the blank.

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John: The bank?

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Angie: Not.

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John: The safe?

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Angie: No.

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John: The fridge?

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Angie: What?

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No.

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Let's start the show.

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what do you think one

of the most important?

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Practices is in terms of your business.

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John: Oh, that, that word I

couldn't get before follow up.

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The thing that most people miss

out on either don't do it well, or

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in most cases, just don't do it.

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And I've been guilty of it.

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I will hold my hands up.

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I have been guilty of it.

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I've been guilty of bad follow up

and I've been guilty of no follow up.

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And so I think perhaps we should look at.

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Things like what what follow up

should look like or could look

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like And perhaps even some of

the reasons why we don't do it

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Angie: Absolutely.

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I could say the same thing in

any business that I've been in.

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What has held me back from expanding

or actually not even expanding, like

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gaining that initial traction was

my lack of follow up, but I know

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what my big why was behind that.

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I'd love to hear what yours is.

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John: Behind not following up,

Some of the, I think some of the

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imposter syndrome kicks in for me,

the bit of who am I to be doing this?

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And also the thing of, if I actually

do this, then we're gonna have to

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get into a whole big conversation.

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I'm gonna have to sort out bits that

all this stuff starts to kick to my

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head about this, but this, but this.

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And then I end up overthinking it,

which probably is the biggest issue.

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I overthink it and then

I don't take action.

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Angie: Yeah.

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And I think they're very tied together.

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So if I think about my own experience,

I don't think I was consciously thinking

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this, but I definitely was in that

space of what if they actually say yes.

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Right.

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And it's so much easier.

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I think to be working

on your business, right?

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Like I have all the things to do.

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I'm busy doing things.

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Try to make connections and then

you actually make connection.

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It

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happens.

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Woohoo.

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Yay.

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John: Yeah.

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The rubber

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hits the road, right?

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Angie: Yeah, Yeah.

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John: And that perhaps is one of the

biggest things of it's easy to have all

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these conceptual ideas and to imagine.

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Oh, and this is a big

thing in the personal and

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professional development world.

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We visualize the future that we want

to create, we set goals around it and

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stuff, but very often we don't really

think about what the practical actions

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are that need to be happening to

get us to business results, such as.

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Getting on the triage calls, the

discovery calls or getting on some

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prospecting and sales calls, essentially

reaching out to people and signing

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them up when they are interested.

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And when you need to follow up with

them, it's all practical stuff.

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And people have fear about getting

on calls with people for sure.

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I've had that as well.

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And we have fear around sales

fear of how now I can't do

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sales, or I don't like sales.

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I hear that more than Anything

else from coaches and speakers

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alike about challenges for why

they don't make the phone calls?

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Angie: I, yeah.

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I mean, you're hitting every single point.

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And I think the fear

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piece is definitely the bigger piece.

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What are we afraid of?

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We're afraid of the connection.

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Why?

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Why are we afraid to

have those conversations?

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And I think for some people.

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This was my experience and I've

met many people who it ties in

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with that imposter syndrome.

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It's like, how am I having a

conversation with somebody that I

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don't know, works for NASA, right?

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What can I possibly offer to them?

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or they feel that they're not

in alignment with a giving of

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themselves being a coach, right?

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Somebody who's setting out to help

other people and then getting paid.

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So they become really uncomfortable with

that actual conversation of charging

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what they're worth and all those things.

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So it's just easier not

to have the conversation.

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It's just easier to kind of

go, well, I didn't, I forgot.

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And we don't systematize.

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That's maybe something for later, it

happened to me by the time I actually

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realized I did have a business.

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I didn't have a CRM.

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I had no system.

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And there I was with my ink

and my paper, going, all right,

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wait, when was I supposed to?

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So for me, it was that mindset piece.

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And then it was a system to

follow up with my system, right?

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I had this great system of getting in

touch with people, but then I had no

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system in place to follow up with them.

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John: Oh boy.

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These are, look, these things, I think we

can cover some of this a little bit today,

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but we can have whole episodes certainly

about charging what you're worth.

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Like I, I heard you talking on

a very popular podcast recently

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about that very subject.

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It would be great for us to

do a show on that for coaches.

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And I even have a mentor.

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One of the reasons I went with him

was because I wasn't charging what

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I was worth as a coach and helped

me to get past that and get into it.

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But also this whole thing of

systemizing and things like that.

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I think we can cover some

aspects of that today.

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Yeah, there's probably more

than one episode as well.

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Angie: Just a little.

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John: yeah.

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But it's super, super important

to have this understanding about

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why we might not be taking action.

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What tips you over into not taking

the action to actually taking it?

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What got you there?

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Angie: I literally had

to shift my mindset.

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I really had to turn it into

a business mindset, right?

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Not the, I'm going to save

the world mindset, right?

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Which was that initial piece for me.

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And then I really had to take a step

back and say, okay, how do I feel

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comfortable having these conversations?

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Because even when I shifted

into, all right, I'm just going

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to have these conversations.

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I still felt uncomfortable

having a sales conversation.

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That was really hard for me.

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That was my.

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Biggest nemesis was that

mindset of this is a sales call.

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This isn't like a, this

isn't a discovery call.

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It shifted in my mind.

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You're laughing.

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Go ahead.

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John: I'm laughing because of my own

experience of yeah, probably same things

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going on for me and it's on my head.

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What shifted?

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There were a few things

that shifted for me.

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One was actually getting

some coaching around this.

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I we've mentioned this before

on the show about treating

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your business as a business.

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I feel like I wasn't I wasn't initially

early on in as a coach I was not

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treating my business as a business.

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I was treating it as I

don't know, a bit of fun.

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Not even that.

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I just wasn't thinking of

myself as a business person.

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I didn't consider myself

to be entrepreneurial.

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I'd come from like full time

employment and didn't know the

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first thing really about business.

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So it was identity to some degree.

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That's not who I am, but also

just not really understanding

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what were the right things to do.

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To do and not finding out about them.

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And even when I did know them being

scared of them, because it was new

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and I wasn't good at those things.

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So what got me past that

was working in sales.

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For a while now.

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I'm not a natural.

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I'm not a natural sales person.

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I'm not naturally Oh, i'm the person who

should be out there selling stuff, but it

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got me over my own stuff Making the calls,

repetition repetition and really help me

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wrap my head around This is how you have

to think about this is how business works

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if this stuff isn't happening You don't

have a business you have a hobby maybe

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Angie: yeah.

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Yeah.

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No, listen, and we've heard that, right?

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Like this is not a business.

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This is a hobby.

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Yes.

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I've heard that so many

times from other people.

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And I think that's, there's a

line you have to cross over.

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It's you just have to go over that hump a

bit and say, okay, I'm going to do this.

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And I had a very strong, unlike you,

my whole beginnings were in sales.

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Now it started out as like

retail management, low level,

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like here's a key, open the gate

tomorrow at nine, kind of a thing.

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But my interactions with people is

what grew me into what I do now.

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And it was funny because I think I said

to myself one day you've been selling your

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whole life, but for other people, right?

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So if you were going to sell for

yourself, what does that really look like?

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And it shifted in my mind from sales to.

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Opportunity.

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Offering.

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What is it that I'm really looking to do,

even if it comes from my heart and my gut.

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And that was the thing for me.

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That's what crossed me over.

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It was like, you really have to think

about this as I'm here to provide a

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service for you and better things for you.

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John: Two key points for me there.

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One, one is really adopting

that identity of I'm a business

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person and this is my business.

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That was, that was like, identity is

a really important area in coaching.

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If you don't ever work with it, play

with it because it packs a lot of value.

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In terms of how we think of ourselves

and who we think of ourselves as I

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had to get out of a long time, but I

had to get out of thinking of myself

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as this sort of fun, loving trolley,

dolly flight attendant flying.

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Angie: What's a trolley dolly?

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John: Flight attendant.

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Angie: I didn't know that, that I

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learned something new today.

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John: trolley dolly is a flight

attendant For those who don't

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know more of maybe more of an

english phrase than anything else

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but that was my identity.

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That's how I thought of myself.

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Customer service focused,

hospitality focused.

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And that's who I was.

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So I had to switch out of that

identity into, into this one.

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That was quite a journey for me,

but also it was knowing what to do

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and then getting myself to do it.

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And so I wonder how much of a part of this

you maybe feel self discipline is, cause

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I think it might be quite significant.

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Angie: I agree.

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I think you and I are speaking

that same language even though we

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came from very different arenas.

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I think that the key takeaway from

it is the first thing you really

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have to do before you start having

those conversations is deciding

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who you are as the business owner.

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Right.

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You're the CEO.

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You're the president of this business,

no matter how small it is starting out.

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And if you want to present yourself

effectively, really, who is it?

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How do you want to be

received and perceived?

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That's really important.

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Like I want to be received as a,

or I wouldn't be perceived as a,

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like a, for that, the professional

that I am as that person.

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And I think the more that we kind

of practice that mindset and then

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we have something of value to

offer, the easier it is to then

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start having those conversations.

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Because if we're not comfortable in

those conversations, you know this, the

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other person, the person on the other

end of that phone or, the video or

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the whatever on the conversation, you

know, they can smell it a mile away.

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It's like a junkyard dog with

a piece of meat a mile, like

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they know they can smell it.

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blah,

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John: Yeah this is, this was an important

thing that I learned in sales, I think

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as well, which I keep with me now

that that conversation around money is

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only awkward when we make it awkward.

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The sales conversation is only awkward

when we make it awkward There's really

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nothing to be afraid of but the only way

we're really going to get to a level of

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feeling confident about it and Feeling

capable is repetition And that's a hard

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thing to do when you feel like There's

business on the line when you feel like

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you really need the clients right now

that you don't feel like you can risk

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That you can risk a sales call not

going well like a discovery call leading

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into that say that sales transition.

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That's not the only way To bring

in clients though, of course,

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one to one calls are not the only

way sales calls is not the only

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way to bring in coaching clients.

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So it may be that you can also explore

some other ways, but I'll tell you one of

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the reasons why I ended up working with.

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Chris Ducker, who's one of my business

mentors and still is, and a friend as

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well, is that I heard him say one time

on a podcast with Pat Flynn that if you

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don't have something for sale on your

website, you're not really in business.

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And that was a wake up to me of,

ah, what's for sale on my website?

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It's like, okay, there's a podcast

there, there's some signup forms there,

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there's some downloads and things like

that, but what's actually for sale there?

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There was nothing for sale there.

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I went and fixed that that same day.

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I reached out to Chris

Vanna, how I work with him.

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And that was a transformative

experience as well.

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This is so important to make sure

that you do actually make it easy

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for people to buy from you, that

you're clear on what you're selling.

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Selling and you set things up so that

people can buy from You have the process

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and the system to do that whether

whether it's one to one phone calls

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Whether it's some online form whether

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it's webinars group sessions podcasts

or whatever else you're using to

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sell That they that you make it

easy for people to sign up for

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Angie: I definitely agree with that.

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You want to, I think the more you have

to be comfortable with who you are.

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Who are you?

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What is your offering?

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And you need to be able, this kind

of goes into that repetition space,

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like you need to be able to, and it's

not necessarily the elevator speech

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thing, but it's like, who am I?

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Right?

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Absolutely.

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As a coach, right?

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What am I really like?

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We don't want some like,

oh, I'm the truth seeker.

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Like it's not that right?

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It's not that it's what

am I really offering?

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And I think the more comfortable you

become with your product and service

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And not make it about you because it's

not about you, but you're making it all

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about you That's why the mindset thing

comes in the minute you stop making it

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about you and you focus on that other

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piece I

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think it becomes much easier when we

know how to have the conversation.

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And I know that maybe this isn't for

today, but I think, you'll maybe fall

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into the charging what you're worth

is figuring out what you're worth.

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Cause I think that's another piece of

it is, I don't know how much to charge.

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Should I charge 50 a

session or 600 a session?

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So, I think that there's more to

talk about and I think becoming

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familiar, but more comfortable with

that part of the conversation, because

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I think, did this happen for you?

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For me, I think I was, it was easier

for me to have the conversation

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about offerings and whatnot.

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But I think in the back of my

mind, I knew what was coming.

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It was like driving to the doctor knowing

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I was going to get a shot.

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And that was, and the shot for me was.

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having the money conversation.

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That was a really big piece of it

for me, and that led me to feel a

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little bit less comfortable with,

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now what?

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John: Having that figured out before you

have a conversation with anyone, it's

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a good idea because the last thing you

want to be doing is pulling a number

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out your butt whilst they're trying to

figure out, whilst you're trying to sort

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out a coaching agreement with somebody.

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But also you want to stay somewhat

consistent with that as well, because

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you can find yourself in situations,

which I'm sure we'll cover in the future

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of discounting when you shouldn't be

discounting and valuing your services or

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just trying to get the client rather than.

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Getting the right clients at the right

price that makes it worth both your time.

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Yeah.

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So we're all about creating

those win situations for

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ourselves and for our clients.

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It shouldn't be that

you lose and they gain.

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So I do think sometimes there

is that energy of feeling that

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we have to give, give, give.

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I think some people become martyrs

to their coaching businesses and

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just end up giving the house away.

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Because they want to help, they want

to serve, and they feel that maybe

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they're not even supposed to be

charging for that, and, it's I find

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sometimes there are sometimes that comes

from certain religious backgrounds.

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This whole thing of no service without

getting anything back in return.

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I think giving with there should always

be elements in our life where we give

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without expecting anything back in return,

and that is our service and contribution,

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but that can't be your business because

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that's

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Angie: starve.

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John: work,

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Angie: Yeah, the lights are

gonna get turned off and you

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are gonna have no income.

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And again, is it your hobby?

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Or is it your business?

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Right?

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That's, you know, decide.

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Make that decision out of the gate on

what you want your business to look like.

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What does it need to represent for you?

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And then treat it that way,

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John: I feel like we've looked at some of

the reasons why follow up doesn't happen

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and we may not have covered everything

exhaustively, but undoubtedly some of the.

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Specific ones, but what

should follow up look like?

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Like do you have a CRM?

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And for our audience,

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what is A

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Angie: no, I do, I do, because,

and it was, I honestly almost threw

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the laptop out the window when I

finally realized I needed one, and

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I had, excuse me, I had a bad track.

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And put everybody in.

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It was like, like over a thousand

people or something at the time.

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I was like, oh my gosh,

like, can I just start over?

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But yes, the CRM was my lifesaver.

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It was definitely a little bit, you

know, intimidating in the very beginning.

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But once I was shown how to create

automation, Oh my gosh, I felt like

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I got a raise and I had time and

I was shocked because guess what?

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I was setting up those automations and

those points of contact and I didn't

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have to remember my ink and paper was

thrown into the fire once and for all.

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Not initially, you know, I still have

a check register, but, but it really

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changed the whole Baseline of my business

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John: Yeah,

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Angie: of staying in contact.

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John: right.

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And so your CRM is your customer or

client relationship management tool.

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And so, There's a bunch of them

around and some of them are different.

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Some of them are going to be more

suitable for if you're doing like one

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to one client reach out and, attraction

and recruitment, even, or prospecting.

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But there are different ones you

might want to look at using, if you're

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doing more of a sort of a group focus,

online programs, that kind of thing.

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I use more of the latter.

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I use convert kit as my CRM for that,

which is a tool that allows me to

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put people onto my newsletter to.

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To have various promotions for them

to have emails going out that I can

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create email campaigns because I do

believe I do believe email marketing

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and email follow up is one of the best

tools that we can use for that to keep

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in the keeping relationships going with

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And so I think having that don't

necessarily need to have that newsletter.

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I think too many people put too much

energy and focus into that, but having

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regular content that is going out to your

list, whether it's five people or 5, 000

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people or whatever, is really important

for you to create and should be considered

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part of a business that you can then

keep that follow up going with them and

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keep them connected, nurture them into

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your business and make them aware when

you do have stuff to offer when you have

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campaigns coming up and when you have

specific offers for maybe no for me, I

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from group stuff that i've done So, so

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I I don't really do specific reach out

for one to one client work in that way

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Angie: Yeah, I think it was, I think

it was very eye opening for me on how

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many different ways you could use a CRM.

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with the company that I use, initially

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I had to get on the phone with them

and say, Hey, I don't even know what

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your, your, your software can do for me.

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This is what I do.

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This is what I, how I'm doing it.

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You tell me.

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And they were like, Oh, and it was again,

mine for me, it was like mind boggling.

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Like, Oh my, it wasn't just like

setting an email to, come out at

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a certain day in time in advance.

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It was so many other things.

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It was invitations to specific groups.

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Like if I was doing like, I don't

know, something that wasn't maybe

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in my repertoire and I was like,

Oh, let me send in an invitation.

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I was able to do things like

that and create, categories for

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everybody, wasn't just one lump.

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Some of people, right?

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I was able to create categories within

the categories and pick and choose where I

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was going to send things and really helped

me to, like, even if I was doing my blog,

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I would send it, you know, or a vlog,

you know, just to Being more interactive

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with these people in that community.

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So loved it.

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John: a crm that you can work with and if

you're worried about costing on this Many

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of the crms and really good ones as well

will allow you a certain level Of act,

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uh, of activity for free until you get to

a certain amount of list or subscribers

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on there So at that stage the assumption

would be that you would have income coming

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through and if that's not happening Then

something's very wrong, but they also have

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a lot of tools to help you Uh, through

the processes of the kind of things that

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you should be doing and how to how to make

best use of their Of their tools whether

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it's things like, you know active campaign

Someone's i've used before says, um send

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peppers or yeah There's there's a whole

bunch of them out there a weber was the

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very first one that I used and I really

I'm, pretty sure they're still going

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and they're they're still pretty good.

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Um But check out different CRMs and figure

out which one's gonna work best for you.

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Looks easy to use and is gonna give

you what you need and support you.

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And maybe you do need to, uh, early

days look at something that's gonna

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be free at point of use until you get

to a certain level of list on there.

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Angie: think it's really important

just to piggyback on to that,

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that yes, you can get something

that is free for a period of time.

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But even while you're searching,

you know, kind of narrow it

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down to maybe two or three.

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And most of these companies will allow

you like a seven or 14 day free trial.

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Try and use them.

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You know, I take five people that you

know, or, just put five people into

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it and get used to like how it works.

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Because if you don't like it, if

you're not comfortable with it, I

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can promise you based on experience,

you are not going to use it.

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So I didn't, I didn't choose

the first one that I tried.

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I actually had to go through

a process and said, okay.

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What did I learn from that?

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Well, I should have picked three and

tried them out and, and before I bought,

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so to speak, to see what I personally

would feel more comfortable with.

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Some people like things that are more

techie and some people like things

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that are pretty, you know, like just,

it depends on what you're doing.

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And I think that's a really

important space is to.

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Before you subscribe to

anything, just give it a try.

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Take it for a test

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John: Yeah.

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Angie: See if you like it.

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John: Say this as well, if your

business is more one on one coaching

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and that's your style of prospecting

for clients, you want a CRM that's

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going to fit with that, but you also

want to make sure that you are doing

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the action that will get them in.

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So what are you doing to, what are you

doing to prospect for your clients?

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How are you finding them?

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And are you setting up

the calls with them?

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Are you following up with them?

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Cause that's part of what your CRM is for.

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where are you at with the customer?

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What stage of things that,

what was the last conversation?

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how was that going?

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When's the next conversation?

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So you have all this stuff in your

schedule and Being managed because

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there's only so much we can really

keep in our heads at any one time.

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Having those systems that allow us brain

extensions, if you like, that mean that

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we don't have to keep everything stored

in our heads so that we should always

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know exactly what's happening where.

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Use those tools that are out there

to help you stay on track with

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all this stuff and make sure that

you actually do the follow up.

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If you're having the fear around it,

if you're having some of the stuff

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we talked about earlier, then Get

some coaching around that yourself.

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Hopefully you have your own coach

and that's something we'll talk about

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another time, but, speak with your coach.

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Speak with your coach and figure

out what you can do to change that.

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But more than anything else is, if you're

not following up, you're missing out.

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you're losing money.

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Don't waste time beating yourself up

for all the times you haven't done that.

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It's not going to help you.

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But make a decision that

that's not who you are anymore.

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You're someone who does follow up.

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I'm the person who follows up.

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I'm going to take those actions.

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I'm going to put the systems in place

so that you To know exactly what the

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followup process should be with every

single person and what I should be doing

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with them at each stage of that, it

may take a while to fully figure that

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out, but it will be totally worth it.

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Angie: Oh my gosh.

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Absolutely.

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It is definitely the, I feel

like it's the game changer.

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It's the most solid piece of

the foundation of your business.

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mindset follow up, be prepared for

those conversations as best you can.

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I'm sorry, I'm still focused

on Trolley Dolly right now.

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Absolutely.

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John: whole load of coaches businesses,

but hopefully with the information

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that we talked about today, if

there's any elements there that you

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think you may be missing on, you

could shore up, you could strengthen.

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Take a look, check some things out, find

your CRM, find your processes and systems

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and set that stuff in place for yourself.

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we will come back.

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We'll be talking about some more elements

of the business side of coaching.

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And at some point we will be

getting into what happens inside

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the coaching sessions as well.

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So I hope you'll make sure that

you are subscribed to the show and

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stay tuned for, those episodes.

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Angie: Can't wait.

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Looking forward to it, everybody.

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John: We'll see you next time.

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Angie: Bye bye.

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About the Podcast

The Coaching Clinic
The HEart of Coaching from learning to client sessions, starting to scaling, we've got you covered.
She's direct and he's diplomatic but Angie and John are both successful coaches with years of coaching experience and very different delivery styles.
Each episode will tackle a different coaching problem from both styles of coaching, with occasional guest coaches and audience interaction. We're going to have some fun digging into your biggest coaching challenges and helping you become an even better coach.

About your hosts

John Ball

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From former flight attendant to international coach and trainer, on to podcaster and persuasion expert, it's been quite the journey for John.
John has been a lead coach and trainer with the Harv Eker organisation for over 10 years and is currently focused on helping his clients develop their personal presentation skills for media and speaking stages through his coaching business brand Present Influence.
He's the author of the upcoming book Podfluence: How To Build Professional Authority With Podcasts, and host of the Podfluence podcast with over 150 episodes and over 15,000 downloads John is now focused on helping business coaches and speakers to build a following and grow your lead flow and charisma.
You can now also listen to John on The Coaching Clinic podcast with his good friend and colleague Angie Besignano where they are helping coaches create sustainable and successful businesses, and the Try To Stand Up podcast where John is on a personal and professional mission to become funnier on the stage and in his communication.

Angie Besignano

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With early beginnings as an entry-level manager in the sales industry, Angie has spent more than 3 decades building her knowledge and expertise to create her master coaching and speaking brand, AngieSpeaks. After climbing the professional ladder, she started her own company and decided to focus her practice on High Performance Coaching. In doing so, she challenges individuals to elevate and grow, no matter what level they are at currently in their personal or professional lives.
Angie has created a strong following through her “tough” but “pragmatic” approach and challenges her clients to find the space that is holding them back the most. In doing so, their outcomes not only compound, but take root, so that results can be permanent. The tools she provides work in the “real” world and show up in their first interaction.
Angie has an unwavering passion toward the journey that fosters a true transformation for those that work with her. She delivers her content and speaking engagements with an authentic enthusiasm and curiosity that creates trust and rapport, allowing for a heightened experience.