42: What Exactly Makes a Coaching Website Client Winning?

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Hello coaches! Today we are doing something a little bit different ... I'm going to take you on a journey. And, this is really about websites and how they work on your behalf to bring you clients and future clients and get people on your list so you can connect with them and build relationships of trust with them over the long term.

I've been talking about websites for a couple of episodes recently in a new series that I'm working on called Client Winning Coaching Websites. This is the third episode in this series.

If you haven't heard the first two, I'd recommend that you go back and listen. But after you listen to this one.

Okay, so today what we're going to dive into is what is it that makes a coaching website client winning.

And remember last week I talked about how so many coaches are putting up what I call an online brochure, which is really not geared for attracting and enrolling coaching clients.

As a result, the website just kind of sits there and does nothing. And it's frustrating because no doubt you spent money on it and time on it and invested a lot of your heart and soul into it too.

There is a totally different way to do a website and if you're about to start your website, I hope you'll listen really closely because it does begin with some really early things. One is choosing a viable target audience full of seekers and developing a really smart niche that's going to help you stand out in the crowd.

But also there's the mechanical thing which is to choose a website template that is actually geared towards enrolling clients for you and a lot of them are not. That online brochure type is not.

Imagine the Customer Journey Online

Now, take a couple of deep breaths, close your eyes and think about when you've been online and something has jumped out at you and hit the mark about what's important to you .

You have clicked and gone to a website. Then, because of the experience that you had there on the website, you made a decision to sign up on a list for get a free download. Or, perhaps even taken a stronger action and actually invested money into a program of some sort.

That journey is called the customer journey.

Create a strategized customer journey like what I describe below for your website tailored to your target audience.

The easiest way I could think of to illustrate this for you was to talk to you about your own goals and objectives as a coach.

As human beings, when are on the Internet, we are mostly in a trance moving through this thick, very busy, loud, marketing-heavy environment. We very quickly make decisions about what we're going to pay attention to and what we're not going to pay attention to. 

It's mere seconds. We pay attention to is something that has a high degree of relevance to us as in

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