Is this course OK What is NCFE? Want to be a life coach

paulwf

HappySad wrote: »

I can see that will little knowledge in marketing and sales that finding customers can be hard. What sort of price did you trade at? What sort of price did your customers usually pay? Did you work with corporates?

I'm sorry to sound harsh twice in a thread but seriously...you've paid out presumably a substantial sum of money and signed up for a 1 year course but haven't worked out how you are going to make money from it?

As I've said before your business plan should work the other way round but I guess it's too late now. It does appear to be a profession that you need to be passionate about, but you seem to have jumped into one of the first courses you've come across and probably the cheapest...I would have thought you'd have done much more research first if you were passionate about being able to offer your clients the best possible service.

Conrad

HappySad wrote: »

Is the qualification you get from this 2 day course accredited?

Mmm, you really think a 2 day course will equip you with the experience and skills necessary for you to teach others how to run thier lives?

Would you in trun be happy for your doctor to have had 2 days training?

What makes you think you have valuable recipes for others - is your life pretty much perfect?

Conrad

paulwf wrote: »

I'm sorry to sound harsh twice in a thread but seriously...you've paid out presumably a substantial sum of money and signed up for a 1 year course but haven't worked out how you are going to make money from it?

As I've said before your business plan should work the other way round but I guess it's too late now. It does appear to be a profession that you need to be passionate about, but you seem to have jumped into one of the first courses you've come across and probably the cheapest...I would have thought you'd have done much more research first if you were passionate about being able to offer your clients the best possible service.

Yes, and presumably a life coach needs to themsleves run thier life in an efficient and firm footed manner in order to maximise thier own outcomes?

This is quackery to be frank. Richard Branson might have a few lessons for us, but any old random person thats paid for a course, nah, doesn't quite work that way.

I'd ask the OP whether she wopuld spend money on a random person introducing themselves as a life coach - I doubt it. Most of us spend money only once we trust the service provider and deem they have something of value in return for cash.

I've been a finance broker 20 years. I've known many fail as they can't get the customers.
Asc I always say, opening the shop is the easy bit. Marketing, or more acurately, 'selling' and networking is the core of any sucessful business - even my Accountant spend 50% of his time seeking new business, and trust me these muppet things you learn at business school aboput advertising are more or less worthless. Advertising has a modest role only, unless you already have a sigbnificant well established firm.

Conrad

HappySad wrote: »

Did you work with corporates?

Tell me how you as a lone random person will get inside a corporate and get them to part with cash - who will you ring specifically?

How can you say you don't want to spend m,uch money on learning - your'e saying your not prepared to invest properly into the input side, yet you want others to part with hard earned cash in return for your service which was itself developed on the cheap!

That's like me not wanting to invest in a nice clean modern bakery, and instead opening a shabby premises yet still expecting you to buy a roll from me - would you? Do you?

Conrad

Here's how to make big money right now;

Find out about UK suitable solar panels for residential use.
Knock on doors and sell them a package - show them how thier leccy bills will reduce in time and pay back thier investment.
Get some orders - give those to the solar panel co and take a cut.

All you need is guts and a hide like a rhino!

HappySad

Conrad wrote: »

Yes, and presumably a life coach needs to themsleves run thier life in an efficient and firm footed manner in order to maximise thier own outcomes?

This is quackery to be frank. Richard Branson might have a few lessons for us, but any old random person thats paid for a course, nah, doesn't quite work that way.

I'd ask the OP whether she wopuld spend money on a random person introducing themselves as a life coach - I doubt it. Most of us spend money only once we trust the service provider and deem they have something of value in return for cash.

I've been a finance broker 20 years. I've known many fail as they can't get the customers.
Asc I always say, opening the shop is the easy bit. Marketing, or more acurately, 'selling' and networking is the core of any sucessful business - even my Accountant spend 50% of his time seeking new business, and trust me these muppet things you learn at business school aboput advertising are more or less worthless. Advertising has a modest role only, unless you already have a sigbnificant well established firm.

Thanks for your comments.

Thanks for your comments and it is good to hear how much sales and marketting .. networking etc is so much important for making a business successful. For this thread however I am only interested in the main topic of the title. Others areas I am getting support, advice etc from else were.