Through my experience as a wellness coach and meeting many other wellness coaches one of the most popular questions I get time after time is… ‘How did I get started in business?’
However more than that, ‘How did I start making a part time income as a health coach?’
Most of my personal friends reactions were, is it even possible? Answer : YES!
It’s such a fantastic question. For everyone the journey of entrepreneurship is completely different. Myself, I started as an entrepreneur 8 years ago. But the most important thing when I was starting out as a coach was that I started part time before going full time.
Personally I wanted to get my hands dirty before completely jumping in the mud, so part time was perfect for me. It allowed me to build up my cliental, clients, customers and database before letting go of what I was currently doing, before coaching.
Not to mention I started making part time income, which when compared to full time income looked fantastic. Why? Because I was starting to make as much working part time as I was working full time, so I could clearly see my vision on reaching my goal of going full time in my health passion.
So, how did I make my part time income?
Surprisingly this is not something they teach, however over the last few years I’ve learnt and now encompass this into my day to day business life. So if you take nothing away but this, I’ll be very pleased.
There are only two types of income in this world. Sales and Services. It’s funny actually because these two types of income apply to everything. For example a service, providing a service in return for money such as a personal training, plumber, tutor etc. Sales is the exchange of something for the return of something. I use the word ‘something’ as it applies to everything. Start dating someone, you somewhat sell yourselves to them as being the perfect partner for them. Or it could be as simple as even offering a product for sale, selling a house, food produce or a fridge etc.
As a health coach (or future health coach) what %’s makes up your current income? Service or Sales?
Most would say service. Why not do both?
This is how I started increasing my income, by earning income through both income opportunities, however through the same client or customer. We all love time efficiency, productivity and offering the best to the people we work with – so why not have both? Not only does utilising both ways reduce your working hours but it gives you more earning potential, for people going part time – how cool is that!
I’m assuming that as wellness, health, lifestyle or nutrition coaches we all have our services down pat. And if you’re just not quite there, this is exciting. If you get stuck feel free to ask me how here.
Sales. Most people freak out when I say the word ‘sales’ which I find funny as we are sold to all the time. Sales as a coach is not so much about selling something it’s about best offering a great service to your client/customer to best serve them, their needs and goals.
These are the main types of sales:
– Sales of self made products; ebooks, programs, dvd’s etc.
– Sales of affiliate products
– Sales of direct sale products
I’ve tried them all! And I encourage you to do the same. Through doing so I came to the conclusion as to which one would be the best for me in helping me achieve my vision. That for me was direct sales.
Selling products, ebooks and programs worked great for me too, but only for a period of time and then it slowly died down. It wasn’t stable and I couldn’t sustain it for long periods of time, or while on extended holidays. Affiliate products are also great ways to earn some additional income however I was constantly making others income and spent way to much time promoting them when I could of been doing that for myself. Direct Sales allowed me to start part time, go at my own pace, partner with others doing the same thing, provided me with a product that I could 100% back that I didn’t have to make, ship it or handle any money, and the best part was that they pay you every week.
From the 3 above which haven’t you tried?
Are you ready to start earning an additional income stream to help boost your health passion, or business?
If you are, I could be looking for you!
Right now I’m looking for passionate people inspired by health for themselves, others and whom love learning and growing. It may or may not be for you, but you may just be the perfect candidate for my business. Click here to learn more
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