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I just want to do my work and hate this stuff about selling and money

I just had a conversation that may sound really familiar to you. This fantastic, talented, big-hearted healer was saying: “I just want to do my healing and spiritual work and hate all this stuff about selling and money!”
Don’t you resonate? I sure do; even though I’m really good at helping other people with their [...]

The real reason coaches and heart-based service providers have a hard time making enough money – Part 3

So far, I’ve talked about:

The apparent reasons that may be true enough but aren’t the real cause of coaches’ lack of success.
Three related reasons that relate to marketing fundamentals
Three mindset reasons

Now it’s time to talk about the seventh and last reason why coaches and other spiritual entrepreneurs don’t make enough money.
Coaches’ work is quite personalized [...]

The real reason coaches and heart-based service providers have a hard time making enough money – Part 2

Part 1 of this topic talked about how coaches and spiritual entrepreneurs need to showcase their practical value to their target market instead of being vague, which by definition means non-urgent.
Here I’d like to cover three more reasons why coaches, holistic practitioners and spiritual entrepreneurs often have a hard time being as successful as they [...]

The real reasons coaches & heart-based service providers have a hard time making enough money – Part 1

In the previous post I listed some of the usual reasons coaches give for having too small an income.
One of them was that people aren’t willing to spend on coaching in this economy, considering it personal development that can wait for easier cash-flow times.
That’s true enough, but only if the following 3 conditions:

Coaches are offering [...]

The Apparent Reasons Coaches & Heart-Based Service Providers Have A Hard Time Making Enough Money

I bet you can recognize most of these:

In this economy, fewer people are willing to invest in personal development
People want a quick fix
There are too many coaches
It takes a lot of educating for people to “get” what coaching can do

I’m sure you can add a few more to the list, but that’s a good [...]