Coach + Consultant: June 2007 Archives

Below is a link to a recording of my teleclass on making the transition to self-employment. The participants are all home-based business people in the early stages of establishing a coaching or consulting business.

During the discussion we heard from several people about challenges in choosing their business niche. That's often a sticking point for new business people making the transition to self-employment.

We also discussed ideas for one participant in particular on how to make the transition from full-time employment to his executive coaching business, keeping in mind that he is the sole income earner for a family of four. Enjoy the recording.

Click here to listen to the teleclass recording...

Ah...the folly! I should know by now that nothing is every really finished. It's always evolving. Or at least, that's how it works for me. One project inevitably leads to another.

As Andrea Lee remarked this week "Remember the quote from the Godfather?" Oh yeah, that would be the one about making an offer you just can't refuse. Can't you just hear Andrea laughing gleefully in the background?

But I'm getting ahead of myself.

Let's backup a couple of months. I had announced far and wide that I was leaving the coaching profession to become a full-time artist. I had already tried to sell my coaching practice but it didn't work out. So I announced in my newsletter that I was considering developing my materials into a self-study program.

No sooner had I pushed SEND on that message, than I received a immediate reply from Andrea Lee (she of Multiple Streams of Coaching Income fame, among many other things).

Barbra,

Re your project to home-study-ize the BACC materials. I wonder if you would be interested in a collaboration? I could offer to help in any way useful to moving the product creation part along...

What I envision is that having collaborated and perhaps cobranded the product, I could then very easily and on a continual active basis promote it at our online store, due to launch later this spring. I could also see continually finding opportunities to sell it, at events, exhibits, build affiliate relationships, etc. Might you be interested in discussing it further?