Life Coaching Resources For New And Established Coaches

Free Life Coaching Resources for All Aspects of Your Business

Protect your life coaching business with the right legal agreements

In these days of litigation, it's important to have firm agreements, disclaimers and refund policies in place to protect you and your coaching business.

It is increasingly easy to copy someone else's material, and so if you have quality, original content on your website or in your webinars, legal protection against plagiarism will help keep your material as yours.

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How can I check for broken links on my website?

Take advantage of a FREE tool to check for broken links, using brokenlinkcheck.com  

Brokenlinkcheck.com enables you to ensure that all your links are working and up to date.

Why should you check for broken links? If a prospective client clicks on a link on your website and finds it doesn’t work or goes to the wrong place, you’ve most likely lost them to another coach.

And, while it is invaluable to check that the links on your own website or Facebook pages are still working, you should also check any links that a guest posts on your website or Facebook page. 

I've found this to be one of my most valuable life coaching resources to keep my website relevant. When doing my monthly broken link check recently, I discovered three contributions posted by other people on my website that were no longer working. So make it a habit to regularly use this free link tool at brokenlinkcheck.com.

What Are The Best AI Writing Tools for Websites?

AI can be appealing as a time-saving way of helping you create website content, especially if writing is something you find challenging. The emphasis here, though, is on “support” rather than “doing it for you."

I’ve found AI services can be very useful for giving me ideas for headings and prompting me to fill in information gaps I may have missed. I mainly use ChatGPT.

However, there are a couple of important distinctions. The free ChatGPT service is effective but limited in how much time it gives you until you revert to a reduced (and accurate) service. So, if you ask your questions and it says "you now only have a limited service", you will need to wait many hours  before you are able to try again. The free version, although very useful, can also be limited in the quality of the results. 

Similarly, Claude and Gemini AI free versions are limited. 

Whatever service you use, you need to edit and add to what AI comes up with to reflect your own voice, tell your stories, add pictures, and include some of your own original material.

This is because Google and other search engines are clever enough to recognize entirely AI-created content, which can be literally robotic and bland, and may downgrade the page in the search rankings.

I have also found that you need to check any recommended websites links that AI comes up with in a created article to make sure they are really relevant to the subject you are writing about.

Remember, AI draws on what has already been written but is not clever enough to make every distinction. And often gets it dangerously WRONG!

My favourite AI writing support tool for websites

There IS one particular AI writing support tool for websites that I love and you can try it for yourself free for 7 days. Called TAI, it provides a complete education and support package as well as writing and search tools that bring you excellence in your written material.

There is no pre-payment needed and once signed in, there is a complete education program. You are shown how to ask the right questions so you get the best answers and even create images. You can give TAI a trial here for free and I recommend you use it often during this time.  It will blow your mind once you discover the functionality, the support and education that is built in.

A Guide To Building A "Working" Coaching Website

My partner (and husband) Paul Buckingham, has contributed to Life Coaching Professionally with an insider's breakdown of all the vital things you need to know when creating a website technically, content wise, and legally.

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An Efficient Way to Get Paid for Your Coaching

There are many ways to get paid for your services as a life coach; Direct Debit, Paypal, Stripe, Cash, and so on.

But if you are aiming to have an international client base, you'll want to find a payment system that is easy, efficient and more importantly, doesn't cost you a fortune in exchange and/or bank fees.

I found that Wise (previously Transferwise) was the one for me, both for clients and my products. The reason was because wherever you are in the world you can set up a bank account in your preferred payment currency at a significantly cheaper rate than, for example, Paypal.

You can read a lot more about how Wise works and avoiding hidden international payment expenses in my exploration of hidden payment fees and how to save money when you are paid by your clients.

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Resources To Grow Your Online Presence

These days, most coaches recognize the need to have an online presence through a website that fulfils its purpose of attracting clients from any location.

I recommend the following specific website-creation resources for life coaches because they are supportive, practical, useful and reliable. Please be careful you are not taken in by website offers that offer free, very cheap and/or an almost instant creation process. They may be beautifully presented but unfortunately they don't always provide what you need to help manage your website and attract new clients (without a lot of extra investment in plug-ins).

Solo Build It -  An Online Business Building System

As a life coach in the 21st century you are more than likely going to want to create a website to showcase who you are, how you coach and all your great client testimonials.

This is especially true if you are planning to coach nationally or internationally online, rather than just locally. I chose Solo Build It! to create Life Coaching Professionally and my previous personal coaching site because it met all my needs and had a very reasonable annual fee.

It has a unique step-by-step Action Guide for building a business online. It also includes:

• design templates
• safe and secure hosting
• education and support for SEO (search engine optimization)
• brainstorming function to find the best keywords to write about
• easy editing
• a highly moderated and thoroughly supportive community forum, where you can get advice about your site from SBI's website experts and other users
  
• Built in AI writing and research support tool with a library of over 500 prompts.

It also features a fully integrated AI support tool for creating your website, called TAI. I covered this above but if you have a full hosting and business-building package, TAI is included in the cost.

Solo Build It! costs USD 365 annually for everything and you can even trial the system for free for 90 days so you can check it out to see if it is going to be what you need.

If you want an online business-building website in an all-in-one package without spending a fortune, I suggest you include Solo Build It! in your research.

Do You Already Have a Wordpress site?

If you already own a WordPress site, you could consider investing in Solo Build It! for Wordpress. This provides some of the most important features of SBI! including

The Action Guide business-building education package

AI support tools (TAI)

Brainstorm It! - the unique keyword brainstorming tool

The fabulous free support.

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More recommended books to help your coaching

If it's more books you are after to enhance your coaching and grow your business, check out my Recommended Coaching Books page.

I've read and used the information in all these books over the years and can thoroughly recommend them as useful additions to your coaching bookshelf. These and many more good books on life coaching are all available on Amazon. 

Do check them out - they are full of useful information, hints and checklists geared to your success.

Five of My Tried and Tested Life Coaching Processes

Especially when you are new to coaching you'll find yourself hunting around for life coaching materials that may go beyond the scope of your training. 

I'm delighted to freely share with you six of life coaching tools and techniques that I have found so useful in helping my clients . You can learn all about them and how to use them  by going to my Coaching Tools page