Vanessa helps professional services firms and sole practitioners to take charge of their business, get paid what they are really worth and create a healthier work-life balance.

In this interview Jackie explores:

How Vanessa has made a success of her business by very clearly focusing in a niche, in terms of the clients she works with and positioning herself as an expert in a niche area ‘True Worth Expert’

This is something many are afraid to do, but from a marketing perspective can help us enormously to generate interest and opportunity.

Listen to the interview here

Get a Free Copy of Vanessa’s Book.

Connect with Vanessa on LinkedIn

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Will describes himself as the UK authority on both face to face and online Networking Skills

Will practised as a Chartered accountant for 30 years ending his accountancy career as the senior partner, on merger, with a national firm.

He now shows people in the entrepreneurial, professional, and financial sectors how to become more effective and confident networkers, both online and face-to-face.

He is a full-time professional speaker and trainer and is considered a UK leading authority on the vitally important topic of networking. Since 2000 he has presented to over 100,000 people all over Europe.

He is a published author of the bestselling book “The Networking Survival Guide,

In this interview find out

• How being a good networker can help you as a coach
• How to ‘let go’ if a dislike of Networking is becoming a barrier
• The key attribute of a good networker
• How online networking differs or not, from face to face
• How to make the most of any networking event (online or face to face)
• How to ensure your follow up ‘Stuns.

Click on the link to listen to this Expert Interview

To contact Will 
www.kintish.co.uk
https://www.linkedin.com/in/willkintish/
Twitter @kintish
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/kintish2
https://www.facebook.com/Kintish-Networking-Skills-631101180371080/

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Sue Richardson is an energetic, engaging and motivated speaker and publisher who demonstrates to business owners, entrepreneurs and thought leaders how they can build their business and profile through publishing. Sue advocates three cornerstone strategic principles – to write the right book, publish it in the right way and reach the right readers – about which you will learn more today.

What you will learn in this Expert Interview

• What is involved in the business book writing and publishing process
• The importance of positioning and titling
• How your book gets sold
• The first step to take

Click on the link to listen to the Expert Interview

Book a FREE consultation
Just 30 minutes on the phone with Sue Richardson might be all you need to build the confidence you need to get your project off the ground.

Get a copy of The Authority Guide to Publishing your Business Book

To Contact Sue:
M: 07740 283247
E: sue@suerichardson.co.uk

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Carl French got involved in book publishing many years ago when he wrote his first best selling book on Computer Science (over a quarter of a million copies sold). He then went on to write and edit several best-selling books and became a part-time commissioning editor for a publishing company.

After the publishing company was sold he carried on coaching friends and family writing books on an ad hoc informal basis. Then some time later when eBooks started to appear he set up the Endless Bookcase – initially specialising in eBooks but now publishing all formats: eBooks paper books and audiobook. They have now published over 100 books.

Carl is particularly keen to publish works by people who want to share their expertise and experiences like coaches, consultants trainers and other specialists.

The Endless Bookcase has published one of my books, Go Slow to Grow, so I have first hand experience of working with Carl in this capacity.

What you will learn during this Expert Interview

– How having a published book helps to build a coach’s profile and position in the market place

– Important considerations when deciding on the subject/title

– What types of books a coach could write

– Advice how to choose the type of book to write (shorter e book V normal paperback)

– Publishing options in the marketplace

– The first step to getting a book published if anyone listening is interested

Click on the link to listen to the Expert Interview

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Roger Fairhead is a leadership specialist, author of several books including Prize Winning Leadership.

For the last 8 years Roger has been involved in an international organisation connecting people in over 40 countries and jointly leading a team of 350 people, holding regular leadership team meetings with people from North America, Australia, Asia, the UK and Europe on a regular basis.

He is currently the Regional President of PSA Staffordshire and in his interview shares some ideas he’s found helpful in encouraging participant engagement in the online environment.

In this Expert Interview you will learn:
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– How the online differs from the physical environment
– What mistakes should be avoided when working in an online environment
– How you best manage an interactive session with an online audience
– Tools and techniques to engage an online audience

Click on the link to listen to this Expert Interview

Roger is offering a FREE chapter of his book Prize Winning Leadership which you can get from his website www.rogerfairhead.com and is happy to answer any questions you may have. You can contact him via email roger@rogerfairhead.com or give him a call on 07812 356631.

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Our guest today had been helping business to increase their sales and customer service performance when speaking with clients and helps people to steer their conversations towards a specific outcome. Known by some as “the telephone assassin” Anthony is also the current President for the London Professional Speakers Association.

What you will learn during this Expert Interview

• How you can ‘stand out’ as a coach by using the phone more
• Overcome the fear of picking up the phone
• How the phone be one of the greatest tools to build a coaching business
• The best way to use the phone as your main communication tool
• Tips to help you pick up the phone more often

Click on the link to watch the Expert Interview

Next Step

Pick up the phone 07887 798033 and book a ‘Telephone Test Drive’ – 30 Minutes Complimentary Help with Anthony

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Ryan Mathie is the CEO and Head of Training & Development at High-Performing Coach. His passion is where performance meets contribution. In the last 10 years, he has worked with well over 1200 people, has 15,000+ hours of coaching/training experience and has built two successful 6-figure coaching businesses.

He has a track record for developing passionate coaches from all over the world to become high-performers in their coaching business. With Ryan’s coaching, some clients have gone from struggling to creating their first-ever high paying client in just a few days and others went on to create as much as $60K in 4 months – all without landing pages, funnels, books or a podcast.

In this Expert Interview you will find out:

• How to stop struggling and start coaching more
• How you can be a coach and a purpose driven entrepreneur
• What is involved in creating an income you can live well on from coaching
• The steps to take to build a £5k to £10k a month income from coaching

Click on the link to watch the Expert Interview

To talk to Ryan and/or his team about how you can rapidly grow your coaching business, book a free strategy call 

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In a world of ‘Death by PowerPoint’ where even top professional speakers use tedious slides, Dave aims to fundamentally change the way you think about using slides when presenting, running workshops or zoom presentations.

Trained in photography and audio-visual production, he set up The Regent Slide Company in 1986 and spent 13 years producing and imaging thousands of 35mm slides for many and varied businesses. But when he joined the Professional Speaking Association, he discovered that even great speakers use bad slides. And now he’s on a crusade to teach people how to produce slides that wow their audience and that make their talks memorable and effective and to eradicate excruciatingly boring slide presentations.

In this Expert Interview you will find out

1. How Dave’s brand ‘The Slide Presentation Man’ works
2. The Mistakes made with Slide Presentations
3. Top tips for creating slides that add value to a workshop or talk
4. Tools to create great a great slide set

Click on the link to watch the Expert Interview

If you want any help from Dave here is how to make contact:

www.theslidepresentationman.co.uk/workshop (for his workshop)

www.theslidepresentationman.co.uk/book (for his book)

dave@theslidepresentationman.co.uk 

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Helen Isacke set up the Trusted Coach Directory in November 2016. Helen is a Leadership Coach, trainer, facilitator and  author of ‘Soft Skills for Strong Leaders’. Helen embarked on her first coach training course in 2003 and set up her own coaching practise in 2004. She fully understands the feast & famine and the pitfalls of setting up and running a coaching business. Helen openly admits to making many mistakes, costing valuable time as well as money as she set up and grew her business.

In the interview, Helen talks about some of the key mistakes she made, and how you can avoid them, including:

• Not having a niche
• Sporadic marketing
• Giving too much away
• Not asking for the business

Helen also talks about why she set up the new ‘TCD Community Coach’ membership level, how it can help the newer coaches, what it includes and how to register.

Click on this link to access the interview – enjoy!

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Clinton is a seasoned coach, author, speaker and developer.  He has invested over 4 decades of experience, observing, researching, and analysing data about the competencies of successful managers, from which he derived three models:

1. The 6531 HR philosophy or how to make a strategic impact as an HR professional
2. The Quaternion Profile, a detailed competency model for people and operational management effectiveness
3. The 5W’s model of self-development.

These models provide frameworks for his HR Consultancy, Coaching, Speaker business, and Management Development subscription service.

He has worked in 14 countries, been a director of an international HR Consultancy, CEO of a USA HR Software-house.  His clients over the years have included international banks, footsie 100 organisations and top professional service firms. His passion is “unleashing potential and transforming performance,” and his personal motto is, “Don’t be miserable; there are too many people who are better at that!”

In this Expert Interview you will find out:

• How Clinton has built and sustained his business
• What his main revenue streams are
• How he got started
• The mistakes he has made
• His important business growth lessons
• How he keeps his order book full

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To contact Clinton: clinton@clintonhr.com

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