The Prosperous Coach: Increase Income and Impact for You and Your Clients: 1 (The Prosperous Series) Paperback – Illustrated, 30 April 2013

good read easy to understand and very useful

This book has blown me away! Litvin and Chandler are awesome! This book will prove to be life-changing for me. I'm a trainee coach - I thought the direction in which I was travelling was the right one for me but I now know that I was wrong. Back to the drawing board... This book has re-invigorated me, it has energised me and excited me. I haven't experienced a change in thinking, it has been a full-on shift.It's 11.29pm now, the end of one part of my coaching journey, tomorrow starts the next stage. Tomorrow, I will bound out of bed with a new found enthusiasm. It's time to take some big steps, it's time to, as Rich says, "get comfortable feeling uncomfortable", time to put myself into the ring. Litvin and Chandler implore us, "Don't wait for one-hundred percent readiness. It will never come. When you are eighty percent ready, got for it. Run straight at it. Get exposed. Risk messing up. Failing is not a problem that you will face. Failing is how you get there." It's time for me to start failing - and I can't wait! Thanks, Rich and Steve, for firing the starting pistol!

In a fully connected world, the authors remind us that as coaches we only need to connect with one client at a time. They dispel the notion of big marketing, internet lists etc and suggest that making deep personal 1-2-1 connections is the best way to build a sustainable and profitable coaching business. This seems to fly in the face of lots of other current 'wisdom' and coaching experts. It does however, make complete sense to me and I suspect many of those who read the book. Coaching, they remind the reader is a deep transformational process and not superficial or casual. Coaches add tremendous value and their impact goes well beyond the face to face time with a client, and they should charge accordingly. This book will introduce the reader to the true value of their coaching and expose how they may have been underselling themselves. The book provides a reference point from which to compare and contrast other points of view about how to build a coaching business. If you're a professional coach or want to coach, it's a must read.

This is a very good book for newish coaches.Having already wasted weeks and months trying to generate traffic via website, funnels, landing pages and LinkedIn blogging, I was rather hoping for more actual nitty gritty on how to actually create new clients from scratch in the first place, without all the usual marketing tactics and gimmicks.

I’ve just finished reading The Prosperous Coach, it’s the only business book I’ve actually read cover to cover and I’ve absolutely loved every minute of it. It is PACKED with incredible insights and information I haven't seen or heard anywhere else. I've taken so many incredible nuggets of wisdom from this book, and I know it will remain on my desk as a reference text for the rest of my coaching career. I'll now be quietly implementing what I've read, slow everything down, give powerful coaching experiences, make bold offers, and gently build my coaching practice one dream client at a time. I've already recommended this book to every coach I speak to, and if you are a coach either struggling to gain consistency, or are already a master coach, this book will unlock a deeper level. I am already a better coach for having read it. Thank you so much to Rich and Steve for being so fearlessly generous with their time, experience and wisdom.

This is a must buy if your an aspiring coach or looking to open your mind to become a better leader for your team, to ask the right questions to help breakthrough the barriers holding you back and your client. A must read

As a career coach, I have read a fair few books targeted at coaches and this is waaaaayyyyy up there with my favourites. Rich and Steve take a refreshingly different approach to most people who support coaches and my copy of this book is filled with yellow highlighter markings and notes - because the content is just that rich and worth executing.My coaching biz is part time around employed work at the moment and I love that Rich and Steve speak to that. I've read The Prosperous Coach three times or so and implement something new each time which moves me forward - and I will continue to keep doing so.I'm often a book sharer but this one is not one that will leave my library. If you are considering coaching or are a coach (full time or part time)... do yourself a favour and get your own copy today! I really do highly recommend it. Thank you Rich and Steve.

Not quite what I was hoping for. Some parts are interesting and relevant but I do not share some of the vues of the author. I do for instance think that even if the approach focuses on the "experience" that you are offering your potential client as a way to show your value, I wouldn't completely neglect websites and social media. They are still a very helpful way to communicate your vision. It depends on your style I guess.