Coach Pony – Details, episodes & analysis

Sales calls. You know you need to make them, but if you’re a new coach, you might not know where to begin or what it should sound like.

And that’s where we come in.

In this very cheesy eighties-themed season of the podcast, join me, Christie Mims, a career and business coach, and Bobbi Palmer, a dating coach, as we answer your burning questions about your coaching business. Bobbi and I have built six and seven-figure businesses of our own, and we’ve learned a thing or two along the way. And now, we’re sharing all that knowledge with you.

Today, we’re going to role play sales calls so you know what they really sound like, so you can learn the ropes and make money doing what you love.

Listen to the full episode to hear about:

• How to introduce yourself and the agenda for the call
• How to ask questions to find out if they’re a good fit for you and your coaching
• How to frame your process so you’re educating your potential client
• How to build connection and empathy with your client during the call 

To learn more about Bobbi Palmer:

• Date Like a Grownup

To learn more about Christie Mims:

• Coach Pony
• Linkedin
• Build A Real Business

If you have some chocolate worth reviewing on the show, we are easily bribed! 

Email us at hello@coachpony.com with your recommendation or if you want to send us something to try!

Can you really make six figures or more as a coach?

Every new coach asks themselves this at some point. You might have a day job that you’re not sure if you can quit. Maybe you’re trying to figure out the kind of business model you should use in order to meet your income goals. We’re here to help.

In this very cheesy eighties-themed season of the podcast, join me, Christie Mims, a career and business coach, and Bobbi Palmer, a dating coach, as we answer your burning questions about your coaching business. Bobbi and I have built six and seven-figure businesses of our own, and we’ve learned a thing or two along the way. And now, we’re sharing all that knowledge with you.

Today, we’re going to share the details of three ways that coaches can make six figures or more. We’re the first to admit that it isn’t easy, but if you commit to one of these models, we promise it’s possible. 

Listen to the full episode to hear about:

• Why you need business training to get your coaching business off the ground and on its way to bringing in real money
• Doing the math behind making money with private coaching
• What to consider when you’re thinking about your income and profit goals
• Breaking down group coaching and how it can support your business
• The truth about online, DIY programs and why they’re never really passive

To learn more about Bobbi Palmer:

• Date Like a Grownup

To learn more about Christie Mims:

• Coach Pony
• Linkedin
• Build A Real Business

If you have some chocolate worth reviewing on the show, we are easily bribed! 

Email us at hello@coachpony.com with your recommendation or if you want to send us something to try!

Do you need to be certified to be a life coach?

The short answer is no, but with so many different schools and certifications out there, it’s easy to get confused about what certification to choose or if you want to get certified at all.

And of course Bobbi and I have thoughts.

This season on the Coach Pony Podcast, dating coach Bobbi Palmer, of Date Like a Grownup and I are here to help by answering your burning questions about your coaching business, so you can get more clients and get paid to coach! Get the inside scoop from coaches who have built 6 and 7 figure programs in a variety of niches. We have a LOT to say.  

Random aside: we also have a Bridgerton audio theme this season, so enjoy!

Today we’re getting into certifications. Why it’s totally possible to be a great and successful life coach without one, why certification might be worth it for you, (and to the coaching profession!), the three key areas you need to build your expertise in, and why not getting certified doesn’t let you off the hook for your education.

Listen to the full episode to hear about:

• How most accredited life coaching programs work to help you build knowledge and experience
• How your educational and professional background may give you a leg up in becoming a coach without going through a program
• The three things you need to be an expert in to be a good coach
• Why coaching certification is probably worth it
• Four pieces of homework to help you decide if certification is right for you

To learn more about Bobbi Palmer:

• Date Like a Grownup

To learn more about Christie Mims:

• Coach Pony
• Linkedin
• Build A Real Business

Resources: 

• International Coaching Federation
• Tina Tessina
• Co-Active Coaching
• Jumpstart Your Business Bootcamp: www.coachpony.com/bootcamp
• Free Marketing Quick Start

If you have some chocolate worth reviewing on the show, we are easily bribed! 

Email us at hello@coachpony.com with your recommendation or if you want to send us something to try!

It’s easy to spend a LOT of money and invest a lot of time and stress into your website.

What kind of website do you really need as a new or growing coach? Where do you even start?

This season on the Coach Pony Podcast, dating coach Bobbi Palmer, of Date Like a Grownup and I are here to help by answering your burning questions about your coaching business, so you can get more clients and get paid to coach! Get the inside scoop from coaches who have built 6 and 7 figure programs in a variety of niches. We have a LOT to say.  

Random aside: we also have a Bridgerton audio theme this season, so enjoy!

Today, Bobbi and I are talking about websites. 

We’ll give you our best advice for thinking about the objectives your website needs to meet, how it supports your business, why it’s okay to use a social media page as a temporary placeholder while you’re getting clear on the website you need and want, and take some of the confusion out of the technical side of your website.

We’re also talking real numbers of how many times we’ve updated our sites, how much money we’ve spent over the years updating and maintaining our sites (gulp), and answering common questions about platforms and content.

Listen to the full episode to hear about:

• Where to really start when you’re building a website
• Benefits and limitations of popular website platforms like Wix, Squarespace, and Wordpress
• What questions you need to ask yourself before you start putting content on your site
• The thing people should immediately see when they land on your site

To learn more about Bobbi Palmer:

• Date Like a Grownup

To learn more about Christie Mims:

• Coach Pony
• Linkedin
• Build A Real Business

Resources: 

• Jumpstart Your Business Bootcamp: www.coachpony.com/bootcamp
• Free Marketing Quick Start

If you have some chocolate worth reviewing on the show, we are easily bribed! 

Email us at hello@coachpony.com with your recommendation or if you want to send us something to try!

As a coach, the niche you choose to serve influences so much of your business and it’s a key piece of all of the marketing you’ll do.

So what happens after you’ve been telling the world what you do, and then you realize, well, maybe you don’t actually want to do that anymore?

This season on the Coach Pony Podcast, dating coach Bobbi Palmer, of Date Like a Grownup and I are here to help by answering your burning questions about your coaching business, so you can get more clients and get paid to coach! Get inside scoop from coaches who have built 6 and 7 figure programs in a variety of niches. We have a LOT to say.  

Random aside: we also have a Bridgerton audio theme this season, so enjoy!

On today’s episode, Bobbi and I are talking about niching!

We’ll give you our best advice on how to choose one, and what to do when your business evolves and that niche doesn’t quite fit you anymore–because it will! It’s totally normal, we promise! Plus we’ll share our stories of evolving our niches, how we handled changes in our own businesses, and what we learned about changing course.

Listen to the full episode to hear about:

• Why you shouldn’t be embarrassed of changing your niche 
• How to communicate your evolution so your existing audience is excited to go along for the ride with you
• Why Bobbi has stuck with her niche, but evolved her programs
• How Christie’s businesses have evolved as she reprioritized but kept their common purpose
• Two pieces of homework for if you’re feeling unsure about your niche and evolution as a coach

To learn more about Bobbi Palmer:

• Date Like a Grownup

To learn more about Christie Mims:

• Coach Pony
• Linkedin
• Build A Real Business

Resources: 

• Jumpstart Your Business Bootcamp: www.coachpony.com/bootcamp
• Free Marketing Quick Start

If you have some chocolate worth reviewing on the show, we are easily bribed! 

Email us at hello@coachpony.com with your recommendation or if you want to send us something to try!

Does it seem like all of the successful coaches you follow or look up to have big group coaching programs?

You might feel like you should start a group coaching program too, but...you just don’t know. 

Is group coaching better than private coaching? Is doing group coaching the only way to make the kind of money you want to make?

This season on the Coach Pony Podcast, dating coach Bobbi Palmer, of Date Like a Grownup and I are here to help by answering your burning questions about your coaching business, so you can get more clients and get paid to coach! Get inside scoop from coaches who have built 6 and 7 figure programs in a variety of niches. We have a LOT to say.  

Random aside: we have a Bridgerton audio theme this season, so enjoy!

Today we’re diving into the never ending debate about group versus private coaching. We’ll do some money math and dig into the why and the how of making the choice between sticking to one on one or making the move to group coaching.

And, we’ll talk about some unexpected things you may not have thought about before about both group and private - and share a few inside stories of some of our programs. Good and bad! 

Listen to the full episode to hear about:

• The real math behind income and net profit in private versus group coaching
• Breaking down the infrastructure required of each business model
• Behind the scenes of what it takes to launch a group program
• Why you need to consider how you want to connect with clients and the kind of lifestyle you want to lead

To learn more about Bobbi Palmer:

• Date Like a Grownup

To learn more about Christie Mims:

• Coach Pony
• Linkedin
• Build A Real Business

Resources: 

• Jumpstart Your Business Bootcamp: www.coachpony.com/bootcamp
• Free Marketing Quick Start

If you have some chocolate worth reviewing on the show, we are easily bribed! 

Email us at hello@coachpony.com with your recommendation or if you want to send us something to try!

Should you run ads when you’re a new coach?

Whether it’s Facebook, Instagram, Google, or any other platform, there are a lot of opinions, thoughts, strategies, and advice floating around out there about whether or not you need to run paid ads for your business to succeed.

To dig into that question, I’m joined by a very special member of Team Pony, our Director of Growth Marketing (and my husband), Suhaib Abdali.

Over the course of his career, Suhaib has run millions and millions of dollars worth of ads on different platforms. Here at Coach Pony, he specializes in Google ads, and we’ve run close to a million dollars worth of ads ourselves. So, we’re not exactly spring chickens when it comes to the advertising game. 

We’ll each give our takes on what you need to know before you start spending money, and whether you need to advertise at all to grow your coaching business.

Listen to the full episode to hear about:

• Why your offer and your sales process need to be rock solid before you even think about paying for ads
• What you need to have set up on your website before you run ads
• Why a broader audience isn’t always better (no matter what the platforms try to tell you)
• Why copy and creative will almost always take more time and effort than you think
• Why ads are never set it and forget it

To learn more about Christie Mims:

• Coach Pony
• Instagram @christiecoachpony
• Build A Real Business
• Jumpstart Your Business Bootcamp

Resources: 

• FREE Marketing Masterclass
• Rita Barry & Co.

If you have some chocolate worth reviewing on the show, we are easily bribed! 

Email us at hello@coachpony.com with your recommendation or if you want to send us something to try! 

Sometimes, we all just need a break.

But how can you step away from your coaching business without losing money?

That’s what we’re digging into today.

In this very cheesy eighties-themed season of the podcast, join me, Christie Mims, a career and business coach, and Bobbi Palmer, a dating coach, as we answer your burning questions about your coaching business. Bobbi and I have built six and seven-figure businesses of our own, and we’ve learned a thing or two along the way. And now, we’re sharing all that knowledge with you.

We’ll share strategies for making your work week more manageable (so long 80-hour weeks!), and what to do when you really need some solid time off.

Listen to the full episode to hear about:

• Why new coaches need to learn to set boundaries on their work time
• Our favorite strategies for building time off into your regular schedule
• How to “quiet quit” your business
• How giving yourself a change of scenery can bring energy back into your business

To learn more about Bobbi Palmer:

• Date Like a Grownup

To learn more about Christie Mims:

• Coach Pony
• Linkedin
• Build A Real Business
• FREE Marketing Masterclass

If you have some chocolate worth reviewing on the show, we are easily bribed! 

Email us at hello@coachpony.com with your recommendation or if you want to send us something to try!

At some point, your coaching business is going to get busy. Or maybe things are already starting to pick up and you feel like you need some help, ASAP. When should you hire someone? And who should they be?

That’s what we’re digging into on today’s episode.

In this very cheesy eighties-themed season of the podcast, join me, Christie Mims, a career and business coach, and Bobbi Palmer, a dating coach, as we answer your burning questions about your coaching business. Bobbi and I have built six and seven-figure businesses of our own, and we’ve learned a thing or two along the way. And now, we’re sharing all that knowledge with you.

We’ll talk about what you need to have in place before you bring another person into your coaching business and our takes on the first things you’ll want to outsource to another person.

Listen to the full episode to hear about:

• Why you should invest in the tools to make your business run smoothly before you hire a person
• Our top two tools that your business needs before you hire
• What to consider when you’re looking to outsource tasks or a role within your business
• When the time is right to make your first hire
• Why future you–and future hires–will thank you for creating documentation of how you want things done now
• The one thing you absolutely should not outsource as a new coach

To learn more about Bobbi Palmer:

• Date Like a Grownup

To learn more about Christie Mims:

• Coach Pony
• Linkedin
• Build A Real Business
• FREE Marketing Masterclass

If you have some chocolate worth reviewing on the show, we are easily bribed! 

Email us at hello@coachpony.com with your recommendation or if you want to send us something to try! 

When you’re a new coach, it can feel like the only way to get clients is to build a presence online. But that takes time and you need clients now!

Today, we’re kicking it old school and talking about how to find clients locally, so you don’t need a huge following to start making money as a coach.

In this very cheesy eighties-themed season of the podcast, join me, Christie Mims, a career and business coach, and Bobbi Palmer, a dating coach, as we answer your burning questions about your coaching business. Bobbi and I have built six and seven-figure businesses of our own, and we’ve learned a thing or two along the way. And now, we’re sharing all that knowledge with you.

We’ll talk about how to get in front of your audience and give you some ideas and tips for building relationships and converting clients.

Listen to the full episode to hear about:

• Why tools like Meetup and Eventbrite are so great for new coaches
• How Bobbi structured her meetup to support her business
• How to get in front of groups in your niche 
• How networking events can help you expand your audience
• How to approach small businesses to host your talk

To learn more about Bobbi Palmer:

• Date Like a Grownup

To learn more about Christie Mims:

• Coach Pony
• Linkedin
• Build A Real Business
• Couch School

If you have some chocolate worth reviewing on the show, we are easily bribed! 

Email us at hello@coachpony.com with your recommendation or if you want to send us something to try!