confessions of a coach

Although I had an existing coaching website: www.trustworksplus.com I decided that I wanted to radically change it. I don't know about you, but I'm not very good at maintaining things - I find it much easier to pioneer, to create from scratch than to go back and give something an overhaul. So I decided to set up a new website and looked at what domain names were out there and came up with coachingis4u.com . Having published my website using MSPublisher initially, I am now looking at low-cost ways of making it more professional. We have Frontpage software but at the moment it looks a bit intimidating - I'll let you know when I get round to trying it.

I'm also in the process of setting up autoresponders - but I have a list of at least 8 different types of messages that I need to create and publish - so at the moment I'm taking a break and writing this instead! It all seems very technical at times....

I only found out about blogs a couple of months ago when I read in an HR magazine that someone had been sacked for slagging off their company in a blog (not of course wanting to scare any of you). I then found out a friend of mine Caroline, an avid Home Schooler, has serveral blogs - and if you do a search on grammar lap books - she will come up on the first page apparently! It sounds about as Greek to me as autoresponders and blogs did when I first started reading about them.

Apparently the trend with websites today - is to use blogs to create interest in your website and links into it - but also to set up your website so that you create passive, residual income. So that is also a new topic of learning for me. So not only am I advised to write blogs, autoresponder messages, ezine articles, reports and even e-books but I should also be exploring the audio world with audio clips and teleclasses. I'll let you know how I get on... currently battling against overwhelm....