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Publishing email discussion list (I own it) PUBLISH-L
http://www.publish-l.com

Self-Publishing email discussion list http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Self-Publishing/

Smart Enough To Link To Ye Olde School

The sites below are owned by people smart enough to know a good thing when they see one, and who have excellent taste in where they link to--namely here. I know you're going to want to click on the site locations and visit them all, frequently, and maybe even link to them too.

--Deborah Brown-Volkman, President of SurpassYourDreams.com, offers start-up, marketing, and practice building for those who want to make coaching their next career.  http://www.surpassyourdreams.com/coaches.html

--Coaching Insider Magazine has been very nice to your dear chancellor, mentioning her and this site more than once. Be sure and subscribe to this free online magazine at http://www.coachinginsider.com

Miscellaneous Link Goodies

The following links were shared by Deborah Brown-Volkman:

--The Wi-Fi-FreeSpot Directory is a listing of Wi-Fi enabled locations that offer Free Wireless High Speed Internet Access.

--Copyscape is a new no-cost Web-based service powered by sophisticated Web search technology that enables you to find copies of your content on the Web quickly and easily. Simply type in the URL of the page of your original content and the Copyscape engine goes to work and finds matching content in seconds. If you find pages that are plagiarizing your work, there are also helpful articles and hotlinks to legal sites to guide you in what to do.

--A Free Internet Course On How To Start A Business.

--A Small Business Administration guide to legally structuring your coaching practice.

--Web-site that clean out the ">" and other formatting characters out of your emails: http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm

List of 400 literary agents at http://www.authorsteam.com/agents/

Become a better presenter: http://www.PresentersUniversity.com

Yahoo Group For Listing Your Teleclass

Stephnie Brail has a Yahoo Group for posting teleclass announcements at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/teleclass

Find What's Missing On Coachville's Site And Elsewhwere

Y'know how it feels when an old neighborhood changes, and you can't find the places you used to love and enjoy and use? Well, http://www.coachville.com has made a lot of changes since its founder Thomas Leonard died, and some folks are wandering around the pages asking "Wha' happen!!?" and other expletives that I shall not reproduce here.

Well, them that owns it gets to change it. But there may be some hope for retrieval of some of what has gone missing, and it's the Way Back Machine. I kid you not, there is such a thing. It's an internet archival site at http://www.waybackmachine.org where one can search for web pages of the past. So, you can look for missing material, and some if will actually appear. Some won't, and I have no idea why. But, go there and try.

School Supplies

All students need school supplies, and we are here to help. Peruse our new offerings at Pat's Cheap Coaching School Emporium. More goodies will be arriving soon!

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Case Study: No Money, Liabilities, No Resources

Stephanie Brail  http://www.feelgoodgirl.com posed the following question on my email discussion list COACHTALK-L (posted here with permission).

"So how do you manage coaching someone out of an environmental hole? The person has tremendous liabilities in some form or another. Perhaps debts or a health issue or a massive depletion in energy and resources?

"What's the answer for those folks? Of course, this begs the question whether they are even able to afford a coach in the first place..."

Add your suggestions, comments, and advice for coaching a client with such problems, or your own experience coaching them below, using the comments feature.

The Rules

1. The owner of this site is solely responsible for what may be posted here. She will take down any material she feels inappropriate for any reason, including just because she wants to. But, this does not mean she takes responsibility for anyone else's material posted here.

2. No naughty language.

3. No unkind language.

4. No blatant self promotion. (No sneaky marketing either.)

5. Be brief whenever reasonably possible.

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Coaching Tips

Add your tips, whatever the subject, to this post by clicking on "comment" below (not necessarialy commenting on this post or any other, but you can if you want to).

Give your tip a name or title, if you like, as in the sample below, and add your name, email address and web site URL (nothing more, please):

Sample Tip: TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF FIRST.

Coaches can easily get so caught up in helping their clients, learning more, even in "being successful" that they forget to take care of their own personal needs and wants. Remember to always give out of a full cup, with what runs over the side.

Disclaimer

The material on this site is here for your use, but with no indication or assumption as to how useful or effective it may be for you. That means, if it doesn't work for you, don't blame us. If it doesn't sound right to you, don't use it. If you want to use it, try it a tiny bit, and evaluate its usefulness before proceeding.

This is a public forum, thus the material here is owned by those posting it, including all copyright rights. You may make a copy for yourself for your own personal use. But, if you want to incorporate any of it into your own derivative works, you've got to get permission from the originating owner of that particular material.

The owner of this site takes no responsibility for content posted here as to its effectiveness, safety, or originality.

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