Marketing for consultants, coaches, advisers and professional services
You're selling something nobody can see, from a category full of people making enormous promises. The people who need you most are also the most cautious, and they'll spend weeks deciding. I build the positioning, website and content that make you feel safe to choose — without the hype that makes everyone else sound the same.
How people actually choose a coach?
Almost nobody hires a coach on impulse. They follow you for months. They read everything. They talk themselves out of it twice. Then something tips and they enquire.
They're not looking for a coach. They're stuck.
Burnt out, unhappy in a job, going through a separation, lost after having kids, anxious about something they can't name. They search the feeling, not the service — "how to stop feeling stuck," "burnt out and can't tell why."
They find you, and then they watch.
An Instagram post, a podcast, a friend's recommendation. They don't book. They follow, they read, they listen. This is the longest phase and it's where most coaches lose people, because there's nothing consistent enough to follow.
They're checking whether you're safe.
Underneath everything: will this person be gentle with me, and do they actually know what they're doing. They're scanning for hype, for pressure, for anything that feels like being sold to when they're already vulnerable.
They want to know what actually happens.
How many sessions. How long. On Zoom or in person. What you do in a session. What happens if it isn't working. Most coaching websites answer none of this, and the uncertainty is a bigger barrier than price.
Then they need permission.
To spend money on themselves. To admit they need help. The thing that converts isn't a discount — it's one piece of content that makes them feel understood enough to reach out.
Closing line
Everything I build for a coaching business is aimed at those five moments. Not at follower counts.
What's usually going wrong?
You sound like every other coach.
Transformation. Alignment. Stepping into your power. Living your best life. You didn't choose that language — you absorbed it from the industry. It's the reason your ideal client can't tell you apart from the six other coaches they're following, and it's the easiest thing on this page to fix.
You're afraid to be specific.
Narrowing feels like turning people away when you need clients. So the website says you help people "create meaningful change," and nobody reads that and thinks that's me. Specific isn't limiting. Specific is the entire mechanism by which people recognise themselves.
Your website is a wall of feelings and no facts.
Beautiful photos, a heartfelt paragraph, an enquiry form. No sense of what happens, how long it takes, what it costs or what someone's actually buying. People don't hesitate because they don't want it. They hesitate because they can't picture it.
People follow you for a year and never book.
Engagement is fine. Enquiries are rare. Usually because the content is all encouragement and no evidence of expertise, or because there's no bridge between following and working with you — nothing small, nothing free, nothing to say yes to before saying yes to everything.
You went into this to help people, not to sell.
So marketing feels like the opposite of the job. You post value, hint at availability, and hope someone puts their hand up. Selling feels gross, so you barely do it — and the people who need you never find out you're taking clients.
You're not sure what you're allowed to say.
Coaching isn't a registered profession. That freedom cuts both ways — the line between coaching language and clinical language matters, especially with mental health and wellbeing, and nobody's ever explained where it sits.
What I'd do about it !
Brand and positioning
The most important work on this page. Coaching is a crowded category where almost everyone describes themselves identically, so positioning is the whole game.
I work out who you're actually for and what you actually help with — the specific person, the specific stuck point, the specific thing they've already tried that didn't work. Then the language gets rebuilt in plain words, so someone reads it and recognises their own situation instead of nodding at something abstract.
Your own story usually matters here. Most coaches came to this through something they went through. Used well, that's the differentiator nobody can copy.
What's included
Positioning and competitive differentiation
Ideal client definition based on the stuck point, not demographics
Core messaging in plain language, hype stripped out
Founder story development — how much to share and where
Offer structure: what you sell, how it's packaged, what it costs
Brand voice guide
Visual identity — logo system, palette, typography
Brand guidelines any future designer can follow
Website
A coaching website has one job: make someone who's nervous feel safe enough, and clear enough, to enquire.
What's included
Site structure and page-by-page plan
Full copywriting, including page titles and meta descriptions
Design and build
Enquiry forms and booking integration
On-page SEO setup
Handover training or managed by me
What that means in practice ?
A homepage that names their situation in their words, in the first sentence
Who you work with and — just as important — who you don't
What actually happens: session length, format, how many, over what period
Pricing, or a starting point. Hidden pricing costs more enquiries than it protects, especially with cautious buyers
Your story and your training, so they know you've got both lived experience and something rigorous behind it
A low-commitment first step — a call, a short session, something that isn't a twelve-week package
Clear scope: what coaching is, what it isn't, and when you'd refer someone elsewhere
Written so Google understands what you help with and where you are
Content that converts followers into clients
Coaching has the longest follow-before-buy window of anything I work on. Content isn't there to go viral — it's there to be consistently present while someone works up to it.
The pattern that works: name the situation precisely enough that people feel seen, show how you think about it, and be honest about what change actually takes. Encouragement alone builds an audience that never books. Evidence of how you think builds one that does.
What's included
Content strategy and pillars
Monthly content calendar
Captions and branded graphics
Ghostwriting in your voice, so it sounds like you rather than a content template
Story and email content for the people already following
Blog articles targeting what people search when they're stuck
Monthly reporting on what actually moved
Email and nurture
Where the actual conversion happens in coaching. Someone will read forty of your emails before they enquire, and that's normal.
What's included
Lead magnet strategy — something genuinely useful, not a token PDF
Welcome sequence that does the work of the first conversation
Ongoing nurture that stays warm without pitching every week
A sequence for people who enquired and weren't ready
Client onboarding and post-programme follow-up
Offer and enquiry structure
Most coaches sell one thing at one price and hope people are ready for it. The gap between following you and committing to twelve weeks is where the clients are.
What's included
Offer ladder: something small to start, the main programme, ongoing support
Discovery call structure with a defined outcome, so it doesn't turn into a free session
Clear enquiry-to-client process
Follow-up sequence for people who had a call and went quiet
Pricing structure and how to hold it without discounting
Frequently asked questions
I don't want to niche down. Won't I lose people?
The most common fear in coaching and almost always backwards. Nobody reads "I help people create meaningful change" and thinks that's me. They read "I work with women going back to work after having kids and hating it" and they book. Narrow positioning doesn't stop you accepting anyone — it just changes what you lead with.
Do you run ads?
Yes, if you want them — but not as the first thing. Sending paid traffic to a page that doesn't convert is the most expensive mistake in ecommerce, so I'd rather fix the product pages and email flows first and then turn ads on. That way you're paying to acquire customers, not paying to find out your checkout's leaking. Ads are quoted separately from a build. If you've already got someone running them, I'll work alongside them and make their job easier.
Marketing makes me feel gross.
Usually because the marketing you've seen in this industry is genuinely gross — urgency, big promises, before-and-after emotional stories. There's a version that's just being clear about what you offer and who it's for. That's what I write.
Can you write in my voice?
It's the part I'm best at — I've ghostwritten multiple published books. Usually a recorded conversation each month where you talk through what you're seeing with clients, and I turn that into content that sounds like you.
I'm a coach, not a therapist. How do I make that clear without sounding limited?
By being specific about what you actually do, which reads as confidence rather than a disclaimer. A clear scope statement and honest referral language make you more trustworthy, not less — people can tell the difference between someone who knows their boundaries and someone who's vague about them.
I've only got a few clients. Is this too early?
It's the best time. Fixing positioning before you've built a website, a programme and two years of content around the wrong message saves a rebuild later.
Do I have to be on Instagram?
It's the strongest channel for coaching, but not the only one. If you'd rather write than film, email and long-form can carry it. I'd rather build something you'll actually sustain than something that looks good on paper and stops in six weeks.
How long before enquiries change?
Positioning and website work show up in enquiry quality within weeks — better-fit people, less hesitation. Content and email take three to six months, because the follow-before-buy window is genuinely that long. Anyone promising faster is guessing.
Let's talk about your store
Thirty minutes, no pitch deck. Tell me what's going on and I'll tell you what I'd do first — even if that's fixing your Google listing before you spend a cent with me.
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