Career Coaching Business

21 Tips For Starting A Successful Career Coaching Business (2024)

Pat Walls

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Updated: January 19th, 2023

Want to start your own career coaching business? Here are some tips you should know:

Learn more about starting a career coaching business:

Where to start?

-> How much does it cost to start a career coaching business?
-> Pros and cons of a career coaching business

Need inspiration?

-> Other career coaching business success stories
-> Marketing ideas for a career coaching business
-> Career coaching business slogans
-> Career coaching business names
-> Career coaching business Instagram bios

Other resources

-> Profitability of a career coaching business
-> Blog post ideas for a career coaching business
-> Career coaching business quotes

We've interviewed thousands of successful founders at Starter Story and asked what advice they would give to entrepreneurs who are just getting started.

Here's the best advice we discovered for starting a career coaching business:

#1: Nissar Ahamed, founder of CareerMetis.com:

We chatted with with Nissar, founder of CareerMetis.com ($3K/month). In our interview, Nissar says:

Consistency has been my best friend. For more than 4 years, I have worked on this side-hustle. It has taken a lot of time and effort to learn blogging, SEO, link building, email marketing, content marketing, etc. The more time & energy I have put in, the more I reap the benefits.

Additionally:

Fall in Love With the Process. Focus more on learning the skills and honing the craft versus just making money.

Read the full interview ➜

#2: Luke Van Der Veer, founder of Website Rental Coaching:

We chatted with with Luke, founder of Website Rental Coaching ($42K/month). In our interview, Luke says:

Save yourself time, effort, and money. The better you define your goals, the easier it will be for you to find a way to achieve them.

Additionally:

The first tip I would offer other entrepreneurs is to define what success means to you. If you don’t do that, it’s like being on a boat and sailing around aimlessly.

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#3: Patrick Curtis, founder of Wall Street Oasis:

We chatted with with Patrick, founder of Wall Street Oasis ($200K/month). In our interview, Patrick says:

Spend some time talking to your potential customers to make sure that the pain is high enough that they will buy from you when you have a solution or service ready for them.

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#4: Amanda Shepherd, founder of Social Media Manager Society:

We chatted with with Amanda, founder of Social Media Manager Society ($20K/month). In our interview, Amanda says:

I’ve had the pleasure of working with over 100 women, guiding them as they start and grow their businesses. It’s incredibly fulfilling to watch it happen and be a small part of helping them.

Additionally:

I just want to continue to give myself grace. I am at a point where I don’t NEED to grow anymore. But if I do grow, I have the opportunity to help so many more people, both personally and professionally.

Read the full interview ➜

#5: dom, founder of MentorCruise:

We chatted with with Dom, founder of MentorCruise ($40K/month). In our interview, Dom says:

Our growth is something that can’t be pointed to one specific point in time – it’s a culmination of staying consistent and trying to entice more growth in solid ways.

Additionally:

Too many entrepreneurs are looking for creative growth hacks and shortcuts trying to grow their businesses. It’s all about breaking down your growth struggles into bite-sized pieces.

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#6: Austin Belcak, founder of Cultivated Culture:

We chatted with with Austin, founder of Cultivated Culture ($20K/month). In our interview, Austin says:

I sent in over 300 online apps and landed less than five interviews. I knew this process was broken but everyone kept giving me the same advice: tweak your resume, apply online, then rinse and repeat because ‘it’s a numbers game.’

Additionally:

Stop reading a million blog posts, stop worrying about what the logo will look like -- just get started. Focus on the basics. Get something up and running, then begin to promote it.

Read the full interview ➜

#7: Lydia Lee, founder of Screw The Cubicle:

We chatted with with Lydia, founder of Screw The Cubicle ($10K/month). In our interview, Lydia says:

In order to maintain simplicity (and sanity!) in my business, it’s been a big learning for me to say “No”. I’ve had to learn to take pauses to analyze decisions without simply taking any opportunities that come my way.

Additionally:

Defining my own success and understanding ‘what’s enough’ financially for my life has been important to sustaining myself as a business owner. It can be so easy to do more, have more, and grow bigger without a real reason to.

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#8: Patrick Curtis, founder of Wall Street Oasis:

We chatted with with Patrick, founder of Wall Street Oasis ($200K/month). In our interview, Patrick says:

Perfect is the enemy of progress. In order to succeed, you need to get started and stop trying to come up with the perfect business plan or perfect idea.

Read the full interview ➜

#9: Lydia Lee, founder of Screw The Cubicle:

We chatted with with Lydia, founder of Screw The Cubicle ($10K/month). In our interview, Lydia says:

Create intentional time for working on the business rather than always working in it.

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#10: Danica Octa, founder of Metamorphosis Group:

We chatted with with Danica, founder of Metamorphosis Group ($11K/month). In our interview, Danica says:

Organic social media marketing is the best way to begin the go-to-market strategy for a homegrown business.

Additionally:

Our belief in developing our products and services is based on the concept that business solutions are created to solve problems.

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#11: dom, founder of MentorCruise:

We chatted with with Dom, founder of MentorCruise ($40K/month). In our interview, Dom says:

Raise your prices. You might lose some of your customers, but you will gain new, and usually better ones.

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#12: Nissar Ahamed, founder of CareerMetis.com:

We chatted with with Nissar, founder of CareerMetis.com ($3K/month). In our interview, Nissar says:

The cost of acquisition is cheap and the traffic is evergreen. The more you do SEO, you will realize that it’s not as hard as what people want you to believe.

Read the full interview ➜

#13: Anastasia Andreani, founder of Vizio Makeup Academy:

We chatted with with Anastasia, founder of Vizio Makeup Academy ($235K/month). In our interview, Anastasia says:

What worked yesterday might not work tomorrow. So, we've gotten good at embracing change, like welcoming new teammates to help carry our dreams even further.

Additionally:

Our aspiration for the Infinite Chroma Makeup Kit to become a globally recognized success and our ambition to innovate with VR technology are both fueled by a desire to empower every makeup artist on the planet.