Life coaching has the vaguest offer of any service I work on, and that vagueness is the entire marketing problem.
A visitor lands on the page and cannot tell three things: what they would actually receive, what it costs, and whether it is meant for someone in their situation. So they leave, and the coach concludes they need more traffic.
They do not need more traffic. They need a page that answers those three questions in the first thirty seconds.
Here is what that takes, in order.
Name the situation, not the transformation
Live your best life is not an offer. Unlock your potential is not an offer. Neither tells a reader whether you help people like them.
A situation does. People in their forties who have achieved what they planned and feel flat about it. Parents returning to work after several years out. Someone who has just been promoted and is quietly overwhelmed. People who keep starting things and not finishing them.
Nobody searches for transformation. They search for the specific thing that is bothering them at eleven at night.
Situations are searchable and recognizable. Transformations are neither.
The fear is that naming one situation loses everyone else. In practice a generalist page loses everyone, because nobody sees themselves in it. The person who reads a specific description and thinks that is exactly me is the person who books.
Pick the situation you handle best and lead with it. You can serve others without advertising to everyone.
Explain what coaching is, and what it is not
A significant share of your visitors genuinely do not know how coaching differs from therapy, mentoring, consulting or advice from a friend.
This is the single most useful section you can write and it is almost always missing.
Say plainly what coaching involves: working forward from where someone is now, structured conversations, accountability between sessions, and the client doing the deciding rather than being told what to do.
Then say what it is not. Coaching is not therapy, it does not treat mental health conditions, and it is not advice about your specific circumstances from someone qualified to give it.
Be explicit about when someone should see a clinician instead. That single paragraph does two things: it protects the people who need something else, and it builds considerable trust with the people who do not, because it signals you are not selling to anyone with a pulse.
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Publish pricing and package structure
Life coaching carries more price anxiety than almost any service, and the industry has made it worse with a norm of hiding prices until a discovery call.
Prospective clients recognize that pattern. Many read it as a sales funnel rather than a professional service, and the ones most put off by it tend to be the ones you would most want.
So publish the structure: number of sessions, over what period, what happens between them, and either a price or a clear starting point.
You will lose enquiries. They were people who could never afford it, and each one costs a call to discover.
If you offer more than one package, keep it to two or three. Complicated tiers do not get bought, and a page with five options mostly produces indecision.
Say clearly whether sessions can be bought singly, because some people want to try one before committing.
Describe a session concretely
Most people booking a coach have never had one, and have no picture of what an hour with you involves.
Write it out. How long a session runs. Whether it is video or in person. What the first one covers versus later ones. Whether you set tasks between sessions and roughly how much time those take. What the client leaves with.
Concreteness is the antidote to a category people find fuzzy, and it also sets expectations that reduce dropout after session two.
Say what happens if it is not working. A coach who says openly that you can stop, or change direction, or that they will refer you elsewhere if the fit is wrong, sounds considerably more confident than one who does not mention it.
That reassurance costs nothing and removes a real hesitation about committing to a package.
Show your background honestly
Life coaches vary enormously in preparation, and prospective clients know it. The field is unregulated and the public is aware of that.
So state what you actually have. Training and certification if you hold them, including which body. Prior professional experience if it is relevant. Lived experience where it genuinely informs the work.
Whatever your background is, being specific about it beats being vague. Vagueness invites the reader to assume the worst, and the worst assumption in this category is that you did a weekend course.
Add a real photograph and your actual name. Coaching is bought from a person, and anonymity works against you badly here.
If you specialize, say where that came from. A coach working with people leaving corporate careers who left one themselves is telling a story the reader can check.
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Make the first step small and clearly bounded
Book a consultation is too vague and sounds like a sales call. Someone considering coaching is already slightly self-conscious about it.
Offer something specific instead: a twenty minute call, free, no obligation, to see whether the fit is right. Say the length, say there is no cost, and say explicitly that nothing is decided on it.
Then say what the call covers. Usually them describing what is going on and you explaining how you would approach it.
Put a real booking link with real availability rather than a form. A form that disappears into an inbox loses people who worked up the nerve on a Sunday evening.
And state your response time. The window of resolve for this decision is short.
Name the situation. Explain what coaching is and is not. Publish the price. Describe a session. Show your background. Make the first step small.
Six things, and almost no life coaching website does more than two of them. In a field where everyone sounds the same, being specific is not just better marketing. It is the only marketing available.
Action Plan
- Replace transformation language in your headline with a specific situation.
- Write a section explaining what coaching is and is not, including when to see a clinician.
- Publish your package structure and a price or starting point.
- Describe a session concretely, including work between sessions.
- State your training, background and relevant experience plainly.
- Add a real photograph and your name.
- Define a short first conversation and say what it involves.
- Replace the contact form with a booking link showing real availability.
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