A quick story.
About two years ago, I decided to make my business mobile. I got rid of office equipment (computers, phone, printers), removed extra software (lots of MS stuff), and stopped various office tasks (printing stuff and filing).
I dropped down to one laptop and headed to Paris for six weeks to test it out. It was awesome. I jumped around various coffee shops, napped in parks, and focused my energy on the high priority work tasks. I felt freer to move around both in the physical world and in my mental space.
This principle of minimizing is needed on many coaching sites as well – even small ones.
To see if your coaching website is too wieldy, sit wit a few people (ideally ones you would want as clients) and ask them to try out your website. See what they do.
You should NOT have to give any instruction at all. If you you get a lot of hesitation, umms or uhhs, or misclicking, then you’ve got some site reorganizing and copy modifications to make.
Here are three common minimizing tips for many newer coaches:
1 – Decide the most important thing you want visitors to do and make focus your copy, navigation on achieving that. Make the rest less in-your face.
2 – Put less items on your on your main navigation. A list of five to seven is good. More than that becomes tough to look at.
3 – Use less words. Write in shorter paragraphs. Be direct, not wordy.
Conclusion? To get more action from visitors at your website, decide what you want from them, then focus your site on achieving that.
Kenn Schroder helps professional coaches who struggle to find and attract clients setup a compelling web presence to create a steady stream of fun-to-work-with, paying clients. Get 5 Website Strategies for Attracting Coaching Clients at http://www.CoachingSitesThatWork.com
Hi Ken, I found your post very interesting and informative, thanks
for sharing. Aly