Fed up with spinning your wheels and chasing one system after another? If you’re looking for clarity, focus and hands-on results, use these 5 coaching tips to gain new business-fast.

There’s a lot of great tips out there for presenting, selling and winning new business. But sometimes…it just feels like you’re chasing your tail trying one thing after another. How can you land on something that works…and yields repeatable success?

My coaching clients often ask me for tips to gain new business. When we sit side-by-side, we brainstorm specific actions that build on individual strengths. While we can’t dive into such detail in this post, here are 5 essentials that consistently attract new business.

Tip 1. Be Authentic
Much like dating…be yourself from the first encounter. Speak openly and naturally so that clients understand your business and your style. If you start out in a genuine and real manner, it’s easy to keep going.

Authenticity is your strongest asset. Why? Because there’s only one you. When prospects and clients get to know you…they’ll rely on your open and honest style.

Tip 2. Use Your Strengths
Last week I coached a gentleman who was terrific with metaphors. He was off the chart in coming up with stories, examples and anecdotes. But he was trying to present dry data without any emotion. Guess what my advice was?

Use your strengths. There are plenty of people who would give an arm and a leg to whip up metaphors so quickly and easily. Go with that.

Now of course, if your strength lies somewhere else-use that. If you’re a wizard at the whiteboard, grab a marker and show your sketches. If you’re a master at words, spell out your message so everyone gets it.

What is passive income? It is a form of income that keeps paying you after the initial effort to establish it is done.

If you would like to know how to do this, keep reading.

Passive income is not exclusively a tool for the rich. They may be the first to realize how to use it, but you can find out the same information that they already know to increase your monthly income and overall net worth.

The goal of passive income is to capitalize on what work you have already done.

It frees you up to spend time with family and friends or to pursue another business venture.

Either way, it is a win-win situation for you and your business.

So, without further ado, here are some ways that you can set into motion a passive income stream.

It will take work on the front end to get things set up, but you are striving for an income source that will keep on giving so that’s okay.

Passive Income Strategies

Affiliate Programs

You are not limited to one affiliate program at a time but make sure you choose your programs wisely.

Do some research to find one that is compatible but not in direct competition with your product or niche.

Set up a blog or website to promote it and be sure to use all of the tools in your affiliate toolbox in order to maximize your traffic and profits.

Once all is set up and you have developed a workable system, watch your hard work pay off.

Write Content

Sites like Associated Content pay for content once but also offer an incentive program that continues to pay each month.

Beginning a new business is an exciting adventure, and choosing the company’s name is one of many decisions that the owner(s) need to be made. This is no different when beginning a business on the Internet. On the Internet, you want a name, more specifically a domain name, which represents what you have to offer to the Internet community.

As you are learning the ins and outs of Internet marketing, there are a number of different things that you will need to do such as creating your website, building your contact list,and advertising. Everything you do will need a name associated with it that is all inclusive and represents everything you have to offer. This process seems easy enough, but it is quite difficult because once you chose the name it can’t be changed.

What creates the name?

What is a domain name that has everything to do with your Internet business? It is a fabulously fantastic name that is catchy, easy to remember and relates to what is on your website. The name can be a combination of letters, numbers and symbols. The name can be one word or it can be a number of words; although the shorter the name, the easier it will be to remember.

It is also very important to keep in mind when creating your business’ name that it shouldn’t be offensive or conflict with logos, mottos or trademarks of other companies. If your name may refer to another company, the domain name registrar will not allow the name to be used. Besides, you don’t want to take something of another company without their permission; otherwise you may find yourself in court.

It’s Taken? What!?

Several of you have written asking me to share some of my ideas and tips about blogging, so here goes.

Observation leads me to believe many bloggers do not know a good sentence from a turnip. If I find myself rewriting someone else’s sentence instead of reading their blog, I quit reading.

Another observation I have made is many people who consider themselves writers do not know how to tell a story. Now, I am not talking about Mark Twain kinda’ storystelling, just the basics.

Writing is difficult-those who would have written “writing is hard”-just proved my point. The task is difficult; the object is hard-eighth grade English class.

If you want to write well, be prepared to work. One of my favorite sayings is “if I had more time I would have written less.”

My overriding rule to myself is not to be redundant. If all I am doing is writing about the same topic as others, or offering the same perspective, I am just wasting air. I go out of my way to be contrarian, and I do so for the same reason.

Just because Word or dictionary.com warns you that the word you just typed is not a word is irrelevant. If it helps tell the story, use it. Also, only people with small minds believe there is only one way to spell each word.

I write conversationally, and I do so purposefully. I find it helpful to use tools-analogies and allegories to tell a story, to set a stage, or to draw in the reader. I use other such devices, but I do not know the names of devices any more than I know participles.