Crazy Hobbies
How do I make my hobby(coaching people) into a business??
I coach overweight people but at this moment for free. I want to find out what te possibilities are to make it a real business. I already did a study for Lifestyle Coach.
Public Comments
- get a job at jenny craig or weight watchers
- just put a pric on it, or make a free trial. if they really like ylou they will hire you
- Sure...aren't there tons of overweight people in United States?
- Why not put up an ad?
- you can go to like a weight loss camp and ask for employment or you can go to an agency and ask for employment as helping models in like weight training or kick boxing alot of ways...
- Uh, signs and other stuff like that! Duh!!!
- So your are a - sorry cant resist - "qualified" Lifestyle Coach - its just one of these jobs that seem to feed of peoples miserableness - I guess it benefits both hopefully - . But my guess is to go to a job centre & ask them for help & advice etc on setting up a business . AFAIK they should be able to give you lots of help. The job of a coach is to get people somewhere I guess ? So what are all the things that you can help people with - with which people need / are looking for help from a Proffessional lifestyle coach - your job just goes against most things I believe in . Good Luck .
- Advertise, and try to encourage people to recommend your services to others. If you've got a good service, people will be happy to recommend you to their friends. Get respectable looking business cards. You can get a thousand of them for $40 at Office Depot and other places. And make sure to smile. People like that kind of stuff. Oh, and don't forget to get a good tax person to do your taxes. And make sure to keep all your receipts. And finally, check your local and state agencies to make sure you don't have to get a business permit or obtain a sales tax permit or anything. I'm not sure if you'd have to charge sales tax for your services; but if you sell any products and/or food or anything, you'd probably have to charge tax on that. And if you do charge tax for reselling stuff, you can get a sales tax exemption so that you don't have to pay tax on it yourself. But that's only good for the stuff you resell, and not stuff that you use for yourself. Hope that helps.
