Many coaches have asked me if they should join a local networking group. Here is what I recommend.

It is really all about your goals for your membership and what you want to get out of it. Since your goal is to get referrals of potential clients, I would look at the group and see if members there are in position to send you referrals, if they have access to people who can make great referrals for you.

For example, if you are a business coach, your potential clients are business owners. If there are many members in the group who work with business owners and can refer them to you, this should be a big consideration for you joining the group.

On the other hand, if you are a life coach, you will need to have people in different professions in group, so that they can refer leads to you.

My recommendation is to set goals for what you want to get from the group, and see if the group will help reach those goals.

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Biana Babinsky

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