Presenting three awesome tools for online scheduling, sending
e-newsletters, and conducting online coaching sessions:
Clickbook online Scheduling, MailChimp email marketing service, and
Ether online commerce service. If you are willing to take a little
effort and time to set up these services with your CoachingWebsites
website, they can put you on the cutting edge of developing a virtual,
online practice. Schedule, market, and sell your services online using
any or all of these tools!

Clickbook Online Scheduling

FREE!

http://www.clickbook.net

Our customers often ask us how they can implement online scheduling on
their CoachingWebsites website. ClickBook is a free, real-time, web-based
booking and scheduling system for small business with the critical
features that characterize large scale booking systems, without the
prohibitive costs of custom-built solutions.

The system provides a broad spectrum of small businesses and
organizations with a highly user-friendly and simple to use ‘on-ramp’
into the online booking & scheduling world, and provides their clients
with the ultimate in appointment booking convenience.

ClickBook is a solution to the increasing demand for online services,
and a transformative business automation tool for small business
involved in the provision of appointment-based services.

They even provide you with a widget you can put on your site for your
visitors to click on.

https://www.clickbook.net/dev/bc.nsf/SPReg!OpenForm

If you want to try Clickbook and need help getting the Clickbook icon
onto your CoachingWebsites website, just call our Support line or email us
at [email protected], and we’ll be happy to help!

Mail Chimp Email Marketing Service

FREE!

http://www.mailchimp.com/

If you are looking for a way to distribute email newsletters,
MailChimp is a fun email marketing service designed with simplicity
and ease in mind. The interface is bright and welcoming with a smiling
cartoon chimp as their mascot.

You can copy and paste your contacts or upload them from a .csv file
directly into MailChimp. All you have to do is map fields when you’re
uploading your file.

This service does have a spam tester add-on for $14. You can use this
to make sure that emails you send with Mailchimp won’t be sent to your
recipients’ spam or junk email folders. The spam-tester add-on will
preview your campaign in 16 different email clients including Yahoo,
Hotmail, AOL and more. It will check your SPAM score and detects
errors in HTML code. The price allows you to check your message three
times.

MailChimp is extraordinarily easy to use. The included wizard takes
you through all the appropriate steps to setup your contacts,
templates and campaigns. They also include tips for writing subject
lines attached to the FAQs section.

All of your past and current campaigns are located on your home
dashboard for easy selection. However, for added convenience we would
like to see this service place sections for your lists and reports
directly on the dashboard as well.

With MailChimp you can add your own HTML email design or use one of
their simple templates. They offer four of the most common campaign
types. This service takes a unique approach to building and modifying
your email campaign. Their WYSIWYG editor allows you to add images and
change color schemes. After you’ve made the design modifications you
can then save your template and use it multiple times just changing
out the text. You can also take advantage of their numerous
predesigned templates.

This service also includes free unlimited file and image hosting,
although all images have to be less than 10mb to upload.

Ether Online Commerce service

http://www.ether.com/

Another query that often comes in to our CoachingWebsites Support Center
is how to do online coaching. We can help you set up Skype on your
CoachingWebsites site for phone coaching, and that works well, but there
is also a service called Ether that has a little more functionality.
Ether lets you set a price for people who want to call you for a phone
coaching session. The company provides a phone number and billing
services.

A button on your website lets potential callers click for information
about your services. Ether charges you 15% off the top of what ever
you decide to charge your callers.

If you’re interested in trying it out, you can call Ether at
1-888-MY-ETHER to get your free Ether phone number with an 8-digit
extension that is unique to YOU. You can set it to forward calls to
your actual phone number – your cell, home, work, or any other number.
It takes 2 minutes to set up and it’s free.

Next, you set your rate.How much is your time worth? $75 an hour? $15
for 15 minutes? $30 per call? People will only be able to call you
when they’ve prepaid your rate.

Ether allows you to take calls only when you’re ready. Your phone will
never ring when you don’t want it to. Just set the hours when you want
to take calls by adjusting the automatic schedule – currently set so
you don’t get calls at night. Or, turn your Ether Phone Number on or
off with the click of a mouse or by using your phone.

You can put your Ether phone number on your CoachingWebsites web site.
Your actual phone number can then be kept private. You can also get an
Ether Button for site lets customers know whether you’re available to
take calls. Clicking on your button guides them through the payment
process with a simple web form.

With Ether, your phone only rings when people prepay your rate. Ether
bills their credit or debit cards and sends you your money via direct
deposit or check. Ether ‘s commission is 15%, with no monthly fees,
no setup fees, and no connection fees.

You can sell any digital content, such as reports, photographs,
podcasts, videos, etc. Simply send an Ether Mail with the contents
you’d like to sell and set the price you’re charging. People will only
be able to view the contents when they pay your price.

If you’re interested in any of the above services, the best thing to
do is use the contact information in this article to contact them
directly. Once you’re up and running, though, we can help you
integrate any of these services into your CoachingWebsites website.

Thomasin H – CoachingWebsites Support
Email any questions to [email protected]