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People Don't Buy Coaching, They Buy Coaches

Name: People Don't Buy Coaching, They Buy Coaches
Uploaded: 2024-05-17T20:00:13+00:00
Duration: 58 s
Channel: David Molina
Description: In this monologue, the speaker argues that traditional market research, while essential for selling mass‑market products, is largely overrated for…

17 May 2024 · 1 min

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In this monologue, the speaker argues that traditional market research, while essential for selling mass‑market products, is largely overrated for coaching and consulting businesses, which he frames as luxury‑grade services. He explains that excessive research leads him to "whore" himself out for a niche, diluting his authentic high‑status positioning. Instead, he advocates focusing on personal branding that projects the coach as the top authority in the field, emphasizing that clients purchase the coach themselves rather than an abstract service. By limiting market research and leaning into his own identity as the niche, he reports higher earnings, more freedom, and a clearer value proposition.

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Let me tell you what other thing I think is overrated. Market research. If you do coaching and consulting, let me explain. If you sell to cold traffic, if you want to sell shower filters and toothpaste, sure, market research is the gemstone of it. But when it comes to coaching and consulting, you are selling luxury goods. Market research doesn't do you as much as you positioning yourself as higher status, as being the top guy. So when I try to do too much market research, what I find personally is that I start whoring myself out for the niche. Instead of me showing this is who I am. I am the niche. If you want to, cool. If not, whatever. I make more money when I don't do the market research. I know like roughly what they want. More money, more time, more freedom. Done. The difference is how I show it in my own life. So by trying to, you know, make the 4 pillars of the pains and the goals, and it doesn't serve me because I find myself limiting myself. And remember that people don't buy coaching, they buy coaches.