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My coaching website is http://www.cognizancecoaching.com. The site is less than one year old and one thing I learned out of the gate was that no one could pronounce, let alone spell COGNIZANCE, the name of my coaching business. The lesson learned here is GET A URL THAT IS EASY TO REMEMBER AND IS STICKY (relevant to your product or service). So I now use http://www.FreeFromFear.net in all my marketing material and the URL points to cognizance.

I welcome your thoughts and comments!

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Mynde supports people to recognize, understand and master the fears that often block us from realizing our full potential and living our most authentic and fully self-expressed life. She offers a free 30-minute coaching consultation to anyone interested in experiencing the power of working with a professional certified life coach. Please visit http://www.FreeFromFear.net for more information.

Well, I went to the site and I have just a few thoughts. Immediately, a box emerged asking me for my contact info for your newsletter. Let me learn a little more about your practice, education and coaching theories before you solicit for my email.

Also, a song started playing. Loudly. I couldn`t figure out where to turn it off. The problem is, I`m listening to something else on my computer and all I once, I had competing music coming from all angles. I think having music on your site is totally unnecessary; no one goes to a website for music unless it`s an actual music site.

The testimonials page is very good and I`m sure will help your future clients put themselves in the shoes of your former clients - that`s a smart move.

Just a couple of thoughts to get you started~

 

 

really great feedback, thank you!

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Mynde supports people to recognize, understand and master the fears that often block us from realizing our full potential and living our most authentic and fully self-expressed life. She offers a free 30-minute coaching consultation to anyone interested in experiencing the power of working with a professional certified life coach. Please visit http://www.FreeFromFear.net for more information.

I agree with the previous post, although I didn`t hear the music.

In Firefox, this part ....

Whatever you are looking for in your life, peace, fulfillment...
is inside you...
and I can help you find it!

... is spread over 3 lines, in IE and Opera it is in 2 lines. No critical, just an observation.

Your page text should be slightly bigger to be easier to read.




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M Hall
Website Critique Community
International Society of Curmudgeons

thank you for the FF and Opera feedback. I am grateful it is minor stuff.

you didn`t hear the music because I took it off already and I thought it was reasonable to remove the "join my list" popup from the landing page as well so that has been removed too. I got overly eager in building my prospect mailing list as my focus has been on building repeat visits through regular communication (blogs and email campaigns).

thanks again. really helpful, good stuff!

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Mynde supports people to recognize, understand and master the fears that often block us from realizing our full potential and living our most authentic and fully self-expressed life. She offers a free 30-minute coaching consultation to anyone interested in experiencing the power of working with a professional certified life coach. Please visit http://www.FreeFromFear.net for more information.

Fonts are too small. I can`t read most of the content. (FF for Mac)
The bottom is too ... busy. I can`t really figure out what I am supposed to be looking at.

It is weird that the page seems to end, and then it starts up again.

There`s too many ellipses on one page.

Pretend I have seen way too many sites for life coaches. Why not sell me on why you are different?

It is ideal that your URL should be easy to remember. Usually people go with the name. so I used mine http://www.matthewferry.com it makes it easier for my clients to find me. hope this helps as well.