When would you consider you to be an expert good enough for coaching?

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October 16, 2016, 7:46 pm

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When would you consider you to be an expert good enough for coaching?

I recently made a post about mentorship. You can find it here:
Have you ever been mentored? - Have you ever hired a "guru" to teach you things?

Within that topic, there's been some great replies and that's the reason for this topic. Within Mike's reply you can find this:

For that reason, I've always been very skeptical about all these self claimed gurus out there. Especially when it comes to a topic like SEO! A lot of people do SEO. And they claim to be an SEO expert or SEO guru.

When are you a true expert in your field of work?
And when would you be able to consider yourself good enough to become a guru or a mentor?

Like on SEOClerks for instance, just take a look at all the amazing SEO providers. Are all of them experts due to their amount of sales? - How do you measure something like that?

I personally would say that an expert would be a person who's truly great in what he does. And a person who always reach superb results. - And I believe that should be the first milestone to reach before you consider offering "guru" or "mentor" services.

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TommyCarey

TommyCarey

I don't know if I would ever consider myself a "Guru" because I feel like those are titles made up by the person lol. Now an "Expert" is more of an elite title in my eyes, I actually consider myself an expert of SEO because I've been doing it for a looooonnnnnggggg time. There are new SEO "Gurus" who were in diapers when I started out lol.

I would say that someone can consider them self an expert when they can answer almost every question thrown at them as well as answer ones that never came up. Sure you can answer questions on a test that are pretty basic, but when thrown into a real life situation, can you handle yourself? People who don't panic under pressure and can get the job done are the ones who are on their way to being the experts.

The tough thing with SEO is that not many of us have online marketing degrees because they were just recently being offered by universities. I know for sure that it wasn't an option to be an online marketer when I was in college lol

And for this simple reason, anyone can claim to be an SEO expert even if they just started right before reading this post

I know plenty of experts who don't want to be known, they just want to sit in the shadows and count all their money lol. On the other hand you have the Gurus who want their faces to be seen and glorified in order to sell random bullsh*t to strangers haha.

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Lynne

Lynne

You have a really good point here. The self proclaimed "gurus" do nothing for me except want me to roll my eyes and sigh with boredom.

I couldn't coach SEO simply because I don't know about on page SEO, content writing and a bit about social media marketing but when it comes to other off page SEO methods and techniques I know hardly anything.

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RaduV

RaduV

Like Razzy said "guru" is someone that proclaim himself without a solid background, a great experience in the field and a good portfolio but still felt the need to be "someone".
I would say that once you have solid proof of your work and experience in the field then you can call whatever you want.

When are you a true expert in your field of work?
I have started in this field around 2009 -2010 when I was a student so it's been a while since I've done it however I can't consider myself a Specialist or Guru nor Expert. I am good with what I offer and that's it.

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Cristian

Cristian

The sale amount and even the amount of positive reviews here on SEoclerks certainly won't make someone an expert from a coaching perspective. You could be selling only simple social media promotion gigs that don't mean you are ready to coach and give professional advice to big companies, it just means you are good at offering simple services in this marketplace and you indeed have a high experience on this platform.

When I think of people offering coaching sessions my mind goes to highly skilled individuals with a vast knowledge in anything online marketing related, with big names under their portfolio and direct examples of their implementations resulting in sales and successful projects.

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Lynne

Lynne

Well strangely enough I am coaching a few people, not in a formal sort of environment but I have a number of people that have contacted me and asked me for advice and guidance on how to blog, how to make money and how to do SEO.

I have quite a bit of experience for on page SEO and content marketing since I have been blogging for a while but I am not sure I would consider myself a guru or an expert.

I wouldn't feel comfortable charging people to coach them. I give some pointers here and there and then I also recommend products and services that I use and that I am affiliated with of course.

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CryptoGuru

CryptoGuru

I think i could most certainly be a coach or a teacher. Especially when is comes to crypto currency or Bitcoin. Doing tutorials or guiding people on how to start business or make money doing SEO could be a great way to make money. The only bad thing i for see happening is that your creating your own competition when you do that. If i teach someone to mine BTC and they have a deeper pocket than me its would be better to take him on as an investor rather than teach him to do it himself. The only way i would teach all my secrets is if i was able to charge a % of what that person made with my knowledge. Thanks for sharing

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EliteWriter

EliteWriter

In my field - writing - I do not think that you can ever consider yourself as an expert. You can never be fully knowledgeable in every subject. Moreover, you cannot teach someone to learn how to write. First and foremost one needs to have good language skills, and then he or she needs to have a passion for writing. So considering this, I neither consider myself as an expert, and nor a coach.

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Barida

Barida

We all learn on a daily basis, so I don't think there is a point in life where I can see myself as a guru that would now be teaching people no matter what unless it is when I begin to make lots of money on the internet.

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overcast

overcast

I'd say when the person is good enough with the input and output in terms of the knowledge. In that case I'd say he or she is considered as an expert. I think we need to see the coaching in terms of result centric way. You can learn to take things pretty good way in that context. As you can see that experts opinion matters in that. And people who are into the coaching should be result oriented. Then I guess getting a coach is worth it. That's what I have learned.

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augusta

augusta

I believe before could see his or her self as a coach, it will be an expert in a given field.Not just a person with one or two years success, I believe the number of years is also paramount like 5-10 years doing a particular field and gaining all the necessary knowledge to tackle whatever problems that come up.

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Corzhens

Corzhens

I have noticed in the movie industry that this adage is true – those who can, do and those who cannot, teach. What I mean is that there are natural teachers who can be a good coach regardless of he is good in the field. Even in sports, some of the best coaches were not good players themselves. What I’m pointing out is that if you have the confidence to be a coach and that you can answer 99% of the questions about your field then you are worthy to be a coach.

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