It's been a while since our last update, but rest assured that our development team has been hard at work improving Coachtastic to make it a more useful and easily accessible tool both for Coaches and people seeking coaching alike.
Our most exciting new feature is our "Ask for Help" section, in which anyone can post an inquiry asking for help with issues they are dealing with in their lives. Once posted, these inquiries are made visible ONLY to coaches registered on Coachtastic. Coaches then have the ability to see which people they think they'd be best suited to help, and can contact the potential client directly (via information provided by the potential client). Once a client finds a coach and has their inquiry resolved, they can then remove their post and let us know which coach on the site helped them (we are working on implementing a system whereby we will rank coaches on our site/give preferred search result listings to coaches who have received positive feedback from clients via the Ask for Help section).
Do you know people in your life who could benefit from coaching, but perhaps are too afraid to ask for help? Our goal with the Ask for Help section of Coachtastic is to make users feel secure and confident knowing that they can reach out for help to a variety of different people and be able to choose the coach that is best suited to their own personal needs. We encourage you to let people in your life know about our new Ask for Help section so that they can try it out for themselves and receive the benefits of having a coach in their lives. You can check out who is posting inquiries on Coachtastic by clicking the “See who is asking for help…” link under your profile/account tabs in the top right of the page.
Other recent improvements/added features to Coachtastic are:
•Vanity URLs for Coach Profiles: You can now have your very own Coachtastic URL with your name in it (e.g. instead of coachtastic.com/profile.php?id=###, your profile link will be coachtastic.com/Your-Name). For coaches who already have profiles on Coachtastic, all you need to do to get your free vanity URL is log in to your profile, click on the Edit button, and click save. New coaches registering for the site will automatically be given a vanity URL for their profile.
•Profile Edit Page Autosave: When editing your Coach Profile page, information will now automatically autosave every two minutes.
•Simplified Search Page: The website Search feature has been simplified so that all inquiries can be searched for (names, categories, etc.) in one simple search field.
•Scrolling Pagination: There is no longer a need to click "next" or "show more" when scrolling through search results or category listings; scrolling down the page will automatically do this for you.
•New "Coaching?" Tab: Refers users to a variety of articles and resources to explain what the field of coaching is all about.
•New "Resources" Tab: Directs coaches to sites with information about professional coaching.
*Note: We are still building and compiling links to resources for both of these new tabs. If you have suggestions, please let us know by emailing: info@coachtastic.com.
We thank you for your continued interest in Coachtastic and are excited to hear how our new features help you find potential clients and make a difference in the lives of those you help. Please feel free to send your questions, feedback, or report any errors/bugs or suggestions for site improvement using our "Contact/Feedback" form on the site.
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Have you used Coachtastic to secure new clients or been helped by a coach on our site? We want to hear about it! Let us know at: info@coachtastic.com.
Regards,
Coachtastic Team
