If you run a coaching business and want to use the Internet to get clients, here is a question you should ask yourself: "What is your online marketing strategy?"

If your online marketing strategy consists of doing a single marketing task every once in a while, you should change that right now. As an online business owner, you need to market your online business on a regular basis if you want to get tangible results. By results I mean getting more web site traffic and more customers.

When I just started my coaching business I was not consistent with marketing it. I would optimize my web site every year and I would write a single article every six months. I was still able to get some web site traffic and some sales, but they were not very consistent.

However, once I stopped my random marketing campaign and created an online marketing plan I started getting much more web site traffic and many more customers. A steady marketing strategy has been bringing me a consistent stream of customers ever since.

Here is how you can create a consistent online marketing strategy for your coaching business to bring in steady web site traffic, clients and sales:

- Take a look at what marketing that you have already done. Spend some time reviewing the marketing techniques you are already using so that you will not have to do the same work twice.

- Make sure that you have a useful, professional web site for your business. A professional and user-friendly web site is the #1 priority for you, as an online business owner. Your web site is what will help you get more clients and more sales online.

You can use your web site to help your potential customers find out more about you and your services, subscribe to your newsletter and buy your products.

- Create an effective online marketing strategy for marketing your business online. Your strategy is a process that will reliably bring your potential customers to your web site all the time.

Your strategy should use various online marketing techniques, such as article marketing, blogging, search engine optimization, and many more. It should also describe how you are going to use them to bring your potential customers to your web site and get them to buy your products and services.

- Implement your online marketing strategy. Break your online marketing strategy into many manageable 1-2 hour tasks that are easy to complete and that you can add to your schedule.

For example, if your strategy includes blogging, the first task is setting up your blog. The next task is scheduling your blog posts. Next tasks are scheduling blogging 2-3 times a week and creating your actual blog posts.

Make sure that you create a marketing strategy for your coaching business! Having an online marketing strategy and following it is the only way to gain more coaching clients online.