Can I Provide Services in My Field without Certification?

AskPat 2.0: A Weekly Coaching Call on Online Business, Blogging, Marketing, and Lifestyle Design

Pat Flynn

Business Advice, Marketing, Podcasting, Getting Started, Business Strategy, Business, Small Business, Passive Income, Online Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2017

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Today’s question comes from Joe. If he doesn’t have accreditation in an area, can he still provide services and create content in that area? Joe's website is https://joe.gg/. Do you have a question about content strategy? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/. Today’s sponsor is FreshBooks. Go to http://www.freshbooks.com/askpat and enter “Ask Pat” in the “How Did You Hear About Us?” section for more information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	AskPath.
0:04.6	AskPath.com
0:06.2	Dot com.
0:10.7	What's up, everybody, Pat Flynn here, and welcome to episode 922 of Ask Pat.
0:14.6	Thank you so much for joining me today.
0:16.3	As always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week.
0:20.2	Sweet.
0:20.8	All right, now, here's today's question from Joe. Hi questions five days a week. Sweet. All right.
0:21.1	Now, here's today's question from Joe.
0:23.1	Hi, Pat.
0:23.5	This is Joe from London, UK, and I'm at Joe.g.
0:27.5	I'm recently pivoting off a business idea that didn't quite work out, and I'm instead
0:31.6	focusing on building up my own personal brand to be able to offer value to people and create
0:35.9	products and services based on that. I'm moving into well-being coaching in topics and related both topics,
0:42.5	such as self-improvement, mental health and that kind of thing. I'd like to be able to create
0:46.4	products in that service area eventually in the longer term, but right now I'm still finding
0:50.9	my craft. So I'm planning on doing coaching.
1:01.3	And in order to do that, I'm doing a coaching course that has got a good accreditation governing body.
1:06.5	But my question is, if I don't really have that accreditation yet in the field I want to work in,
1:10.5	can I still provide these services and create products in this area I do know a lot about?
1:14.1	And how do you get around being confident about your specialisms if you don't necessarily have the piece of paper to prove it?
1:16.8	Thanks, Pat, for everything you do.
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