You wouldn’t believe how hard it was to find a ribbon of the exact shade of CA green, #6C9C31.

Goodness they grow up so fast when they’re young, don’t they?

Just yesterday CoachAccountable turned 1: it was one year ago that I released it from my laptop in Peru to deliberately very little fanfare.

In those days very few people who tried it really got the concept, because there wasn’t much by way of illustrating the why and the wins of using the system.  Now with explainer videos, an illustrated manual, a heap of blog posts, and a richer, more encompassing set of features people are much more able to understand the value of using CoachAccountable and put it into their practice (the change in my conversion rates make this most obvious!).

Year one of CoachAccountable’s public existence was marked by intentional obscurity.  Because I was traveling around the world as I went, I didn’t want the added responsibility of large amounts of traffic & interest (no, seriously).  The trickle traffic I got from search engines¹ was quite sufficient to cause a steady stream of new people trying out the software and reaching out to me.  So I got to grow and evolve things at a steady and very workable pace, considering the fact that during travel I would be offline for a week at a time now and then.  All this happened without doing a lick of advertising².

The result is a system I’m very proud of, and one which dozens of coaches have personally expressed to me their appreciation using nothing less than the L word (yeah that’s right: Love).

So it’s been a good year.  For CoachAccountable’s second year on the market I look forward to releasing support for both group coaching and teams of coaches, an enterprise edition, a manual written for clients, and a whole lot more besides.  And I’m going to forgo the luxury of obscurity before long: CoachAccountable has vetted itself as good enough that I may as well start promoting the darn thing in places outside of its own home on the web.

If you haven’t tried it, it’s just as easy to get set up with your own account it was on day one: in in 60 seconds, no credit card needed, 30 days free to play around.

And if you have tried it and already dig it, feel free to join in CoachAccountable’s emergence from obscurity by spreading the word (whilst earning a tasteful kickback in the process) by becoming an affiliate.

Thanks for being along this journey with me.  Here’s to coaching being great.