Setting Up in Business as a Mediator 2nd ed

You want to be a mediator, but how do you get started? How do you build your business? How do you make money from being a full-time mediator? Setting Up in Business as a Mediator provides you with the answers to these questions.

Whether new to mediation and wanting to start a business as a full-time mediator, or an experienced mediator wanting to develop and grow an existing business, Setting Up in Business as a Mediator has hands-on advice for every stage of a mediator's career and is full of essential information on how mediators can get started in business and grow their existing practice.

Restructured, revised and fully updated the new 2nd edition shows:

• How to become accredited
• How to find a market
• The secrets of a good profile
• Hints for great blogging
• How to set up a website
• The best times to tweet
• What not to post on LinkedIn and Facebook
• How to overcome objections and rejection

Packed with helpful tips and guidance, checklists, self-audits, templates, scripts and real life examples, this book aims to get mediators thinking, prompting answers to the following questions, and more:

• Why are they doing mediation?
• How many mediations a year do they want to be doing in three years' time?
• How much money, time and effort do they need to invest to get there?
• What do they need to charge?
• Why would they choose themselves as a mediator?