Personal Training Business Productivity Tips

October 5, 2009 By Pat Rigsby 13 Comments

Personal training business secrets

Here are some of my random ones for getting the most from your time.

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1. Looking at too many things online – group all your reading / research together.

2. Browsing forums, Google, etc with no real purpose – if you can’t tie it to a goal, eliminate it.

3. Take notes on anything valuable so you don’t have to re-read.

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Procrastination

4. Learn things quickly. Pour yourself into them.

5. Set deadlines for everything.

6. Do the tough stuff first.
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All You Need To Know About Personal Training Business Success

September 28, 2009 By Pat Rigsby 24 Comments

Personal Training Business: 28 Ways To Succeed. A Post by Pat Rigsby

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When we (or pretty much anyone else for that matter) talk about personal training business success, it often turns to marketing and sales or developing and implementing programs.

All of that ‘stuff’ is important. Even crucial. But if you want to be successful, you need a foundation. Here are 37 tips & lessons that will give you foundation you need for lasting success:

Treat others the way you want to be treated.
Be early…on time is tolerable. Late is never acceptable.
Do what you say you’re going to do. Try to do more. Never do less.
Focus on what you can control.
Learn from the experiences of other – not just your own.
Live your life like most people do and you’re going to settle for what most people get.
‘Trying’ isn’t enough. It’s an excuse. Either you’re doing something or you’re not.
You never fail until you quit, make excuses or die.
If you want to achieve something write it down.

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Fast Way to Grow Your Personal Training Business

April 23, 2009 By Jim Labadie 13 Comments

Personal Training Business Growth. A post by Jim Labadie.

It’s simple to grow your personal training business.

Associate with people that are more successful than you. Seriously, is that so hard?

We flew all the way to Boise a couple of weeks ago to Mastermind with guys like Russell Brunson.

Business owners doing 7 and 8 figures!
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Fitness Marketing Timesaver #3: Maximum Impact

March 30, 2009 By Pat Rigsby 8 Comments

A Post on A Fitness Marketing Timesaver Tip By Pat Rigsby

When it comes to fitness marketing there are so many things you can do. Everything from placing an ad on Cragislist to setting up a booth at a health fair could potentially add clients to your business and money to your bank account.

But let’s face facts: there are only 24 hours in a day and 168 hours in a week.

You have to spend some of that time delivering the services you’re selling.

You need to spend time working on your business, adding new profit centers and creating multiple streams of income.

You want more freedom to spend time with your family and friends. You want more freedom to pursue your passions.

What’s the answer?

Focus on Maximum Impact activities.

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What’s a Maximum Impact activity?

Personal Training Business Books

March 25, 2009 By Jim Labadie 49 Comments

Personal Training Business Books You Should Read

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Ok, so these books aren’t specifically on building a Personal Training Business.

But these are the very first books that Pat, Nick and I read when we decided to go into business for ourselves.

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Fitness Marketing Time Saver #2 – Automatic Reactivation Techniques

March 23, 2009 By Nick Berry 7 Comments

A Post on A Fitness Marketing Time Saver Tip By Nick Berry

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So Pat explained to you the fitness marketing side of a solid reactivation campaign, and I’m gonna show you a couple of ways you can set up a reliable and effective system for managing it.

Reliability is paramount here – as we can’t afford to have people slipping through the cracks – and that wouldn’t be much of a system would it?

Efficiency is equally important, because we can’t commit all of our time to a single campaign, right?

The first thing you’ve got to have it a complete list of your former clients. If you have a client management software you use, that should work well. We’ve also always kept a backup excel spreadsheet that had the names and info of any clients who had decided for whatever reason to leave. It’s very important to include dates on the spreadsheet, the cancellation date as well as the date they began using your service. This is where reliability comes into play – you have to manage this list over time and make sure the correct data is entered when a client cancels. It’s not a complete list if you only remember to add someone to it sometimes – and that means it’s not reliable. So keep a complete database of your past clients.

Reactivating Personal Training Clients & Campers: Your Hidden Goldmine

March 18, 2009 By Pat Rigsby 11 Comments

gold09 Reactivating Personal Training Clients & Campers: Your Hidden Goldmine Just the other day I talked to my good friend and Fast Track Mastermind Member Billy Corbett about the hidden goldmine in his fitness business.

Hidden goldmine?

Yes. Billy’s business, like most every business, has a hidden goldmine waiting to be uncovered.

For Billy, the biggest part of this hidden goldmine is his list of former personal training clients.

See, Billy has been training for a while and while his retention is incredible (actually, ‘legendary’ might be more accurate) – but he still has some clients drop of when they get busy, their financial situation changes or they just kind of drift off over time.

Well, this group of people is the ideal audience to reach out to and invite back into your business.

Why? A few reasons:

• Billy already has a great relationship with these people. He’s always overdelivered to his clients.
• They already are comfortable with him and his business.
• They’ve already established themselves as ‘buyers’ – people who will invest in their health and fitness.

So Billy and I discussed how he could reach out to them and make them an offer that would be enticing enough to bring a significant percentage of them back into his business.

Fitness Marketing Time Saver #1

March 16, 2009 By Jim Labadie 13 Comments

Fitness Marketing Timesaving Tip. A post By Jim Labadie

Welcome to our brand new feature. Our Time Saving Tip of The Week!

First thing every Monday you’re going to come to FitBusinessInsider.com to set the tone for your entire week.

You’re going to learn a proven method for getting more done in less time.

You’ll discover how to enjoy your life more.

Before you do anything else, start your week with this tip. Pat, Nick and I will be taking turns each Monday to make running your Personal Training business easier than ever.

Ok, so here’s the first one: