Fitbot... we had a great run, but we’re excited to announce that as of today, Fitbot is now TrueCoach. The meat on the bones of this rebrand is the launch of our long-awaited iOS app for clients. For the past 3 years our web app has allowed you to access Fitbot on any device with a web browser. This helped us stay lean through a mostly bootstrapped effort without too much outside funding, but the experience a native …
Kate Brierley Joins TrueCoach
TrueCoach continues to grow! This week we'd like to introduce you to our newest team member, Kate Brierley, the director of customer success at TrueCoach. How did you first get into customer success? My first ‘real job’ was for an e-commerce company as a customer service representative and I found out pretty quickly that answering phone calls and fielding support emails was not where I would thrive. Growing up …
TrueCoach’s 2017 Holiday Gift Guide For Coaches
TrueCoach brings you our 2017 gift guide for the coach in your life this holiday season. Fancy an item in this list? Simply click on the link to purchase! These are not affiliate links, and we don't make any money from the non-TrueCoach items on this list. Program From Anywhere One of the best things about coaching clients remotely is that you can do it from anywhere! Check out the goodies below to help out on that …
How To Grow Your Revenue With Individual Design
I'm a firm believer that individual design is something every coach and gym owner needs to become familiar with. If implemented correctly, it can help you increase your revenue, employ more coaches, and ultimately create fitter clients. 1. Increase Revenue (support the business) With individual design as a service offering within your group fitness-based microgym, you have strategically placed yourself in a …
Emilie Hester Joins TrueCoach
The TrueCoach team continues to grow! This week we'd like to introduce you to Emilie Hester, full-stack web developer, former gym owner, and the latest addition to TrueCoach. How did you first get into Software Development? Growing up I was constantly following my computer nerd older brother around wanting to do whatever he was doing, even when that included things like using his Commodore 64 to try to hack into …
Webb Henderson Joins TrueCoach
We're excited to welcome Webb Henderson to the TrueCoach team! Webb is a talented product designer originally from Missouri and currently residing in Denver, Colorado. Get to know one of the the latest additions to the TrueCoach team. How did you first get into design? Oddly enough, I didn’t start my career with a design focus – I have a pretty unconventional path that wanders through finance, project management, …
The Case for Individual Program Design
When a gym swings opens its doors for the first time to the public, the ideal outcome is a membership base large enough to sustain the facility’s success and eventual growth. For the purposes of this post, let’s imagine that the gym in question is a CrossFit location. We recognize that the below principles can apply across a range of small coaching businesses and gyms. Obstacles for Gym Owners CrossFit gyms make …
Alex Ford Joins TrueCoach
This week we're excited to introduce you to Alex Ford, a computer engineer turned web developer who recently relocated from Austin to Boulder to join the team here at TrueCoach. How did you first get into software development? My journey to software began in hardware. When I was in high school, I created a job for myself buying and repairing video game systems off of eBay. Through fixing older systems such as the …
Individualized Program Design Is Here To Stay
True 1-to-1 personal training is here to stay and the coaches, gyms, and fitness professionals embracing this today are experiencing some impressive results, increasing client engagement and retention, and in some cases 3X'ing and 4X'ing their revenue in the process. Delivering 100% individualized personal training programs for all of your clients doesn't have to be a nightmare, if you've got the right systems and …
AJ Self Joins TrueCoach
This week we're excited to introduce you to AJ Self, senior iOS engineer and the person who's making the TrueCoach iPhone app for clients a reality! How did you first get into software development? I’ve been playing with code on one level or another since I was a kid. In college, though, I was minoring in photography. The photography department was treated as a commercial skill and is a part of the industrial …