You’re holding back your thoughts and ideas. Your desire to create is stifled because you’re lying to yourself. These lies protect you from being vulnerable. You think they protect you from the judgement and criticism you fear if you put your work on display for the world to tear down. You’re also safe from being loved, shared, and from positively affecting someone’s life. Share for the people who support you and …
Andrew Coates
Referral Mastery: Playing The Long Game
Referrals are the lifeblood of your business. They require long game thinking if you want a sustainable referral pipeline. No single action will instantly fill your schedule and leave you waitlisted for months. Creating a self sustaining referral engine means doing a lot of things consistently. It means the belief in and execution of a philosophy of quality service to your clients while showing the world your skill …
6 Reasons To Stay In The Fitness Industry
Have you ever stressed over the security and stability of your personal training income? Even before COVID-19 turned our industry upside down? Are you tempted to jump into trades, be a paramedic, or find an office job (now a home office job with Zoom meetings)? You wouldn’t sit alone in this camp. There has never been a better time to stay in the fitness industry. Expect Short Term Decline in Supply of …
How 6 Successful Coaches Built Their Social Media Following
Large social media followings are often dismissed as the domain of sleazy fitness influencers. But like it or not, human brains see the size of your following as a metric of credibility in our world. We have two choices: pointlessly complain about people with large followings who share bad information, or learn how reputable fitness professionals built their following and so we can better compete for …
7 Things I Wish I Did Earlier In My Career
No successful path is unobstructed. If I were asked, “What would I do differently in my career?”, my first answer would be, “nothing”. Often the very problems along the way created the opportunity and inspiration for breakthroughs, brand growth, and financial reward. Not to mention the potential butterfly effect of altering the space time continuum and some Ashton Kutcher style hemorrhaging through my face. But as a …
How In-Person Trainers Successfully Adapt to Online Coaching
Experienced in-person coaches are often victims of our own success. Entrenched thinking and behavior which served our success in-person leaves us struggling to adapt to technology-driven changes and opportunities in our industry. We’re often slow or unable to move at all into online coaching. We believe we can’t replicate the in-person experience and aren’t willing to compromise on our process. We’ve worked this way …
The World Has Changed and So Have the Rules for New Online Coaches
“You can’t train online unless you’ve coached in person for four years.” Maybe you’ve heard or read trainers make this or similarly arbitrary proclamations. These statements only serve to gain echo chamber applause. As a newer trainer, did this ever help you? For the sake of this discussion, let’s define “newer” trainer as anyone in the earlier stages of their career who is developing basic coaching, movement, …