We get it — you’re over the early mornings, late nights, and split shifts. You’re tired of working weekends and missing fun nights out with your friends and family, and you dream of taking a vacation and unplugging. You want to pay all your bills at once rather than asking a client to purchase early so you have the cash to eat something other than top ramen. Or maybe you’re just ready to take coaching from a hobby to …
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The Most Common Financial Problems Independent Trainers Face and How to Solve Them
Let’s get the obvious out of the way. Trainers don’t exactly have the most lucrative job in the world. If we wanted to get rich, we would’ve gone to school for something like aerospace engineering, right? Being a personal trainer doesn’t automatically mean you’ll make a ton of money — but that doesn’t mean it’s not possible to generate great wealth from a career you love. There are plenty of ways to increase your …
4 Tips for Making Your Website Better
Do These 4 Things to Improve Your Website and Boost Your Brand We live in a digital world where it’s essentially impossible to run a fitness business without having some kind of online presence. That naturally includes social media — Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, etc. — but also most certainly includes a website. When you’re a personal trainer or gym owner, though, these types of housekeeping matters can feel like …
9 Steps On How To Become A Leader In The Fitness Industry
It’s easy to fantasize about the end result — speaking at a huge event, teaching a workshop of your own methods that you used to get your clients amazing results, mentoring others on how to build their own fitness business. But if you’re doing the work you’ll be known for one day, why isn’t anyone asking you to be a guest on their podcast, speak at an event, or teach a workshop? Being on stage and presenting to your …
The 4 Most Important Things You Need To Know About Building A Fitness Business
Personal training isn't only a fitness job but a sales-oriented job too. Yes, you’re delivering fitness coaching, but you can't deliver your coaching services if people aren’t paying you to do so. The personal training industry may be easy to get into but it’s certainly not easy to stay in, and the amount of coaches who are making the amount of money and living the life they want to live is extremely low. So how do …
Why Everything Mark Fisher Touches Turns Into Unicorns
I recently sat down with Mark Fisher from Mark Fisher Fitness and Business for Unicorns to talk about all things fitness and business. Watch the full interview here and check out the show notes below. Show Notes At the top of the show, Mark talks about his 2 NYC gyms, Mark Fisher Fitness. Mark talks about how the tagline sums up his 2 gyms “serious fitness, for ridiculous humans.” He talks about his …