Everybody wants leads, but most independent gym owners are missing a golden source right in front of them: referrals that are highly valuable and mostly pre-qualified. Too many fitness pros take a passive approach to gaining referrals from clients, employees, and...
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All Problems are Leadership Problems – Part 2
Do you ever think about your limitations? Do you think there are important aspects of your business you’ll just NEVER be good at? Selling...Marketing…something else... You’re just hopeless there, right? I talk to gym owners all the time who are convinced that there’s...
All Problems are Leadership Problems – Part 1
What does it ‘look’ like? How clearly do you see your role as THE leader for your business? Clear enough to work on it every day, just as you work on programming for your clients or marketing? Most gym owners don’t have that level of clarity. They may think they do,...
WTF!?! What’s the point of all this?!?!!?
I’m sure you’ve thought, or maybe yelled, something like this after something incredibly frustrating happened in your gym. Maybe a client was late. Maybe you had to explain the same exercise to someone for what felt like the 376th time and now you feel bad because...
Online Training in 4 Simple Steps: Part Two
In this post, we’ll finish our 2-part series on starting a Money-Making online Hybrid Training Program in 4 Easy Steps. During the chaos of the pandemic, gym owners had to make it work. You had to figure it out fast or your business was going under. It took a lot...
Tips To Remember When Fully Reopening Your Gym
A lot of gym owners want to get “back to normal” and focus on fully reopening their gyms. But it’s not just gym owners…but the members and staff as well. More gyms have either shut their doors, or changed their entire business to maintain their income and revenue....
3 Reasons Fitness Businesses Fail
Small businesses fail all the time, and I would guess fitness businesses fail at a greater rate than most. But, why is that? The causes for struggle, frustration and ultimately failure in a fitness business are 100% avoidable. Discover the 3 most common reasons a...
How To Sell More Personal Training With 4 Mindset Shifts
[vc_column][vc_column_text] Are Your Beliefs Keeping You From Selling More Personal Training? Many of the biggest obstacles that keep salespeople and business owners from finding success, especially in fitness, lie right between their ears... If you're struggling to...
High Performance Mindset For Fitness Business Owners: Journaling
Success starts with the right mindset. Many fitness business owners struggle to overcome their own self doubt and negative self talk. In this short video Ryan shares a simple method for shifting your mindset and becoming the High Performing Fitness Business Owner you...
How To Go From Technician To Fitness Business Owner
From Technician to Manager to Fitness Business Owner If you’ve read the cook the Emyth by Michael Gerber you may be familiar with these stages of a small business, more specifically the roles that the business owner goes through. As running a fitness business,...