Cutting-edge business advice for fitness professionals. Learn how to maximize your income as a personal trainer, gym owner, or nutritional consultant. Host and money-making expert Ben presents high salary tips and tricks each week, from the website www.trainfortopdollar.com.
Folks, if there’s one thing I’ve been accused of, it’s getting lots of stuff done.
And no, I’m not a multi-tasker.
Simply put, I have several key strategies (which I call “Rules”) that I use to be more productive every day and to multiply myself. Although I discuss these Rules in great detail in my book, I wanted to share the basic quick tip versons with you now. Without further ado, here are the top 5 Rules to become a more productive fitness professional:
As busy fitness professionals, and fitness professionals who occasionally interact with our clients online, sometimes scheduling and engaging in a phone call with our personal training clients or coached athletes can be very difficult to do.
At the same time, we’ll occasionally receive e-mails and inquires from personal training clients or coached athletes that are just too involved and would take too much time for us to respond to in writing.
So as fitness professionals, or nutrition consultations, or coaches, etc., we are faced with a paradox…do you spend a ton of time scheduling a call with your client, calling your client, getting the introductions and niceties out of the way, and then attempting to close the call and say good-bye…all of which can be incredibly time-consuming.
In this post and video, I’m going to teach you how to record calls with iPhone. If you search around the internet, it is very difficult to find an actual app that can record iPhone calls, so this is a very good alternative. I completely understand that it requires one external piece of equipment, but it’s well worth the convenience.
So for those of you who aren’t familiar with affiliate programs, they’re basically a mechanism via which you can make recommendations to your clients and receive a profit when your clients actually find enough value in your recomendation to make a purchase.
While fitness professionals can make fantastic added income by offering their clients, customers and lists recommendations on everything from gear and equipment to tanning salons and energy bars, there’s never really been a good nutrition affiliate program for fitness professionals (password is “wccgp” to actually see the protected post on that page).
In my fitness career, there are a collection of personal training business books and personal training business development books that have really helped with growth in a fitness career. I’ll put links to them at the end of this post, but they include:
“The New Psycho-Cybernetics” – this book changed the way I approach tasks that may seem impossible…
“How to Win Friends & Influence People” – the quintessential guide to working with your clients and understanding/adapting to their personalities…
“Get The Edge by Tony Robbins” – this is an audio program; the best motivational audio I’ve ever heard in my entire life…
This article recently appeared at BenGreenfieldFitness.com, but I wanted to give you a chance to look at it too, since many of these applications are very good for fitness professionals who need better client management.
In this article, I’m going to give you insight into some of the more popular iPod and iPhone nutrition and fitness apps that are currently available on the market. After you read this post, I’d like to hear what YOU think…
…specifically what would YOU want to see in the “perfect” iPhone or iPod nutrition or fitness app? Have you used any of these? In your opinion what is missing from these apps? Do you want me to make an app that fits your needs? Let’s talk about it…leave your comments below!
I’m going to give you an easy to understand blueprint for How To Send Your Personal Training Clients or Subscribers Physical Mail…And Make Money Doing It.
Here’s how this whole physical mail/making money thing works: I offer a service called the “Ben’s Body Transformation Club”…which you can read about by clicking here.
Every week, people from around the United States sign up and pay a small membership fee to get weekly postcard mailings from me with nutrition and training tips, and each weekly mailing includes access to a “secret” password-protected video and details page, where I demonstrate exercises, give recipe specifics, etc.
You gotta admit, it’s pretty cool that anybody, including you, can now deliver audio podcasts to iTunes and have more people and a bigger audience listening to you within 24 hours than listened to Elvis during the era of his biggest hits.
I get alot of questions about how to record a podcast, how to publish a podcast, how to produce a podcast, how to make a podcast…you get the idea!
If you follow the three steps below to creating a highly profitable online triathlon coaching or fitness training website, you’re going find that it’s so easy, even a monkey could do it. Have fun!
Step 1: Get A Web Host
I personally use Bluehost for all my web hosting. Not only are they inexpensive, at $6.95 per month, but they have excellent customer service and a huge range of options, including some pretty good looking, pre-designed website templates and the ability to add things like blogs and forums to your website with literally one click.
Well folks…I just finished this brand new book – and you’re the first to find out if you’re reading this blog!
Introducing the complete career guide for triathlon coaches who want to make a living out of their passion: my new book “How to Become a Triathlon Coach”!
Inside, you’ll learn about triathlon coach certifications and education, tools to enhance your triathlon coaching business, and even how to make your own books and DVD’s!
Are you a triathlon coach? Aspiring triathlon coach? Interested in an endurance sports career or triathlon coaching career?
If so, then you should absolutely keep reading.
The sad truth is that there isn’t much information out there that helps you be a better triathlon coach, or even learn how to become a triathlon coach. As a matter of fact, just about everything there is to know about triathlon coaching can only be found by traveling to expensive conferences or buying big books.
Are you stumped about how to put together a New Year’s weight loss competition at your gym or personal training studio? Perhaps you’ve been assigned the project of designing a New Year’s program to increase revenue, but just don’t know where to start.
Congratulations – you’re about to learn exactly what to do!
The program below, which I designed while managing a small fitness facility, generated 96 participant sign-ups at a relatively small health club, with under $100 in start-up costs, but over 6K in start-up profit, then an additional 30K generated over the course of the year from people in the program going on to sign-up for individualized personal training!
Are you a triathlon coach or in the fitness endurance market? Maybe you’re just trying to find out more about a triathlon coaching career or how to coach triathlon. By clicking here (link will open in new window), you can visit the USAT Webinar archives website and have complete access to any of the following webinars:
Race to Your Fitness & Truly Compete with Bobby McGee
Top 10 Triathlon Training Myths: De-mystified with Steve Tarpinian
Race Day Nutrition for Endurance Athletes with Bob Seebohar
Heart Rate Training with Mark Allen & Luis Vargas
How to Make a Profit in the Triathlon Sports Market with Ben Greenfield
Long Course Brick Workouts for Success with Lee Zohlman
Training with Power – Power Basics with Angie Sturtevant
Swimming Myths with Steve Tarpinian
Cycling Technique-Improving your Power & Efficiency with Mark Allen & Luis Vargas
Inflammation & Omega-3 Fats with Bob Seebohar
The Tri Diet: Weight Loss & Lifestyle Change with Rich Julason
Race Nutrition In Depth with Mark Allen & Luis Vargas
Off Season Strength & Conditioning with Tim Crowley
Successful Pacing for Successful Racing with Lee Zohlman
Developing 5k & 10K Running Ability with Bobby McGee
Metabolic Efficiency with Bob Seebohar
Single Sport Training to Improve Your Weak Link with Tim Crowley
Triathlon Training for Women with Sally Edwards & Cindy Miller
“I am meeting with an administrator at a Clinic to discuss starting a pilot wellness program. I worked at a small business for a year doing one-on-one training and employee wellness (salary position). I believe I was compensated properly the first few months but at the end of the year realized I was greatly underpaid. This is partly why I’m moving on to another company. I believe this clinic has the funds to pay me appropriatly. My question for you is, how do I figure a salary for wellness and personal training at such a large company? I want to charge per session for one-on-one and per person for group sessions. To start, they will not have a workout facility but will in about a year or two. For now they would have me train in unused office space. Could you give me any advice on how to propose my services to them based on your experiences working in corporate wellness? Thanks so much!”
Listener Moji asks: “I will be starting grocery tours shortly in local markets and/or grocery stores like Super target, Publix etc, anywhere where my clients that are local shop. Have you ever run into an issue with the store manager not wanting you to educate your clients?
Technology allows you as a personal trainer or fitness professional to leverage your time and ensure that you’re not just clocking in for 8-10 hours training clients face-to-face all day long, with a very low ceiling on your personal training salary.
On August 22nd, in Toronto Canada, at one of the world’s largest fitness expos (Can-Fit-Pro), Ben Greenfield spilled all his money-making secrets to training with technology to a room of personal trainers and fitness business owners. As a special promotion for Ben Greenfield’s brand new book “Personal Trainers’ Guide to Earning Top Dollar”, you can now view this entire video for free!
Want to learn exactly how I got started in personal training and the secrets to how I run my fitness business today? Click here to read the personal training magazine PFP now and get over 50 tips for personal fitness professionals, along with a history of how I got started in personal training, and what the keys are to your ultimate success in a fitness career!
Ready to get Ben Greenfield’s brand new fitness business book mailed to your front doorstep? Healthy Learning publications has just released Train For Top Dollar as a new book, entitled “The Personal Trainers’ Guide to Earning Top Dollar”! You can get your copy today by clicking here to visit their website.
Recognizing that multiple income streams are key to success in the fitness business, the “The Personal Trainers’ Guide to Earning Top Dollar” identifies those streams and provides instruction on how to command your income.
Are you a personal trainer or fitness professional who delivers services to your local city?
Are you an “online” exercise or nutrition consultant?
Are you a gym or studio owner?
Do you sell fitness e-books and information products?
Then I guarantee people are talking about you, your services, and your products. On the internet. With the advent of online social networking, it is now possible to have detailed conversations about fitness businesses, customer satisfaction, client results, gym cleanliness, exercise equipment maintenance, personal trainer capabalities and a host of other factors.
If you’re a fitness professional, personal trainer or nutrition consultant who is serious about enhancing your web presence, then you must know about how to get your fitness website ranked on Bing, the new Microsoft search engine, over at http://www.bing.com.
As you probably already know, getting high search engine rankings in Google is “The Holy Grail” of internet marketing and is crucial in helping your online and local customers to find you quickly and easily. But by this time next year, getting ranked in Bing will be just as, if not more important.
I’m going to turn the tables. It is possible that the internet police may prosecute me for this, but rather than providing you with instruction, advice, and tips on having a career as a personal trainer, how to make money as a personal trainer and how to profit in the fitness business…
…I instead need advice from you.
You see, I want to give away a copy of a few of my DVD’s: “100 Ways to Boost Your Metabolism”. But I don’t just want to throw them to the wind. I know how to make a fitness DVD and I know how to sell a fitness DVD. But I want to actually profit from the publicity generated by a free fitness DVD giveaway, in this particular case, one which features me walking the viewer through 5 different body-weight workouts.
Here it is (and after reading this, let me know if YOU have a Craiglist tip…just leave a comment!): the three simple steps to posting your ad on Craiglist and including an image in the actual body of the ad.
This is an incredibly useful way to keep Craiglist from “banning” your bootcamp or fitness class ad because it is the same as the one you posted a few minutes earlier. Just change the post title, put the ad code in, and you’re set.
Important: this is much different than just “adding an image” to your Craiglist posting. I know you’re smart enough than to have to read an article to figure that one out. Instead, this technique actually allows you to place an image in your ad BODY, as the primary content.
You know what it feels like. That headache back behind your orbital lobes that sometimes makes you feel like throwing up after you’ve been staring at web pages or word documents hours.
It makes you not want to workout, or makes your workouts feel like crap.
It makes you grumpy, and your family knows to avoid you after you’ve spent the day in front of a computer.
“It” is called Eye Fatigue or Computer Vision Syndrome, and you’re not alone. It happens to alot of internet marketers, computer workers, and anybody who stares at pixels and digital screens on a regular basis.
Check out this video. I initially recorded it for a nutrition company called “Impax” who wanted their members to make bigger money blogging. It’s in a “GoToMeeting” style format and I guarantee, you’re going to pick up TONS of cool tricks about how to launch your first blog…and now it’s yours. For free. You can download this straight to your computer as a Quicktime movie to watch later, if you want (or just right click here to do it). There’s a little button on the right side of the player below that lets you do that.
If you care to count, I list 17 different benefits during the video, on why you need to blog for your fitness business and exactly how to do it, from initial set-up all the way to your first post.
Ben Greenfield, the author of this blog, is the 2008 NSCA Personal Trainer of the Year, a worldwide expert on triathlon coaching, a published sports nutritionist, and a fitness business guru. To find out more about Ben's book "Train For Top Dollar", and how you can make more money as a fitness professional, just click here.
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Cutting-edge tips, tricks and high income-producing business strategies for personal trainers, triathlon coaches nutritionists, gym owners, and internet marketing professionals.
Folks, if there’s one thing I’ve been accused of, it’s getting lots of stuff done.
