Are You Using the 80/20 Rule In Your Personal Training Business?

I have an interesting question for you.

I know you’ve heard of the 80/20 rule before, also known as Pareto’s Law, but are you applying it to your personal training business and life right now?

If not, you should be!

The 80/20 Rule:

Essentially the 80/20 rule states that 80% of our outcomes result from 20% of our efforts.

It can also be much more deeply skewed depending on your situation and become more like the 90/10 rule, or 95/5 rule.

In fact, this law applies to so many things that I want to give you a few examples directly related to personal training.

For instance:

* 80% of your hassles and stress come from 20% of your clients

* 80% of your new clients come from 20% of your fitness marketing efforts

* 80% of your happiness and fulfillment are derived from 20% of your daily activities

* 20% of your focused time and effort results in 80% of your results and profits

* 20% of the information you consume, or marketing products you buy account for 80% of your business knowledge and growth

* 5% of your time spent working out (8 hours per week), yields you 95% physique improvement and overall health and well being

I think you get the idea…

This “law” is so universal that it applies to almost every single thing in life, whether personal, business, family, relationship, psychological or otherwise. …Click to read more »

Should You Start A Fitness Blog?

Whether or not you should start a fitness blog depends on several factors.

You have to determine your purpose — why you want to do it — who’s it for, and most importantly, do you even want to do put in the time and effort that it takes to run a successful personal training blog?

Overall however, I think that if you aren’t running a blog, you are seriously underserving your audience and leaving lots of free traffic and potential leads on the table, especially when it comes to health and fitness as there are so many wonderful topics from day to day that can be written about to expand your readership base, traffic levels and ultimately, your personal training business.

There are many reasons that a personal trainer blog or a health and fitness blog could be very beneficial for your target audience, to gain more traffic to your website — or perhaps the blog becomes your website — and ultimately, lead to what you are really after, which is more leads and more income for your fitness business.

So today I wanted to leave you with a few thoughts about fitness blogging, and whether or not you should be doing it for your own business. …Click to read more »

Fitness Marketing Teleseminar

I recently hosted a fitness marketing teleseminar for my System 5 Inner Circle coaching clients that I opened up to anyone that wanted to call in and ask me questions about their personal training business, mindset, fitness marketing, or any other topic related to the health and fitness industry.

This special “Sneak Peak” coaching call was exactly what System 5 Inner Circle members receive every single month.

In this post you’ll find a very special replay that you can listen to or download to your own computer or portable device in MP3 format.

Here’s the replay of the call

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Here’s What I Covered:

• 5 ways to make sure your website is ready to drive qualified clients your way.
• Are your rates high enough? Probably not, and I’ll tell you why.
• 3 ways you should be getting traffic from Google or you’ll be missing out on tons of leads!
• Is your peer group helping you reach your ultimate level of success? If not, I’ll share with you what to do about it.
• How to create a vision o f what you want out of the next year to get EXACTLY what you want both in your life and your business.

I then opened up the call and took questions Q and A style and even more cool stuff was revealed such as:

• What to do if you are just starting out and don’t have any before/after pics or testimonials
• How to protect your business from a potential litigation and the steps you should take to secure your business
• How to cater to more than one target niche
• How to get your website up and the easiest way to do it without beating your head against the wall (this one is gold!)
• And much, much more…

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