A question for PTers and gym managers
Discussion
Fleecing is legit. They call it capitalism. 
Possibly useful as a shortcut for beginners, but there's no replacement for experience. The hard part about business is getting customers. Retaining them/seeing them though to completion, is about how good you are at your job in about 85% of cases, IMO.
I reckon there's not a single thing you couldn't learn by taking 8 hours out per week searching the net for similar advice. The only true secret is a sales "script" that gets say, a 10% return, that you are very unlikely to see given away for free.
Possibly useful as a shortcut for beginners, but there's no replacement for experience. The hard part about business is getting customers. Retaining them/seeing them though to completion, is about how good you are at your job in about 85% of cases, IMO.
I reckon there's not a single thing you couldn't learn by taking 8 hours out per week searching the net for similar advice. The only true secret is a sales "script" that gets say, a 10% return, that you are very unlikely to see given away for free.
mattikake said:
Fleecing is legit. They call it capitalism.
Possibly useful as a shortcut for beginners, but there's no replacement for experience. The hard part about business is getting customers. Retaining them/seeing them though to completion, is about how good you are at your job in about 85% of cases, IMO.
I reckon there's not a single thing you couldn't learn by taking 8 hours out per week searching the net for similar advice. The only true secret is a sales "script" that gets say, a 10% return, that you are very unlikely to see given away for free.
Yeah, essentially, people will be buying experience and ideas. You're right in that getting customers is harder, that's why it makes sense to do your best to hold on to them hence the idea for the seminar. If it wasn't a problem, you wouldn't get the New Year's Resolutionists who disappear around now.Possibly useful as a shortcut for beginners, but there's no replacement for experience. The hard part about business is getting customers. Retaining them/seeing them though to completion, is about how good you are at your job in about 85% of cases, IMO.
I reckon there's not a single thing you couldn't learn by taking 8 hours out per week searching the net for similar advice. The only true secret is a sales "script" that gets say, a 10% return, that you are very unlikely to see given away for free.
With the right strategies, even a bad PT can keep clients. And a good PT can lose clients with the wrong strategies. Same would go for a gym.
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