at1010
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Good advice at1010. Opening gyms would be the ultimate goal. I've developed my own program and its working really well. I want to use it to help other people reach their goals. I'm using this program to help a friend and he's been doing it for a month and he is hitting PR's. Its very satisfying.
I recently started a new job. During the interview process they asked me " are you passionate about product X" My response to them was I am passionate about selling and managing a team. I don't care what the product is, things parallel from one industry to the next.
If you have the passion you say you do, you can go far with whatever it is you want to do. However, it will not be easy to achieve that, you might wish you were back in the cubical, you might have times when bills are tight, but in the end you might end up on top very successful.
I am not trying to sell you the magic bean plant here, but I am simply telling you that it could happen if you have the worth ethic, think outside the box, do you market research, and in the end you need to jump if all the other arrows are still pointing you that direction.
Somethings I would look into
1. How much is 1 session for an customer?
2. How many customers could you possibly max out with in a day, without loosing effectiveness.
3. What is a feasible amount of customers you are going to be able to target ?
4. What do you think the turnover rate with be with customers, and how do you plan to generate new ones?
5. What is cost of acquiring new customers ? (Facebook promoted posts, time, effort, mail, ads, etc)
6. What can you offer that other trainers aren't offering? Discounts? Family deals? At home training sessions? Diet help? Etc. (something that you stand out about)
7. Based of number 6, why would someone pick you over the others? Lots of time guys want to just do a lower price, that will work for some but don't short sell yourself to get business. Find your core competencies and sell on that.
I hope this short list will give you some basic ideas, and help you to come to a decision as to how/what you will need to know to move forward. This is a very basic list, so if I can give you anymore advice it is simply: research, research, research.
Good luck!