Comments on: 38 Ways To Run A Super Fitness Business (And Still Enjoy The Ride)

By: paul

paul — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 09:33:34 +0000

Thanks Rick! great list! i wanna share with you something that helped a lot in my pt business. It’s SalesVu, a free app to charge your clients from your iphone, either if they pay with cash, credit cards or checks..you only have to add an small device they send you to your cell that’s the cards reader after downloading the app from http://www.salesvu.com or the itunes store and start charging your clients! all the info goes to a database and you can modify it on the go, wherever you are..it’s super effective and easy to use

By: Bjorn Voon

Bjorn Voon — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 02:50:06 +0000

Great tips to keep every business man/woman on track.
Thanks Rick

By: Matt Kay

Matt Kay — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 12:44:35 +0000

Hey rick. Thanks for the welcome, it’s my pleasure.

Congrat’s on the site it’s awesome!
One of the biggest challenges for amazing tehnical trainers is business skills! Great business advice for pt’s all over the world is seriously lacking so what you are doing with this site is so important.
Keep up the great work!!
Matt Kay
http://www.earnmorept.com
http://www.born2move.co.uk

By: rick

rick — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 06:45:30 +0000

Hey Matt

Welcome to the site – great to have you here. I checked out your sites and you are doing some awesome things over in the UK. We should definitely keep in touch.

By: Matt kay

Matt kay — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:42:47 +0000

Just come across this site and this post and I love it! I run my own business and manage a team of Trainers that I mentor on a daily basis. I am continually looking for inspiration from other professionals to help develop the guys. This blog is perfect, very inspiring & amp; reminds me what an awesome industry we’re involved in.

Thank you so much for posting!! I am really looking forward to reading more of your posts.
Yours in health,

Matt Kay
http://www.born2move.co.uk
http://www.earnmorept.com/blog

By: Rick Watson

Rick Watson — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 03:32:16 +0000

Kaz – you always manage to make me smile. Good to see you still have a few thing to chip away at….

By: Kaz

Kaz — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 02:47:32 +0000

Great list Rick!

2 – I am good at
5 – Is super important and one of the fundamental keys to success
14 – Guilty of
17 – I am so crap at this
26 – Learnt that this year big time
35 – I wish my anal control freak tendencies would let me do this :o)

All good reminders. I am going to refer back to this often. Thanks!

By: Rick Watson

Rick Watson — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 00:46:16 +0000

Hey Natalie

Thanks for your comments and I am glad that the post got the cogs turning :-)

Regarding your mentor question, there are a couple a ways you can tick this box. Without sounding too much like a shameless plug, my coaching program is done via web-cam using free software on your computer so you can be anywhere in Australia (or the World) and still get that face to face interaction. Check out the coaching page on this site for more info…

Excluding that, mentors can be found in a variety of places and they don’t always have to be in your specific industry. Family, friends or associates who have specific business experience in the areas that you are a little weak can be a great resource. One final source would be to hook up with other personal trainers (this can be done online through Facebook etc) who are going through the same thing you are – support in numbers.

So you can see that mentors can be either formal or in-formal but they are definitely an essential tool to have in your kit.

Rick :-)

By: Natalie

Natalie — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 00:30:07 +0000

Thanks for a great post and so many interesting points for us all to consider and give thought to.

Out of all these its no.34 that i can’t seem to get my head around… i.e. I would love a mentor, but where the heck and how do i go about finding one, as I live in a regional town and there are not too many PTs around here.

And the point, that I think I have mastered is no.25, in that I really like getting to my sessions early, especially the first one of the day, as this sets me up for a good smooth start to my day. Perhaps this is a reflection of my tendency towards being a highly organised person.