Personal Trainer, Open For Business
Personal Trainer, Open For Business
Maybe you are wondering why there are lots of individuals who wanted to become a personal trainer. There are two things to consider: being healthy and the income that they can generate. But first, you must think, what type of personal training services do you want to do? Are you going to put up a health and fitness gym and hire at least five personal trainers that will help you in your business or are you just a freelance personal trainer.
If you decided to put a health and fitness gym, you need a big amount of investment compared to a freelance personal trainer that will only need minimal amount of investments. But of course if you choose the first one, you can generate a big return of investment compared to the second one. This article will teach you how to open a personal training business or going freelance.
Let’s start with your qualifications when opening a personal training business. Make sure that you are already a personal trainer. This means that you should be a graduate of a prestigious personal training school and certified by a well-known personal trainers association. Make a background feasibility study on where to put up your gym. Are there fitness clients who wanted to have a fitness gym in the area? If you encounter no problem with your feasibility study and found the best place, apply for a city and a community permit for your business. Then, while in the construction of your fitness gym, you have to advertise that you need personal trainers to be part of your business. All in all, you have to prepare at least $300,000 to $1,000,000 dollars as your starting capital including the gym equipments. When your fitness gym is already open, you can display some of the dietary program pills and juices in your reception area for additional income but be sure that the programs you are selling is certified by the Bureau of Health and Drugs.
Now, let’s proceed to becoming a freelance personal trainer. The same with the first one, you should already be a graduate of a prestigious personal training school and must possess a personal trainers association certification. Then, if you can do it by yourself, create your own website to market yourself about your services. And to save money on website developer professional fees, you can also offer your personal training services to him like an exchange of service.
But if you can’t do this on your own, you have to hire a website developer and designer to do it for you. You have to create network of friends who will help you promote yourself. When you find a client, don’t mention your professional fee. You have to mention all your services first and wait for them to ask about your professional fee. In this kind of freelance business, your starting capital should range from $30,000 to $150,000 including your fitness equipments.
Whatever your choice of business is in personal training, you still need to spend for the initial capital. A personal trainer can earn big if you just concentrate on your business and do it professionally. If someone should complain about your services, fifty to seventy percent of your existing and would be clients will be gone. News travels fast and word of mouth is a powerful marketing tool nowadays especially with the Internet.