“How much personal information should I be sharing with my clients? Where does the line get drawn of personal vs professional?”

I’ll be honest – I have a group of my clientele that I consider to be my family. I genuinely love and care very deeply for these people. My wife and I invited these clients to our wedding. We wanted to spend the most important day of our life with them. Furthermore, we have been invited to their special occasions amongst spending quality time with them socially on the weekends. This kind of relationship takes quality time to build and is based solely upon trust. This trust has grown and continues to grow more powerful during each of our sessions together.

Personally, I pride myself on running a personal training and health company with the number one goal to always help my clients become happier and healthier physically and mentally. It’s this mentality that I always strive to help them create a better version of themselves. While personal training is indeed very “personal,” inadvertently you should never cross a line or become unprofessional. This behavior only leads to inappropriate tension and awkwardness, which doesn’t help the client progress to reach their goals. So, how did I go from training a first-time client into developing a bond in which they would become family while keeping it professional?

How to Develop a Neighborhood (Neighboring Business) Referral Program

In 2006 I met one of the smartest marketers that I have ever had the good fortune to cross paths with. He wasn’t a “guru” of any sort. He was a plain, “everyday” independent contractor. I was building out a home theater in our basement and hired a local company to do the job. I admit that it had taken me a couple of years to make this decision, not because I didn’t have the cash flow, but because I wanted it to be just right and I didn’t want to hire just anyone to do the work.

I shopped around, talked to my neighbors, looked on the web and searched through the yellow pages. Thanks to one recommendation from my neighbor, I settled on a guy named Louis who my neighbor had used to upgrade his kitchen a couple of years earlier.

Warren Martin – Warren Martin Fitness

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Jessica Howard – EFT for Sports Performance

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Julio Salado – Fitness Foundry

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Focus on slow times

Hi Fit Pros Online,

TrainerLisa here with help you with Client Retention. Keeping your clients on track, accountable and showing up can always be challenging, but can also make or break your business. This is especially true for those of you (like myself) who work for yourself.

As many of you seasoned fitness professionals know, and those of you who are new to the industry will learn (very quickly) once the holiday season (mid-October through January 02nd) gets into full swing, your clients, members and students go into holiday full mode swing also!

The key is how to keep your clients coming in during the holidays, vacations, company parties and other distractions that can cause big gaps in your day as well as in your pocket.

Here’s some tips on how to keep your clients showing up, getting results, staying accountable and of course you staying busy:

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