This week we officially kick off the celebration of two years of The Fitness Business Podcast and to mark the occasion, We've invited back some of our most popular guests, starting off with the bestselling author of eight books, one of the world’s most respected thought leaders on sales, leadership, and customer experience and a sales acceleration specialist - Jeb Blount. Jeb has just released a new book called Sales EQ and during todays show, you will learn • How a membership sales consultant best use Sales EQ in their role • Jeb shares his top tips on becoming an Ultra High Performer in your business • and we discuss 6 key tips to developing self-awareness. Also, to celebrate our second birthday we are introducing a new segment to the show called In The Trenches where we chat to owners, managers and staff across the globe who are doing cool stuff in their businesses. Todays guest for In the trenches is Program Development & Social Media Director for Brick Bodies – Gabriella Waters, and we chat about some great ways to get your team and members involved in creating social media content for you.
Allison Flatley has been committed to the health and fitness industry for 30 years. Over the years, Allison has held every position from a nutrition specialist running the juice bar, group exercise instructor, personal trainer, activities coordinator, club manager, corporate fitness consultant to executive leader. Most of her career, Allison focused on building, operating and growing corporate, commercial, government and hospital-based fitness and wellness programs throughout the United States. For 14 years, she shared her industry knowledge and experience as an adjunct professor at American University, teaching the Fundamentals of Health Promotion as part of the Sports Administration graduate program. Today, Allison enjoys presenting and mentoring future industry leaders and helping businesses grow.
During todays show, you will learn:
• Allison’s 6-Step Daily Success System
• How to improve your skills as a leader
• Advice for women forging a career in the fitness industry
Also, later in the show Trina Gray joins us to talk about the IDEA World Convention coming up in July in Las Vegas.
Tom Breeze is the CEO of Viewability, an international video advertising agency. With clients such as Frank Kern, Neil Patel, Brendon Burchard, Andy Jenkins, Amy Porterfield and many other international brands across many industries, Tom has built thousands of successful advertising campaigns, testing and tracking all the results.
During todays show you will learn why you should be advertising on You Tube and exactly how you can do it - even without a huge budget!
This weeks show features two guests, Kate Golden from Newtown Athletic Club and Steve Jensen from Impact Training Corporation.
Kate is the director of People and Fitness Operations for the Newtown Athletic Club, a 250,000 square foot individually owned Lifestyle Facility. She overseas all fitness and wellness operations for the club and was named as one of the 2017 IHRSA Rising Stars.
Kate shares her experience on leadership behaviours that are needed to manage people, advice for new managers getting to know their team and how to set up your PT department for success
Steve Jensen from Impact Training Corporation gives us advice and an action plan on how to implement ideas we learn at training, on courses and at conferences.
This week we welcome back The Instagram Expert Sue B Zimmerman to chat about
*Using Instagram Influencers for your fitness business
*Creating a custom hashtag for your local community
*What content you should put on your Instagram stories feed
Then Josh Levy from the Association of Fitness Studios shares some key insights from the 2016 Marketing Best Practices report including:
*What differentiates studios from traditional clubs
* What marketing strategies prove the most effective for fitness studios