Do you have a limited budget and want to make sure you invest it in the right places to grow? Is your business taking control of you and pushing your personal life out?
“I can’t seem to grow my business. I try to find new ways to get more clients, but it isn’t working.”
- “I love working with my clients. I hate marketing and sales.”
- “I am working all the time servicing clients, writing programs, that I don’t have time to do the marketing that I need, even if I knew what worked!”
- “I have plenty of clients, but I have no time and I’m not making enough money.”
How is working with me going to help you grow your business?
Click below to see my PDF on why working with me is different.
Alternatively, take a look at the Flipping 50 Specialist Program.
It’s helping trainers like you to get new clients (and more importantly) keep them long-term!
- strategic and targeted at the customer you want to work with – who is also looking for you.
- actually enjoyable and fun to execute.
Working one-on-one with me, my coaching program will show you what to do, how to do it, and WHY it works. Not only will you understand how and what to do, you’ll will do the work as I guide you.
You are not hiring me to DO your tech work for you, or your social media posting, video editing, set up your channel art or profile information. You will do the actual implementation. I will help you find ways to outsource if you like. I will coach you on your content creation, and review any content you create before you use it.
“How do I know we’d work well together to help me grow my business?”
“…I know (Debra Atkinson) because she was the Personal Training director in three of my facilities for six and a half years. I’ve seen her ideas and systems at work, seen them be profitable, and seen them make us the credible and quality training source in our area. She put quality before bottom-line, which for us resulted in a better bottom-line.”
Tom Durkin
Health and Fitness Management Corporation
“Debra Atkinson provides a straightforward road map to help guide personal trainers to success in the business of fitness. This (program) is a must for anyone who wants to turn their fitness passion into a viable fitness career.”
Cedric Bryant, PhD, FACSM
Chief Science Officer for the American Council on Exercise
“I followed Debra’s suggestions and the first client I saw I signed a year automatic withdrawal!”
Sheila Ray
ShapingU
The Fitness Marketing Mentor program is a 1-on-1 business growth
program for those who are starting (or re-boosting) a personal training
service business. I start you strong and give you the strategies and
systems to get more clients, keep more clients, and MAKE more
money with less time and effort.
The program is an intensive 1-on-1 experience for fitness business
owners, managers, and independent fitness professionals who want to
build a more predictable stream of work, use their limited marketing time
and budget to it’s fullest potential, and create excellence in client value.
You will set goals, take action, and have my as your partner that will hold you accountable so you can reach these goals. You will be supported, cheered, and understood.
Telephone communication is the primary way your coaching with Debra occurs. In fact, for both of us, there will be fewer distractions. I’ll hear what you’re not saying.
All that’s required is that you’re able to find a quiet, private location without disruptions and with excellent phone service for clear communication. Land lines are often best but not mandatory if we’re successful with cell service. Traveling or doing something else while you’re on your call is not OK. If you want results, you want to focus.
Your appointments will be scheduled for an entire month in advance. That provides you the time that you need to do the work you need to keep moving forward on your path.
“I am so happy to have Deb as a mentor. She has given me valuable insight and a great opportunity that I would have never been able to experience without her. She has given me new ideas and input that I couldn’t have gotten anywhere else. She is so inspiring in everything that she has done and is doing, and she has taught me so much about myself and many other things in a short amount of time. I am truly grateful to her for that.”
Michaela Kendall
ISU Entrepreneur
- Create email funnels that get sales without feeling like a pitch
- Develop blogs, podcasts, and articles for content marketing that educates and attracts
- Use social media effectively – eliminate random posts and throwing money away
- Choose the 1 or 2 social media sites your customer uses and use them to your advantage
- Create FB ads that convert
- Integrate all the pieces for a unified message your customer gets
- Create programs customers WANT to spend money on (content, titles, descriptions)
- Make their businesses stand out so that customers find them easily and won’t settle for someone else…
- Or to attract the growing number of over 45 women who feel underserved, don’t like the options they have, and need a different exercise prescription so they can be their fittest in the second half
- Marketing and selling templates to change your social media into a client magnet
After supervising 200,000 hours of personal training sessions in a short 6 1/2 years and running an in-home training business for years preceding that, I know what works, what grows a personal training program and what appeals to your next customer.
I have been coaching personal trainers and fitness business owners with sales and marketing strategy since 2000. On top of 28 years of practical experience in the field, I have spent the last 36 months studying online marketing.
I am an international business-of-fitness presenter and frequent industry author for NSCA, IDEA, Can-Fit-Pro. Since 1984 I’ve worked through every position in the fitness industry and taught emerging fitness professionals at Iowa State University. I consistently grew annual personal training revenue $100K for over six years. I am the author of four books, including The Dollars and Sense of Selling Exercise: How To Promote Personal Training With Integrity.
Making a choice about how and where to invest your money in order to grow your business takes consideration. I know, for myself, as I invested in programs and coaches over the years, I always hoped I was making the right move that would get me the results I wanted — but I didn’t know for sure until I took the leap.
There’s nothing quite like one-on-one support: there are many benefits an online program, book or workshop can’t provide. I invite you to contact me for a free consultation and discover for yourself. We can discuss your needs and goals and what’s a fit for where you’re at, whether it’s a one-time session, a monthly plan or something else.
Questions or comments? Contact Debra using the form below. Fit Pros ONLY.