thats just what I see more of.
Like for whatever reason I was brought up with that low self esteem and either 'taught' or learned to not make a lot of noise...not try to draw attention myself. Ok, fine. Kids should be seen and not heard etc.
But that doesnt seem to work so well in life.
for instance one of the top trainers in our gym....he's mr flash, mr hollering at the pretty girls across the gym so everyone can see it. he has more clients than he can handle even though he doesnt really have much technical knowledge.
Another guy was a trainer there and he now split off and has his own personal training gym and he recently expanded. This guy was out of shape himself and hardly ever worked out. Youd THINK that when he did that 1x per month workout he'd just keep it low key...NOPE!! him and his buddy would count each rep out LOUD on each exercise. it was just a total blatant screaming of 'look at me! look at me". But damnit, it seems to work. dude has his own gym and I have 2 clients, lol
2 be fair I do see examples on the other side of things. the guy makign the most money trains old peeps and he himself is pretty low key. he aint in great shape either although he uses pics from 10 years ago when he was in good shape in his ads, lol. We talked one day and he told me I looked at it all too competitively and that he didnt even try to get clients from inside the gym. He put flyers up in like chiro offices etc then next thing u know the chiropractor himself wanted training etc. he wrote a book. http://www.amazon.com/How-I-Lost-100...5429009&sr=8-1
he writes articles for mags etc. He advertises heavily in a local classified ad paper. (no way i can afford it....I did one week at $54 and got not even 1 call. I simply cant burn money like that..I dont have it currently)
He has been at it for like 10 years though. He has a big rented space on the gym wall with a big tarp thing with his cheesy website on it. http://www.trainwithdave.com
So he is showing another model with more of a long term approach. I suppose that would be more of a model for me since im NOT a fast/smooth talking salesman type. but DAMN, I need clients now, not in 6 months or a year with tons spent up front, lol
My hat is off to the guy because he is finding a way to make it work. He gets $50/session while basically the rest of us get around $20. Me, I cant even get people to bite on $20 sessions. THATS freaking sad, lol.
The "loud" types dont even have biz cards, they dont put up any flyers. Youd never know they existed except for word of mouth and the gym owner pushes them, period.
