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Brett Interviews Marketing Expert Richard Marc
Transcript of EPISODE 12:
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Brett: Hello Fiit Professionals and welcome to another episode of the Fiit Professional Business Podcast. I’m your host Brett Campbell and today Iâve got another special guest with me and I have been waiting to get this gentlemen on the call for some time we’ve been trying a bit of e-mail, Phone Tag, like you do. That’s what happens when youâre a busy man and before I introduce you to this particular gentleman, I just want to give you a bit of a heads up if you havenât listened to any past episodes. The episode prior to this I talked to Michael Parella from United States you had 320 fitness franchises. He revealed some amazing marketing strategies. So make sure you give that…listen to that episode as well and leading on from that particular episode we are going to be talking to another marketing genius today. This gentleman, his name is Richard Marc Toutounji. Hope I said that right. Youâll correct me in a moment if Iâm wrong.
Basically Richard Marc is an expert in creating high business growth for small to medium size businesses basically through lead generation marketing platforms. So Richard, an online marketing strategist has been for about 15 years and has a lot of experience in starting, building and selling those companies. his product and services include a bestselling book, it’s been featured on hundreds of media streams, including ‘Current Affairs’, ‘TODAY show’, 6pm Nightly News. also Richard is the executive producer of a Travel & Wellness show called ‘Feel good TV’ so that’s being aired in Australia here. You may remember Richard possibly in 2011 he was on ‘The Amazing Race Australia’ and fast forward to today, Richard is the CEO of COM Marketing Group, which has over 100 unique online lead generation platforms, including one of his first lead generation platforms which we may know him from called ‘Meet Your Personal Trainer’. Which is one of Australiaâs largest professional trainer directories. So it’s a bit of a mouthful there, there’s a whole lot of awesome insight into this particular gentleman so Iâm going to hand straight over and say Richard welcome to the Fiit Professional Podcast mate, thanks for taking the time to be on here.
Richard: Yeah, thanks a lot Brett. I appreciate the interview as well. Thank you!
Brett: Yeah, not a problem. So Richard, Iâve told all our guests and listeners a little about yourself here, but we want to get to know you a little better so give us a bit of a background of where Richard Marcs came from and how you got to where you are today.
Richard: Sure I can do that. I guess there’s obviously a lot of fitness professionals and business leaders listening to a Podcast like this. Obviously they’re following yourself Brett so I guess Iâll put on my hat to the fitness professionals as well. You mentioned before, my focus is about lead generation and lead strategies and so forth. I guess that all comes from the fitness industry. I started a fitness industry and I remember doing my first case course and there was no RCO’s and you did easy advertising about personal training courses on the news, on the radio and so forth, and TV. So I did my course and I left Year 6…I left Year 10 sorry. Year 10 and I went straight there and did a one year crash course. I guess I started really early in the industry and I loved the marketing side of things. I read a little personal training and it was about personal training business for a few months there and then I purchased the young age of about 17. I purchased Strays first private fitness studio down at Mitchellâs bay there, next to Network Office down there. I ran it for about 2 years and the thing that I loved about that was…it really gave me some good insight into mark…be coming into the business at 17. People working there 10 years your senior, it’s really tough way to get involved into business, and learning some responsibility. So I love the marketing side on how to growing…just growing your studio back then, when after dating, learning about those factors and what it takes to run a business early. SoI spent sometime in the industry, I worked on cruise liners for a year, about a year or 2 after that. That was a heap of fun and I loved, I was very proud about that. In around the Caribbean, Alaska, and a lot of that was actually in the Caribbean so it was good. When I got back, when I was over there I saw an obesity epidemic happening more than it was happening in Australia and heavily large people would go on cruise liners. The entire family would just come and come to the food places and Brett, and that’s really what they paid for all day.
Brett: Buffet all day.
Richard: We’ll going to eat buffet all day and so, when I was there I started having this ideas for this book I wanted to write. It was something that I wrote while I was overseas and I came back, I just had to get this book out of me and I wrote about a year or 2. You flip the page a bit, I guess it was learning as well. It was all about childhood obesity and family health and it was called ‘Please Mom, Don’t Supersize me’. It got a lot of press and media coverage on TV being the name and we put a lot of work into it. It sold quite well, Bestseller in Australia and it was a lot of fun, getting a book out and doing the publicity for it and moving through it. That actually pulled me back into marketing. It taught me a lot about marketing, marketing online, marketing offline. Knowing if you’re going to do it bigger, do it TV interview prime time and then you can actually get the sales online and it sort of showed me a TV interview is sometimes a branding aspect versus an online sale. So I looked at the 2 aspects and I said “Hey I’ve been on all these prime time, thousands and hundred thousand dollarsâ worth of media, letâs see how the online sales went. If I used that, the value of that PR, what could that have been used for an online thing?” So I learnt a lot of tactics about marketing while fellows actually doing it, so I guess I never went to a marketing course per say. I learned on the job quite a lot in regards to…so I guess in the same time I stood up, being an entrepreneur I sort of, I had a…my mom actually had a problem me being a personal trainer as a company going from that, and then she said, “Aah geez, it would be great to have a massage at work, the workplace”, and that sort of got me thinking. I was thinking they’re paying…they’re looking for a, she was the HR co-ordinator in the company and had about 200 people in the company. I mean they were looking for a massage, a person doing a massage company to do that at their office so it was sort of like, I said “aah, I think I can do that”. So I sort of out looked and tried to find massage therapists to go to the office and do a whole day of massaging chairs, things like that around the work place. From that moment I guess I kicked on, what it was my next business which we called our ‘Corporate Wellness’, which is one of Australiaâs largest Corporate Wellness providers. We provided seminars. We had doctors, we did health checks we did personal training we did nutritional courses. We did a heap of things around a lot of blue chip companies around Australia and I owned and runned that for quite a few years. I sold that a few years ago to someone else who continues the growth in that. So, again, unless Iâm like that Brett, it taught me a lot of…it taught me how to go online pretty much. We had 80 contractors working for us around Australia. 97% of our leads came from online, and Iâm talking about online, back let’s say 2003 or 4, when internet wasnât what it was today. We didnât have Facebook and social media and things like that so learning the internet game is was an experiment, you know what I mean? It was new, so that sort of where I started this whole process, you know what I mean? Thatâs where I had more interest for the online game. Being the example of offline, its older studio and things like that. I remember my first year, we didnât have, didnât even have a website address for goodness sake or an e-mail address or business cards. So its come a different way and the marketing in it changed through that period.
Brett: Yeah, look mate. Thereâs…I couldn’t agree with you more in regards to changes in marketing, especially in online and offline and I look forward to talking about all these strategies in a moment but just to recap on what you’ve just said there. Thereâs a heap of gold little nuggets that I took out of it personally and I just want to recap just for the listeners there that, you started back in the industry wearing your spandex and belt bags basically when personal trainers first started right.
Brett: I’ve got an image of you wearing your spandex and walking around the gym with a belt bag.
Richard: I did have to do the aerobics, you have to do the aerobic to actually pass the course and do the classes…I did all that.
Brett: Excellent, and you know, another really key thing that I see out of that is at the age of 17 you bought your business and what I did take out of that is you didnât know anything about business back then but you jumped in and had a crack at it. You realised a book, again, you took a lot of lessons out of that. But again the reoccurring thing I’m seeing out of here is just you just had a crack at it. I guess a question I’ve got for you buddy, in regards to all your marketing knowledge that you know so far, what would you say your biggest lesson, or business lesson that youâve learnt over the time?
Richard: Umm, that’s a good question. Itâs a hard question as well. I think you keep learning business lessons all the time. Constantly all the time, every single day and you think you’ve learnt it, and you havenât learnt it. I guess the biggest lesson Iâve learnt is, Iâve done a lot of business with myself, partnerships and all sorts of way, and I think in the end of the day, you can’t run a business by yourself. Well I canât anyway. And all great businesses have great people. you know, a lot of people listening to this call, could be more businesses, could be start-ups, could be large businesses but the same time, it doesn’t matter what that stage is. As soon as you grow in business, you need good people around you. I think that it is really important to make sure that you set up a business know that you could have a business, and you could have a business that youâre the business. If you want to get bigger than that, and have more freedom, then freedom is one of my biggest values, you need to start making sure you get the right people around you and donât just get people that are there because they just happened to be in the same room in the time that you needed. In administration or a business partner, makes sure you find the people that you need who are actually going to help you to grow the business. Not grow, not for the simplicity that you just ask your mate down the road or you know that person. Itâs who’s going to help you grow your business to the next level, and grow the business the way you can’t grow the business. We are only one person, we only have generally a limited thinking. Imagine how big the world is and all the people in it like… There is so many different variations you can take and thereâs so many different wrong roads you can take. That is probably why people donât start their business. If you know that youâre a personal trainer and you want, for example, take a lesson of corporate world. I now want to expand on Corporate Wellness, so a lot of that time is going to be administration and organisation skills and things like that. Well I know that I’m not good that that, but you know, for the sake it that my brother needs a job at a time. I say “Hey, can you help me out for a couple of days?” That’s not really going to be the right track because he might not have those skills too so I guess make sure that you find the people with those skills and I think also too…another lesson here is don’t limited yourself to think “I’m just starting out in business and nobody is going to want to go and come to work for me”. “I can’t pay them enough’ or “I donât have the right skill”, ‘So I don’t have a system manual put into place”, or âdonât have an office” or “I donât have the right computer system to get things started”. “I have to do it myself’. I think that the big thing I see with the fitness industry, and the thing is, in the defence about it…people are there at the right time that you need them to be and for example…you could find the best administration assistant that has work for the best company for the last 20 years. Maybe she is on maternity leave and she just wants to work 3 day s a week for you. She wants to put her system in, because thatâs what she loves to do into your business. Donât think that you have to go and create every system yourself. Get someone to help you where youâre not really good at, because thatâs when I get business itâs going to go slow growth if you just think, âYou know what, Iâve got to write a system manual myself for the next 6 months, then I can employ somebodyâ. If you do that then your business is not going to continue to grow. Donât think that you have to do everything yourself, also have the confidence to ask the right people in the business and I think thatâs the biggest lesson Iâve learnt over time. Iâve tried to take a lot on and Iâve tried to do a lot of things myself, but thereâs things that you canât and you need to get people sooner than you probably think youâre going to get it firstly. Think the first person you find to employ.
Brett: Look thatâs absolutely, itâs definite wisdom right there. Man thins is like the third time this has happened in interview actually. What youâre talking about right now is Iâm actually going through a bit of a process like that with our team at the moment. Before this Podcast recording we just had a team meeting. So we just sit down, we spend an hour together going through our board meeting structure etcetera and there was about 5 different systems that we created, well I created in my brain, then passed it onto our team members who are now out there creating this for me. Like, I put my ideas out there because Iâm an ideas man. Youâre an ideas man yourself, so anyone out there listening who thinks theyâre an ideas person and they lack a little bit of the structural follow through. Man, like Richard just said, get out there and find someone who can do it for you because it is just going to fast track your success. Another key point that I took out of that is, I agreed with everything you said there but I think one of the main things is that you donât need to start paying someone $50Â 000 a year salary. You can start possibly someone taking over your basic admin duties for 5 hours a week or 10 hours a week. Pay them 20 bucks an hour or something like that. There are people out there looking for it. So look, thanks for sharing that. I guess, moving on to it, Iâve got another question for you and I really like to hear the answers to these is, what was your âah hahâ light bulb moment that you knew that the online marketing was an avenue that you knew that you needed to take? What was it that made you do that?
Richard: Umm, I think for me when you are onlineâŚI guess its 2 things in this question. I guess I go back to the time, when I answer these questions, I go back to the journey and you sort of go look at it and think âwell, it hasnât been a journey to get to where youâre getting to, and you continue to get toâ. So I guess the journey for meâŚwhen I was in the White Falls Cooper Warnerâs Company, so when I had my corporate wellness company I had just had myself, my wife caught me out. I had 2 admin people at the time as we said; we generate a lot of leads online. I didnât really know what I was doing. I know probably more than most people, why I was ranking number 1 in terms of corporate wellness and things like that. I knew the insides of it. I did a lot of bits and pieces, courses online if you want to call it that.
But there was a moment when I went to an Anthony Robbins event, it was a âDate with Destinyâ event in Gold Coast and the week, it was a 5 day, 6 day event and you had to partner up, not with your partner, so I had to partner up with people I didnât know for the whole event. I ended up sort of, I think I was in the bathroom at that time and I missed out and there was sort of, it just seemed to me like everybody was just taken in a second and I walk around trying to find who was left and I bumped into this, the only guy that was left in the entire room of 1000 people and it happened to be an American gentleman. He stood out like the ace of spades. He was black as could be. I said âHey mate, how you going? You got a partner?â he said âNoâ, âOkay, I will go with you for the weekâ. I ended up going with this guy and a lot of the week you had to stick with your partner for most of the week. You had to stick with him. You had to do activities and things like that. His name was Steve, Steven and a lot of the time he would just disappear Brett. Whenever we had to do group activities, he just disappeared and I could never find him. So I was just by myself most of the week. The end of the week, we all got our certificates and so forth, had a great week either way, and I said âHey listen, we didnât get to know each other, what do you do?â we didnât have much time either to sort of talk about what we actually did because it was all about self-development, not exactly about what job you did. He says âListen Richard, I live in America, why donât you just come visit me. Iâm going to the States soon, why donât you just come and visit me. Iâve got a big party happening over there soonâ. And I go, âwhatâs your details?â. He goes âJust google me Richardâ and I go âWho do you think you areâŚjust google you. Who are you?â. And it was like he was this guy and so anyway I googled him and he happens to be a guy named Steven Pierce. At the time he was heavily, quite a massive guru online, one of the best internet marketers at that stage and he was over here actually prepping for his interview heâs going to put on a week later. He was going to put a massive event online in Australia and the organisers doing Robbins event where the organisers of his event as well. The thing that, because he was away most of the week, he was actually organising his event and he just got a free ticket from Tony Robbins to the event to come and hang out with him. It was interesting because in that moment, and it was quite embarrassing too Brett because I said âAah yeah, I do a bit of things onlineâ.
Richard: And I go âOh yeah, Iâve used typestyle and Iâve used thisâ and he says âAah yeah, thatâs good, thatâs goodâ. And here am I sitting with a guy making millions of dollars online every month. So he was a good insider and he gave me a lot of his tools and his resources and his programs, all for free. He simply said âHey Richard, my lack of time man, these are the programs Iâm going to give you, you know and youâre [inaudible] quite a few times we met with some of the best online marketers at the time was J Abraham, there was a heap of other people there. There was Tim Ferriss walked in the door actually, when we had the party, and opened the door and Tim Ferriss walked in. This is before, this was the week he was launching his first book. For our work week, he opened the door and he said âHey, howâs it going? Iâm Timâ, and I said âHey, how you going, youâre in a book.â And it was sort of that week when he was launching it. He was such a cool, laidback guy and I was thought, âJeez, this is what internet marketing is all about. These are the people that weâre surrounding our self withâ.
Pretty much from then Brett, that was my first âah hahâ moment. I guess my second one was, I came back and I was still in Lifestyle & Wellness and it sort of made me think about this online marketing. From that event, I went to the next one and I said I had Lifestyle there, proper wellness and a lady called up on the phone and said âHey can I see yourâŚcan IâŚyou know, have a bio of your personal trainers?â. She was in Perth, I was just staying in Perth as well. I said âAah I donât, but let me take a pictureâ and she goes âAah that will be greatâ and I said âHang on, Iâm getting a question asked quite a few times. Why donât I take a video?â so what I did Brett, I started doing more videos on my innovative people and I thought, hang on, if I can do this for them, why donât I do this for the whole of the industry. In that time, we didnât have any YouTube smashing out, people werenâtâ recording videos so I came up with the idea of having a video directory of personal trainers. So I guess, that in itself, when they ask for personal trainers with videos, nobody had videos Brett. It is impossible to find videos on YouTube on personal trainers. It was sort of like, you know what, Iâm, because of the first moment of Steven Pierce and meeting people like that, and actually seeing people succeeding like that I had the confidence to say, you know what I can help every single personal trainer here, because I think that I know more than 98% of them at that time about online marketing. Itâs moments like that, I think theyâre my 2 âah hahâ moments that got me on online marketing and from there, just really having that self-belief Brett, to actually go and do something thatâs probably way out of your comfort zone but itâs way out of everybodyâs comfort zone isnât it. So somebodyâs got to do it, donât they? So I think they are my main 2 moments getting on the online space.
Brett: Yeah, well thanks for sharing that. I was actually really captivated to that first story. It itâs quite funny when you look at it, you went to a seminar called âA Date with Destinyâ and mate thatâs exactly what it was, wasnât it?
Richard: Yeah true, itâs exactly like that.
Brett: So itâs always funny when those types of things happen and Iâm a massive believer in things happen for a reason and itâs really exciting for you to share those âah hahâ moments with us mate. The question for you in regards to marketing, so, the personal trainer out there, put their hat on for a minute and think, if they just wanting to, if they just were getting started in the industry, or even if theyâve been in the industry for a while and theyâre just trying to get more leads into their fitness business. What would be your top 1 or 2 strategies that you would implement to get leads coming through your e-mail inbox or calling?
Richard: Well I guess the first strategy I would, if youâre just a single trainer. You just started. You deciding, maybe youâre out of your course and you deicide do I hit business first, or do I do it myself? Youâre going to deicide to do it yourself. I would think that the best strategy you could do is branding. You need to brad yourself because most people probably wonât know youâve been a trainer, or you did your course. You may have come from a different role, and they think youâre still a legal sectorial or something. I think the first thing to do is brand yourself and one; Get a logo. I think itâs the biggest thing. I think Iâm very big into branding and I think get a logo first of all because thatâs going to define who you are. If your logo is red, you need to know why itâs been red before. If it is an energy colour. Think about whatâŚwho you are as a person and that can go into a logo. Now once youâve got a logo, I think then you have a business. You have something you can browse. So for 100 bucks or something or even cheaper, you have your identity. Youâve got an identity now and that identity then, you can use that logo and put it on a Facebook page. You can use that logo to put on your Facebook page with your closet friends and family and say share this, Iâm a personal trainer. This is what we do. So I think actually telling the world that this is what I do now and putting it out there to the universe and seeing whatâs going to come back is probably the first and the cheapest option, number one Iâd say.
Obviously online marketing is something I have a big bias towards clearly, so my next sort of thing Iâd tell trainers is quite frankly I would, and this is what Iâve done when I had my personal train industry is pretty much get on every single directory you just possibly can. Thatâs going to skyrocket you faster than you could ever skyrocket yourself and what I mean by that isâŚif I said to trainers out there âGo get a website firstâ the problem youâre go into have is, the website costs money, and doing it costs money, and youâre going to showcase it and make sure people find it, costs money, and it costs time. Not only that, it actually costs a lot of research doing these things and you shouldnât be doing that. If youâre looking at a very early, start-up personal trainer, Iâd go and join directories that cost you $2 a month, and theyâll put you into places where people are already searching for personal trainers. Well of course Iâm bias, Iâve got a trainer directory, but at the same time too, I believe in my product and I believe that this is how I do them and if youâve gotâŚof thereâs a free personal trainer directory, then get onto that for goodness sakes, but if youâre on 5 directories that already have thousands of visitors and youâre branding yourself correctly with your right logo and a really nice picture of yourself, a fitness picture, no a blurred picture coming out of a pub on a Saturday or something. If itâsthe right picture. The right target market is going to find you, and theyâre going to give you a call and youâre going to get an e-mail into your inbox. Thatâs probably the 2 strategies Iâd go with, and thatâs the strategies that Iâve used in every single business Iâve run if its fitness or another industry. Iâve always basicallyâŚgo and find the top players that are already up there and how do I get my brand, my logo, my Facebook link, my web link, on their page. Thatâs what I want to know. Thatâs what I will pay for because I think that that s got value to it versus building those things yourself and wasting your time which should be focused on actually becoming a good personal trainer initially and you can get more referrals that way.
Brett: Again, great insight there mate. I think another one just to take home, just to talk to one of the points you brought up there in regards to directories etcetera. Again if itâs like every single marketing strategy we talk about on this Podcast and we ever will talk about. You need to look at whatâs the return on investments. Do if youâre paying 10, 20, 30, 40 even 100 dollars a month to be on a certain directory, but if youâre getting a return on investment each month on that then itsâ a no brainer. So you need to calculate how many clients do I need to receive to make this a positive return on investment. Always keep that in the back of your mind before you go âAh itâs just another $20 here, another $30 hereâ. You need to look at it and go âam I going to get a return on it this month?â or âHow long am I willing to invest in this thing to see if it works?â. So for example if youâre paying $20 a month for a directory. You look at that over 12 months itâs $240. So letâs say over that 12 month period youâve got one client in the first month, who is worth…if you look at $50 a week over the year, thatâs over $2500. Youâve definitely got a return on investment. So keep an eye on that. I think another key part that you said there was, donât just choose one. Donât just go and register with True Local and leave it at that. Go and register with every single directory out there, and weâve touched on a point that in a past episode…youâre not the first person to say that theyâre a very great resource to start with. And of course there are free ones out there, so get out there and google it. Google personal trainer directories and no doubt Richards will pop up there and I highly recommend jump on that as well. Iâll give you a link to that so that you can check it out. Iâm going to put Richard on the spot and Iâm going to say his going to give us all a discount. If anyone goes through and clicks the linkâŚ
Richard: Yeah, definitely, weâll get a discount. Let me just think about the nextâŚthe rest of the part of the interview and see what we can do and get you at the end of the call. Get you aâŚweâll get a good deal for everybody because honestly I really think, exactly what you said Brett.  This industry really is the right industry to showcase our skills into, cause what other industry and there is every few other industries that people actually want to watch you on a video or they want to read your article about how to get into shape. Itâs a pretty exciting industry when youâre first getting into fitness or someone wants to lose weight. People are looking for answers out there, thereâs so much messages. If you brand yourself, and thatâs what I was saying, if you brand yourself as the local expert in your area. Letâs say youâve got so much competition out there, I hear it all the time, but really thereâs not. If youâve got 10 personal trainers in your local part you trainer for, for example, youâve got to then google the area and figure out what the 10 people are doing. You probably got Iâd say more than half of those people who probably donât have an online presence, or if they do, you canât find it. Then you might have 4 people who do have an online presence. Then you might have 1 person who has a website and are in directories and things like that. The question I have for you, Iâd be very highly surprised that out of the people in your area, whoâs really taking action as the leader and the expert online.
So put yourself in someone who doesnât know you as a trainer, yet every trainer out there is great. I hear all the stories. I know that theyâre fantastic. They can do the best high kick skills. They can do the best sit up. Theyâre the best, right. They know theyâre the best; they get the best results with their clients. I hear it all. The problem Brett is that I donâtâ know that if Iâm coming to the business and they donât have a showcase of that. If they havenât written a blog about the best squat and they havenât, if theyâve just gone and ask their clients and printed it out and said âHere it isâ. If you havenât put it online on a blog, well if you havenât recorded a video saying âthis is how we do the best push upâ and âthis is how I get a 6 pack and ripped abs in a week in my clientsâ or âthis is how, this is the story that…10 of my clients testimonialsâ. If only the clients know that and the personal trainer and no other person, well then youâre actually not the best trainer in your area, because nobody knows who you are, and youâre not building an online presence up. Youâre not building a brand identity up. So if you look in your local area and see who is doing that. Youâd be surprised and thatâs where you say âI can be the leader in this area and I can be the biggest and the best, and the most busiest trainer possible because nobody else is probably doing itâ. Honestly Brett this is the biggest thing I see, that there is so much opportunity, especially in this industry. People and personal trainers coming in and saying that is absolute rubbish, because I can count on probably one hand some really good people putting out some really good consistent content every single week. Thereâs very few people doing it, and if you do it, thatâs where the leads are going to come from. I can guarantee you that.
Brett: Yeah, totally agree with you there and itâs a bit of a pet peeve for me when I hear people go âThereâs just too many trainers out thereâ, âThereâs too many of thisâ, or âThatâs a hard market, thatâs a flooded marketâ, âItâs hard to make money in that marketâ. I just say thatâs a lot of bullshit myself. Our company has had extreme growth in the last 18 months, and if we look at it, and letâs just talk to your couple of points again. The whole thing of branding. Weâve created and Fitness National, weâve created a very, very prominent brand now. Our brand âFitChicksâ for example isâŚits very rare now that weâll talk to our target market, someone aged 19-45 and they wouldnât have heard about us, or heard of us, or seen something from us.
We were down in, and I may have mentioned this is a past episode, but we were down in Sydney, Emily and I. We went down for our 5 year anniversary, and we were down there and we were sitting at the Opera House. We were sitting there having a nice bottle of red and this couple came over and sat down with us and we started talking and this man went theyâre from actually Brisbane, and we say what we do, and sheâs like âAh I know that, Iâm on your emails,. Iâve been receiving your emails for a few months nowâ. Sheâs actually bought one of our products and itâs an amazing thing. It just goes to show you the power of the internet, not only that, the power of being able to have a brand. Thatâs why weâve been able to grow the fastest fitness licensed program for professional trainers in Australia because we have a great brand and people want to be a part of it. Weâve got a forum with thousands of girls going we want to be trained here, or we want a location here. The demand of the brand is where itâs at. I totally agree with you in regards to people sending out great content, and doing it continuously. Just in example, weâve just conducted a survey through our lists. Now weâve got quite a large list and so far weâve had over 5000 people fill out our survey. It was 13 questions that we asked and some of the information, Iâve got to tell you, was actually, Iâm sitting here slapping myself in the head becauseâŚand thatâs the power of it. If you haven’t done a survey, anyone out there. This is a gold nugget. Survey your lists, even if youâve got 100 people on it, survey them. Now, like I said, some of the information we got out of it is just actually staggering. Something I want to share with everyone, I’ll share some of it now because I think itâs really vital and this is something that I know a lot of pole missed out on. Iâm just going to find the question here. One of the questions was âHow do you cope when you use our products or services?â I just looked here, a secondâŚâso how do you view our current content?â so when we send out an email, how do they view it. And we can tell you that 46% currently based on what weâve got here. View it from mainly from their iPhones, their phone devices.
Richard: There you go hey.
Brett: Which is an amazing statistic and what we can actually tell you, out google analytics tell us that there’s actually over 50% of people visit our website from a mobile device whichâŚwhen you look at a desktop, thereâs only 28% of people actually view our content from desktops. So, this is where people fall into that trap of âah I need to have a beautiful looking website. It needs to have beautiful graphicsâ. It needs to have this and that and all of the bloody jazz that people think they need to have. Itâs falling on deaf ears, because if you have a beautiful looking website, youâre not going to be able to view it on a mobile. A mobile just sees it as a single strip, which is why I feel, and in my marketing, Iâll get you to give your opinion on it, it may be different. But, thatâs why sales page format is so popular when it comes to getting someone to take some form of action, whether itâs the need to take up a free trial, free offer or purchase a product. Because of the way technology is changing now, in the next 5 years, weâre going to have 70%, 80% of people viewing podcasts on their phone. So whatâs your thought on that one mate?
Richard: I know we are on a bit of a tangent butâŚ
Brett: Itâs an interestingâŚthe results are in the pudding. You put out a survey and 46% have said that theyâre viewing on a mobile and I have to also believe that as well because I look at my analytics on a lot of peoples personal trainerâs websites and theyâre all around the same anywhere from 20 to 40, 50% on mobiles. So it doesnât beg the question that, and I know a lot of people, we all do it. We look at a site on a desktop and we say âOh thatâs greatâ.
Richard: It is a big point because if your client viewing your mobile platform, youâve got to make sure obviously, you look good âmobilelyâ⌠mobilised. If the mobile site or a mobile responsive site, you know, Iâm very much in point of it as well. Because I mean otherwise, whatâs the point? And maybe thatâs why youâre getting the leading that you thought. You should have got in with a nice site, Iâve got another company, and we build websites and we do Facebook and social media strategies as well and the thing is, what we do with a lot of our sites too Brett, is what we do. We keep it looking nice but we keep it looking simple as well. Itâs simple with every site, every page, we have one message and one purpose to a page. If you have more than one purpose per page, you may think that youâre getting your message out. But not really, because people are only on your site generally for between a minute, maybe 2 or 3 minutes and people are coming there for a purpose. Not 2 purposes. You generally donât google for 2 purposes. You 1 question in there, not 2. So itsâ the same thing with every page and this is where I go to another site, this is where google has to come up with another algorithm change, and this will sort of put your point across as well Brett is that, to rank highly in google now, you have to have a responsive website. You get more points; you get more google juice basically if you have a responsive website. When I say responsive, meaning that itâs mobile browser friendly. Theyâre making sure that itâs a WordPress website or something similar like that. And making sure that the load and the speed time, so if you have, Flash, and video files and all these sort of stuff. Google is going to penalise you and not show your results on mobile. So the results you see on your desktop versus mobile in regards to ranking as well can also be different. People are going to rank on the mobiles because theyâre mobile responsive. Because google doesnât want to show any unnecessary results and the same with the searches. Theyâre not going to show a page with 3 or 4 different situations. Theyâre going to show a page that just has 1 message and 1 message only and thatâs the new algorithm that just came out last week with Hummingbird if anyone is interested in that stuff.
Brett:Â Probably just us mate itâs the geek come out I think. Itâs quite funny if you asked me this 10 years ago Iâd go âgeez, computer type thingsâ but what I find really interesting about it, Iâm a Nazi now on percentages and statistics and this and that and thatâs why I did the survey. Not only was the survey conducted to get information. There was an underlying offer that we were able to produce, which in turn has turned out to be a very good financial move from our perspective. Not only that, itâs the millions of dollars of information that youâre going to receive from people. Like questions here, Iâve got âHow would you like to view our content? Is it more articles, videos, interactive online webinars, podcasts etceteraâ. Thereâs a whole heap of information over here that if youâre not surveying the list and you’re not asking the questions then you’re going to be doing what you feel like you want to do. And thatâs the key. For me, part of that is a bit of a struggle because I write here in one of my questions is âHow often would you like to receive educational content from us?â and Iâd love to send it out every day, and I know a lot of online marketers who do. However, our feedback from this, and it has come around 50% one time a week. Which is great because we are currently doing it about once a week. Sometimes a couple of time a week. But our second on that, âevery 2 to 3 daysâ as well. So itâs really important because if I just decide to once all of a sudden email daily to our contacts. Weâre stilling giving away content, what can happen because everyone is so busy in everyday life. You donât get a chance to read every email. Sometimes it can become such an overwhelming things because Iâve got 20 emails for them to listen to, or for them to read. Theyâll probably go âahh Iâm just going to unsubscribe because I canât keep upâ. I guess if I relate this to an example of work is to interview podcasts every day. I know for a fact there would be people not listening to it and then theyâd just give up because theyâd be just too far behind. You know how I get that information is because one of our questions again is âDo you listen to our free podcasts?â and 45% of people say âIâve been meaning to but I just havenât found the timeâ. Very interesting they, theyâve been meaning to but they just havenât found the time yet.
Richard:Â Yeah, youâve got to listen to your customers that are for sure.
Brett:Â So thanks for letting me go on that tangent there. Letâs talk about a little bit about marketing and I guess any insights, anything you feel would be useful for our trainers and listeners out there. Any insights that youâve learnt in regards to marketing, any strategies that you think is really cool. Maybe youâve done some promotion of some sorts thatâs worked well. Any juicy information that you could help us out with.
Richard: I couldâŚprobably the best isâŚIâll try and got the easiest option. Thereâs so many options out there, you know if you look at trainers, I think the best piece of marketing you could probably do and the cheapest and easiest would probably be, as you just mentioned Brett, is put something out to the audience really fast. Iâll give you an example, after I had my book out, I released an audio it was called âThe fit and healthy familyâ and we went to interview seven of the leading experts in the world on healthy families we didnât know any of these guys at all but we picked up the phone and we asked them and most of them said âyesâ pretty much. These are people that have been on Oprah shows and things like that, picked up the phone and asked and they generally said yes and itâs a personal trainerâs lesson is that the easiest way to do it and to get to your market. First example, if youâre trying to market the best MA instructorsâŚI mean, sorryâŚletâs say you have MA classes right. What youâd want to do if I was that trainer trying to attract hat audience. Iâd go interview the best MMA trainers or instructors out there and just have a bit of a question to them and basically ask what does a great MMA session include etcetera, etcetera. And itâs not for the saying that the trainers, the clients are going to go to them. These are the clients that might be overseas, or wherever they may be. If you go interview 10 or 20 people in your industry, in your speciality I should say not industry, regarding that. You know cross fit. Why donât you go to the cross fit games and go interview all the cross fit experts and the world champs and that sort of stuff. It means that, when you come back and you put that as a video or an article or things like that. I do think that the right people and the good client is going to consistently come to you and I think thatâs really an easy way of marketing and also makes you again the expert out there. I keep coming back because when you are on TV, I guess from my example, as soon as youâre on TV, that TV set or that YouTube which people can now view on their TV in their lounge room, youâve actually become the expert. Even If you donât think youâre the expert, youâll naturally become the expert. So I think, and when we look at our lifestyle out there and our senses, whenever youâre in thatâŚwhen you look and go âaah thereâs a celebrityâ and so forth, inside theyâre still human beings and at the end of the day theyâre celebrities because theyâve done well for themselves, if thatâs from the movies or on TV. It comes down to, because theyâre in a box, a TV, and people watch them. Thatâs what it comes down to. So, itâs not saying that they go and get on the highest rating TV show, itâs basically saying to your speciality, when people are searching for you. Make sure that you come up and make sure that you are that person. I know itâs very similar to the point I made before, but to be honest with you thatâs probably the simplest way to do it and the free way to do it as well. It doesnât cost you much money at all. Thatâs a good tactic. Another tactic again is, give something away. Iâm sure you do this if your internet marketingâŚyouâre always giving something away. People are going to give you their e-mails if you’re going to give something awayâŚthat are an eBook for goodness sake. I think as trainers weâre pretty smart and we know a lot but the thing is we may not think that a lot to a person. So you know, it could be a 10 page book about âhow to lose weightâ but the thing is people who are searching for that will find that really valuable and then youâll be becoming the expert and the thing is, youâve got their e-mail address and their name, their phone number and then you can contact them and ask them how they went. I think another good way thatâŚwe did it obviously; I got my book out and from there a lot of different opportunities come because you meet a lot of different people and you can instantly move things. So getting your book out is a great concept to get the publicity that you need and the free publicity as well. And I guess another great marketing feature is always have a backend Brett, because I think people get stuck here, they say âI want to do this and I want to make sure I advertise to $20 000â and yada yada yada. The thing is, if you justâŚitâs like a funnel, itâs like going into a store. Letâs say youâre on holiday and youâre wondering through, shopping. Youâre in a shopping mall, Westfield, and you go past the store and youâre not really out to shop for anything, but you do see your favourite pair of jeans there and it has a big sign that says â95% offâ and outside the shop it has a rack of jeans there. Right. And itâs all the cheap jeans that are of course 95% and what happens is itâs actually getting you to stop and getting you to look through the doors, and even though you may not want to go through, you see your favourite pair of jeans for 95% youâve got to find them. Even they might be an XXXL but youâre still going to the store knowing that there may be something for them. Itâs the same sort of thing with online, if you can give you something that stops people at your website for 2 seconds to fill in a form and donât talk about the prices and your products, and give something away. I think thatâs really the best thing because you canât really expect people just to pay for products they donât have any incentive in that. Thereâs got to be an incentive to get people into your door and it comes down to having good content on your site. Theyâve got to stop by. Youâve got to give them something. You canât expect them to pay for nothing other than the product. I think what you give out, you get back. If you expect them to make a sale with your first phone call well you need to make sure that people have researched you and theyâve seen you and they trust you. Itâs a trust factor when it comes to online marketing and any marketing regardless.
Brett: Yeah 100% agree with you as well. It reminds me, it brings up the thing of reciprocity and no doubt youâve read the book âInfluenceâ by Robert Cialdini?
Richard:Â I have read that a long time ago, yeah.
Brett: So in that book, and I think it will be good to share it with everyone, and if you havenât got it, go out and get it, itâs called âInfluenceâ by Robert Cialdini. You get it on Amazon, you can pick it up for probably 10, 12 bucks. In the book they, he follows one human, I guess one law of psychology and one of those is reciprocity. They did this big study and they basically had these high school students and, well university students in a big library and theyâre sitting down and doing some work and filling out some test papers etcetera and none of the guys gets up and walks out the room and he comes back with 2 cans of coke and he give the can of coke to the guy sitting next to him. Now the other guy didnât ask for the can of coke. He justâŚthe guy actually said âlook I went out there and I was told I wasnât allowed to bring it back in so I thought Iâd get you oneâ. So he is building up massive value with this person right now. And he says âwell geez, I donât really even know you and you gave me a can of cokeâ and what they did was, and this was just their way and how simple this is. If you can adapt this to your business, to your life, to your friendships. Anything. At the end of the test, the guy who bought the can of coke, he asked, he then asked the other gentleman, he said âHey look mateâ, he probably didnât use the word mate because he was in America, he probably said âHey bro, would you be interested in buying some raffle tickets because Iâve got some raffle tickets that weâre selling and itâs for a good cause etceteraâ. What they found was, they found that there was a 3 times higher up take rate of people buying more raffle tickets if they were given the can of coke first. You look at that and you go itâs that law of âgive first to receiveâ and that is exactly what youâre taking about there in regards to giving away something online. Have you heard that story before Rich?
Richard: Yeah, Iâve heard some really similar stories as well. I hear it time and time again, and everything, I think it comes down to being grateful and giving and receiving and itâs a universe law. Everybody has read this, the power of The Secret, itâs really universal and it does work. It really does work in the smallest of ways. Youâve got to give and you will get, basically,
Brett: And I think something else important to touch on as well is to not go into it expecting something in return as well. Thatâs the key thing is not to have to expect thatâŚ
Richard: Aah, I think that the hard things as well, that most people, you know, consistently have got to always slap our self and say âlook, I donât expect anything in returnâ thatâs the hard thing that most people areâŚprobably get their head around. Thatâs the tough thing, youâve got to give, and youâve got to give.
Brett: An example that Iâd use there is you go out with a bunch of friends and âIâll get dinnerâ or, âNo Iâll get breakfast this time, no worriesâ, and it almostâŚand Iâll put my hand upâŚsometimes itâs almost like âaah it must be their turnâ or its an ever evolving thing and guys out there and a lot of girls as well be out there, relate to this one. You go out at night, you go out to town and you go and buy a drink and then someone buys you a drink and you feel obliged that you need to buy them a drink back. Thatâs the law working there. And I guess I want to just touch upon there quickly the point that you made about becoming a celebrity almost and thatâs exactly what it is about. When youâre on Youtube, whether you like it or not, if youâre on YouTube and you put a video up of yourself if someone walks down the street and they see you, they will see you as aâŚwhether it be a D-grade celebrity or whatever. Theyâll see you as a higher person than they would have if they had never seen you in a video. Now how I relate to that is example, I worked down this year at a fitness convention in Sydney and we had hundreds of girls come up to us and wanting to meet us because theyâd seen us online and theyâd been receiving our e-mails, e-mail videos, an d a lot of it you could say, it feels like âm meeting a celebrity. Now, the purpose behind that, that Iâm just a normal dude. Weâre just normal people. Weâre out there having a go, and thatâs exactly how you create raving fans, just like that. Just wanted to touch onâŚ
Richard: Oh yeah, people who will find you anywhere, you know the thing is most wonât come up and say âHelloâ but theyâll definitely will know that, thatâs for sure.
Brett: Well letâs look at your example back at âThe date with destinyâ with Steven. You didnât know Steven from a bar of soap but Iâd almost guarantee and Iâd bet my left nut on it, if youâd been watching him online for the past 2 or 3 years videos, this and that. When you met him you would have felt star struck.
Richard: Ya, 100%, of course. Itâs like that. Itâs even like that when people are watching TV and they see that person, you know one person watches it, they adore, or they go âah, thatâs that personâ and the other person goes âah, whateverâ. He doesnât necessarily mean anything to him. So yeah, definitely.
Brett: Itâs always that way and I think itâs always going to continue to be that way and you canâŚthe good thing about it is you can put yourself out there in any sort of show, reality show and itâs like that opening door. It gives you a chance, at the same time youâve got to have a backing product, and thatâs what I was getting to as well. Make sure, if youâre going to get out there have a backend product, to make sure that when you do go out there and people see you and youâre giving away free stuff. Youâre eventually going to have a product that can bring you revenue when people do want to come back and connect with you then.
Richard: Exactly. Itâs like going through the client journey and basically what youâre doing, is youâre having, if you imagine the client journey as a chain, if youâve got a front end where youâre offering something for free and then all of a sudden you donât have another offer. What youâre doing is youâve got a broken link in the chain but in reality what youâre doing is youâre actually causing a disservice to this customer because at the end of the day we all want to be sold on something that we feel is going to be good for us. We like to be taken on journeys and ifâŚwhenever you see a great marketing strategy and for some reason youâre online and youâre checking something out. Iâll use the example, the other night I was about 22:15 and I was lying in bed and I just for some reason I clicked into my e-mail because I was excepting an e-mail for someone and I looked at it and I actually got distracted by this other e-mail. I was looking through it, read the other e-mail, going through, and then I watched a 15 minute video and then I was taken to another video and the next thing I know; I spent $200 on a product. It was an amazing journey. You know if that product wasnât available that person would have been doing me a disservice because I wanted more. I was left wanting more and itâs just like it when I say a prospect actually expresses interest in your fitness business. With our âFit Chickâ locations for example, we have a 24 hour policy. You need to call that person within 24 hours, because whatâ theyâve done is put their head on for a minute. You know, youâreâŚtheyâre sitting there. Theyâve expressed interest in coming and trying out your area or your business. They want to know what the next step is now. They donât want to wait 2 to 3 days for the broken link in the chain. So like I said, itâs very important to have that backend strategy. So I couldnât agree more with that.
Brett: so letâs change back here a little bit. I just want to ask you a question being a leader of the fitness industry. âWhere do you see the fitness industry heading in the next 5 years?â
Richard: I think the fitness industry is goingâŚI think itâsâ going different places and I think thisâŚyou know, I donât know about, I think this, if anybody has ever travelled to places I think Australia has, the Australian fitness industry probably has so much fitness opportunities; gyms, personal trainers on every street corner I see here. Where I go to their places in different countries is not really like that. I think that this industry in Australia is very strong. People are becoming aware and itâs becoming more of a norm to be fit. Most definitely. So I think that it is going from strength to strength. Obviously there is going to be some changes. Still a very new industry remember. So itâs 30 years old possibly, if that. Itâs a new industry so thereâs going to be new growth to anybody who is in the fitness industry now. Thereâs only a few key players out there, I mean we are still very small. I do think thereâs a lot of room for growth being a new industry. I think that obviously the trainers that are coming through, yeah thereâs going to be a heap of trainers going through and yeah thereâs going to be the good ones and the bad ones. But eventually the good ones will rise because when more people get educated, they would have continued to go those good ones. I think that we are getting more regulated all the time and itâs a good think. I think the fitness industry has strength, but I also think that people become smarter. These are things that weâve got to now get a bit more serious as being business owners and making sure that you canât just be a sloppy trainer expecting to keep a client for live. You have got to get a result and youâve got to deliverâŚyouâve got have a really good result and service as well. I think thereâs a lot of people out there listening to podcasts like this and thatâs learning and has business place, and theyâre the one that is going to be getting more and more spaces and more presence out there so youâve got to remember there is going to be competition, but competition is a good think. As long as the trainers stay strong and actually stay educated I think itâs very different.
Brett: excellent, so excellent. Thanks for sharing that buddy. So I guess to just touch on that as well with regards to, like you said, the good ones will prevail, or the good trainers will rise about the rest. I guess if we just want to add that, the good trainers who understand marketing will rise above the rest.
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Richard:Â Yeah 100%.100% and I think, you can have the best, biggest biceps and triceps, but as I said before people need to know how you made those biceps and triceps. How that marketing has come about. Most definitely.
Brett: Yeah, great. So look weâre coming up to the end of our time. Iâve got one more question for you. Itâs something that Iâm a real big fan of these types of things and Id like to ask you, whatâs one of your favourite analogies?
Richard: My favourite analogy. I guess my favourite analogy is, aah thereâs a few quotes and analogies out there. I think it would beâŚ
Brett; Tough question to think about there isnât it?
Richard: I think itâs like, people say âthe grass is greener on the other sideâ and itâs always beenâŚIâve used that analogy for a lot of times over the years. The problem is I think that itâs the wrong analogy a little bit. I think the right one is âthe grass is greener where you water itâ and Iâve been in many situations where you think this guy is doing it better or that company is bigger or this and that. You know, comparing yourself to places that you should be at the moment or other people thatâs doing it. Youâre actually doing a disheart to yourself and your pride and who you are. I think everybody is on their own journey and itâs important to realise that nobody is on that journey except you. Yeah that person may take that journey efficiently but your journey is very personal and itâs important to make sure that if you are taking the journey. If youâre here and not there, well, be the best you can be right here and give this love and give this care and give yourself self-love where youâre at the moment because otherwise youâre not going to get or experience being on the other side of the grass because youâre never going to get there if you donât actually give it an effort, and give it some work. If you sort of want to getâŚif youâre in the phase and want to getâŚyou see the grass over there and you want to get over. Well youâve got to first water and make effort on this grass so that you can get over there. Otherwise youâll never get over there and you think about itâŚthe analogy of the moment Iâd say.
Richard: I love it. I love it.
Richard: but I think to add to that, thereâs this really cool website called âthe universeâ donât know if anybody has heard of it but I havenât joined it, my wife has joined it. What happens is you put your name in there, your name âRichardâ what time and day you want to see me, that thing. What happens then, like Iâm not joined as I said but every time it comes it goes âDear Joey, you are magical. Youâre going into amazing times aheadâ and the way its written itâs sort of talking aboutâŚits really individualised obviously, with auto-responders, but I always like to read it out if weâre at home at night or something and Iâll see mostly updates, but itâs just the way thatâs its written Iâm like ah, it always means something at that time in your life because analogy it has more meaning at a certain time if youâre going through something and itâs called âThe Universeâ google it. Itâs a simple thingâŚ
Brett: Iâm going to google it now, you say âThe Universeâ isnât it?
Richard: Itâs notâŚyou can check it onlineâŚitâs not selling you things. Itâs coming up with the actual universe, as you would expect. Iâll make sure I get the link and then you can put it on the PodcastâŚ.
Brett: yeah, weâll do that.
Richard: Iâll definitely get a link and I will ask what it is. Itâs got quotes and something. Itâs just a really cool way to give yourself a bit ofâŚget a bit of goodness. Because I think that everybody needs a bit of goodness all the time. At the moment thatâs what it is. But it always changes, same as the quotes, they always change donât they all the time, your favourite quotes and things like that.
Brett: actually I love that analogy âthe grass is always greenerâ. The thing is we all start off with a seed and the more you water it, the more grass you have. The more grass you have the more land you have. The more land you have, the more ability to build on that land and reach more people etcetera. Love it. Iâve written that one down, and Iâll be keeping that and using that. Thank you very much.
Richard: Yeah, so you get that.
Brett:Â Well I guess weâre at that time mate where you have to go and water your grass and Iâve got to go and water my grass now. But, for all our listeners, I know that I put you on the spot a little bit earlier about looking g at a good deal for our trainers here to get registered on your personal trainer database, that can help them get some clients and so forth. So, what we will do, we will put a link on this particular podcast. So I’d, if youâre listening on iTunes, youâll need to go to fiitprofessional.com.au and click on podcasts, and youâll be able to see the episode that says âRichard Marcâ. But, if anyone else wants to find out anything about you, follow you etcetera. Where can they find out more about you?
Richard: I guess the best place they can follow is, they can get me on Facebook. Iâm not active at the moment because Iâve got my head down, but Iâm always on Facebook, Iâm always checking it. Itâs just Richard Marc, or Richard Marc. Find me there and Iâve actually, Iâve got to tell you, each show I do, I got you last time in it, and it cause getting more they can check out some episodes there and you can always sort of see my personality there. Connect through Facebook is probably the best way Iâd say. If you want to get direct, itâs probably the easiest way Iâll take action if you want to chat and do something like that. Thatâs probably the best way. Iâve got websites, obviously you can go to you can go toâŚIâve got an online marketing company as well which is completeonlinemarketing.com.au and theyâre probably he best places to go so we deal with different things and different strategies and things like that. You can check out that, but yeah, probably getting the best one you can check out a whole heap of people and check out me and got some contact information there as well, Facebook and things like that. As I said Brett, just google me, Iâm all over the web. Iâve left my footprints everywhere.
Brett: I hope thereâs no photos of you back in the day in your spandex and belt bag, thatâs all I can say.
Brett: well thank you once again Richard. Thanks again for taking the time out. I know youâre a terribly busy man. Got a lot on. But I know thereâs a heap of gross information you shared here today and I know youâll get a lot of listeners going to take action right now and goâŚ
Richard: About that offer you said, back to that offer you said Brett. What I can do for your listeners, these personal trainers, what we can do is we can do a 30 day free offer for everybody. Not that you can do that on the website, so Iâll put a link in there so basically you just want to send an e-mail to admin@meetyour.com.au just basically if you could put your name, Fiit Professionals and Brett Campbell in the header and we will know that itâs come from this and Nick, who looks after that division can make sure that he sign you up and get you on the site, and make you look good online. You can actually see the benefits of having a good profile. 1 for branding, 2 for SEO and 3 obviously getting leads for 30 days for free, no credit card required. Just pretty much you can see, you know, be good to yourself and actually try the methods out that we are talking about which honestly, the ones who do try are the ones that get the results. So I would love to do that as a gift to you guys.
Brett: Excellent, look, very much appreciated and if youâre a listener and you havenât already written down that e-mailâŚrewind that and get it. You need to take action on this, this is the guy who has had massive amounts of experience in the industry now offering you something for free to go jump on onboard and go and see, try it out and see if you like it. See if you get a response. I know past coaching clients of mine who have tired this before and using it and have got clients from it, so definitely got my backing there. So Iâll put information underneath this podcast with the direct link so you can take action on that. So once again, thank you Richard again for your time mate. Go on and enjoy your weekend, and weâll be talking very soon!
Richard: Great. Thanks guys, thank you Brett. I appreciate the time and I appreciate the listening.
Brett: Take care, bye!