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Brett Interviews Marketing Expert Richard Marc
Transcript of EPISODE 12:
Hello and welcome to the Fiit Edition of Podcast, the number one Podcast for Fiit Professionals looking to build their fitness business. If youāre after more clients, more income and more free time then youāve come to the right place. Visit podcast.fiitprofessionals.com.au today.
Brett: Hello Fiit Professionals and welcome to another episode of the Fiit Professional Business Podcast. I’m your host Brett Campbell and today Iāve 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 youāre 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 havenāt 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. Youāll correct me in a moment if Iām 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 Australiaās 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 Iām 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, Iāve 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 Iāll 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 Mitchellās 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 dollarsā worth of media, letās 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 Australiaās 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 Iām 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 Iām talking about online, back let’s say 2003 or 4, when internet wasnāt what it was today. We didnāt 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? Thatās 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 didnāt have, didnāt 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. Thereās…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. Thereās 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 didnāt 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 youāve learnt over the time?
Richard: Umm, that’s a good question. Itās 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 havenāt learnt it. I guess the biggest lesson Iāve learnt is, Iāve 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 canāt 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 youāre 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 donāt 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. Itās 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 thereās so many different wrong roads you can take. That is probably why people donāt start their business. If you know that youāre 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 donāt have the right skill”, ‘So I don’t have a system manual put into place”, or ādonāt have an office” or “I donāt 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 thatās what she loves to do into your business. Donāt think that you have to go and create every system yourself. Get someone to help you where youāre not really good at, because thatās when I get business itās going to go slow growth if you just think, āYou know what, Iāve got to write a system manual myself for the next 6 months, then I can employ somebodyā.Ā If you do that then your business is not going to continue to grow. Donāt think that you have to do everything yourself, also have the confidence to ask the right people in the business and I think thatās the biggest lesson Iāve learnt over time. Iāve tried to take a lot on and Iāve tried to do a lot of things myself, but thereās things that you canāt and you need to get people sooner than you probably think youāre going to get it firstly. Think the first person you find to employ.
Brett: Look thatās absolutely, itās definite wisdom right there. Man thins is like the third time this has happened in interview actually. What youāre talking about right now is Iām 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 Iām an ideas man. Youāre an ideas man yourself, so anyone out there listening who thinks theyāre 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 donāt need to start paying someone $50Ā 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, Iāve got another question for you and I really like to hear the answers to these is, what was your āah hahā 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 onlineā¦I 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 āwell, it hasnāt been a journey to get to where youāre getting to, and you continue to get toā. So I guess the journey for meā¦when I was in the White Falls Cooper Warnerās 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 didnāt 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 āDate with Destinyā 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 didnāt 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 āHey mate, how you going? You got a partner?ā he said āNoā, āOkay, I will go with you for the weekā. 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 āHey listen, we didnāt get to know each other, what do you do?ā we didnāt 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 āListen Richard, I live in America, why donāt you just come visit me. Iām going to the States soon, why donāt you just come and visit me. Iāve got a big party happening over there soonā.Ā And I go, āwhatās your details?ā. He goes āJust google me Richardā and I go āWho do you think you areā¦just google you. Who are you?ā. 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 heās 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 āAah yeah, I do a bit of things onlineā.
Richard: And I go āOh yeah, Iāve used typestyle and Iāve used thisā and he says āAah yeah, thatās good, thatās goodā. 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 āHey Richard, my lack of time man, these are the programs Iām going to give you, you know and youāre [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 āHey, howās it going? Iām Timā, and I said āHey, how you going, youāre in a book.ā And it was sort of that week when he was launching it. He was such a cool, laidback guy and I was thought, āJeez, this is what internet marketing is all about. These are the people that weāre surrounding our self withā.
Pretty much from then Brett, that was my first āah hahā 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 āHey can I see yourā¦can Iā¦you know, have a bio of your personal trainers?ā. She was in Perth, I was just staying in Perth as well. I said āAah I donāt, but let me take a pictureā and she goes āAah that will be greatā and I said āHang on, Iām getting a question asked quite a few times. Why donāt I take a video?ā 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 donāt I do this for the whole of the industry. In that time, we didnāt have any YouTube smashing out, people werenātā 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, Iām, 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. Itās moments like that, I think theyāre my 2 āah hahā moments that got me on online marketing and from there, just really having that self-belief Brett, to actually go and do something thatās probably way out of your comfort zone but itās way out of everybodyās comfort zone isnāt it. So somebodyās got to do it, donāt 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 itās quite funny when you look at it, you went to a seminar called āA Date with Destinyā and mate thatās exactly what it was, wasnāt it?
Richard: Yeah true, itās exactly like that.
Brett: So itās always funny when those types of things happen and Iām a massive believer in things happen for a reason and itās really exciting for you to share those āah hahā 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 theyāve been in the industry for a while and theyāre 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 youāre just a single trainer. You just started. You deciding, maybe youāre out of your course and you deicide do I hit business first, or do I do it myself? Youāre 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 wonāt know youāve been a trainer, or you did your course. You may have come from a different role, and they think youāre still a legal sectorial or something. I think the first thing to do is brand yourself and one; Get a logo. I think itās the biggest thing. I think Iām very big into branding and I think get a logo first of all because thatās going to define who you are. If your logo is red, you need to know why itās been red before. If it is an energy colour. Think about whatā¦who you are as a person and that can go into a logo. Now once youāve 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. Youāve 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, Iām 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 whatās going to come back is probably the first and the cheapest option, number one Iād say.
Obviously online marketing is something I have a big bias towards clearly, so my next sort of thing Iād tell trainers is quite frankly I would, and this is what Iāve done when I had my personal train industry is pretty much get on every single directory you just possibly can. Thatās going to skyrocket you faster than you could ever skyrocket yourself and what I mean by that isā¦if I said to trainers out there āGo get a website firstā the problem youāre go into have is, the website costs money, and doing it costs money, and youāre 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 shouldnāt be doing that. If youāre looking at a very early, start-up personal trainer, Iād go and join directories that cost you $2 a month, and theyāll put you into places where people are already searching for personal trainers. Well of course Iām bias, Iāve 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 youāve gotā¦of thereās a free personal trainer directory, then get onto that for goodness sakes, but if youāre on 5 directories that already have thousands of visitors and youāre 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 itāsthe right picture. The right target market is going to find you, and theyāre going to give you a call and youāre going to get an e-mail into your inbox. Thatās probably the 2 strategies Iād go with, and thatās the strategies that Iāve used in every single business Iāve run if its fitness or another industry. Iāve always basicallyā¦go 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 theirĀ page. Thatās what I want to know. Thatās 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 itās like every single marketing strategy we talk about on this Podcast and we ever will talk about. You need to look at whatās the return on investments. Do if youāre paying 10, 20, 30, 40 even 100 dollars a month to be on a certain directory, but if youāre getting a return on investment each month on that then itsā 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 āAh itās just another $20 here, another $30 hereā. You need to look at it and go āam I going to get a return on it this month?ā or āHow long am I willing to invest in this thing to see if it works?ā. So for example if youāre paying $20 a month for a directory. You look at that over 12 months itās $240. So letās say over that 12 month period youāve got one client in the first month, who is worth…if you look at $50 a week over the year, thatās over $2500. Youāve definitely got a return on investment. So keep an eye on that. I think another key part that you said there was, donāt just choose one. Donāt just go and register with True Local and leave it at that. Go and register with every single directory out there, and weāve touched on a point that in a past episode…youāre not the first person to say that theyāre 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. Iāll give you a link to that so that you can check it out. Iām going to put Richard on the spot and Iām going to say his going to give us all a discount. If anyone goes through and clicks the linkā¦
Richard: Yeah, definitely, weāll get a discount. Let me just think about the nextā¦the rest of the part of the interview and see what we can do and get you at the end of the call. Get you aā¦weāll get a good deal for everybody because honestly I really think, exactly what you said Brett. Ā 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. Itās a pretty exciting industry when youāre first getting into fitness or someone wants to lose weight. People are looking for answers out there, thereās so much messages. If you brand yourself, and thatās what I was saying, if you brand yourself as the local expert in your area. Letās say youāve got so much competition out there, I hear it all the time, but really thereās not. If youāve got 10 personal trainers in your local part you trainer for, for example, youāve got to then google the area and figure out what the 10 people are doing. You probably got Iād say more than half of those people who probably donāt have an online presence, or if they do, you canāt 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, Iād be very highly surprised that out of the people in your area, whoās really taking action as the leader and the expert online.
So put yourself in someone who doesnāt know you as a trainer, yet every trainer out there is great. I hear all the stories. I know that theyāre fantastic. They can do the best high kick skills. They can do the best sit up. Theyāre the best, right. They know theyāre the best; they get the best results with their clients. I hear it all. The problem Brett is that I donātā know that if Iām coming to the business and they donāt have a showcase of that. If they havenāt written a blog about the best squat and they havenāt, if theyāve just gone and ask their clients and printed it out and said āHere it isā. If you havenāt put it online on a blog, well if you havenāt recorded a video saying āthis is how we do the best push upā and āthis isĀ how I get a 6 pack and ripped abs in a week in my clientsā or āthis is how, this is the story that…10 of my clients testimonialsā. If only the clients know that and the personal trainer and no other person, well then youāre actually not the best trainer in your area, because nobody knows who you are, and youāre not building an online presence up. Youāre not building a brand identity up. So if you look in your local area and see who is doing that. Youād be surprised and thatās where you say āI 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 itā. 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. Thereās very few people doing it, and if you do it, thatās where the leads are going to come from. I can guarantee you that.
Brett: Yeah, totally agree with you there and itās a bit of a pet peeve for me when I hear people go āThereās just too many trainers out thereā, āThereās too many of thisā, or āThatās a hard market, thatās a flooded marketā, āItās hard to make money in that marketā. I just say thatās a lot of bullshit myself. Our company has had extreme growth in the last 18 months, and if we look at it, and letās just talk to your couple of points again. The whole thing of branding. Weāve created and Fitness National, weāve created a very, very prominent brand now. Our brand āFitChicksā for example isā¦its very rare now that weāll talk to our target market, someone aged 19-45 and they wouldnāt 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 theyāre from actually Brisbane, and we say what we do, and sheās like āAh I know that, Iām on your emails,. Iāve been receiving your emails for a few months nowā. Sheās actually bought one of our products and itās 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. Thatās why weāve 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. Weāve 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 itās at. I totally agree with you in regards to people sending out great content, and doing it continuously. Just in example, weāve just conducted a survey through our lists. Now weāve got quite a large list and so far weāve had over 5000 people fill out our survey. It was 13 questions that we asked and some of the information, Iāve got to tell you, was actually, Iām sitting here slapping myself in the head becauseā¦and thatās the power of it. If you haven’t done a survey, anyone out there. This is a gold nugget. Survey your lists, even if youāve 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 itās really vital and this is something that I know a lot of pole missed out on. Iām just going to find the question here. One of the questions was āHow do you cope when you use our products or services?ā I just looked here, a secondā¦āso how do you view our current content?ā so when we send out an email, how do they view it. And we can tell you that 46% currently based on what weāve 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 whichā¦when you look at a desktop, thereās only 28% of people actually view our content from desktops. So, this is where people fall into that trap of āah I need to have a beautiful looking website. It needs to have beautiful graphicsā. It needs to have this and that and all of the bloody jazz that people think they need to have. Itās falling on deaf ears, because if you have a beautiful looking website, youāre 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, Iāll get you to give your opinion on it, it may be different. But, thatās why sales page format is so popular when it comes to getting someone to take some form of action, whether itās 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, weāre going to have 70%, 80% of people viewing podcasts on their phone. So whatās your thought on that one mate?
Richard:Ā I know we are on a bit of a tangent butā¦
Brett:Ā Itās an interestingā¦the results are in the pudding. You put out a survey and 46% have said that theyāre 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 trainerās websites and theyāre all around the same anywhere from 20 to 40, 50% on mobiles. So it doesnāt 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 āOh thatās greatā.
Richard: It is a big point because if your client viewing your mobile platform, youāve got to make sure obviously, you look good āmobilelyāā¦ mobilised. If the mobile site or a mobile responsive site, you know, Iām very much in point of it as well. Because I mean otherwise, whatās the point? And maybe thatās why youāre getting the leading that you thought. You should have got in with a nice site, Iāve 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. Itās 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 youāre 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 donāt google for 2 purposes. You 1 question in there, not 2. So itsā 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 itās mobile browser friendly. Theyāre making sure that itās 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 theyāre mobile responsive. Because google doesnāt want to show any unnecessary results and the same with the searches. Theyāre not going to show a page with 3 or 4 different situations. Theyāre going to show a page that just has 1 message and 1 message only and thatās the new algorithm that just came out last week with Hummingbird if anyone is interested in that stuff.
Brett:Ā Probably just us mate itās the geek come out I think. Itās quite funny if you asked me this 10 years ago Iād go āgeez, computer type thingsā but what I find really interesting about it, Iām a Nazi now on percentages and statistics and this and that and thatās 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, itās the millions of dollars of information that youāre going to receive from people. Like questions here, Iāve got āHow would you like to view our content? Is it more articles, videos, interactive online webinars, podcasts etceteraā. Thereās a whole heap of information over here that if youāre 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 thatās the key. For me, part of that is a bit of a struggle because I write here in one of my questions is āHow often would you like to receive educational content from us?ā and Iād 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, āevery 2 to 3 daysā as well. So itās really important because if I just decide to once all of a sudden email daily to our contacts. Weāre stilling giving away content, what can happen because everyone is so busy in everyday life. You donāt get a chance to read every email. Sometimes it can become such an overwhelming things because Iāve got 20 emails for them to listen to, or for them to read. Theyāll probably go āahh Iām just going to unsubscribe because I canāt keep upā. 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 theyād just give up because theyād be just too far behind. You know how I get that information is because one of our questions again is āDo you listen to our free podcasts?ā and 45% of people say āIāve been meaning to but I just havenāt found the timeā. Very interesting they, theyāve been meaning to but they just havenāt found the time yet.
Richard:Ā Yeah, youāve got to listen to your customers that are for sure.
Brett:Ā So thanks for letting me go on that tangent there. Letās 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 youāve learnt in regards to marketing, any strategies that you think is really cool. Maybe youāve done some promotion of some sorts thatās worked well. Any juicy information that you could help us out with.
Richard: I couldā¦probably the best isā¦Iāll try and got the easiest option. Thereās 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. Iāll give you an example, after I had my book out, I released an audio it was called āThe fit and healthy familyā and we went to interview seven of the leading experts in the world on healthy families we didnāt know any of these guys at all but we picked up the phone and we asked them and most of them said āyesā 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 itās a personal trainerās lesson is that the easiest way to do it and to get to your market. First example, if youāre trying to market the best MA instructorsā¦I mean, sorryā¦letās say you have MA classes right. What youād want to do if I was that trainer trying to attract hat audience. Iād 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 itās 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 donāt 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 thatās 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 youāre on TV, that TV set or that YouTube which people can now view on their TV in their lounge room, youāve actually become the expert. Even If you donāt think youāre the expert, youāll naturally become the expert. So I think, and when we look at our lifestyle out there and our senses, whenever youāre in thatā¦when you look and go āaah thereās a celebrityā and so forth, inside theyāre still human beings and at the end of the day theyāre celebrities because theyāve done well for themselves, if thatās from the movies or on TV. It comes down to, because theyāre in a box, a TV, and people watch them. Thatās what it comes down to. So, itās not saying that they go and get on the highest rating TV show, itās 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 itās very similar to the point I made before, but to be honest with you thatās probably the simplest way to do it and the free way to do it as well. It doesnāt cost you much money at all. Thatās a good tactic. Another tactic again is, give something away. Iām sure you do this if your internet marketingā¦youāre always giving something away. People are going to give you their e-mails if you’re going to give something awayā¦that are an eBook for goodness sake. I think as trainers weāre 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 āhow to lose weightā but the thing is people who are searching for that will find that really valuable and then youāll be becoming the expert and the thing is, youāve 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 thatā¦we 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 āI want to do this and I want to make sure I advertise to $20Ā 000ā and yada yada yada. The thing is, if you justā¦itās like a funnel, itās like going into a store. Letās say youāre on holiday and youāre wondering through, shopping. Youāre in a shopping mall, Westfield, and you go past the store and youāre 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 ā95% offā and outside the shop it has a rack of jeans there. Right. And itās all the cheap jeans that are of course 95% and what happens is itās 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% youāve got to find them. Even they might be an XXXL but youāre still going to the store knowing that there may be something for them. Itās 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 donāt talk about the prices and your products, and give something away. I think thatās really the best thing because you canāt really expect people just to pay for products they donāt have any incentive in that. Thereās got to be an incentive to get people into your door and it comes down to having good content on your site. Theyāve got to stop by. Youāve got to give them something. You canāt 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 theyāve seen you and they trust you. Itās 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 youāve read the book āInfluenceā by Robert Cialdini?
Richard:Ā I have read that a long time ago, yeah.
Brett:Ā So in that book, and I think it will be good to share it with everyone, and if you havenāt got it, go out and get it, itās called āInfluenceā 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 theyāre 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 didnāt ask for the can of coke. He justā¦the guy actually said ālook I went out there and I was told I wasnāt allowed to bring it back in so I thought Iād get you oneā. So he is building up massive value with this person right now. And he says āwell geez, I donāt really even know you and you gave me a can of cokeā 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 āHey look mateā, he probably didnāt use the word mate because he was in America, he probably said āHey bro, would you be interested in buying some raffle tickets because Iāve got some raffle tickets that weāre selling and itās for a good cause etceteraā. 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 itās that law of āgive first to receiveā and that is exactly what youāre taking about there in regards to giving away something online. Have you heard that story before Rich?
Richard: Yeah, Iāve 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 itās a universe law. Everybody has read this, the power of The Secret, itās really universal and it does work. It really does work in the smallest of ways. Youāve 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. Thatās the key thing is not to have to expect thatā¦
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 ālook, I donāt expect anything in returnā thatās the hard thing that most people areā¦probably get their head around. Thatās the tough thing, youāve got to give, and youāve got to give.
Brett: An example that Iād use there is you go out with a bunch of friends and āIāll get dinnerā or, āNo Iāll get breakfast this time, no worriesā, and it almostā¦and Iāll put my hand upā¦sometimes itās almost like āaah it must be their turnā 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. Thatās 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 thatās exactly what it is about. When youāre on Youtube, whether you like it or not, if youāre 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 aā¦whether it be a D-grade celebrity or whatever. Theyāll 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 theyād seen us online and theyād been receiving our e-mails, e-mail videos, an d a lot of it you could say, it feels like ām meeting a celebrity. Now, the purpose behind that, that Iām just a normal dude. Weāre just normal people. Weāre out there having a go, and thatās exactly how you create raving fans, just like that. Just wanted to touch onā¦
Richard: Oh yeah, people who will find you anywhere, you know the thing is most wonāt come up and say āHelloā but theyāll definitely will know that, thatās for sure.
Brett: Well letās look at your example back at āThe date with destinyā with Steven. You didnāt know Steven from a bar of soap but Iād almost guarantee and Iād bet my left nut on it, if youād 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. Itās like that. Itās even like that when people are watching TV and they see that person, you know one person watches it, they adore, or they go āah, thatās that personā and the other person goes āah, whateverā. He doesnāt necessarily mean anything to him. So yeah, definitely.
Brett:Ā Itās always that way and I think itās always going to continue to be that way and you canā¦the good thing about it is you can put yourself out there in any sort of show, reality show and itās like that opening door. It gives you a chance, at the same time youāve got to have a backing product, and thatās what I was getting to as well. Make sure, if youāre going to get out there have a backend product, to make sure that when you do go out there and people see you and youāre giving away free stuff. Youāre 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. Itās like going through the client journey and basically what youāre doing, is youāre having, if you imagine the client journey as a chain, if youāve got a front end where youāre offering something for free and then all of a sudden you donāt have another offer. What youāre doing is youāve got a broken link in the chain but in reality what youāre doing is youāre 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 isĀ going to be good for us. We like to be taken on journeys and ifā¦whenever you see a great marketing strategy and for some reason youāre online and youāre checking something out. Iāll 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 wasnāt available that person would have been doing me a disservice because I wanted more. I was left wanting more and itās just like it when I say a prospect actually expresses interest in your fitness business. With our āFit Chickā locations for example, we have a 24 hour policy. You need to call that person within 24 hours, because whatā theyāve done is put their head on for a minute. You know, youāreā¦theyāre sitting there. Theyāve expressed interest in coming and trying out your area or your business. They want to know what the next step is now. They donāt want to wait 2 to 3 days for the broken link in the chain. So like I said, itās very important to have that backend strategy. So I couldnāt agree more with that.
Brett: so letās change back here a little bit. I just want to ask you a question being a leader of the fitness industry. āWhere do you see the fitness industry heading in the next 5 years?ā
Richard: I think the fitness industry is goingā¦I think itāsā going different places and I think thisā¦you know, I donāt 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 itās 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 itās 30 years old possibly, if that. Itās a new industry so thereās going to be new growth to anybody who is in the fitness industry now. Thereās only a few key players out there, I mean we are still very small. I do think thereās a lot of room for growth being a new industry. I think that obviously the trainers that are coming through, yeah thereās going to be a heap of trainers going through and yeah thereās 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 itās a good think. I think the fitness industry has strength, but I also think that people become smarter. These are things that weāve got to now get a bit more serious as being business owners and making sure that you canāt just be a sloppy trainer expecting to keep a client for live. You have got to get a result and youāve got to deliverā¦youāve got have a really good result and service as well. I think thereās a lot of people out there listening to podcasts like this and thatās learning and has business place, and theyāre the one that is going to be getting more and more spaces and more presence out there so youāve 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 itās 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:Ā 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 weāre coming up to the end of our time. Iāve got one more question for you. Itās something that Iām a real big fan of these types of things and Id like to ask you, whatās one of your favourite analogies?
Richard: My favourite analogy. I guess my favourite analogy is, aah thereās a few quotes and analogies out there.Ā I think it would beā¦
Brett; Tough question to think about there isnāt it?
Richard: I think itās like, people say āthe grass is greener on the other sideā and itās always beenā¦Iāve used that analogy for a lot of times over the years. The problem is I think that itās the wrong analogy a little bit. I think the right one is āthe grass is greener where you water itā and Iāve 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 thatās doing it. Youāre actually doing a disheart to yourself and your pride and who you are. I think everybody is on their own journey and itās 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 itās important to make sure that if you are taking the journey. If youāre 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 youāre at the moment because otherwise youāre not going to get or experience being on the other side of the grass because youāre never going to get there if you donāt actually give it an effort, and give it some work. If you sort of want to getā¦if youāre in the phase and want to getā¦you see the grass over there and you want to get over. Well youāve got to first water and make effort on this grass so that you can get over there. Otherwise youāll never get over there and you think about itā¦the analogy of the moment Iād say.
Richard: I love it. I love it.
Richard:Ā but I think to add to that, thereās this really cool website called āthe universeā donāt know if anybody has heard of it but I havenāt joined it, my wife has joined it. What happens is you put your name in there, your name āRichardā what time and day you want to see me, that thing. What happens then, like Iām not joined as I said but every time it comes it goesĀ āDear Joey, you are magical. Youāre going into amazing times aheadā and the way its written itās sort of talking aboutā¦its really individualised obviously, with auto-responders, but I always like to read it out if weāre at home at night or something and Iāll see mostly updates, but itās just the way thatās its written Iām like ah, it always means something at that time in your life because analogy it has more meaning at a certain time if youāre going through something and itās called āThe Universeā google it. Itās a simple thingā¦
Brett: Iām going to google it now, you say āThe Universeā isnāt it?
Richard: Itās notā¦you can check it onlineā¦itās not selling you things. Itās coming up with the actual universe, as you would expect. Iāll make sure I get the link and then you can put it on the Podcastā¦.
Brett: yeah, weāll do that.
Richard: Iāll definitely get a link and I will ask what it is. Itās got quotes and something. Itās just a really cool way to give yourself a bit ofā¦get a bit of goodness. Because I think that everybody needs a bit of goodness all the time. At the moment thatās what it is. But it always changes, same as the quotes, they always change donāt they all the time, your favourite quotes and things like that.
Brett: actually I love that analogy āthe grass is always greenerā. 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.Ā Love it. Iāve written that one down, and Iāll be keeping that and using that. Thank you very much.
Richard: Yeah, so you get that.
Brett:Ā Well I guess weāre at that time mate where you have to go and water your grass and Iāve 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 youāre listening on iTunes, youāll need to go to fiitprofessional.com.au and click on podcasts, and youāll be able to see the episode that says āRichard Marcā. But, if anyone else wants to find out anything about you, follow you etcetera. Where can they find out more about you?
Richard:Ā I guess the best place they can follow is, they can get me on Facebook. Iām not active at the moment because Iāve got my head down, but Iām always on Facebook, Iām always checking it. Itās just Richard Marc, or Richard Marc. Find me there and Iāve actually, Iāve 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 Iād say. If you want to get direct, itās probably the easiest way Iāll take action if you want to chat and do something like that. Thatās probably the best way. Iāve got websites, obviously you can go to you can go toā¦Iāve got an online marketing company as well which is completeonlinemarketing.com.au and theyāre 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, Iām all over the web. Iāve left my footprints everywhere.
Brett: I hope thereās no photos of you back in the day in your spandex and belt bag, thatās all I can say.
Brett: well thank you once again Richard. Thanks again for taking the time out. I know youāre a terribly busy man. Got a lot on. But I know thereās a heap of gross information you shared here today and I know youāll get a lot of listeners going to take action right now and goā¦
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 Iāll 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 itās 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 youāre a listener and you havenāt already written down that e-mailā¦rewind 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 Iāll 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 weāll be talking very soon!
Richard: Great. Thanks guys, thank you Brett. I appreciate the time and I appreciate the listening.
Brett: Take care, bye!