The key is to select one client, charge him $500 a session and you're set. You can make $6,000 a month and only work three hours a week! Don't laugh, people are doing it. It's called exclusive training, the next level for VIP's.
If you are coming to the states, just to train.... pretty ballzy. You better have some sort of professional connection before such an extravaganza. You sort picked the wrong time. In case you haven't heard, our economy isn't doing so well.
Training in a gym is played. You ahve to diversify and do other types of training i.e. corporate or mobile.
I started getting into different businesses that maintain some line of exercise equipment and started marketing my expertise there and it works pretty well.
Good job! Stay with it because you are going to soon have a real credential. It won't be in fitness, but the CEO's you end up training will have far more respect for you if you finished college. They will not refer their business associates to an uneducated guy. ACE, NHE, ACSM, ISSA.... they...
California is the worst. There are so many "children" conducting personal training sessions that sometimes I'm embarrassed to tell my friends I'm a trainer.