How do YOU ask a client for PAYMENT??

[gizzle]

Well I'm a private trainer and I'm about to meet my first client next week. He wants a 1 hr session once per week only. I was just wondering, how do you take the money from them? How do you go about asking them for the fees? Do you have them sign a contract? Do you have them pay up weekly? Has a client ever paid you late?

 

[joe d]

Pity they don't teach sales and basic *how to run a small business* in those certification classes eh?

Are you just out of some school or course with no experience how to actually train someone? Or did you gain your cert through a chain gym and now you think that everyone that is fat and out of shape will just start knocking down your door? What sort of liability coverage do you have?

NICE!!!! lol

 

[gotballs]

Pity they don't teach sales and basic *how to run a small business* in those certification classes eh?

Are you just out of some school or course with no experience how to actually train someone? Or did you gain your cert through a chain gym and now you think that everyone that is fat and out of shape will just start knocking down your door? What sort of liability coverage do you have?

The best way to take care of this is prior monthly deposits, just like many gyms. Bikinimom are you a personal trainer?

 

[SpyWizard]

hahah, i don't think she is, however she knows how important it is to get paid.. many people could use PT services, my contract calls for a set # of sessions set in a scheduled meet time, if he's late, then i guess we'll only be training 45 minutes that week..

If i'm late, he can have an additional session for free..

And I always get paid up front.. it's easy

"so this is the schedule we will be following, do you want to pay for that now, or the 1st day we train?? "

It's really that simple, providing for 2 options that both meet a condition that you will accept..

 

[SpyWizard]

Yes, I used to be until I decided that being over-worked and underpaid wasn't so appealing anymore. You have to BUST YOUR ASS in sales in order to keep meeting quotas and continue to pay your bills, something that they DONT tell you when you decide to get into the line of work.

I just reread my initial reply to this thread and I sounded like a real hard-ass. I didn't mean to be, I was just cutting to the chase. It wasn't personal and I hope nobody took it that way.

And I do agree Spywizard - A LOT of people could benefit tremendously from a qualified trainer. I think I get more irritated by INCOMPETENT trainers that gyms put out on their floors to *sell* with very little if any regard for that trainer's skill than I do with the dummies who think that they can do it on their own. Statistically 75% of people who join a gym will go less than 6 times after they join. There is also a great percentage of people who join and NEVER GO ONCE.

Why is this?

Because most people DONT HAVE CLUE ONE ABOUT fitness. The above quoted statistics were one of my strongest sales tools. (I can't remember the exact numbers for the statistics now but it wouldn't be too difficult to google statistics.) I had many people say, "No thank you. I can do this on my own." hire me after I checked with them one month later for their *complimentary monthly fitness assessment*. <--- IMHO EXCELLENT SALES TOOL.

Either they would sign with me or they stopped coming altogether so no skin off my nose to religiously follow up.

That's a great one, i'll use that for sure..

another issue is the commercial gym that i've committed to would put me to work at 55 hrs a week.. no thanks..

but as a pt i can do as few or as many as i want, and sniping clients are expected, as long as you keep it on the DL... and take the GM to a strip club ever so often..

It's actually pretty easy and I'm being shown the ropes, it's ridiculous how they have it set up..

 

[REFORMATA]

GOOD INFO here. I like the idea of getting payment up front, because I actually still have a few peeps who owe me money.

 

[Pure Pilates]

We work to get paid. A simple fact of life. Why not sell packages such as single sessions and groups of 5 or 10. Then give a break for the 10-pack. Once your client is down to his/her last session tell them "your package is up. Would you like to renew your sessions now?"

 

[boubou]

On the first visit I alway give them a choice weekly, biweekly or monthly. But I tell them no matter their choice I expect to be paid on time.

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[babylee]

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Good Luck!

 

[future]

I send out emails to remind them when their session package is up etc as well. Pretty simple and straight forward.