LTB Podcast

Andrew Coates - Attending In-Person Events, Referrals & Using Social Media to Get Business

Nov 11, 2019

56:48

Andrew Coates is an Edmonton, Canada based personal trainer who has been training clients for 9 years. He is a fitness writer and contributor to T-Nation and the writer and co-host of The Fitness Devil Podcast. He is also the co-founder/organizer of The Evolve Canadian Strength Symposium. In this episode, we discuss why you should attend in-person fitness events, why one client can easily turn into ten and using social media to gain business.

Timestamps:

[04.36] - Why has he put so much time into attending different fitness seminars and conferences?
[14.33] - Does he think you can attend too many events?
[16.58] - Does he do anything post-event to ensure he's applying what he's learning?
[20.46] - How Andrew's career as a PT started?
[27.13] - How his first client set off a chain of referrals
[30.13] - Has he found that you get less "energy vampire" type clients as the years go on?
[40.35] - Why it's useful to question your own bullshit
[42.56] - How many personal training sessions he tends to do per month
[46.23] - What he's done to generate business
[49.33] - Closing messages.