This video is one of the best I’ve seen on social media.
It really breaks down the truth behind all the parties that you as a fitness marketer are invited to and how the parties are key in fitness marketing. Social Media is a valuable marketing tool to meet key people in your specific niche or any complimentary niche.
What do I mean by social media?
Watch this no B.S synopsis of social media etiquette. Perry Belcher is a very cool and intelligent internet marketing guru who at times uses some choice words to describe social networking but his content is outstanding and so relevant to fitness marketing.
Rated PG-13
Now that you understand social media for fitness marketing puposes, let’s look at your action steps needed to really promote yourself and your personal training business.
1) Start a Fitness Facebook Page
Set yourself up a local personal training page. Start searching local people who have similar interests and ask them to be friends. Offer them free fitness advice or post fitness videos and workout tips daily on your page. Your list of friends will grow rapidly and you can set yourself apart very quickly as an expert in your local community. Remember…What’s in it for them? Not you. Yours will come in time. Help first, reap later. I will now quote the bible. He who refreshes others will himself be refreshed. Proverbs 11:25
2) Create a Fitness Gravatar
When you leave a comment on my blog, you leave a little footprint with your name on it. This fitness marketing technique can drive a boatload of people toward your site because they want to see what you are all about. I have driven TONS of traffic back to my site by commenting on other personal training and fitness blogs. The only reason it works is because I use the NO B.S gravatar image that I have chosen to represent all that I stand for. People want to know who the heck this No B.S guy is.
I have actually converted sales from my gravatar image many times. Look at all the successful fitness pros out there. They ALL have gravatars and they all leave comments. How many of you have one?
Your homework…get a gravatar and leave a comment on this post. I want to see 50 gravatars on this post alone. I bet I wont because most people are lazy. Prove me wrong! I dare you…
Remember to choose or create an image or photo that SCREAMS your core identity. This is important.
3) Create A Fitness Twitter Page
This is like getting 100 free leads per day. If you looked at my twitter page I have over 2000 leads and I dont ever do anything but text from my phone between training sessions. It takes 30 seconds for potentially 100’s to 1000’s of people to visit your site. Twiiter is the new Facebook and plays a big role in fitness marketing.
If you do just 6 twitter posts a day you can increase traffic to your website by over 100 hits. Imagine if you started twittering with potential customers answering their fitness questions and inviting them to meet you for a free consult.
You have no idea how powerful this tool is in marketing your personal training business. Create a Twitter page today and start twittering your way to personal training success.
Dont be a lazy bones. The recession is in your head. Money is everywhere but you actually have to work for it…
4) Submit a Fitness Press Release
It is so easy to get insane public recognition when you are recognized as an expert by the local media. It is so simple to get picked up by your local news paper.
Find out who to contact for health press releases. Submit at least one per week for a few weeks via email with a friendly follow up email asking if there is anything they need help with as far as expert advice or information is concerned. Its cheap exposure and a trusted, reliable way to market your personal training business.
Tell them you are more than happy to contribute and are available anytime for interviews as well. Just plant the seed. Don’t be a pest, but be consistent. Dont take rejection as a final answer.
Try another paper. Try another TV station. Make a list of 10 media contacts in your city and start making regular email communication and phone calls to these organizations.
Sooner than later you WILL be a local celebrity.
The key to success is to be known, to be regarded and to be available.
If you offer these 3 components to your local social environment you will be flooded with personal training business while others are packing up shop and changing careers.
Fitness marketing is critical for personal training success!
I hope to see your new gravatar on this post in the next few days. If I dont you are just one more person who will probably be sitting at the bottom of the pile.
Success takes effort.
Do yourself a favor, make one…
and you might make this…
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25 Responses to “How To Dominate Using Social Media As A Fitness Professional”
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okay–I know im about to let you down…but WHAT is a GRAVATAR and how do I go about creating one??? And you were just starting to be ever so slightly impressed with my technological advances!!! Hehehehehehehe
Hey Molly, the icon next to your blog comment is a gravatar. You can get one at gravatar.com. Then whenever you comment on a blog, and use the email address linked to your gravatar, your gravatar icon will be recognized.
Great stuff about being becoming an expert — It’s not as hard as people think to get in the local media -
And thanks for the Twitter tip -
Done!
Now I will get to work on Facebook and start using my Twitter account more effectively.
Thanks for the great tips
This guy Perry Belcher really puts social media into perspective – I like it! Thanks for the helpful tips
Facebook page updated and happening.
Thanks again
Jo
Ahhhh–LOL (at myself!!) Im such a dork! HA! So thats what that little blue circle with the letters “GRAVATAR” mean!!! Master of the obvious–yup-thats me!! Thanks, Steph!!
Brian,
great stuff! You deliver everytime bro! Thanks for giving!
Great video! I am off to take action on it.
Thanks.
Awesome ideas that we all probably do everyday, but can focus a little harder on! Thanks for the daily motivation and hope this gravatar works!
Sh
thanks for the tips ! this is great info for people like me that are just starting out !
thanks jeff !
I geuss it helps to confirm that the gavatar is on and working !
Your Gravatar did not work if there is no picture bye your name…lol
Keep Trying guys
-B
And hey Molly, was great talking to you yesterday – you’re a real WINNER –
And I know that feeling, where you think you’re almost being guided by an invisible hand – I feel that at times, and just have to remember to keep up my end –
Hey Brian – do you believe I’m just getting down with social media? That Ryan Lee thing this weekend was a big eye opener -
I invite everyone to follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/Kserajuddin
And just look me up on FACEBOOK –
I’m now a junkie – gettin flabby and pasty as we speak!
Hope you’re doin well Kaiser
You seem to be kicking butt and making tons of contacts
God Bless,
B
Thanks for the info my friend! An awesome approach to fitness in the sea of followers. Nice!
Make it a Healthy Day!
Yes Amen to the “followers”
My whole club is set up to educate trainers to NOT follow
Hope you have a great day and thanks for commenting!
God Bless,
B
Thanks for all the solid info! I found you on YouTube and just subscribed to your channel. How did you create your logo? Outsourced professionally? Looks like you are right about people being too lazy.
Best Regards,
Nick Outlaw
Hey Nick!
We did the logo and header in-house. We offer consulting services to help you achieve exactly what you have in mind for your business. You can contact me at admin@briandevlin.com and we can arrange a time to talk.
Steph
had to change gravatar image setting to g rated
We allow G and PG Gravatars. Yours is definitely a G. Looks great! Is that your logo?
I have been using a gravatar for awhile now. I love how it sets me apart from others.
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Cool thanks for the tips Brian. Really enjoyed the social media clip.
Think I need to work on my gravatar, and include bnatural somehow.
That’s what I am about, being natural in everything you do, how you act, how you eat, how you interact, how you train.
Love your work big fella – g’day from australia!
I just needed to say that I found your site via Goolge and I am glad I did. Keep up the good work and I will make sure to bookmark you for when I have more free time away from the books. Thanks again!