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September 5, 2023 · 2 min read
11 Devastating Fears Gym Owners Have
In my time coaching gym owners here are the things I’m hearing that are keep them up at night. Take a look and see if any of these ring a bell… Running Out Of Cash Seeing the lowest number in your checking account…
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September 4, 2023 · 3 min read
the secret to winning during a pandemic
Here’s something you really need to know. You're STILL in a Pandemic. And You’re Still in a recession. Things are NOT back to normal. If you’re still in business right now you need to be ready to keep going. I cannot…
Read More →September 3, 2023 · 1 min read
trouble
I’ve been on vacation for the last two weeks with no contact with any of my businesses. I feel a little rusty and disconnected from the land of gym owners and was wondering if you could help. What would you say is the…
Read More →September 2, 2023 · 2 min read
how gyms will survive the future
You’re limited to how many people you can have in your gym right now. Who knows how long this will last… It's kind of like you’re a restaurant owner that usually has 20 tables and is forced to only be able to serve 10.…
Read More →September 1, 2023 · 1 min read
historic cash surge in a recession
While I was on vacation last week our General manager texted me this: “$4,797 in new sales today…enjoy your vacation” My gym has had a cash surge that’s turning into one of the biggest in our 12-year history. It’s…
Read More →August 31, 2023 · 2 min read
5 Money Leaks In Your Gym
I recorded a podcast recently that was the most downloaded podcasts of any of the 100++ episodes I’ve recorded. https://www.vincegabriele.com/5-money-leaks-in-your-business/ I guess people are interested to know where…
Read More →August 30, 2023 · 3 min read
screwing up email marketing
“Followed advice from Vince for an email and now I have more leads in 1 hour than I did in the last 6 Months!” This is an exact quote I pulled from the SPF Mastermind Facebook group from a gym owner in Chicago. The last…
Read More →August 29, 2023 · 2 min read
My Plan if we get shutdown again
James Stockdale was captured and tortured in the Vietnam war. He made it through several years of being held captive in a POW camp and survived to tell the amazing story. Others were not able to endure this and never…
Read More →August 28, 2023 · 2 min read
the reason why your cash is not growing
There is one metric that trumps every other right now. It’s called being cash neutral. Here’s what this means and I cannot stress this enough. Cash neutral means that you are not burning any cash reserves. Let's say…
Read More →August 27, 2023 · 3 min read
My favorite business in the world
Yesterday I had the honor to have Ari Weinzweig as a guest speaker for my Virtual Mastermind event. Ari is the founder of Zingerman's, a 70 million dollar food business in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He’s one of the best…
Read More →August 26, 2023 · 3 min read
sorry, we’re full…
Several years ago I started a class called Men's Fat Blast. The class quickly filled up on word of mouth alone. A week or so later I was at a local booth promoting my gym when two men came up to me and asked about Men's…
Read More →August 25, 2023 · 3 min read
bloopers
My wife loves the TV show friends. I’m not a huge fan but the other day she had on the Friends Blooper reel. It was a massive compilation of clips where they messed up. It was absolutely hilarious. Think about this… The…
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August 24, 2023 · 2 min read
do you have a business coach?
Yesterday was incredible. I was on zoom for the entire day with my CEO Mastermind. These are 10 of the top gym owners in the country and I meet with them several times per year to help them solve their biggest business…
Read More →August 23, 2023 · 2 min read
CEO Mastermind
Tiger Woods has a swing coach. Michael Jordan had a personal trainer. Tony Robbins has a Business Coach. The Singer Adele has a voice coach. Steve Jobs had a Board of directors. All of the best performers on the planet…
Read More →August 22, 2023 · 2 min read
Harvard punk
I got into a conversation with a kid from Harvard that just graduated about negotiating a lease. He was very confident and arrogant in what he was saying. Almost like he had negotiated. He learned all of it from his…
Read More →August 21, 2023 · 4 min read
the 5 Million Dollar Gym
Is it possible to have a single location $5,000,000 gym? I’m not talking about a huge 50,000 square foot big box gym either. I’m taking about a small personal training gym that focuses on 1-1 and small group. I’m not…
Read More →August 20, 2023 · 2 min read
I shut off my ads
Yup. I did it. I shut of my Facebook ads. Here’s why. We were getting all the new clients we needed from what we already had. We leveraged lists like our former member list, our unconverted trial member list and our…
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August 19, 2023 · 1 min read
My Perform Better talk is Permanently Damaged.
Tomorrow I’ll be speaking for the Perform Better Virtual Seminar Series at 2 PM EST. I’ll be covering a very important topic. Sales. My presentation topic was selected about 6 months ago, well before Covid-19 was a…
Read More →August 18, 2023 · 3 min read
Should You Keep Going With Virtual?
The landscape has changed. But, it's temporary. People have been open to doing Zoom workouts and virtual stuff for the last 4 months. They’ve been open to it because they have not had a choice. Don’t mistake this for…
Read More →August 17, 2023 · 2 min read
What kind of idiot walks away from 20K/month
What kind of idiot walks away from a business that was generating 20K/month? Well, that idiot is me. Here’s the story. When I started, I was a sports performance guy and pretty much just trained athletes. Training…
Read More →August 16, 2023 · 1 min read
Why Do You Do This?
Why do you keep beating yourself up? It needs to stop. You’re beating yourself up because you’re not getting a lot of leads. Your beating yourself up because your revenue has dropped. Your beating yourself up because…
Read More →August 15, 2023 · 1 min read
is this you?
Are you going to be one of the few gym owners that doesn’t come to my webinar this week? I hope not! https://training.vincegabriele.com/free-live-training Here’s why. I’m going to be teaching you the 5 steps you need to…
Read More →August 14, 2023 · 1 min read
Free LIVE Training
Do you want to know exactly how to implement my most successful Marketing Idea? I’m super excited to announce I’ll be doing a LIVE webinar this Friday and Saturday to teach you exactly how to implement my favorite…
Read More →August 13, 2023 · 2 min read
Read This...And You'll Be Happy
There is pent up demand right now. People haven’t gone out to eat in months. People haven’t gotten their hair cut or their nails done. Oil changes are overdue. Teeth have not been cleaned. Non-essential surgeries have…
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