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Personal Trainer / Fitness Studio: Best Referral Sources

Who should be sending you clients, and the rooms they are already sitting in. Tell us where you are and we will send the list.

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The rooms for trainers and fitness studios, the next meeting dates, and who to ask for when you walk in.

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Your one-page action plan

Five partners, what starts the work for each one, and the three rooms to be in. Print it and keep it in the car.

Networking plan: Personal Trainer / Fitness Studio

The five people who should be sending you clients

  1. Florist (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a family plans a wedding or milestone event
  2. Primary Care Physician (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: somebody gets hurt
  3. Home Health Care (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: somebody gets hurt
  4. Financial Advisor (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: somebody retires
  5. Photographer (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a family plans a wedding or milestone event

The three rooms to be in

  1. Your city or county chamber of commerce: Your partners are in this room: florists, primary care practices, and home care agencies.
  2. Aging Life Care / senior care provider network: Your partners are in this room: home care agencies, therapists and counselors, and senior placement advisors.
  3. Local Facebook & community groups: Your partners are in this room: florists, photographers, and therapists and counselors.
The people

Who should be sending you clients

Ranked by what starts the job, not by who sounds close to your trade. When something happens that makes people need trainers and fitness studios, who else gets a call that same week?

Match strength is how much of your work starts from the same event as theirs, scored out of 100. Higher means you are more often called into the same job in the same week.

  1. 1 Florist They send you work Trigger: a family plans a wedding or milestone event 67 match strength out of 100
  2. 2 Primary Care Physician They send you work Trigger: somebody gets hurt 66 match strength out of 100
  3. 3 Home Health Care They send you work Trigger: somebody gets hurt 65 match strength out of 100
  4. 4 Financial Advisor They send you work Trigger: somebody retires 64 match strength out of 100
  5. 5 Photographer They send you work Trigger: a family plans a wedding or milestone event 64 match strength out of 100
  6. 6 Mental Health Therapist They send you work Trigger: somebody changes jobs or gets relocated 63 match strength out of 100
  7. 7 Dentist They send you work Trigger: somebody changes jobs or gets relocated 61 match strength out of 100
  8. 8 Medical Spa / Aesthetics Two-way Trigger: a family plans a wedding or milestone event 60 match strength out of 100
  9. 9 Senior Living Placement Advisor They send you work Trigger: somebody gets hurt 59 match strength out of 100
  10. 10 Acupuncturist They send you work Trigger: somebody gets hurt 59 match strength out of 100

Knowing the names is half of it. We will send the list with what to say to each one. Send me my list ↑

The rooms

Where those people actually are

Ranked by how many of your best partners are in the room, and how much work each one can send you. Give someone nine choices and they pick none, so we have marked the one to start with.

  1. 1 Your city or county chamber of commerce Your pick Your partners are in this room: florists, primary care practices, and home care agencies. Chamber of commerce · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~4 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  2. 2 Aging Life Care / senior care provider network Your partners are in this room: home care agencies, therapists and counselors, and senior placement advisors. Your partners' association · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~3 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  3. 3 Local Facebook & community groups Your partners are in this room: florists, photographers, and therapists and counselors. Online community · Always on · Free · ~3 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  4. 4 Your county medical society Your partner is in this room: primary care practices. Your partners' association · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~3 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  5. 5 State CPA society Your partner is in this room: financial advisors. Your partners' association · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~3 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  6. 6 BNI One seat per category, so your competitors are excluded by rule and the seats around you are the partners above. Structured referral group · Weekly · $500–$2,000/yr · ~8 hrs/month · One seat per category Chapter finder →
  7. 7 LeTip International One seat per category, so your competitors are excluded by rule and the seats around you are the partners above. Structured referral group · Weekly · $500–$2,000/yr · ~7 hrs/month · One seat per category Chapter finder →
  8. 8 Network In Action One seat per category, so your competitors are excluded by rule and the seats around you are the partners above. Structured referral group · Monthly · $500–$2,000/yr · ~3 hrs/month · One seat per category Chapter finder →

Let us be straight with you. For trainers and fitness studios, a weekly referral group is not the best pick. Your partners gather in professional groups instead, so spend your time there. We would rather say that than sell you a seat you do not need.

These rooms meet on real dates. We will send you the next ones for your area. Send me the dates ↑

Your seat

Is your seat open?

Prime Time takes one Personal Trainer / Fitness Studio per chapter. Put a South Florida ZIP into the form above and we will show you which seats are open.

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Want this as a list you can act on?

Send it to yourself: the partners above, the rooms ranked for trainers and fitness studios, and the next meeting dates for your area.

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