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Tips To Make Your Personal Training Business More Profitable

Here are five simple strategies that any personal trainer can adapt to their business and almost instantly increase their profits: 1.  Raise Your Prices.   This is the most simple, yet overlooked strategy for increasing your income.  If you perform 30 sessions per week and raise your prices by just five dollars per session, you’ve increased your yearly income by $7800.  Not a bad improvement considering that you didn’t have to do anything else differently.  Most of your clients won’t even bat an eye at this increase and the one’s that have a problem with a small price increase will almost always be your “headache clients.”  Simply move on and you’ll soon replace them (if there are any) with a new client happy to pay your fee. 2.  Have a “back-end.”    The lifetime value of a client is the total amount of money that a client spends with you during the duration of the time you do business together.  Most trainers limit this number t...

Fun Ways To Become More Active Every Day!

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You know you should be getting some sort of exercise, you know of all the health benefits that come with a more active lifestyle. You’ve tried the whole Gym thing, but it just wasn’t for you. The temptation to just sit in front of the TV, to curl up with a good book, or to spend a little extra time at your computer is just too big. Who wants to head to the gym right now anyway? There are many other options to get more active that don’t include jogging, weight lifting or other “traditional” ways to work out. Here are a few ideas to get you moving 1) Chase your Kids around the Yard You’d be surprised at how much of a work out you’ll get playing catch with your kids. Time will fly while you are having fun and your children will enjoy the extra time with you. Just get out there and play. 2) Turn up the Music and Dance around the Living Room While you’re dusting, putting up dishes, straightening up the kids’ rooms, or after you’ve been sitting around for too long, just play some of your f...

Wow Ways to Grow Flowers!

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Flowering landscape trees are the crown jewels of the yard. Perhaps no other plants, individually, can have as great an impact on how a yard looks in spring. Browse the articles to which I've linked below for information on particular varieties of flowering landscape trees. Pictures are included. Crape Myrtles: Landscape Trees of the South A popular choice in flowering landscape trees for Southerners, crape myrtles have a long blooming period (mid-summer to fall). The blooming clusters of these flowering landscape trees come in pink, white, red and lavender. The clusters appear on the tips of new wood. Northerners can sometimes get away with treating these flowering landscape trees as perennials that die back in winter but come back in spring. Trees Not all specimens with a weeping habit are flowering landscape trees, but this article looks at several weeping varieties that do bloom, headed by four types of cherry. Saucer Magnolias The size and shape of the blooms are what sugges...

10 Things That Would Happen If The Internet Collapsed

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Credit: Golden Rural We all may not want to admit it but without the internet, our lives will collapse. What do i mean? There are things that without the internet would be completely useless, things that we may have taken for granted because we use them everyday, things that we often use then one day (by reading this amazingly written article) we just found out that it uses internet. I am here to shine a light on all these everyday objects we don't care about just because we don't know how much we would actually need it if they were for some reason  gone. Internet is today one of the most important part of our everyday lives. There are a large number of things that can be done with the use of the internet and so it is very important. Today internet is used for different purposes depending upon the requirement. It is amazing how useful the internet is and yet most people are unaware of the numerous benefits of the internet.  The internet is useful in each and e...