 I got this message late last night from a coach before I started shooting a bunch of these videos. He said, hey Ben, I ran my first ever basketball clinic and I thought there were gonna be 25 kids there and there were only four who showed up. How can I improve this? How can I make it better? And should I even run clinics ever again? So we're gonna get straight into this here in a second. Welcome to the build my sports biz show. Where we talk about how to create, build and scale your own local sports training business. Let's go. It's time to get started with your host, Ben Neighbors. The show starts right now. All right, now the short answer to this is if you are a coach that runs clinics and maybe you've only run one or you're thinking about doing it and you have this big expectation of a lot of clients signing up and then like on the day of you feel let down because there's a lot less kids that are there than you expected. And this is something I talk about in my program. It's called Big Money Camps and this is four coaches that want to sell out camps and clinics. So if you are wanting to do camps and clinics at a high level, go check that program out. Just go to buildminesportsbiz.com and scroll down the page. It's on one of my, essentially there's a tab that says Big Money Camps video program. Click on that. You can go read about it, watch a video, learn how it works. But something I talk about in that program that I wanted to share here is when you run camps and clinics, you don't stop marketing when you feel content and you feel like, yeah, there's enough people who know about this because oftentimes coaches will feel like, oh, everybody's gonna be coming to this and then they show up to the clinic and then the numbers are not there and the numbers are way off compared to what they thought would happen. And this comes down to a couple of things. Number one, a lot of coaches that run camps and clinics and get paid cash and checks, at the end of the day, they'll always get screwed. That's always gonna happen. I've seen that personally in my business when I first started doing camps and clinics. I would have times where there'd be like 30 people wanting to come and then I'd show up, there'd be like three kids there. And I would lose a lot of money that I thought I would earn because I didn't accept money upfront. So first, need to accept money upfront. Have people reserve their spot online. If you don't have a good online system, go check out my resources page, buildmysportsbiz.com slash resources. Go check out SamCart. I will help you get SamCart set up. I do that for free. That's something you should absolutely check out. You need to have that set up. But you shouldn't like be comfortable at all running that clinic until you have X amount of people signed up. So this comes down to getting referrals, calling people, having urgency. Like there's a lot of different tactics that are behind all those things. But at the end of the day, if there's only four kids that show up, that's gonna be your fault. And that's not something I knew back in the day when I did it. I always thought, well, it's the parents fault. They said they're gonna do it and they didn't do it. So you have to take self-responsibility and know that, well, I need to follow up with people. I need to close people into these clinics. Otherwise, I'm gonna continue having four, five, six people sign up when I think there's gonna be 20 or 30. So this comes down to marketing. And if you are a quiet marketer and parents don't know when the registration deadline is, they don't know how to sign up. They don't know what you're doing at the clinic. They don't know when it is. Like if you're quiet about those things, then I would expect your clinics to be very small when they should be bigger, right? Now, if you're watching this video or you're listening to this podcast and you know, all right, I wanna ramp it up with my camps and clinics, I already have like a proven system there that's set up for you. It's literally like you watch the videos, you execute. And I've spent this point over a decade running camps and clinics, and I've been spending a lot of five, six years helping other coaches perfect this system so they can sell out their camps and clinics. Go check out my website, click on big money camps. Go watch the video. It's not a good fit for every coach out there, but it is a good fit for you. If you're serious, you're committed, and you want clinics to be kind of like a full-time income, and it's gonna come down to hard work. Like I don't tell people it's easy, it's hard work, but we have the systems in place in there that I know coaches can replicate, and we've seen really good results from the coaches who've gone through that program already. So go check that program out. You have any questions for me? You wanna set up a chat with me? All you need to do, and I'm gonna show you here how to get in touch with me, send me a text at this number right here, all right? 210-960-5771. And when you text me, you're actually texting me. You're not texting some person in India who's gonna respond, right? You're gonna be getting in touch with me. I'm gonna respond back. I'm probably not gonna respond back if it's at night or if it's on the weekends, right? But reach out to me there. I will correspond with you, and I do all of my coaching calls with coaches during the week, and I do them on Zoom. So if you text me and you're like, hey, call me, I don't do that. I have a very particular system on how I communicate with coaches. I like doing things on Zoom so I can see you. I know you're paying attention. And typically those calls are 10 to 15 minutes, but those are things I do throughout the week. I've talked to hundreds and hundreds of coaches over the past five, six years since I started this channel. So reach out to me there. You see my number, just shoot me a text, and I'll get back to you soon, all right? Catch you later.