 In today's video, I'm going to teach you how to accept money from clients in your private training business, whether you do one on one training, group training, camps, clinics. To me, it does not matter. I want to show you and walk you through a couple of things you need to have set up to make this easier for you because the last thing that you want to do in your business is chase clients around for money or have clients owe you money. I have lived through that process in the past in my business, and it's very painful. It's annoying. It makes you not want to be in this business when you aren't getting paid either automatically or the way that you should be. Now, number one, and I have this document pulled up here so you can see this. You want to make sure when you get paid, it's done online. You don't want to do this where clients can pay you in person. If they pay you in person, they only pay you when they see you. They don't show up that day. You don't get paid. So you always lose money if it's not done online. That is number one. Number two, you need to have one method to get paid. This is so much easier to track. It's way easier to track also with your taxes, so much easier to understand how much money you're actually making when you can just log into one system, see, all right, this is how much money I'm generating on a daily basis, on a monthly basis. If you have two to three other systems in place, it takes you longer to log into everything and you're not going to be able to track all the money the way that you should. You're running a business. You're not running a side hustle here. This is something you have to make sure you can log in, see everything from one dashboard and see where all the money is coming from. I've seen this mistake with coaches that have PayPal, Venmo, Cash App. They get paid and that's like through their phone online, but they're not tracking that money, right? And it's more confusing having different options for parents that pay you because it's putting them in charge of really how they pay you. I don't like that. You are in charge of your business. It's your business. So you should have one system, make it easier for you, all right? Next you need to have a clean registration page. I've seen this a lot with coaches that do like camps, clinics, if you don't have a clean registration page, if it is confusing or if it's not really selling anything, the conversion rate is going to be very low. So automatically your conversion rate goes up when you have a clean registration page. If you have a clean registration page, it's easier for them to sign up. You're going to get more signups. So you end up making way more money when your registration page looks good. And that is a common theme across all the coaches that we work with. They have clean registration pages. They are believable, all right? Those pages are set up to where like people want to sign up, all right? There's testimonials sometimes on those pages. There's videos. There's the terms and conditions frequently asked questions. Those things are on these pages. And that also protects you as a business when you have stuff like that set up, right? Next, you want to have automatic payment set up. Whether that is every 28 days, every 30 days, every quarter, every year, you want to be able to have billing set up to where once you make a sale, you're not going back to that client and having to sell to them again. This is one of the biggest common problems that coaches have is they'll sell packages of like four or eight sessions. And then once those sessions are done, they have to go back and resell it again. That takes you time and that puts the ball in the hands of your clients because they can just be like, ah, we're going to take a break right now or we're not going to continue right now. Now you're losing money, right? When it's automatic billing, you don't have to ask for money again after you make the initial sale. So it's very important to have that set up. That simplifies your business. It simplifies your life. You're not going back and forth with clients after they buy. That is already done for you. And ideally you want to have contracts set up to where you have like three months, six month or 12 month commitments. If you have that set up, then you're making recurring revenue in this business. You're not just getting paid whenever they see you, right? That is super important. All right. So you need to have the automatic payment set up next. This is kind of a bonus tip that I wanted to add here that most coaches are not aware of. But if you use PayPal and that's like how you get paid and even if you use their recurring option. What happens is your clients can go in there and cancel the payment whenever they want. They can go in there and they can turn it off. And then what happens is you get an email saying that they turn it off and then they don't pay anymore. Now I don't think a lot of clients are going to go do that if they're on an agreement with you. And if they're on an agreement, there's ways around that to still collect the money. But you don't want to put yourself in that position. Personally, I spoke with so many coaches right when COVID hit that were only running their payments on PayPal. And a lot of the parents went in and they just turned off all the payments. I saw someone go from like $10,000 a month to $2,000 a month overnight because he had everything set up on PayPal. So you don't want to put yourself in that spot. You want to have something that like no one can go in and turn off their payment. Which is something I'm going to recommend here in a second. Lastly, you need to have something that's easy for you and easy for your client. All right. So what I mean by this is you should be able to go and set up a page, like a registration page within five minutes. And if it's easy for you and it's easy for a client, then when your client gets to that page, there's zero questioning in their mind. They're like, all right, here's what I need to do. Boom, boom, boom, sign up should take them less than a minute to sign up. They don't need to go through this long form and fill out something that's going to take 10 minutes. And they don't need to be clicking around on your website to go pay because then it gets confusing. People get distracted. And again, the conversion rate drops. You want your conversion rate to go up by having simple pages that are easy for you to create and simple registration pages that parents go to where they just go make the payment. That's the whole goal. When they get the checkout link, they just go make the payment today. They're not delaying. They're going there now. They're going to sign up, right? Now my recommendation, I've had one recommendation on this channel. Since I started this channel, it's the software that I use for all the billing. It's called SAMCART. So on the link right below this video, I have a free 14 day trial. You can go check it out there for yourself. It is so easy to use. It's going to handle all the payments for you. You can set up the recurring billing. You have the dashboard. You can see how much money is coming in on a daily basis. You know how much money is projected to come in over the next 30 days. This simplifies your business. It's going to save you thousands of hours of time. And you end up making way more money in your business when you operate this like a real business. So go check out SAMCART. Go to the link that I have there. You'll see a demo video of how quickly you can set up pages and how to set up your account. It's really easy to set up. I highly recommend it. Coaches that we work with are also using it. They love it as well. That has really simplified their business. So that's why I shot this video here. Go check out SAMCART. Click the first link below this video to go check out that demo video and then you can get the free trial there. Thanks so much and I'll see you later.