 So, how do you start a youth basketball training academy or business? My name is Nick Aldera and I'm a success coach with Make Money Coaching Sports. If you're looking to connect after this video, you can text me. It should be behind me right there on the whiteboard. Text me the word GROW to 732-908-2315. It is really me. It's not a bot responding to you. I will directly respond to you if you're looking to connect and hop on a Zoom call where I can learn more about what you do currently for your basketball business. So, how do I start a youth training basketball academy or business? Well, first, you have to put it out there into the world and tell people that's what you're doing. So, whether it's Instagram, Facebook, I really recommend Facebook because that's where a lot of parents are. And you can easily go into Facebook groups by location. So, like whatever town you're in, in the state, you type that into groups and you'll see a bunch of groups come up. And you can literally put things in there. You could put them for free because some of them don't allow business promotion. So, but when you're first starting out, you're going to have to do things for free. So, people know who you are, right? So, it's very simple to put in there, hey, I'm having a free basketball training clinic on this day and this day. If this is something that you're this age, this age would be interested in, just comment the word yes below, right? So, now you're checking to see before you even do it, okay, who's interested in it? And you're doing it within, you can do it within a bunch of different communities on Facebook and you're basically advertising for free as long as you can get into that community. Usually, if you put in there, hey, I'm planning, I might plan to move there, right? Then they'll let you in, you know, might be a little slight white lie, but, you know, or you could just say, hey, I'm looking to do things for kids that want to get better basketball, right? And they'll probably let you in. So, you do something for free. Now, what's the key to that though? The key is to collect information, because let's say like 10 parents say yes, that's something we would love to do. Cool, you come up with a day in time and then you want to collect their name, number and email. So, whether you message them on Facebook or that you have them click on a form that leads to fill out their information. Now, I use something called Kajabi that is it's cost money, but you could use anything you can use something called jot forms. That's free. You can use Google forms. The bottom line is you want their name, their phone number and their email. Okay, that's very, very important. So, you can communicate them later when you're going to actually be having a paid event, right? So, you're putting out there in age, you're putting out there. Would you be interested in this, mom or dad, you know, comment yes below. Awesome, thanks for commenting. Here's this link, fill it out and I'll put you on the list, right? Because it's only for this many kids. You want to create some type of urgency, right? Plus, you know, if you're just starting out, you might not feel comfortable with a crazy number of kids. So, you might say, hey, this clinic is for 12 kids. And, you know, in order to secure your spot, you just got to fill out this form right here. It's 100% free. And then, now you have their information. So, once you gather those 12 people, right, now you pick a day and a time, we're going to do it at this location. That was in that Facebook group, you know, and if they can't make it, they can't make it, but it's free anyway. So, but you still have their information where you can reach out to them when you do do something that is paid for, right? And you're going to want to repeat this for different towns, different organizations. Everything, because remember, you're just starting out. So, I know, like, you know, you want to start a business, but when you start a business, you might have to do a lot. Not even a lot, but you might have to do some things for free. And the key is information. You own their information, put it into your, put it to your email marketing system. Now, again, I use Kajabi. You don't have to use that. If you want to, if you don't want to spend any money, you can do everything on Google, right? You can put everybody on to a Google spreadsheet. Here's their name, number, email, and you can just highlight it and throw it into a Google email when you want to sell them something, right? But now you might be wondering, okay, well, how should I collect payment? Now, an amateur or somebody who's just starting off would be like, oh yeah, you know, cash check, cash app, Enmo, this, that, I'm talking about when you do do something paid, you want to have them pay online before they get there. I use something called SamCart where you can make a nice page and they can pay online, okay? Now, do you have to do that? No, but ideally you want them to pay online before they get there to secure their spot. And then this way, you know, they're not just, if they, because if they don't show up, they're like, yeah, yeah, I'll throw you cash. Or if they don't show up, right? Plus you don't want to be walking around a local park because you're just starting out. So you're probably not renting a gym. You don't want to be walking around a local park like a drug dealer having all this cash in you. Plus it's another step that, you know, some people might not pay. Again, so backtracking to what we said before, first you do something for free for numerous things. Collect their info first, okay? Save it whether it's a Google spreadsheet, whatever, wherever you want to do with it, right? This is all free stuff. Then when you have enough people's information, like, hey, I'm running a clinic on this day and this time. It's however much money you want to charge for it. Here's the link to enroll, right? You just email them. Now, all of a sudden, you're starting to get momentum. So now maybe you do a free team training session, right? Maybe you do something for a local rec department. Maybe you contact a local high school coach. Maybe now you want to work with some older kids. But that is how you start your youth training business. You reach out to different coaches. You reach out to different churches or who have organizations, right? And you're going to have to provide your service for free until you can, you know, you prove that, hey, I'm a legit coach. And if nobody knows you, you're going to have to prove it. Now, what helps that is having some videos online that you can say to people like, hey, I'm looking to do a free clinic for your organization. Here's a video that you can check out of me teaching and coaching, right? And you uploaded that on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and you use those platforms. Now, having a big social media following doesn't mean anything. If, you know, there's people following you that aren't willing to pay for something or maybe they don't live local if you're only doing in-person training. So it's not about your followers. It's not about your number of followers. It's about the quality of them, you know, their location if you do local stuff. Okay, so I hope that helps. Hey, if you're looking to connect and talk to me on Zoom where we can talk face to face so I can learn more about what you're currently doing. Or maybe you already have a business and you're just looking to, you're looking to expand and grow or you don't have one yet and you're just looking to get started. Text me the word grow to 732-908-2315. Should be on the whiteboard behind me. Hopefully you can see it and that will be in the description as well. Or you could just schedule a call with me, right? Make sure you subscribe to the channel, smash that like button and I will see you next video.