 So, today I want to talk about how to start a private one-to-one football training business in the UK. Every day I'm either speaking with coaches who have private training businesses here in the UK that do that specialising in one-on-one training and apart from just speaking to coaches also I work with coaches, consult with coaches who currently run private training businesses. So what I'm going to share with you are three very simple things you need before starting your private training business here in the UK. Training is becoming very, very common and very, very popular here in the UK and for a number of reasons. Number one, it creates a personal type of experience for the client. Number two, you can work with the client on specific areas of the game which perhaps in a team or a club environment can be difficult and the third one is as a coach and as a business owner you can work with multiple players or clients from clubs all around your local area. So being a private trainer and especially working with one-to-one clients, you don't need to specifically just focus on one club or one team. You can open yourself up to working with several athletes at several clubs or several teams. But three things I want to share with you today are three things that you need before you even start working with clients. So the first thing is experience and qualifications. Now as a coach myself, I've been in this type of industry for a very long time. At this stage, I've been in the industry 13 plus years. So I've worked with players from multiple clubs and multiple abilities and something I've realised and I've noticed is that you need to have experience. So when you go into a one-to-one environment with an athlete or with a client, you need to demonstrate to that client that you have experience, that you have knowledge of the game. So first thing is get experience somewhere, right? So this could be training at a local club, this could be volunteering your time to work with individuals on a voluntary basis to try and build that experience, build that confidence or sign up and register onto courses. Education is also important because when your clients ask you for a background in the game, so what's your experience, what's your history in the game? You can provide them with experience, your coaching experience and also your qualifications that you've done so that you can demonstrate to that client that you are a qualified personal trainer. Second thing you need and the second thing is something that a lot of coaches do ignore and that is setting up your business legally. In the UK, there's two ways normally personal trainers set up their business. The first one is through self-employed where you have to fill out a self-assessment for your taxes and the second way is setting up a private limited company where you put yourself as the director of that company, right? Now I don't want to go into too much detail about the difference, the advantages or disadvantages of both because that's something I will then later cover in an upcoming video. But normally those are the two ways private trainers here in the UK set up their business. They either go self-employed or they set up a private limited company where they put themselves as the director of that company. Now the third and probably one of the most important is setting up a payment system so you can get paid from clients. Now in the UK currently 97% of all private trainers function on cash in hand, right? Most private trainers that I speak to and I've worked with either transition from the cash in hand model into an online subscription or they simply are happy with that cash in hand model. So they're receiving cash for their services, right? So that pay per hour model, which is something I'm going to talk about in upcoming videos. But when you start receiving money from clients, you need to find a way in order to be able to track all the money that is coming into your business. So first way is you need to set up a business account so you can have all your payments coming in to that account and you can track what's coming in and what's coming out your business. Most coaches don't function this way, right? Most coaches what they do is they just have a personal account and they receive cash in hand, right? And that's usually at the field. Now what happens is when you receive cash in hand, there's a temptation to spend that money straight away. Now yes, that money is yours to spend and you can do whatever you want with that money. But ultimately, if you want to build a successful business and if you want to track what's coming in and out, you need to set up an account where you can have everything registered that you can see what is coming in each month, what is coming in each week and what is going out. Also when it comes to doing your taxes, it's going to become a lot more easier to track what is coming in as a profit and what's being spent on as a business expense, right? Because there's a lot of tax advantages that when you spend or when you buy things for your business, you can write off on the profits that you've made, right? So three main things are number one, you've got to make sure that you've got experience and you've got coaching qualifications before you start working with any clients on a one to one basis. The second one is you have to make sure you set up your business legally so that you can do things by the book, right? If you're just running your business as a cash in hand and you've got no proper business set up, ultimately, you don't have a business. You have more what I like to say is a hobby. You're just doing it as a hobby. A successful business owner knows that they have to set up their business properly, legit, so that you don't come across any tax problems further down the road. And the third and final one, which is probably the most important, is once you start receiving income from working with your clients, you need to make sure that you have a payment system in place so you can receive payments through that system, right? So this ideally should be an online payment system. So a system where parents can pay you online and they can set up a monthly subscription with you so that you aren't receiving or having to have or handle a cash in hand every single week at your training sessions, right? Something that is common is private trainers when they get out to the field and they're doing five to eight training sessions, private sessions back to back is once they get that money, there's a possibility that if all your clients are paying you cash in hand, then you might lose some of that money during your session, right? You might lose it either it might drop or if the weather's not great, the money can be damaged and then ultimately you've lost some of the income from that day. So what we want to do is we want to transition you into an online payment system where parents can pay you online and that money goes straight into your business account where then you can track it and everything is tracked so that when it comes down to doing your taxes, you know what is coming in and what is coming out of the business, right? If you need more help, if you are a private trainer, you're based in the UK and you're thinking of starting a one-to-one training business or you currently have a one-to-one training business, but you're looking to get more organized, implement better systems or you want to scale and grow your business, reach out to me. My email is makemoneycoachingsports.com or if you find the first link in the description of this video, you can set up a free 15 to 20 minute call with me where we can jump on a Zoom call. I can answer any questions you might have with regards to your business and taking your business to the next level. Okay, thank you for watching and I'll see you on the next one.