 Hey coach, what's up? This is Coach Ben from buildmysportsbiz.com and today I'm going to go on a little rant. So I've gotten so many questions about this over the past couple years and I want to make a video that addresses this once and for all. So the number one problem I see that coaches have faced over the last four or five years since I've been helping coaches with their business is once they start training players, they don't have a system in place that collects money and they don't have a system in place where they can start to predict the income that's going to come in to their business month after month. This is why that's happening. So number one, a lot of coaches out there are caught up with just doing what everybody else does. I would tell you right now, I wouldn't be shooting this video. I wouldn't have been able to help any coaches with their business if I did what everybody else does because when you do what everybody else does, you're going to get mediocre results and you always need to look to do the opposite of what everybody else does. For example, when I started training players back in 2009, 2010, I knew that all coaches out there that were in my industry were all getting paid by cash or checks and unfortunately, when I started, I did things for free. So I wasn't trying to like make a killing straight away. I just wanted to build confidence. I wanted to get results with kids. I wanted to get social proof that, you know, these players that I was training were getting great results. And I built my business from the ground up. But I made the mistake early on of getting caught up with what other people were doing. I saw that my competitor who was he had a massive business like he was doing like around $250,000 a year. And I thought like, wow, whatever this guy is doing, I need to try to copy that. Because obviously it's working. And I remember like I would I would stalk his business, like for at least six months, I went out to his sessions, went out to see how he was collecting money. He was getting cash and checks. I was like, man, I need to do that. All right, it's working for him. I need to do it. And when I started doing it, I was like, wow, this sucks. There's a lot of people who aren't paying me right now. There's a lot of people who pay me they don't they're not paying enough. Like for example, when I started charging parents to have their kids come train with me for private training or group training, people would always bring like $5 less or $10 less. And I was too nice of a guy to be like, no, like you need to pay, right? And that's because I had a fundamental problem with my business. It was the setup. I did not have a system in place where automatically parents were being charged for my monthly program or a six month program or a yearly program, parents could pay as they come. And if you are running your business that way right now, I can 100% guarantee you you're gonna fail, right? Because there was a time I'll never forget this. I just moved out on my own. I had 14 clients who I was training. At that time, I was making like right around $2,000 a month. For me, I was like super happy with that. That was way more money than I needed. I wasn't in any student loans or I didn't have any debt. I live very comfortably without amount of money. I lived in like a $350 a month apartment, my bills were very low. And that amount of money, I was like, I couldn't believe it, right? But that money wasn't consistent. Like I had clients who were paying me that if they were all coming to the sessions, if they weren't missing sessions, and I made a really dumb mistake. I thought, oh wow, this is awesome. I have that many clients. They should be paying me this every month. As long as they just come to the sessions, like I'm in a container to get paid that. And I got a little, I would say complacent with how things were going. And I wasn't really that aggressive trying to get new players anymore. Because I was just content. I was like, man, I'm chilling. If I have this amount of kids, I'm good, right? And very quickly, like literally within the matter of a week, every single one of those players, like missed a session. So they all like I didn't get paid for those sessions, right? And then a lot of those players, their parents just ended up they couldn't do the training program anymore. So I lost like all these people, right? And here I was trying to pay rent, trying to take care of myself. And I didn't have a consistent system that was bringing in money every month. And I'm telling you, this problem is plaguing trainers all over the world, right? That are trying to do private training. They're trying to do group training. They're trying to do camps and clinics. Like our whole business that that I run right now, it's 100% automated by online payments and having everything structured to the point where we only attract committed parents that are going to go through our system. If they don't go through our system, they will not be customers. I will never do business with them, right? And that's the way I've really understood how to build a successful business is by having systems in place, right? So if you don't have systems in place, I will tell you what happened to me is going to happen to you, you'll lose people, you'll be stressed. And there's nothing worse than running this business and being stressed at the same time. That's going to rub off in all your sessions. Parents will sniff that out. Kids will sniff that out. Your training, your quality is going to suck. It's not going to be good. And so what you want to do is you want to have a healthy business that needs to be a priority for you. If you're already a great trainer, that's awesome. Okay, if you're a great trainer and your business is unhealthy and there's problems and you keep putting band-aids on it, that your business is going to fall apart, right? Which is why I'm making this video. It's important that I share this with you because I personally experience it. I've talked to so many coaches out there who have gone through our programs in the past, who have never had those systems in place. And now that those systems are in place, they're making between like $5,000 and $10,000 a month on autopilot. And that is because now they have a predictable way of making money. They have rules in place. They have expectations with parents. They have contracts. They have legal stuff. Like these are things that real businesses have. And that's why, like I've said this from day one, since I started helping coaches, the ones who have like legit businesses set up, they are going to be completely separating themselves from those who are running amateur businesses. And when I see somebody who's getting paid cash or checks, like that's fine, right? But that is not going to be the thing that's going to help you succeed, right? And that's because everybody else says it that way. Like all of my competitors, for the most part, like who like someone wants to try to copy what I'm doing now with soccer training, like they've started transitional online, but they still have a lot of loopholes. So they're trying to figure out how I do that. Like you want to be the person that is running your business like a businessman or a business woman. And you have to have that on lockdown. And if you do, you will succeed. If you don't, you're going to fade out and you're going to be like everybody else who who has a short life expectancy with their business, right? And that's just the reality. And that's why like you need to implement that straight away. And if you need help setting that up, I'm going to be taking on 10 coaches. Alright, and this is going to be over the next three months, I'm going to be personally helping 10 coaches with their business. So if you want to apply and get my one on one help, and you want me to help you with the systems, and basically what I'm going to be doing is I'm picking apart my entire business that I have here, where we are training players on a monthly basis, we have players that are committed to six months or 12 months. At a time, I am going to dissect everything that I've done, and I'm going to give it to you. And I'm going to have you implement it so where you can literally copy and paste what we do so you can build your own successful business, and no matter what sport you're in. So if you are interested in that, if you want to be a part of that group, again, I'm taking 10 coaches, I expect a ton of coaches that are going to show interest in this. I have an application process to this very simple. You simply just go to my website, build my sports biz.com, you click on that. At the top of the page, there is a big blue button that says call coach Ben. When you apply for that, we're going to chat over the phone, see if you're the right fit for the program. I would love to help you out. But like I said, I'm only going to take 10 coaches. This is going to be a three month commitment, where I'm going to show you everything, everything behind the scenes, how I'm getting new players, how you can get new players, how to market yourself, how to target the right people, and really look to implement everything that I've done in my business into yours. And my whole goal with this is to show you everything. Like I have nothing to hide. I'm the type of person who's going to be very committed to helping those who are committed to themselves, right? So if you are ready for that, and you want my personal online help, go ahead, click on that link, build my sports biz.com. Click that blue button at the top of the homepage, take it from there. And I will look to talk to you probably within the next 24 to 48 hours about this opportunity. So I'm super pumped to help you out. That's it for the video, guys. 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