 Hey Coach, how's it going? My name is Ben Neighbors. I'm the founder of Soccer and Entrepreneur and before we dive into today's video I want to let you know I'm opening up a few spots right now to talk to coaches individually over the phone about their business So if you click up here, there's gonna be a light that comes across the screen It's soccer entrepreneur comm slash call this way you can apply to get on the phone with me It's a free phone call. I'll chat with you 15 to 20 minutes about your business and see how I can help you out All right, let's get into today's video One of the biggest questions I've gotten from coaches out there recently Is a lot of people want to train at public parks local recreational centers high school fields college fields And coaches have been asking me they've been running into trouble about finding open space to train at And so here is my advice. I know when I was starting I ran into three big problems and these are three things that I know Most trainers fall into once they start training players. So number one The biggest problem I ran into was I would just assume that I could go use whatever field or whatever park without having like a permit or anything like that and the problem with that was if I was training someone and A police officer or someone from the park came over and they stopped my session That would give a horrible impression with the players training and that family who was investing into my program And that didn't last long. I knew after that happened like two or three times I had to find a space where not only I would have my own space But I was allowed to train there And this is something that a lot of people don't even think about they just go to fields thinking That they are allowed to train there without actually talking to wherever the administrator Or whoever is the person at the park that you need to talk to so that's number one You need to have access to that and if it's free, that's awesome Everything that I do. I'm not paying a dime for Using any of the space that I use everything is organized to where I already know I have access to it So I can go there with the peace of mind knowing that I can just focus on the session And I'm not worried about who's coming to the park that day. So that's number one number two is you want to make sure Whatever space you have That you're able to like fully concentrate during the session a lot of times I see trainers Like they they're set up to where they have their cones in one spot and there's like football practice baseball practice Other soccer trainers around them and it's very hard for a player to come there and feel like it's an exclusive program So what I like to do is I like to get my own space where there's no one else around This is going to help the quality of the session Not only for the player but for me as well if I want to concentrate and give a great session It's easier for me to do that if there's less going on Around us and lastly, this is something that I've experienced in the past I don't do this now, but if you are paying For space if you know that you're paying by the hour or by the month. It's very important This is just a general business rule Whatever you're paying per hour or per month you want to make sure you have enough clients Who are going to be paying I would say five to ten times more than whatever you're paying per hour or per month This way it actually makes sense and this is a common question I get From a lot of trainers who are doing private one-on-one training Let's say they're being charged 30 dollars an hour to use a facility and they're Training and it's 50 bucks an hour like that by the hour mindset If you followed any of our videos if you've gone through any of our courses You know that I don't do things by the hour And I think it's important that you stop doing things by the hour because that is going to In the long run hurt your success Because parents are going to to think of you that you're only that valuable for that hour And my whole goal is I provide a service. That's a monthly service and I teach trainers how to do that in our programs But what you want to do is you want to have it set up to where however much you're paying per hour That is a small fraction of what you're making for that hour Or for that month however of it is you have a structure with a park or whatever field you're renting from And this is something I know Because a lot of trainers out there. They simply do not do the numbers. They're not doing the math behind Okay, this is how much I'm paying. This is how much I'm making and that's something you have to figure out before you start Paying a facility because facilities a lot of times are going to want you to pay either upfront for the month Or they're going to expect they're going to pay by the hour And you're going to be working on a certain amount of days And if you don't have the volume of trainers to meet that then you're going to be at a loss And that's where you have to be smart and figure out. Okay. This is how many players I'm training This is how much revenue is coming in. I clearly have enough to pay off Exactly what the facility costs are and this way you're running your business smart I see a lot of people they get behind the eight ball on this and they're paying too much They don't have enough clients and their business model is not set up in a way where they're profitable They're doing either private training and it's it's a low cost for private training or they're doing group training They don't have enough players to meet the cost for the facility. So these are things that you want to think about Before you ever start running out space and ideally if you can have a free space Like that's going to cut down on your overhead, which is great. That's something that I've done I know in the past that if I've ever looked at facilities to rent out to shoot videos or to do camps from I make sure that I'm already going to have enough people signed up for whatever camp whatever clinic before I Reserve that space because that that's something I have to pay up front And so you have to be very smart on how you operate that So that's it for today's video if you need my personal help Like I said at the beginning of the video just simply go to Soccer entrepreneur comm slash call when you go there that's going to be in the link in the description That's going to take you to a page. You'll see a short video of me Where I'm going to break down exactly how I can help you over 15 to 20 minute call I would highly recommend you take advantage of that That's going to be something where you and me are going to get on the phone We're going to talk one on one about your business about where you're at right now And how you can get to the next level. So that's it for today guys. Go check that out. I'll see you soon